2020

26 Jul 2022

My Experience With Covid-19

I remember January 1st, 2020. I was living in Vallejo. People were still blowing up leftover fireworks. I listened to the explosions and thought about how everything in life was reduced to repetition. Nothing ever seemed to change. I was bored but ultimately stagnant.  A few weeks later, I first

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19 Oct 2020

How to Celebrate Halloween Safely During a Pandemic

COVID has ruined everything this year, even Halloween. But I’ve got some suggestions so you can still enjoy this wicked holiday and have the cute instagram photos to prove it.

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

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15 Oct 2020

There’s a Presidential Debate Watch Party at the Drive-in!

To be totally honest, watching the last presidential debate was excruciating. I didn’t know I could hate Donald Trump any more than I already did, but he sure managed to make me do it. If you can stomach watching a toddler, masquerading as the President of the United States, yell

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
05 Mar 2020

SF Sells Heart for record $3 Million, To Fund Public Health Programs

Everyday on the streets of SF we are reminded that America has no socialized medicine, and no real safety net for its most vulnerable citizens.  We have people numbering in the hundreds of thousands living on our streets in California, a quarter of the country’s homeless population is here, in our state, sleeping under overpasses, in tents on the sidewalks, and struggling to find the care they need.  Even in San Francisco, in the richest city, in the richest country in the world, the streets are full of people who need help. 

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06 Feb 2020

Stuart & Laughing Monk’s Cornhole Tournament of Champions!

This is going to be a super fun day…again! The gaming experts at Play in the Bay Sport & Social Club are holding three FREE tournaments throughout the day at Laughing Monk with us! There are going to be sweet prizes of $100, $50, $25 gift certificates for the winning teams

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13 Jan 2020

No One Does Scandal like the Religious Right

by Xan Holbrook When Werner Herzog said that Los Angeles had the most substance out of any city on Earth, he talked of the mass of contradictions that comes in a city which “manufactures dreams.” This sentiment, grand as it already is, hints at a larger truth (or series of

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31 Dec 2019

Beach Blanket Babylon’s Sound Guy Says the Show Doesn’t Have to Close

Sam Jordan’s Bar wasn’t the only long-running San Francisco institution whose street got renamed for it that closed in 2019. Tonight, New Year’s Eve, marks the final curtain call for Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon, which has been running at North Beach’s Club Fugazi since 1974. The world’s longest-running musical

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31 Dec 2019

NYE Traditions Everyone Should Adopt

by Charles Irwell I will fight anyone that has a problem with me saying this is the most wonderful time of the year. However, I won’t disagree that ‘tis the season for crap journalism. This usually falls into three possible  categories: The first crap type is the end of year round-up.

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