Via- April Thomas Oakland, Calif. — Today a group of activists took over the Oakland Chamber of Commerce’s annual Economic Development Summit with a message for Mayor Libby Schaaf: the Oakland housing crisis is an emergency for Oakland residents, not an opportunity for profit. Activists from groups including the Black

To look back at San Francisco is to see my father and a long history. I never knew the Dot-com Boom,
but in understanding its progeny I can see the traits, genetics, and make a mold of its
predecessor.

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

Art instead of empty advertising. Check out the artwork on our public benches & roadways in Oakland

It’s no secret that learning music at an early age is good for your brain.  It enhances spatial-temporal reasoning, and helps develop speech, hand-eye coordination and creativity.  Blue Bear School of Music outreach is helping to spread that kind of education to every corner of San Francisco. The Little Bears Music Program sends professional

Extreme sports enthusiast and walking Australian cliche, ‘Ron’, came to California to pursue his extreme sports passions:  kite surfing & wing suiting.  On his bucket list was to buy and a van to cruise around in, and go to Burning Man.  His disgusting and/or funny van made local news headlines

  All the pundits, pollsters, & papers had it wrong.  Bernie Sanders took Michigan From Hillary Clinton 50 to 48.  The statisticians tried to find a similar upset in modern political history and they couldn’t, most of them were predicting Hillary in a landslide, a victory by 25 points.  Nobody’s ever been

  Open House Listing: Mission District SF – “Come for the ‘ethnic cafes’ and ‘hip night spots’! San Francisco has become nearly synonymous with the phrase ‘gentrification’ over the last decade, and no case is more exemplary than in the housing market.   Where the Mission District in SF used to

Tell someone in need: SF Fire Stations are required to keep their ground floor bathrooms open to the public between 9am – 6pm. This is a little known policy that is not written on Fire Station signs