San Francisco

18 Nov 2019

How to Crash All the Best Dreamforce 2019 Parties For Free

Open bar and appetizers paid for by Corporate America await you as Dreamforce 2019 swallows up SoMa and downtown all this week (Nov. 19 – Nov. 22). The world’s largest software conference is also the world’s largest party-crashing opportunity, with oodles of cash-negative startups throwing insanely opulent parties all over

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15 Nov 2019

How the Spotify Algorithm is Ruining My Work Life

Algorithms increasingly seem to be running our lives. They’re used in courts, hospitals, and banks. The use of the algorithms bring up a lot of concerns about bias, privacy, and the kind of content they share. I have a much more basic problem with them: they’re stupid.

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14 Nov 2019

Amaluna Will Make you Want to Run Away and Join the Cirque

The smell of popcorn and anticipation greet you under the big tent, as parents, punters and press sip wine and chat excitedly before the premiere of Cirque Du Soleil’s AMALUNA in San Francisco.   Amaluna is directed by Tony Award-winner Diane Paulus, and it is female-driven, nail-biting action.  It may just

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14 Nov 2019

All the Incredible things BAS Has Accomplished This Year

Over the past year on BrokeAssStuart.com we’ve accomplished the following: – Publish 700+ articles on the website – Get the word out about 150+ non-profits, charities, and fundraisers – Pay dozens of writers and artists to create amazing things – Promote 2000+ local events. – Give out thousands of tribute

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13 Nov 2019

Breed Tapped a New Transit Agency Director to Fix Muni

Mayor London Breed Wednesday tapped a new director of transportation to lead the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.  The mayor and city at large hope Jeffrey Tumlin can do what Ed Reiskin failed to do before him: Fix the damn Muni system. Reiskin resigned in April under intense criticism. Muni

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13 Nov 2019

Misty Smith Walton Was a Good Human Taken Too Soon. Here’s How You Can Help.

The story of Misty Smith Walton is one that should grip us. It should weigh on our souls. Tragic tales such as hers should never be normalized to the point where we don’t have experience an emotional response. Her death should make us sad and angry. It should inspire the

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12 Nov 2019

Where to Find the Best Sake in the Bay Area

Wine and beer aren’t the only beverages you should be sipping in San Francisco. Japanese brewers have made sake for more than 1,500 years. Only recently have Americans brought the craft of making this fermented rice alcohol to the U.S. Some may refer to sake as rice wine, but the

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12 Nov 2019

Art Activists Change Trump Jr.’s Book Title to ‘Daddy, Please Love Me’

Sometimes art activism is the only reason I still have faith in democracy.  Two comedians in NYC trolled Donald Trump Jr. in an ingenious way this week, by replacing the jackets on his new book ‘Triggered’ in an NYC Barnes and Nobles.   The new title: ‘Daddy, Please Love Me: How

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