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Best Bay Area Events for 7/25-7/31
Only 5 days left to get the Limited Edition BAS Shirt designed by Legendary Artist Amos Goldbaum! Legendary San Francisco artist Amos Goldbaum has designed an incredible limited edition t-shirt that reflects the weird and wonderful things we do at Broke-AssStuart It’s only available for 6 more days! Find out how to get yours right here!

Why Scott Wiener’s Proposed Bridge Toll Increase Would Hurt The Poor And San Francisco
Scott Wiener is attacked a lot, and most of it is unfair. There is no evidence that he is a groomer or a pedophile or any of the other nasty things right wing media has said about him. A lot of the attacks on Wiener are rooted in homophobia and

How Buddha Saved An Oakland Neighborhood From Crime
Back in 2009, a dude who lived on a block with a lot of illegal dumping decided to do something about it. What did he do? He got a Buddha statue. People who may not be familiar with the Clinton (or Funktown, or East Lake or Little Saigon depending on

Traveling in America Means Confronting Its Shitty Past
BY DENA ROD What started as grief and loss over Iranians fighting for their freedom shifted into gratitude. I was a US citizen. That gave me an untold privilege that has always echoed throughout my entire life. When traveling to Iran became an impossibility rather than a high-stakes travel goal, I

Here’s Where to Start Surfing in NorCal Before The Apocalypse
As the world gets hotter and hotter each year, tides rising quick enough to make Kevin Costner’s Waterworld-ass head spin, it’s hard to see any silver linings. That’s because there aren’t any silver linings. Not sure Joan Didion could write a wry yet deeply insightful essay out of all the

What Does Anchor Brewing’s Closing Debacle Say About Us?
PHOTOS AND WORDS BY ANDY SAMWICK San Francisco does have the capability to embrace its history. Case in point, locals are up in arms over Anchor Brewing’s closing announcement on July 10th. They came out and lined up when they heard the brewery was liquidating. Anchor had made a decision

A List of Our Favorite Bay Area Labyrinths
Did you know that the San Francisco Bay Area is a labyrinth metropolis? It seems like no matter where you go you will run into one of these self contained paths eventually. The act of walking the twisting turns into the center and back out again can be a meditative