Privacy rights advocates push back against data collection devices in Castro bars
Badlands management says they will continue to use Patronscan despite public outcry
Dressed as ‘Wizard of Oz’ characters, protesters sought an audience with Mayor Lurie
Dorothy and friends tried to talk to the man behind the curtain and ask him to have a heart, a brain, and some courage
Peter’s Friends: A guide to the Bay Area notables on Peter Thiel’s leaked invite list
Not just anyone can attend Dialog, the ultra-elite gatherings of thought leaders and ‘90s child actors hosted at locations around the world
Dotcakes are the new Dubai chocolates are the new compost cookies are the new cronuts
The viral cake that has New Yorkers waiting on lines at 6 a.m. is a repackaged panaderia staple
People are celebrating videos of Safeway security roughing up shoplifters
Thanks to Meta glasses, muscular loss prevention at some Bay Area supermarkets has gone viral
The phone-freein’ Bob Dylan
One of the last deviceless places in the Bay Area was a concert at the Greek Theatre
‘AI’s not going to break your heart the way real life does’
Poet Shawn Smucker talks to Gazetteer SF about art, loneliness, and his viral poem, ‘Please Use AI’
Even Stanford grads are angry at the system
Plus, after being stuffed in lockers his whole life, Zuck was allowed to sit with the jocks at the pep rally
Sample culinary excellence from leading local pop-ups at Chat Room: Food
Our live event is the perfect time to chow down on Uncle Tito’s Filipino-American comfort food, Provecho’s Oaxacan delights, and Ovinloven’s seasonal sweet and savory pies
Drinking Companion: Bank on the Irish Bank
Office workers, tourists, and children of the Gael flock to this FiDi alley EOD for craic and pints on plastic chairs
Waymo’s double parking problem is our double parking problem
AVs have figured out that blocking traffic is no big deal. Wonder where they learned that
A disco historian’s fabulous disco playlist
Ahead of his appearance at Green Apple Books Books on the Park, ‘A Night at the Disco’ author Christian John Wikane’s tunes for your own Good Times
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Do look back: Inside the famously tetchy 1965 Bob Dylan press conference in San Francisco
Robert Zagone remembers arranging the singer’s confrontational group interview with members of the local press corps, a handful of poets, and some high school journalist
The circle of life
San Francisco’s municipal green waste program brings consumers into the food production loop, one carrot shaving at a time
Steve Hilton is the Del Taco of Republican candidates
The Atherton-dwelling, mid-tier Fox News talking head running for governor is more super bad than supervillain
Recipes for success
A conversation about cooking up a restaurant business with leaders from Flour + Water, Shoji, and Reem’s
Why do these Castro gay bars have TSA-style face scanners?
A handful of neighborhood bars have installed facial recognition devices that collect and share customers’ names, addresses, genders, and indiscretions with each other
Manic Monday
‘Nerdy escorts’ are selling intimacy-as-a-service to AI founders
Plus, in the tasteslop era, we’re keeping our eyes peeled for bad tech streetwear
All hail the Tillyverse
Plus, Anthropic’s looming IPO and Trump’s terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad concert
Culture
Among the bird nerds
Birders flock across the Bay Area in search of fleeting, feathery moments of grace
Politics
San Francisco smoking ban vote delayed yet again
Small biz owners and a Berkeley resident said their piece, but Supervisor Myrna Melgar still kicked her proposal down the road
Food & Drink
As the city hits 80 degrees, blouge is here to cool you down
A chilled co-fermentation of red and white varietals is elbowing rosé and orange out of the way as the vin de soif of summer
Business
Can you actually buy a house with Anthropic stock? Probably not
‘You can’t just say, I’ll sell my house for a thousand almonds, or, in this case, a thousand shares of OpenAI or Anthropic’
Tech
A Stop AI activist is standing trial after blockading OpenAI HQ last year
Wynd Kaufmyn is prepared to serve time if it helps spread the group’s warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence
Immigration
What will SF law enforcement do if ICE kicks in your door? Ask again in a few weeks
If SFPD, the Sheriff, and the DA have a plan to protect our Fourth Amendment rights, they’re not sharing it
