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Why You Should Not Buy An iPhone X
Apple has a new iPhone out today, a grand experiment to see if people are really brainwashed enough to pay $1,000 for a smartphone. And it looks like a lot of them are! But people, you should not buy a new $1,000 smartphone simply because Apple has a new $1,000

12 Reasons You Should NOT Support Broke-Ass Stuart Ever
This post is made possible by Citizens Against Broke-Ass Stuart. Apparently Broke-Ass Stuart has started a Patreon page so that the website can be sustainable, and so he pay his writers better, keep supporting progressive causes, and continue creating what he calls “dope shit”. We hear he’s even giving out

This Week’s Events | San Francisco + New York
Rad Upcoming SF Events DAY OF THE DEAD SAN FRANCISCO THU. 11/2 | 4:00PM @ THE MISSION Day of the Dead San Francisco is a community event that has been happening for over 30 years. There are many organizations and people that contribute to the richness of this event, The Mission really

SFist and Entire Gothamist Network have Shut Down
Learn how to keep BrokeAssStuart.com from disappearing right here. Oh wow. This is a really sad day for the world of local journalism. I just heard the news that SFist and the entire Gothamist network have shut down. Started in 2009, the Gothamist network was a collection of websites that

Filipino-American Vicki Draves Made Olympic History
San Francisco is an old, iron safe filled with gold, glory, disaster, and secrets. SFCentric History is a new column, by SF writer V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi, that digs in the vaults of local history and shares the sensational people, places, and things that rocked San Francisco. This time it’s all

Gravestones in Dolores Park Pay Homage to Crappy Startups
On Halloween, a startup employee put up an art installation in Dolores Park to honor crappy companies that had gone out of business this year. The faux gravestones had painfully shitty startups like ‘Juciero’ and ‘Yik Yak’ painted on them, I suppose to remind people how short sighted and useless

New Measure Will Give Lawyers to Tenants Facing Eviction in San Francisco
“No Eviction Without Representation!” Advocates for tenants rights should rejoice, this new ballot measure for June 2018 would give all San Franciscans the right to legal representation when their landlord attempts to evict them. Which means if you cannot afford an attorney to challenge the eviction, the city will provide