When I first moved to the Bay Area, I landed in a San Francisco neighborhood that most don’t give the respect it deserves. That’d be the Bayview, where I called a little corner of Silver Avenue home for the first two months or so before moving to the Sunset —

BY MARY KATE TANKARD “It all started when I was getting tacos in the Mission,” artist and designer Ace tells me in reference to her joining the art collective Family Style. The collective is composed of 10 AAPI artists, artists and friends who collaborate to celebrate Asian American identity through

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’s a new reason to go downtown to participate in San Francisco’s “hope loop.” Kearny Street Workshop (KSW), the country’s longest-standing organization for AAPI artists, debuted a new exhibition in the San Francisco Public Library’s main branch in Civic Center. The exhibition is called Dreaming People’s History and will

Fans of San Francisco’s legacy businesses, be they on the roster or not, have reason to rejoice this spring. The Castro Country Club, a sober living and resource center on 18th Street, turns 40 this May. On Sunday, May 7, the nonprofit will throw its own birthday bash at the

It’s been one of the greatest fortunes of my life to call the Sunset home since the early summer of 2018. I had just ended a rollercoaster of a year and was glad to get to know the sprawling yet cozy, immense yet familiar district. The only thing about our

Baydestrian hip hop heads have reason to rejoice this spring. Bayview-raised rapper Larry June linked with producer the Alchemist to put out The Great Escape in March. The album is a love letter to Northern California, travel and leisure, and working to control what one can in life. The emcee

There are as many wizened, crafty wizards through all the landscape of fantasty as there are origins and styles of the genre itself. Marlon James sprinkles casters like the Moon Witch through his book Black Leopard, Red Wolf and Ralph Bakshi relies on the gun-toting Avatar in his timeless cartoon

Doug Armstrong is an ocean rescue supervisor who works exclusively at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. His team is located within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and also covers Stinson Beach, nearby where Armstrong lives in Marin County. Their jurisdiction covers all the coast line between the two beaches,