New York

12 Oct 2011

What I Learned About Dating from the Chinatown YMCA

If you want me to like you, you don’t have to take me out to dinner or buy me things. You don’t have to have a fancy job, or live in a trendy neighborhood. You don’t even have to dress well. Besides finding someone who can feed me, there’s just

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05 Oct 2011

Broke-Ass Band Interview: The Bins (FREE show tonight!)

Here are BrokeAssStuart.com, we love music and we love FREE shit, and we especially love FREE music. Tonight (Wednesday, October 5th)  1320 Records (founded by live electronic pioneers STS9–Sound Tribe Sector 9) presents a FREE showcase at Temple SF featuring “the San Francisco debut of UK producer Little People, along

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26 Sep 2011

Chrome Giveaway: Win a Pair of New ‘All City’ Kicks!

With stores in San Fran, NYC, and Chicago, Chrome has decided to pair up with BAS for a nationwide giveaway. The most expert broke-asses know that whatever the price, an item has to give you a bang for your buck, and that’s what Chrome is all about. According to their

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13 Sep 2011

Broke-Ass Band Interview: K. Flay (Friday @ Popscene!)

I interview broke-ass bands on here every week. I mean real, local, this-might-be-the-only-thing-ever-written-about-them, broke-ass bands. And let’s be honest: most of them are only musicians because they’re not good at anything else. They might not even be good at music. My point is: This week I pulled off a major

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31 Aug 2011

How to Be a New Age Freak on a Budget

Confession: I’m one spiritual lady. A vegetarian/proud Leo-with-a-Leo-rising/Berkeley girl whose step-mom is a psychic, I’ve downward-dogged with the best of ‘em. When I’m not frantically phoning my second mom to find out why that Scorpio I went out with hasn’t called, I’m reading about 2012, attempting to understand Qigong, or

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03 Mar 2011

Broke Ass of the Week – Laura Yasinitsky

Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude.  Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not. Wanna be a Broke-Ass of the Week?  Holler at us here and we’ll send you the questionnaire. Laura Yasinitsky, our Broke-Ass

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11 Jan 2011

Good Food Awards Marketplace

Good Food Month kicks off this Saturday with a special marketplace featuring finalists from the Good Food Awards. From January 14’“February 20th, the Bay Area will celebrate “the myriad food crafters creating tasty, authentic and responsible food, and the agricultural communities they are tied to.” Saturday’s marketplace will take place

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