latest

We wanna send you to the Id10t Festival this summer!
Chris Hardwick is bringing a two-day festival of music, comedians and makers to the Silicon Valley this summer! The ID10T (pronounced I-D-ten-T) Music Festival & Comic Conival, a celebration of music, gaming, comedy, tech, and all things pop culture. Each day, pop culture enthusiasts will have the opportunity to roam

Kilowatt: Where mid-20s Daydreams Were Lost and Found
This originally appeared in my Weeknighter column for 7×7. Anthony used to call Kilowatt “Kil-a-game” because we never met any girls there. We were both single and in our mid-20s and thought bars would be the answer to the question of “Where can we meet women?” Apparently the answer we found was

Superb Martinis and a Shot of Nostalgia at Aub Zam Zam
This originally appeared in my Weeknighter column for 7×7. Weekends are for amateurs. Weeknights are for pros. That’s why each week Stuart Schuffman will be exploring a different San Francisco bar, giving you the lowdown on how and where to do your weeknight right. From the most creative cocktails to the best

How to Make a Movie When You’re Broke
Threesomething is a story of friendship, loneliness, and a botched threesome. It aims to explore the awkwardness at the heart of so many male friendships and expose the kind of feelings we’re not supposed to talk about, much less make movies about. The film is the product of a creative partnership and

Some in SF Value People Over Profit
On Monday, I was interviewed by someone from BBC Mundo, the Spanish-language arm of the BBC. The main question the reporter had was, “Do you think many people in San Francisco would rather have a less successful tech industry in exchange for having a more affordable city?”

A Brief History of Names My Students Have Given Me
I am a public school teacher. You probably already knew that because of the title of the thing you are reading, or because you follow me on social media, or maybe because you have been in the same room as me for longer than four minutes, which is about the

Tech Workers Have the Nerve to Complain about Cost, Traffic, and the Homeless
There has been a lot of division between beliefs and lifestyles in the Bay Area. This is not regarding political parties; this is about regular working people and tech workers. The two worlds that have been colliding are becoming almost similar once the tech workers started complaining about the cost