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Too many of our favorite Bay Area institutions have closed down in recent years. The good news is that BrokeAssStuart.com plans on always being here for you. But we need your help to do so.

Most people don’t realize that it costs over $10,000 a month to run Broke-Ass Stuart. While the amount we pay out each month seems to be continually going up, our income is never consistent. Some months we have lots of advertisers, and some months there are none. On top of that, our Beer, Wine, and Coffee Passports don’t sell nearly as well as they did before the Pandemic.

So I’m hoping at least 100 of you will join the BAS Patreon at $6 a month or more.

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PLUS we launched our event text message list this year too!

And here are some of the important stories we’ve told recently: 

• We got the word out about the money that you might be owed if you’ve ever worked in San Francisco.

• We warned you about the fentanyl laced party drugs that were killing people in the Bay Area..

• We alerted you about the jerk who parked his Cybertruck in the crosswalk every day.

• We shined a light on the serious troubles the SF Symphony is going through.

• We let you know that everyone’s favorite ‘little witchy’ herb store was closing.

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Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap

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Stuart Schuffman, aka Broke-Ass Stuart, is a travel writer, poet, TV host, activist, and general shit-stirrer. His website BrokeAssStuart.com is one of the most influential arts & culture sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and his freelance writing has been featured in Lonely Planet, Conde Nast Traveler, The Bold Italic, Geek.com and too many other outlets to remember. His weekly column, Broke-Ass City, appears every other Thursday in the San Francisco Examiner. Stuart’s writing has been translated into four languages. In 2011 Stuart created and hosted the travel show Young, Broke, and Beautiful on IFC and in 2015 he ran for Mayor of San Francisco and got nearly 20k votes.

He's been called "an Underground legend": SF Chronicle, "an SF cult hero":SF Bay Guardian, and "the chief of cheap": Time Out New York.