Sunday was the first day of the “Renegade” Burning Man, the informal, loosely organized rogue replacement event for the officially canceled 2021 Burning Man. And Sunday night saw the first reported serious accident and injury of the affair, apparently involving a 4-wheel, all-terrain vehicle traveling at high speeds.  There are

The iconic San Francisco “space fork” known as Sutro Tower has become a recognized symbol for t-shirts and tattoos, but the 48-year-old radio and TV signal tower was the result of a hard-fought battle between local radio and TV stations. Some wanted it where it ended up being built near

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

You may have seen a recent onslaught of Facebook ads and advance publicity for a Banksy show coming to San Francisco, called The Art of Banksy (opening November 22, at a supposedly “secret location” in SF). That show is not to be confused with a rival unauthorized traveling Banksy show

Larger than life Chinatown bartender Mama Candy hasn’t been seen much lately, as her famed karaoke dive bar Bow Bow Cocktails has been closed throughout the pandemic. But Bow Bow Cocktails will run a little differently when it reopens in the next few weeks. SFGate reports that Mama Candy is

The Stern Grove Festival returned this summer, and we’ve enjoyed rocking out there on Sundays leading up to this Sunday’s season finale of Tower of Power and Too $hort. But thanks to an insane water accident where SF Public Utilities Commission workers busted a water valve and gushers shot 30

Harry Denton’s Starlight Room atop the Sir Francis Drake Hotel has not been Harry Danton’s Starlight Room since 2019, when its name changed. But that very same Harry Denton once owned four nightclubs with his name on them across San Francisco, bringing glitz, glamor, and velvet ropes to the SF

I am not Broke-Ass Stuart. But I am one of the admins on the Broke-Ass Stuart website, and the Broke-Ass Stuart Twitter and Facebook accounts. And when you are an admin on the Broke-Ass Stuart Facebook account, you will often receive out-of-the-blue emails from something called Facebook Business with the

House Pfizer is about to get a lot larger. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has blessed the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine with its full approval, which means vaccine mandates can now be real vaccine mandates. No more of this “proof of recent negative test” bullshit, we have a fully FDA