It’s funny how, when you look at the kids you grew up with, some of them have ended up exactly where you thought they would.  If you told me 15 years ago that in 2009 my buddy Jon O’Connor would be leading outdoor adventures trips, I probably would’ve said, “Yeah,

Every year Riverflicks For Grown-Ups picks a theme for selecting its movies.  This year, they’ve chosen the theme “I Know What You Did Last Summer”, and are showing films from the summer of 2008. Most magnificent to see on the big screen is The Dark Knight, if for Heath Ledger’s

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

A couple of weekends ago some friends and I got on line for P.S.1’s very first”Warm Up” Party in Long Island City.  I was feeling optimistic about it, especially since I was able to convince my one modern-art-hatin’-mainstreamer friend to come and was hoping that we’d all get drunk, enjoy

Whether you admit it or cower in shame, it’s happened to all of us. The one-too-many-moment, two steps away from worshipping the porcelain god, trying to drown your sorrows…whatever you may call it, being too drunk in front of people is both humiliating and hilarious to your audience of choice.

There’s a reason Monday is your favorite day of the weeek.. According to Ambrose Bierce, Monday is : ” (n.) In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.”  Dang, did that old man get it wrong!  Monday is a contraction of Moonday, which had to be truncated with the

Seems like ol’ Larry Flynt is just a regular Santy Claus.  Not only does he want to employ you, he wants you to save money at his topless dancing club.  What a guy! Most people who hang out in North Beach already know about the $2 Tuesdays at the Hustler

Got this the other day from Robert of the Cardboard Tube Fighting League: You can’t keep a good thing down. Come one, come all, to the Summer 2009 Cardboard Tube Fighting League Tournament. Prepare yourselves for a late afternoon of cardboard tube wielding mayhem as contestants vie for the title