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Free Coffee and Booze Courtesy of Dunkin’ Donuts and Slide on Black Friday
Let’s see. What does one need after a day of wanton gluttony? How about a steady diet of diuretics? Yay! If you’re one of those masochists that enjoys the bloodbath that is shopping the day after Thanksgiving, than you’ll be thrilled to know that Dunkin’ Donuts is ready to set-up
A Broke-Ass Salute to Catherine O’Hara
A few months or weeks or years or something ago, I wrote a post about some funny ladies of comedy who just don’t get the love they deserve. At the time I knew, knew, that there was someone amazing, brilliant and hilarious times infinity million that I was forgetting about.
Fraunces Tavern: Color Me Colonial
The other day, via a G-chat conversation, Ashley and I discovered a place in lower Manhattan called Fraunces Tavern, a 3-story brick restaurant with various dining rooms mainly used for what I can only assume to be Colonial-themed occasions, as it’s a historical landmark, of sorts, as it was a
A Guide to Riding the SF MUNI: Part Deux
In the second installment of the bus etiquette series we’re going to cover quite a bit. We’ll laugh, we’ll cry, we’ll discover our bodies. I hope you’re ready for this adventure. I know I am. 1. Greet the bus driver. Turns out that’s not a robot driving the bus, it’s
Gotham City Lounge: What A Fucking Great Bar!
As the title of this post suggests, Gotham City Lounge is a fucking great bar. It’s cheap. It’s genuinely divey. It’s got a pool table. It’s right under the Central Ave. M train stop (and within walking distance of the Myrtle Ave.-Broadway J stop). It has great atmosphere. This truly
FREE BOOKS! FREE BOOKS! FREE BOOKS!
You already know how I feel about libraries. But here is something even more miraculous. The Bay Area FREE Book Exchange in El Cerrito (North of Berkeley) is a cooperative run by local booksellers/booklovers. It is literally a ‘œstore’ full of FREE books. Whenever I’m in a store and an
Humpday Videos FLASHBACK: Prince, “Diamonds & Pearls”
We here at Broke-Ass Stuart remember a kinder, gentler, funkier time when there was an entire network devoted to playing awesome new music videos. Men named Pinfield and women named Idalis would introduce block after block of original music videos from various genres interspersed with interviews with musicians and video
Pre-Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt
If you’re sticking around the city for Thanksgiving, you’re probably raging it tonight and preparing to cure your hangover with stuffing and mashed potatoes. And is there a better way of achieving that hangover than running around and getting FREE shots? If you said, “No, dumbass!” then go to the