San Francisco

10 Sep 2014

Nite Owl- Seeking Refuge From Bandidos @ Tacos Club

Photo by BAS contributor FBFE. Another bar food-cocktail parlour recently opened up in the Castro a few weeks ago to a less than warm reception.  Before its opening, Bandidos Consulting Chef Jamie Lauren mused, “I hate to call it white people Mexican food but it is.  And I think the Castro

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05 Sep 2014

Why San Francisco’s Obsession with Food Has Gone Too Far

These flowers and fungi will set you back a mere $248 So I just returned from a two-week vacation in New York and Nashville, most of my time was spent imbibing gods’ sweet nectar and eating my weights worth of everything these two great cities had to offer. However, after

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02 Sep 2014

How to Survive as a Broke-Ass Writer: Using Your Domestic Awesomeness For Cool Side Jobs

There are grown people in this world who won’t know how to separate colors when washing clothes.  There are people who cannot hand wash dishes without leaving food caked on the edges of plates and glasses. As a broke-ass writer and avid traveler, I started realizing that my domestic skills

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29 Aug 2014

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

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26 Aug 2014

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

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23 Aug 2014

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

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22 Aug 2014

10 Foods That Will Give You More Energy

Ashley Lauren is the founder of Kinda Kind with Ashley Lauren, a brand focused on making kindness badass –  follow along at her Facebook page.  Let’s face it, it’s super hard to raise hell when you’re sleepy. I used to think it was only cranky, old people who said things like “energy

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22 Aug 2014

Apparently There’s A Dating Site for Everyone…Even These People

This question was posed to me recently: How many dating sites are there out in the interwebs? Answer: WAY TOO MANY!

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