My name is Alex Mak, I’m the managing editor and co-owner of BrokeAssStuart.com. You may recognize my byline as I’ve personally written over 1,000 articles for BAS, and I’ve edited and published 3 times that many by independent writers from our community. What many of you already know about independent media,

San Francisco Beer Week is a magical time of year when the finest brewers in the West descend on the Bay Area with everything from casks of kolsch to ponies of pale ale, bottles of barley wine, drams of dunkels, pints of porter, handles of hazies, growlers of gose, and

I need your help to keep BrokeAssStuart.com going. In 2024, we wrote over 800 articles and published over 4,000 social media posts serving the San Francisco Bay Area. We’ve covered striking workers, fine artists, corrupt politicians, fantastic drag performers, colorful weirdos, cherished small businesses, and the vital news that the

ESPN Films announced this week that production has started on a multi-part documentary on Colin Kaepernick, with Spike Lee on board to direct. The project was announced last year as part of Disney’s overall ‘first-look’ deal with Colin Kaepernick’s production arm Ra Vision Media. Spike Lee and Colin Kaepernick are courtside

Our famous Cornhole Tournament of Champions is back! Come on down for a super fun, all-outdoor, ‘let’s try some new awesome Beer Week beers’, day party at 21st Amendment in San Francisco! We partnered with the gaming experts at Play in the Bay Sport & Social Club to hold three FREE

Heading into Final Jeopardy, Schneider was leading Chicago librarian Rhone Talsma. Her score was $27,600, while Talsma had $17,600.

Many of us have been starved from seeing art in the flesh these past years. (Yes it will have been fucking years (plural) this March since the first lockdown began). So you may be thinking of breaking out and going to look at the beautiful and creative things that our

Members of San Francisco’s Dolphin Club have been getting bitten lately while swimming in the frigid waters of Aquatic Park Cove, just around the corner from Fisherman’s Wharf. Why these people like to swim in that murky, 50-degree, harbor water in the winter is a question for psychologists.

In news that will certainly make some cinephiles glum while live performance lovers grin, the 100-year-old Castro Theatre will be under new management, get a facelift, and diversify its programming to accommodate more live concerts including “music, comedy and community events”. The new management team is Berkeley-based Another Planet Entertainment,