At the end of a long run, sometimes it feels good to take a spin around the block, just to feel the muscles in my thighs move around a little more, to kick out my legs in the last vestiges of a runner’s high. I’ll do the same thing at

In Stairway Walks in San Francisco, author Adah Bakalinsky writes there are more than 600 stairways throughout the Baghdad by the Bay. It’s writer Gary Kamiya who pens love letters to some of these wondrous joys, such as the Filbert Steps between Telegraph Hill Place and Sansome Streets. The Pemberton Steps

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

There are many legitimate points to be made about seeking solutions to societal problems through spending money, yet until the dawn of that dollar-free day there also many legitimate ways to funnel resources to those in need with whatever dough one can spare. In that spirit, the Bay Area finds

When the United States carpet bombed Northern Cambodia, an area Henry Kissinger determined was wise to hit so as to destabilize shipping routs for Vietnamese militants, the country inadvertently gave birth to the Khmer Rouge. Historian Greg Grandin, as documented in The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger, writes that

There are some artists who really seem to do it all, and Mylo Choy is one of them. Choy, who uses they/them pronouns, is a true multi-hyphenate, performing music across the country and training as a long-distance runner. But visual art was always there, drawing as one of their earliest

It’s as distressing a time on the planet as ever, a one-sided war blasting historic communities in Gaza to smithereens with United States tax dollars funding the whole thing. There are storms blowing the Bay Area sideways, more common and destructive thanks to climate change, and an ever-increasing wealth gap

So many of San Francisco’s natural treasures are free-to-access, such as the whimsical Pemberton Steps running through the center of the city and the Bay’s own hidden Mount Olympus. Yet there are some leisures that are for the big, bold, and brassy, the pleasures for the ritzy and luxe. Just

It’s as rare as pulling a foil Charizard in your trading card pack, as Bill Murray waking up and finding it’s not the same day as yesterday. It’s like finding your ex’s Netflix password still works after all this time. It’s surprising warm, sunny, almost hot weather in San Francisco. And