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01 Dec 2022

The City Counselor: Reset & Boost Your Vibes in The Inner Richmond

This column is in the spirit of a “Dear Abby”, with a focus on solutions in the form of micro SF neighborhood deep dives and curated holistic health-centered itineraries By Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely Dear BBB, Put a fork in me!!!  My pandemic partner broke up by texting a series of sappy

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01 Dec 2022

The 19th Another Hole In The Head Film Festival Is Here!

Mundanes will wonder why the 19th Another Hole In The Head Film Festival (hereafter “AHITH”) is screening in December rather than, say, October.  The zombies, giant monsters, and serial killers populating AHITH’s offerings this year seem more appropriate around Halloween rather than its current scheduled dates of December 1-18, 2022. 

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01 Dec 2022

The World Renowned Bart Basel is Back!

San Francisco has a long tradition of strange, wonderful, DIY, street performance art.

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30 Nov 2022

Guess Which SF Institution is NOT Shutting Down!

Too many of our favorite Bay Area institutions have closed down in recent years. The good news is that BrokeAssStuart.com plans on always being here for you. But we need your help to do so. As you likely saw a couple weeks ago, I laid out just how expensive it is

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30 Nov 2022

Mauna Loa Ends Thirty-Eight-Year Silence

After months of seismic unrest, Hawai’i’s largest volcano Mauna Loa began erupting.  At 11:30 PM Sunday evening, the floor of Moku‘āweoweo, Mauna Loa’s enormous caldera, split open. Lava soon flooded the crater and spilled out on the mountain’s broad, rocky slopes. Scientists familiar with the truly massive volcano (33,500+ feet

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30 Nov 2022

Locking Up the Mentally Ill, Involuntarily, is Making A Comeback

New York City Mayor Eric Adams just announced his initiative to renew involuntary commitment. A “common misunderstanding persists that we cannot provide involuntary assistance unless the person is violent,” said Adams, with the New York Times reporting. “Going forward, we will make every effort to assist those who are suffering

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29 Nov 2022

Stop Assuming Food Service Workers Are Stupid

After the mid-term elections a couple of weeks ago, I noticed a disturbing trend in the memes that were being tossed onto the world wide web. These memes were meant to insult the person in the photos, but they also kind of insulted a whole demographic of the workforce of

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29 Nov 2022

The Vallejo Police Department Is Corrupt, And Why You Should Care

The Bay Area has always acted as if it was exceptional – and in some ways it is. The Bay Area is exceptionally beautiful and exceptionally wealthy. It’s also, in some ways, exceptionally full of shit.  The Vallejo Police Department’s history of unchecked murder and normalized use of lesser forms

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