Politics
Halloween Costume Etiquette this Year
Halloween costumes can be fun, creative, meaningful, and/or festive. Halloween costumes also come with some caveats and the notion that what we wear and what others wear is a two-way street.
SF and Oakland Are About To Get Cameras That Automatically Ticket You For Speeding
This may come as a shock to absolutely no one, but San Francisco is an exorbitantly expensive place to live. It’s a place where you can get your car stolen and somehow still have to worry about the sadistic MTA giving your stolen car a parking ticket. It’s a silly
How Bikes Are Stolen in San Francisco
BY TOUTA BAHER Touta Baher was a child actor who was taken out of the game by Shia LaBeouf on the set of a Skippy peanut butter commercial. That traumatic incident forced him into the archaic world of poetry, where he now sits in rooms full of white people and
Socialism Thrives in San Francisco’s New Downtown Initiative
On a rare sunny morning on San Francisco’s Embarcadero, a red banner may as well have waved over a string of sleepy businesses waking up for the first time. Busy hands at Green Apple Books and Devil’s Teeth Bakery’s joint new operation doled out texts and egg sandwiches, York Street
Why Is Gavin Newsom Acting Like He’s Running For President?
It has become pretty clear to me that Gavin Newsom has his eye on the Oval Office. Why do I think that? Well, because he’s on national news all the time debating conservative politicians and talking heads. He’s also voting like someone who is afraid to look bad in a
Leave The Mission District Alone
In a perfect world, everyone can coexist peacefully. I would love to live in a place where the presence of one group doesn’t threaten the presence of another, but we don’t live in a perfect world. And in the Mission District, one of San Francisco’s few (kind of) working class
Broke-Ass Stuart Won Best Online Personality in the Bay!
Best of the Bay 2023: City Living Winner! We’d like to thank everyone who voted for www.brokeassstuart.com in the Best of the bay Reader’s Poll, and our friends at 48 Hills for nominating us! If you’d like to rub elbows with the fine folks of 48hills and lots of the
What Bumping Into Dean Preston & Elon Musk Made Me Realize About San Francisco
For a bustling metropolitan city filled with tourists, billionaires and bullshit; San Francisco certainly feels like a small town sitting somewhere on the edge of sanity. The place just doesn’t feel real. Where else in the country does a casual stroll allow you to cross paths with one of the