There comes a certain time in your life where it seems like all of your friends decide at once they want to get married. It’s a happy occasion but goddamn can it get expensive. Not everyone has a separate fund tucked away for Crate & Barrel purchases. Don’t get me

I have posted a Missed Connections exactly once, and the weird thing is, it worked. I was watching TV and saw a guy in the audience on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, decided he was adorable, wrote a post, and by some miracle, he saw it. This was exciting and

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

When you need a new roommate to help cover half the costs of your midtown (or uptown or downtown) studio ‘“ because your previous roommate decided to skip out on the lease early to ‘œfind’ himself somewhere in Sumatra ‘“ Craigslist is likely the first place you look. But Craigslist’s

As anyone who’s ever gone to a cattle call style interview while looking for an apartment can tell you, finding housing on craigslist can be a complete and utter clusterfuck.  Yes, I’m pretty sure that’s the technical term for such a thing. Luckily Jesse Woeltz, (who also does Seaweed Sway

I always thought of Al Pacino as being middle-aged, like in his early retirement years. This was before I wiki’d him and discovered he is 70 YEARS OLD. One foot in the grave, basically. So it seems urgent to make it to Shakespeare in the Park this summer. Pacino stars

While in the process of planning a long awaited vacation abroad at  the end of this summer, the question of where we would stay during our international escapades became a hot topic of debate particularly due to lack of cash flow. When traveling as a couple, the idea of fighting

Life seems somehow more unfair when you are unemployed. There are the obvious things like the whole lack of money issue, which certainly puts a damper on obvious indulgences like feeding yourself and imbibing alcohol. Even if the money is there, with no job, its hard finding reasons to drink

We’ve explored the endless possibilities of free entertainment that Craigslist offers on this site before. Whether it’s missed connections or questionable furniture ads, it seems to act as a catalog of human oddities more than a classifieds section. It’s also a great opportunity to mess with people. I’m not talking