Nenna Joiner is running for councilmember of Oakland’s District 4, a combination of hills and flatlands, wealth and wage workers. District 4 is home to an inarguably diverse voting range. It includes Montclair, Redwood Heights, Laurel, Glenview and the Dimond District, with California State Route 13 running up the middle.

The Performer You Should Know series highlights local artists before they perform something awesome, it’s our way of supporting the creative community and helping to keep San Francisco a strange and wonderful place. We’ve got a soft spot in our hearts for circus folk here at brokeassstuart.com, we are kindred spirits. 

She mentions that she’s always put music production on a pedestal, and describes her initial foray into the art as an opportunity to trust herself in a world that she initially didn’t feel a part of. 

Unlike most of us who read it as kids in school, director Felicity Hesed read The Secret Garden for the first time during the pandemic, and instantly started seeing connections. In her new circus theater adaptation, Mary Lennox’s parents, who died of cholera in the book, are victims of Covid-19.

BottleRock Music Festival 2022 in Napa, a sold out event, launched again last weekend without COVID complications. Some might say it was on par with previous years. What does that mean? Mom’s were drinking wine and dads were popping cans. One thing I always notice when visiting Napa is that

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Queer DJ collaborative Club Pansy was born in a San Francisco basement not long after the pandemic began. In March 2020, friends and roommates @aunteesam (Sam Pierce) and Andrew Sieving (@andrewsandiego) passed the indefinite lockdown learning to DJ their favorite styles of dance music. Together the pair invested in controllers,

At Broke-Ass Stuart, we value the unique perspectives of everyone in The Bay Area. This Earth Day, we asked a local award-winning poet to write about their muse, Mother Earth. This poet is Rhiannon Hewitt(R), age 10. We asked her to talk about the impact she felt the last 2