“ When you speak about “gypsy music” you are drawing from a diaspora of countries and ethnicities where centuries-old history goes hand in hand with new innovations.” – Serdar Ilhan and Mehmet Dede NY Gypsy Festival Producers My freshman year of college I was complaining to a friend about how

I’m sure that I’m not alone in being someone who regularly fires up the ol’ laptop in order to get some work done and then finds herself two hours later having an intense G-chat conversation about the likelihood of a 2012 apocalypse, while simultaneously reading Jezebel and looking at clothes

As 2024 winds down, we’re reflecting on another incredible year of sharing the stories, art, culture, and nightlife that make the Bay Area so unique. BrokeAssStuart.com wouldn’t be what it is without you—our community of readers, supporters, and believers in independent media. This year, instead of asking you to join Patreon

We here at Broke-Ass Stuart remember a kinder, gentler, funkier time when there was an entire network devoted to playing awesome new music videos. Men named Pinfield and women named Idalis would introduce block after block of original music videos from various genres interspersed with interviews with musicians and video

At a Labor Day weekend BBQ, after the ribs, hot dogs, pasta salad and  chips and salsa were safely tucked away in our stomachs and everyone was sprawled on picnic blankets around a fire pit, it was posited that everything you needed to know about someone could be ascertained by

So this is it kids, summertime is officially over and this weekend marks the death rattle! For NYC people its been a bit of a weird summer: no sun until July, an extreme and very smelly heat wave and the death of like a billion public figures which of course

We’ve all heard about Holly Golightly’s style, and how amazing and ever-emulated it will be. Ditto Annie Hall, Catherine Deneuve in Belle du Jour and Marlene Deitrich in everything.  The 5 below may not be classic in the traditional sense, but with a serious 80’s/early 90’s revival upon us, you’ll

We here at Broke-Ass Stuart remember a kinder, gentler, funkier time when there was an entire network devoted to playing awesome new music videos. Men named Pinfield and women named Idalis would introduce block after block of original music videos from various genres interspersed with interviews with musicians and video

Saturday was Ted Kennedy’s funeral.  It took place about a mile from my house in Boston and for days before low flying surveillance helicopters made me feel like I was in the end of the Ice Cube video. I remember on the day of the inauguration, hearing that Ted Kennedy