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25 Jul 2018

Little Choices, Big Difference: How to Give A Crap About the Environment

Guest post by Liza Baskir Have you ever gone to a bar and tried to ask for a drink without a straw?  The bartender looks at you like you are crazy. And if you try to explain that you don’t want a straw because it needlessly wastes plastic, that look intensifies.

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23 Jul 2018

We Wanna Give You a 2018 Oakland Beer Passport!

Step into a world of adventure with the Oakland Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore Oakland than to literally drink it in. The Oakland Beer Passport is amazing, you get 28 beers at 28 bars for $35. It honestly doesn’t get much better than that, unless you get one

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23 Jul 2018

Alt-Right Frat Boys Descending on Oakland Tonight. Local Businesses Fighting Back.

The Proud Boys, everybody’s favorite Alt-Right frat boys, have planned a meet-up in Uptown Oakland tonight. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center the Proud Boys are anti-muslim misogynists, and that “rank-and-file Proud Boys and leaders regularly spout white nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists.” Don’t they just sound lovely?

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23 Jul 2018

As San Francisco Goes, So Goes Oakland

This originally appeared in my Broke-Ass City column in the San Francisco Examiner. I’ve made some tiny updates. The last time San Franciscans talked this much about Oakland was in 1906. The City was ablaze and 100,000 residents fled across San Francisco Bay, many never to move back to San Francisco.

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20 Jul 2018

Patron of the Week: Becky Robinson-Leviton

I love any opportunity to support the folks who support me, which is why I’m so excited to be doing this Patron of the Week series. From art to activism to non-profits, so many of the people who support Broke-Ass Stuart on Patreon do other really wonderful things as well.

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18 Jul 2018

The Things We Endure to Live in San Francisco

We decided to walk around the Tenderloin instead of go through it. I had my computer, Gene has his bike, and Sabrina had a bag of things I’m sure she didn’t want taken from her as well. We were coming from my weekly Wednesday gig at Monarch where I used

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18 Jul 2018

Nothing in San Francisco is shocking anymore

This originally appeared in my Broke-Ass City column for the San Francisco Examiner. Many of the things we shrug off as normal in San Francisco don’t happen in other places. Like when I heard someone outside my window yelling, “Honor your father and mother!” Without looking, I knew it was

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