SF Bay Area

Must-Visit Gallery Exhibitions in San Francisco Currently
It’s fall in the Bay Area and that means art openings, wine and the ubiquitous round of ignored brie and crackers…oh yes, and the grapes, there’s always grapes! If I were to try to tell you to go to any single show I couldn’t actually do it. Galleries and museums

Broke-Ass Stuart Won Best Online Personality in the Bay!
Best of the Bay 2023: City Living Winner! We’d like to thank everyone who voted for www.brokeassstuart.com in the Best of the bay Reader’s Poll, and our friends at 48 Hills for nominating us! If you’d like to rub elbows with the fine folks of 48hills and lots of the

Chilling Podcast ‘Spooked’ Haunts The Fox, Friday the 13th
True-life supernatural stories are told by guests who can barely believe they lived them. The podcast is a bit like ‘This American Life’, only if Ira Glass was traveling the country in search of the mystic, the strange, and the divine, and his broadcast studio was also a totally haunted!

The Mint Karaoke Lounge is Pure Magic
There are few things in life better than seeing a 300-pound drag queen sing “(You Make Me Feel like) A Natural Woman.” I mean really singing it, with all her guts and all her might and feeling every single word. It’s the kind of thing that makes you sit back

Woman Trapped Under Cruise Autonomous Car In San Francisco
A woman was trapped under a Cruise car on Market Street in San Francisco, requiring the San Francisco Fire Department to use the jaws of life to save her. According to Cruise, the autonomous vehicle wasn’t at fault for the accident – as the pedestrian was “launched” in front of

What Bumping Into Dean Preston & Elon Musk Made Me Realize About San Francisco
For a bustling metropolitan city filled with tourists, billionaires and bullshit; San Francisco certainly feels like a small town sitting somewhere on the edge of sanity. The place just doesn’t feel real. Where else in the country does a casual stroll allow you to cross paths with one of the

Artist You Should Know: Lauren Jade Szabo’s Vibrant Journey
If you managed to make it to the de Young Open you might have spied Lauren Jade Szabo’s painting, To Make an End is to Make a Beginning ( I Paint Therefore I Am). This hardworking artist shows all over the Bay Area and beyond. Bright colors painted on canvas

Flock to Hardly Strictly For This Rare Bird (Puppet) Performance
If you’re a music lover like myself, then this weekend is one of the year’s most exciting events: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival (known simply as Hardly Strictly or HSB). Golden Gate Park will be transformed into a FREE music festival this weekend, September 29th through October 1st. Yet, amidst this