The US Food and Drug administration issued a very unusual and out-of-the blue alert last week discouraging people from inhaling amyl nitrite, more popularly known as ‘poppers.’ The agency pounded home the message that they have seen an “increase in reports of deaths and hospitalizations” they attributed to the party-huffing

South of Market dive bar Tempest, like many SF dive bars, boasts relatively disgusting bathrooms. But a staff member’s behavior in those bathrooms is that establishment’s biggest problem right now, as SFGate reports two women say they were stalked into the ladies room by a male Tempest staffer.  This is

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

Everyone remembers how the COVID-19 economic relief PPP loans were taken advantage of by large corporations, and big companies beat out small, local businesses to get a bigger pile of that money. A New York Times analysis of loan data found that “Black- and other minority-owned businesses were disproportionately underserved

The slow pour of nightclubs reopening is now turning into a glorious gusher, and every single club opening back up after COVID feels like meeting a great, long-lost friend again. The latest, greatest long-lost friend to return again is Upper Haight jazz, swing, and cabaret destination Club Deluxe, which will

Psychedelics could soon be decriminalized in California, and it could actually happen as soon as October. A bill called SB-519 has already passed the California state senate, and is now going to the state assembly, would “make lawful the possession for personal use, as described, and the social sharing, as

The San Francisco media landscape’s latest pearl-clutching, panties-in-a-bunching hysteria comes from a report in today’s Chronicle entitled “Car break-ins are up 753% in S.F.’s tourist hub.” KRON-4 declared they had “reported countless auto break-ins caught on surveillance video.” ABC-7, recently busted for falsifying details in a Chesa Boudin hit piece,

This weekend Dolores Park returned to its rightful place as the unofficial Pride Weekend headquarters, hosting the bootleg Trans March Friday, followed by Pink Saturday, and a sunbathing Sunday full of boozy picnicking revelers. But Dolores Park was also just named as a defendant in a lawsuit that dropped Thursday

National Rifle Association board member and former president David Keene recently gave a speech to the 3,044-member 2021 graduating class of James Madison Academy in Las Vegas, and of course, spent much of the speech talking about gun rights. Except there is no James Madison Academy in Las Vegas. The