Hey there, San Francisco.  My name is Nick Bastone, and I’m a reporter here in the city. Earlier this year, I started a newsletter called The SF Minute. The idea is to provide a quick, easy-to-read recap of our city’s news each Monday through Friday. You can subscribe (for free!)

The upcoming first Decibels Music Film Festival (hereafter, “dB Film Fest”) promises to be the music documentary version of a trip to Amoeba Music. The 25 films dB Film Fest will show both online and in-theater from October 27 to November 7, 2021 features such music genres as rave, synthwave,

A grand jury in San Francisco has charged a man with 10 felonies in connection with the Feb. 6 carjacking of a delivery driver’s vehicle and kidnapping the driver’s two children who were inside. German Morazan was indicted Wednesday in federal court on a dozen charges, including multiple counts of

Ask a Tenants Right’s Lawyer is your chance to learn how to survive as a renter in San Francisco.  Attorney Daniel Wayne has a lot of the information you need to keep you in your home.  This month’s topic: Dealing with landlord harassment. Got a question? Send an email to alex@brokeassstuart.com and we

Cayuga Playground, better known as Gayuga Park, is one of the strangest places I’ve been to in the city…and I’ve been almost everywhere.  It’s in the Outer Mission, and it’s a sculpture garden dedicated to the man who maintained and decorated the park for decades, Demetrio Braceros. Known as Demi

The Controversy  There has been tremendous backlash in the  LGBTQ communities, as well as an unnerving silence from a range of Comedians in regards to the heated controversy around Dave Chapelle’s latest Comedy special The Closer.  Where is the appropriate line in “comedy” — from low brow humor to the

Lynsi Snyder is a fascinating character, one part Paris Hilton, one part Stephanie McMahon, and one part born-again hellraiser.  Snyder’s been married four times, had four children, opened dozens of restaurants, started a band, a non-profit focused on addiction,  and successfully evaded two kidnapping attempts, all before the age of 40.