The famed cake designers of The Cake Gallery are back at work this week, making edible masterpieces for your birthdays and bar mitzvahs.  Which is a godsend, because everyone could use a good laugh and something sweet after this fucking year. After 38 years of serving customized cakes to the Bay

It was a hell of a year. BrokeAssStuart.com, like many independent media outlets and small businesses were hanging on by our proverbial fingernails. In 2020 we realized that everything we got paid to promote had to do with going out into the community, and that was all over with. The

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

What a year. To tell the story of 2020 I teamed up with Bay Area photographer Marcell Turner, whose imagery captures both the comforting and horrifying views of our streets in vivid detail.  Let’s take a visual walk down memory lane, in both Oakland and San Francisco.  All photography by

A Prius drove off the cliffs at Fort Funston on Christmas morning.  The car plunged 120 feet and landed on the beach bellow, these photos of the wreck were taken on Sunday. SF Firefighters rescued the woman driver, who survived and was taken to the hospital in serious condition. According

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s regional stay-at-home order for Southern California was scheduled to expire today (Monday), but with regional intensive care unit capacity officially considered to be ‘zero’, he announced the order will almost assuredly be extended. California recently topped 2 million confirmed COVID-19 cases on Christmas Eve, and the worst

In December, Gov. Newsom announced a regional stay-at-home order, which would order counties with critically low ICU capacity to shut back down. As of today (12/17/2020) the Bay Area’s regional ICU capacity has dropped to 12.7%, meaning the entire region will be forced to join a stay-at-home order starting tonight

Karen Pence, the wife of soon to be ex-vice president Mike Pence, is a painter.  Back in 2016 she told the Indy Star, that she studied art at Butler, where she majored in teaching and minored in art. “I thought, gosh, ‘I’d like to learn more about art.’ I pulled it out

Sadly, another delicious San Francisco eatery has announced it will close forever, at the end of December.  If you would to taste their delectable American made cheeses again, you should order from them sometime in the next two weeks.