Arts and Culture

05 Oct 2009

Cool Stop Motion Video in a Mini San Francisco

This 1851 photo of SF just slightly predates stop motion videography. My very talented friend Tony Benna just sent this to me and I thought all you SF head would dig it.  It’s crazy stop motion video shot with a miniature San Francisco at night.  It’s apparently some kind of

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05 Oct 2009

FREE: Learn to Grow Food on Your Roof

Roofs in NYC can be hard enough to put yourself on, let alone anything besides a metal folding chair or a milk crate. Some people are determined enough, and manage to set up their roof tops with couches, canopies and kiddie pools. And then there’s people like Annie Novak who

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05 Oct 2009

Natasha Wimmer is Better at Translating Than You.

Chances are, you’ve never translated a book before.  Then again if you’re  Jack Hirschman and you’re reading this, I’m totally wrong (the SF Poet Laureate has translated from over 8 languages!).  That’s ok, I’ve never translated a book either.  But Natasha Wimmer has, and the the book she worked on,

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04 Oct 2009

First Free Sundays at the Asian Art Museum!

If Bluegrass or hanging out with veggies isn’t really your thing, head down to the Asian Art Museum for free access to the permanent collection, $5 for the special exhibitions. Though the badass Samurai show has packed up and left, their new show, Emerald Cities, sounds crazy interesting. If you

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03 Oct 2009

5 Reasons You Should Head To Workshop

So as I was shooting the shit yesterday with Stuart on my day off, we both realized that we have robbed our readers of a real explanation about what Workshop is. Kelly Malone, one of the closest comrades of BAS and an amazing friend, has finally kicked off her dream

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03 Oct 2009

One Thing Far, One Thing Close, One Thing Movin All Over The City

I don’t usually head out to Jersey on a Saturday night, but this looks really, really cool.  The community-run, depression-era grand Loew’s Movie Palace in Jersey City is showing two films from the 1920s today: the Marx Brothers’ first film The Cocoanuts (1929) at 4pm, and Safety Last with live

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03 Oct 2009

More Wholesome Than Folsom: Castro Street Fair

The Castro is known for many things. Referred to as ‘œAmerica’s anus’ by Dave Chappelle, it’s a cozy little spot where you can pretty much get away with whatever you want. With all of the bright lights, countless bars and fairies skipping around the streets, I like to think of

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02 Oct 2009

DIY Diva: Composting Bins for Under $20

Heyo- the DIY Diva here with part two of my “grossest project yet” post about building composting bins. So, faithful readers, I took a bit of crap last week from commenters who objected to my post about the process of researching how to build a composting bin to prepare mulch

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