Elaine Li is probably the only gal this side of the East River who can make you a wedding cake, blow you a glass chandelier for your reception hall, and even toss in some high end jewelry for the bridesmaids. Oh and she also makes Bushwick’s favorite cupcakes at her

I don’t normally like cupcakes. At best, I think they’re a great mobilizer of sugar into the system of greedy 5th graders during holiday parties with classmade, construction paper, chain link streamers. Well, that’s the only time I made and consumed cupcakes. Then, when the cupcake craze swept over America

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

It’s October. Comic-Con is in town this weekend. Halloween is around the corner. How could you put these two events together to create something epic? Here’s how: have people dress up as the zombies of Robert Kirkman’s comic, The Walking Dead to promote the second season of the live-action series

There’s something about pastries that make me happy. Okay, I’ll admit it I’m a fat-ass and I tend to overindulge on desserts. There, I said it. My belly cannot tell a lie. If someone says there’s cake in the vicinity, my eyes open up and I tend to rummage through

What better way to embrace the impending apocalypse then to indulge in one of mankind’s best self-serving traits, consumerism. Don’t you want your last moment on earth before we’re plagued by floods, earthquakes and well, plagues to be a day filled with snacking on mini-cupcakes, buying pretty shiny things and

There are a lot of things I don’t miss about living on the Lower East Side, #1 being watching ex-frat boys puke outside of Fat Baby on Saturday nights. Or maybe it’s paying penthouse prices for an ex-tenement apartment… or seeing some kind of dead animal in the street at

Ever wish you had all of Data’s cool inventions? Miss watching the truffle shuffle? Want to reconnect with your deformed man-giant childhood pal? Then have I got a show for you! Come down to Pacific Standard for a screening of the Goonies with cheap beer, delicious snacks, and it’s all

I keep a book called How to Write Erotica on my shelf next to my other reference books about grammar and proper citation rules, because the glossary is a never-ending source of knowledge. Like, did you know that three or more people constitute an orgy? Or that a House of