When people go out to eat at their favorite restaurant, plenty of them pay no mind to the person who is serving them. Customers might grunt out an obligatory hello or let their eyes glance up to their server for a brief moment, but far too many of them completely

“Some people might get bored of their jobs or their environment, but for me? No way,” says Michelle Delaney, owner and manager of 111 Minna Gallery, the cafe, art gallery, venue and bar in San Francisco’s SoMa District that recently celebrated its reopening after the pandemic shutdown and a series

Other titles for this piece could be “What are you Putin in your Pantry?” and “What are you Russian to boycott?” So here we are. Putin has invaded Ukraine and has hinted at nuclear war with almost everyone else. Naturally, as Americans the first thing we want to do is

San Francisco’s legendary Lucky 13 might be closed forever, but its famous sign now lives on in infamy at Bender’s. I was at Bender’s on Wednesday night for Richie Cunning‘s Noise Pop show and looked up to see that snarling cat surveying the festivities. I can’t think of a better

The online review platform known as Yelp first slithered onto the Internet all the way back in 2004. Britney Spears and Paris Hilton were the reigning queens of pop culture at the time and people were still poking each other and throwing sheep on Facebook. There are almost 200 million

Maybe you’ve noticed that going out to eat in a restaurant is more expensive than it ever used to be. The last time inflation was this high in our country, people were still talking about who shot J.R. (Dallas was a top TV show in 1982 and J.R. Ewing was

My name is Alex Mak, I’m the managing editor and co-owner of BrokeAssStuart.com. You may recognize my byline as I’ve personally written over 1,000 articles for BAS, and I’ve edited and published 3 times that many by independent writers from our community. What many of you already know about independent media,

San Francisco Beer Week is a magical time of year when the finest brewers in the West descend on the Bay Area with everything from casks of kolsch to ponies of pale ale, bottles of barley wine, drams of dunkels, pints of porter, handles of hazies, growlers of gose, and