Arts and Culture

On Creating a Better Future for the Tenderloin & SoMa
Matt Haney stops in and tells us his ideas for helping the homeless and his vision for the Tenderloin and SoMA.

Local Film Makers Explore the Perils of the Sharing Economy in Man’s Best Friend
This Tuesday marks the start of the 16th Annual Oakland International Film Festival. Screenings will take place at four different venues throughout the city, including Oakland City Hall and the beautiful Grand Lake Theater. One, of roughly a dozen movies to be featured at Oakland’s crown jewel venue this year,

How to do Easter Like a Proper Heathen in San Francisco
It’s Easter Sunday in San Francisco, which means there are gloriously unreligious and outrageously interesting events to attend. There’s the legendary Hunky Jesus Contest in Golden Gate Park with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. There’s the incredibly juvenile and dangerously fun Big Wheel Races down Potrero Hill, and as luck

Patron of the Week: Ken Newman
I love any opportunity to support the folks who support me, which is why I’m so excited to be doing this Patron of the Week series. From art to activism to non-profits, so many of the people who support Broke-Ass Stuart on Patreon do really wonderful things. And this is

We Remade a Scene from Scarface….It’s So Stupid, it’s Hilarious.
Acting Badly in Bars is a new web series where we remake famous movie scenes in a bar, using only what we find in the bar…including the bartender. It is so stupid that it’s hilarious. For this on we did Scarface, everybody’s favorite cocaine gangster movie and holy shit, you’re gonna

We wanna send you and a friend to the StARTup Fair!
Now in its fourth year stARTup Art Fair returns to transform the Hotel Del Sol into an immersive, contemporary art experience through the exhibition of artwork by a diverse group of independent artists, local art nonprofits, artist performances, installations and panel discussions over the course of three days from April 27 – April 29,

Broke-Ass Stuarts Weekly NYC Comedy Breakdown!
Your go-to for weekly stand-up comedy listings in the Big Apple

The Cult of the Machine at the de Young
While many people feared their jobs would be replaced by robots, there was a resounding belief that mechanization would usher in a utopia free from the drudgery of manual labor. Artists enamored by the stark, sterile beauty of machinery, gave rise to a little known but pervasive art movement called Precisionism.