As someone who lives in Oakland and works in San Francisco, I deeply understand the psychic and sensory warfare involved with commuter life. BART can mentally break you if you give it an inch, thus it’s best to approach the whole fiasco with a little piss and vinegar in your

I travel quite a bit.  I tend to leave the country at least twice a year, and I almost exclusively travel alone. What can I say? I like the anonymity that travel provides- to be a stranger in a strange land can be a narcotic. A lot of the reasons

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

I’m all for evolution but in the grand scheme of things I would be pretty happy with a more sloth-like pace. It was this reality that I was made to deal with when The Bone Room announced yesterday via Facebook that on June 1, 2016 they will be shuttering the

I have been writing my name on shit since I was in high school. Nothing particularly inspired, mostly text but sometimes I do some stencil work. By and large I tend to identify as a garden variety vandal, not an artist. My awkward fumbling in the world of graffiti grant

Travelling to Medellin Colombia and getting a tour by ex-police officers of the drug lords family home, torture chamber, & final resting place

Through Hitchcock’s lens San Francisco is an ageless beauty, draped in fog and mystery- so get your popcorn, turn off your phone and prepare yourself to be swept up in intrigue and wowed with how beautiful the Bay is. The films and locations of Alfred Hitchcock in SF and the greater Bay Area

I ordered “Vampire Dick” off the menu in a dining hall that sports blood splattered walls, skulls, a wonky mannequin dressed like Vlad the Impaler.

Great chefs (and also great nerds) re-create Game of Thrones Feasts using medieval techniques in San Francisco. The Guild of Cookery…