San Francisco’s Root Division provides studio space, arts education, art exhibitions and helps to foster and build the creative community in our city.  Through the kind donations from Bay Area residents and organizations they are opening amazing new digs in Mid-Market, and throwing cool art filled events to celebrate.  Check out

  The ‘Comedian You Should Know’ series highlights funny people performing in San Francisco.  We’d simply like to give some dedicated press to people who make us laugh.  You can catch Drew opening for James Adomian at Doc’s Lab August 6th. We first got to see Drew perform on the Kinda

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

PLEASE READ AND SHARE! So as most of you know by now, we have closed Viracocha. Not temporarily, but completely, this time. We begin dismantling and demolition this weekend. However… There is still an opportunity to save the Basement Performance Level

An anti-gentrification philosophical tantrum by performance artist and poet Gómez-Peña reflects on the dangers of the ultimate “creative city,” and what it means to become a foreigner in his own neighborhood, waiting for the much touted eviction notice.

The Band that Outside Lands is calling “an avalanche; picking up speed” is opening the festival August 7th, calling out Mumford, & Sons on their backroom horse trading, and giving us the ‘tell all’ we were looking for

The plan is to move in a tech company called PlanGrid to replace the evicted artists. Do you know what PlanGrid does? It makes apps that help developers and construction companies build faster. Now I don’t know if that is ironic or just sad. The Mission artists are being replaced by a tech company that helps developers tear down their neighborhood faster. Let’s STOP THEM

This is an open letter from our friends at the Wigg Party.  We are publishing it because simply put…the Wigg Party is awesome, and this new cop…well, we will let you decide:   Dear Captain Sanford, Hi. You’re new here. Welcome. We realize that you guys get moved around a lot and it takes

Oakland is alive. Pulsating. Thriving. Unapologetically raw, quirky and pissed off…Deal with it, or don’t, this town is cooler than you’ll
ever be.