Perambulate is a great word, isn’t it? It sounds like something a fancy fop in a waistcoat and coattails would do after dinner. And that’s because it is! To perambulate is to go for a walk, and lately I’ve been perambulating like the top-hatted, riding-booted, cane-carrying geezer on the Johnnie

What a year. To tell the story of 2020 I teamed up with Bay Area photographer Marcell Turner, whose imagery captures both the comforting and horrifying views of our streets in vivid detail.  Let’s take a visual walk down memory lane, in both Oakland and San Francisco.  All photography by

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

Photographer Marcell Turner’s new limited release book The Exhaustion Of Agony helps tell the story of an extremely turbulent time in The United States of America. A collection of photographs featuring: the George Floyd protests where the Black Lives Matter movement gained momentum, the Covid-19 pandemic that changed our entire

The Musée Mécanique is a true San Francisco treasure. I’d try to describe them but they describe themselves best “as one of the world’s largest (over 200) privately owned collection of coin-operated mechanical musical instruments and antique arcade machines in their original working condition (You can play them!).” As you can imagine,