Alex Mak
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San Francisco, CA, United States
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Where Most Pedestrians Get Run Over in San Francisco
“Did you look both ways before you cros…“BAM!! – Octavia Street., San Francisco “Hey Motherfucker, this is a bike lan..“SPLAT!! – Folsom St., San Francisco “Dude, have you looked up from your phone in like..“POW!! – Fake St., Gotham Using dramatic recreations of pedestrian-involved traffic accidents along with sound effects → Read More
America’s First Craft Brewery is in San Francisco
With its roots beginning in the Gold Rush, San Francisco's Steam Beer has been brewed here for at least 150 years. → Read More
San Francisco’s ‘Obama’ French Dip Sandwich
LITTLE FRENCH PIGGY SANDWICH REVIEWS: At least once a week I take a walk or ride my bike to a different San Francisco eatery for lunch. I’ve been doing this on and off for about 15 years now. The only rules are that the place must be locally owned AND must feed a full-sized, french piggy for under $20. → Read More
Big List of Bay Area Protests to End Gun Violence
MARCH FOR OUR LIVES 2022 Nationwide Protests to END GUN VIOLENCE Saturday, June 11th Text MARCH to 954-954 Protests in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond (alphabetical order) Events are being added and evolving daily. Please sign up for updates and recheck times & locations before the day of → Read More
How to Fence Stolen Goods in San Francisco
The easiest and safest way to get stolen goods in San Francisco is from parked cars. Automobile 'smash and grabs' are by far the most common types of crime committed in our fair city. → Read More
SF’s New ‘Francisco Park’ has Incredible Views on Russian Hill
On the northern slope of Russian Hill, a new public park has been carved out. The views from up there are pretty sensational and pretty panoramic. The construction of Francisco Park began in the summer of 2019 and it’s opening today (4/27/22). After extensive community outreach, The Francisco Park Conservancy → Read More
SF’s New Freeway Parks Have The Best Goddamn Views in The City
Perched directly above the roaring 101, these new parks provide incredible vantage points to gaze out over the north bay. It’s pretty amazing up there. After 7 years and 98 Million dollars, San Francisco’s new ‘Tunnel Tops’ park is almost ready. We did some snooping around with a telephoto lens → Read More
SF’s Redrawn District Lines Raising Alarms in LGBTQ Communities
*UPDATED: 12:50pm 4/4/2022 Edward Wright, President, Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club informed us that, “the task force did reverse course over the weekend. On Saturday, after about 7 hours of public comment from 182 people, they voted 8-1 to move forward with a new draft map that keeps the TL → Read More
How to Pronounce ‘Chesa Boudin’ Correctly
I’ve heard the San Francisco District Attorney’s name pronounced so many different ways in the press and in conversation that it’s hard to keep track of what the correct way to say his name is. So we asked Mr. Boudin how it’s done. Here is how Chesa pronounces his own → Read More
US Formally Declared Russian Military Have Committed War Crimes in Ukraine
Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a statement Wednesday that the US government has formally declared that Russian armed forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine. “Today, I can announce that, based on information currently available, the US government assesses that members of Russia’s forces have committed war crimes in → Read More
Little Piggy Sandwich Reviews: Hot Chicken in the Mission
At least once a week I take a walk or ride my bike to a different San Francisco eatery for lunch. I've been doing this for about 15 years now. The only rules are that the place must be locally owned, must serve some kind of sandwich, wrap, or burger, AND it must feed a full-sized sandwich piggy for under $20! → Read More
The Most Popular Facebook Posts in Wartime Russia
By far the most popular posts this week on Facebook in Russia are anti-war. The majority of the top 25 posts across Russian Facebook are by a Russian language media company stationed in Prague, Czech Republic called Current Time TV. The #1 most engaged with post across Russia is a → Read More
Activist to Project Ukrainian Art onto Palace of Fine Arts
Projection artist Alan Marling along with nonprofit Justice Murals have teamed up to project Ukrainian art onto the side of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco this evening (February 22nd) in the wake of Russia’s threat to invade sovereign Ukrainian → Read More
The Delicious Drink-ups at SF Beer Week
San Francisco Beer Week is a magical time of year when the finest brewers in the West descend on the Bay Area with everything from casks of kolsch to ponies of pale ale, bottles of barley wine, drams of dunkels, pints of → Read More
What You Don't Know About Broke-Ass Stuart
My name is Alex Mak, I’m the managing editor and co-owner of BrokeAssStuart.com. You may recognize my byline as I’ve personally written over 1,000 articles for BAS, and I’ve edited and published 3 times that many by independent writers from our community. What → Read More
21st Amendment and BAS Cornhole Tournament of Champions
Our famous Cornhole Tournament of Champions is back! Come on down for a super fun, all-outdoor, ‘let’s try some new awesome Beer Week beers’, day party at 21st Amendment in San Francisco! We partnered with the gaming experts at Play in the Bay → Read More
Oakland's Amy Schneider's 'Jeopardy!' Run Ends, with 40 Win Streak
Heading into Final Jeopardy, Schneider was leading Chicago librarian Rhone Talsma. Her score was $27,600, while Talsma had $17,600. → Read More
Seals are Biting Swimmers Near Fisherman's Wharf
Members of San Francisco’s Dolphin Club have been getting bitten lately while swimming in the frigid waters of Aquatic Park Cove, just around the corner from Fisherman’s Wharf. Why these people like to swim in that murky, 50-degree, harbor water in the winter is a question for psychologists. → Read More
SF Police Arrest an Armed North Beach Car Burglary Crew!
The police stalked an armed car burglary crew and... → Read More
Weed DOES NOT Prevent COVID-19, You Goddamn Stoners.
Most people who can read already know this, but the recently viral articles with headlines like “Cannabis compounds may stop COVID-19 infection, study suggests”, and “Cannabis Compounds Prevented Covid Infection in Laboratory Study,” were written by assholes. Or at least the editors → Read More