San Francisco

13 Oct 2014

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

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10 Oct 2014

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

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10 Oct 2014

How to Find True Happiness in San Francisco

Money…Money…Money Money inhabits the majority of the real estate of our discussion – blogs, conversation, and articles all seem to revolve around money. The impossible rent and cost of living, the monied population and arguments over culture grab and gentrification. The culture surrounding $4 toast, $16 cocktails, $50 haircuts and

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09 Oct 2014

Win A Copy Of Isaac Fitzgerald & Wendy MacNaughton’s New Book, Pen + Ink

Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton will be on the scene Friday, October 10th @ Make Out Room in the Mission. To celebrate their awesomeness, we’re giving away a FREE copy of their new book ‘Pen and Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them.” Get it while the gettin’ is good

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09 Oct 2014

How to Pick Up Sailors at Fleet Week

Some of you hate Fleet Week with a passion. But others of you will passionately seek out “the D” at Fleet Week SF (Oct. 3-10 in 2016), our annual celebration of loud planes, terrified housepets and attractive, buff sailors who claim to be unmarried. This article is for those of

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09 Oct 2014

The City That Was: When North Beach Was Italian

In The City That Was, Bohemian Archivist P Segal tells a weekly story of what you all missed: the days when artists, writers, musicians, and unemployed visionaries were playing hard in the city’s streets and paying the rent working part time. Tourist brochures tell visitors that North beach is the Italian district of

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09 Oct 2014

Broke-Ass Artist of the Week – Smax Music

Brokeassstuart.com proudly presents the Broke-Ass Artists series where we give our readers an insight to the struggle of some up and coming talent in music. I met our first ever artist of the week, Smax Music, years ago when we were both performing at a fashion show. He considers himself

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09 Oct 2014

The Haunted Porn Studio of SF: Nudity, Horror, and a Lot of Fun

Please note that there is an entry form at the bottom of this article so that you can win tickets to this rad tour!! “Welcome to the Armory’s haunted tour…or sex tour…depending how you look at it,” says a man dressed all in black.  With that, we descend into the darkness of the

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