The above image of a tiny, combined kitchen-bathroom — with the toilet inside the shower and the toilet paper roll just an arm’s grab away in the kitchen — is the future that San Francisco landlords want. This image is from an honest to god, actual listing for 698 Bush

Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day (that day is September 16, 1810, when Father Hidalgo called for independence from Spain). Cinco de Mayo is not even widely celebrated in Mexico, it’s more of an American holiday historically promoted by US-owned corporate alcohol brands and ‘fast-casual Mexican’ restaurant chains

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

Arrowhead bottled water is not a company in and of itself. Arrowhead bottled water is one product from Nestlé, the world’s largest multinational food and drink processing conglomerate. And Nestlé is making this year’s California drought and fire season a hell of a lot worse by using 25 times the

The painting above is awfully interesting, wherein a little Flemish boy in the early 1600s is feeding a monkey, with a dead deer sprawled on a table whilst a nutty goose is honking away behind him. The painting’s secret history might be even more interesting. According to a bombshell investigative

This website is often cruising Craiglsist in search of Folsom Street Fair Missed Connections, obviously stolen items, or perhaps some COVID-vaccinated breast milk. But this weekend we found something for sale we did not expect to see — The Uptown bar in Oakland is for sale on Craigslist, in a

Honey Bear street artist fnnch has raised nearly $400,000 for charitable causes during the pandemic, yet KQED describes his work as “the Most Despised Street Art in San Francisco.” Love them or despise them, you will see those ubiquitous honey bears in now-saturation mode on bus stop shelters and towering

The latest tech fad that purports to be changing the world for the better, but in fact is destroying it, comes from — where else? — the world of cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have no actual use for buying anything real, but are on pace to consume more energy than

There’s a huge bit of news buried deep in the San Francisco Chronicle’s report today on independent movie theaters reopening. After the article discusses the scheduled reopening of the Balboa Theater, and the upcoming additional reopenings of the Roxie, the Presidio Theatre, and the Vogue, the Chron drops a bombshell