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Win Tickets to see Erykah Badu + Talib Kweli @ Mezzanine!
Erykah Badu, best known for her eccentric style and cerebral music, is a Grammy- award winning American soul singer and songwriter. She’ll be doing a DJ SET as DJ Low Down Loretta Brown alongside Mr. Kweli, who’ll also be doing a DJ SET. This show is SUPER LEGIT!

6 Fantastic SF Events Happening This Labor Day Weekend
Don’t forget you can get all this awesomeness delivered to your inbox every Thursday afternoon by joining the BAS mailing list. BELLS ATLAS, GUY FOX, Brass MagicFRI. 08/29 | 8:30PM @ RICKSHAW STOPI happen to be a huge Bells Atlas fan. The lead male and female vocals are raspysmokey, yet genteel

Color Changing Nail Polish and the Culture of Rape
There have been a lot of articles on the date rape nail polish. Yes, it was very innovative of these students at North Carolina State University to develop Undercover Colors.

The City That Was: Cacophony Zone Trip #4 (Burning Man’s First Time In the Desert)
In The City That Was, Bohemian Archivist P Segal tells a weekly story of what you all missed: the days when artists, writers, musicians, and unemployed visionaries were playing hard in the city’s streets and paying the rent working part time.

Our Peculiar Institution: Why Urban Dog Ownership is a Twisted Practice
When I come home from whatever it is I do during the day, my roommate’s clumsy and rambunctious mutt, Yoda, faithfully greets me with an ear-shattering bark and two front paws jammed directly into my crotch. Living with a stinking and psychotically energetic dog, in a small apartment, is not

Tipping While Black – The Struggles of a Black Barman
I tip because I’m a part of this industry, but more importantly I tip because I’m Black. It’s a lose-lose at times because I’ll have the urgent need to make sure that I leave a good impression…

Why Brunch is a Fake Meal
Nothing says, “I live in one of the hippest cities in the country,” like overpriced eggs, undercooked burgers and bottomless mimosas at 11am on a Sunday.

9 Great Things to do in The Bay Area While All your Friends Are at Burning Man
Burning Man is here and people from all over the world are going to fly to a desert and do weird things and party. Not everyone is a “burner”, (I certainly am not one because I didn’t know that term existed until a couple of weeks ago) so we are