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A Chef Found a Scammer Peddling a Fake Dinner on Eventbrite
The other day I was reached out to by Telmo Faria, the Chef/Owner of Uma Casa, a Portuguese restaurant in San Francisco’s Noe Valley. “Just found out someone is running a scam posing as restaurants/events on Eventbrite,” he told me via Instagram. Apparently the scammer took information and images from

How to See the Rare Green Comet That’s Passing Earth This Week
I have a super distinct memory of the Hale-Bopp that was visible for a few months during 1997. I was 16 at the time and my friends and I piled into cars and drove to the outer parts of San Diego County so we could get away from light pollution

Why Walking Around San Francisco is My Favorite Thing to Do
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

An Open Letter to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff
Hey Marc! Broke-Ass Stuart here. I’ve been trying to connect with you for a little while by emailing your team and tweeting at you, but I’ve had no luck so far. I don’t take it personally though. After all, I am the guy who wrote a viral article naming your

How Monkeybrains Tried to Give SF a Giant Check…and Failed
What’s not talked about enough is how much good Monkeybrains does for the community. And that brings us to the time they tried to give a giant check to the City and County of San Francisco, and nobody showed up.

Fentanyl Laced Party Drugs are Killing People in the Bay Area
Seeing as New Year’s Eve is nearly here, and people will be partying their faces off on the last night of the year, I figured it was really important to get this public service announcement out there: TEST YOUR DRUGS AND CARRY NARCAN! Honestly, I have no problem with recreational

Le Marais Bakery in the Castro Robbed and Vandalized
One of San Francisco’s best French bakeries was broken into and vandalized on Monday evening. Even their industrial safe was stolen! As a result of this, they are calling upon local and state leaders to step up and fix San Francisco’s property crime issues. According to their Instagram post: “They took

Oakland’s Starline Social Club is Closing
One of Oakland’s coolest venues has announced that it is closing down. On Saturday, Starline Social Club posted to its 21,000 Instagram followers that January 1st would be its final day. As they said in the post,”We are sad to announce that Starline Social Club is going up for sale and