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Broke-Ass of the Week: Musician Joe Medina of MERCH
Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not.

SF Sightseeing Tour Guide Loses Her Sh*t and Goes on an Anti-Chinatown Rant
Either this is well placed street theatre or this chick really hates Chinatown. Alexandra Liss sent this my way. Apparently it was this tour guide’s last day and the German visitors who were staying with Alex were on this tour. They took this video. The vociferousness of her rant is kinda

Protest Bay Guardian’s Closure, Celebrate Newspaper’s 48-Year History on Weds
This press release just came across my desk (I mean, in my email inbox, but you know, whatever). I’m cutting and pasting it here so I don’t muck things up. On Weds. Oct. 22, the first time in 48 years that the San Francisco Bay Guardian will not deliver a new issue, city

Why Losing the SF Bay Guardian is so Terrible for San Francisco
I actually cried this morning. I’m a grown-ass man, I can’t remember the last time I cried, but today I found myself whimpering and making snuffling noises as tears came down my face and I looked out my window onto Folsom Street. To say that the closing of the San

The Cotopaxi Questival: An Amazing 24 Hour Adventure Race Across The Bay Area!
This post is sponsored by the fine people at Cotopaxi. If you’re interested in sponsoring a post on the site drop us a line at info@BrokeAssStuart.com. Getting a little tired of doing the same old crap all the time? Get out and do something unique this October. On October 24th

The Community Music Center: A Hidden Gem with Sliding Scale Music Classes
Full Disclosure: I let the folks at CMC write this one up because I really believe in what they do and I’m too slammed to write this up myself. Just when you thought everything in SF was changing (read: getting more expensive), there is a music school based in the

Broke-Ass of the Week: Comedian & Labor Organizer Nato Green
Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not. Wanna be a Broke-Ass of the Week? Holler at us here and we’ll send you the questionnaire. photo by

Win a Pair of Tix to the Escape Music Fest feat. Girl Talk, Moby, Yeasayer and More
The Escape Music Festival will be taking place October 11 + 12 at Governors Beach Club on Governor’s Island in New York. A first year festival, the 2-day series features a stellar lineup which includes Girl Talk, Moby, Placebo, Yeasayer, Mayer Hawthorne, The Joy Formidable, Ra Ra Riot, The Crystal Method, STRFKER,