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A Very Covid San Francisco New Years
It was a sunny, crisp Wednesday afternoon after my bread delivery shift at Josey Baker Bread in San Francisco when I realized, or permitted myself to feel, that New Year’s Eve was close. “Jesus,” I said, looking at my phone, noting the date. “It’s tomorrow.” After enduring almost a year

What it’s Like Being in a Band During a Pandemic
By Patricia Mott Shortly before the pandemic hit San Francisco, in March of 2020, my bandmates and I had showed up early to a gig we were playing. We loaded our equipment into The Knockout, one of our favorite local hang outs, and met up with a couple of staff

Our 10 Most Popular Articles of 2020
It was a hell of a year. BrokeAssStuart.com, like many independent media outlets and small businesses were hanging on by our proverbial fingernails. In 2020 we realized that everything we got paid to promote had to do with going out into the community, and that was all over with. The

Ask a Tenant Lawyer: How to Get your Landlord to Reduce your Rent
Ask a Tenants Right’s Lawyer is your chance to learn how to survive as a renter in San Francisco. Attorney Daniel Wayne has a lot of the information you need to keep you in your home. This month’s topic: When tenant’s should file a complaint with the city . Got a question? Send

The Streets of San Francisco & Oakland in 2020
What a year. To tell the story of 2020 I teamed up with Bay Area photographer Marcell Turner, whose imagery captures both the comforting and horrifying views of our streets in vivid detail. Let’s take a visual walk down memory lane, in both Oakland and San Francisco. All photography by

The Most Insane Logic Problems In ‘Wonder Woman 1984,’ Ranked
Many of us spent our Christmas enduring the 2 hours and 31 minutes of incoherent shouting, explosions, and insane logic problems known as Wonder Woman 1984. And many of us spent that entire duration wondering ‘What the actual fuck?” Every scene of #WW84 was written by a different committee under

WATCH: All The Times The Golden Gate Bridge Has Been Destroyed In Movies
Do you like watching the Golden Gate Bridge get destroyed? Hollywood sure does! Hollywood movies have been destroying the Golden Gate Bridge since 1955, a mere after 18 years after the bridge was completed. These Golden Gate Bridge destructions are captured in the 25-minute supercut video below, and what better