Culture
My friend Mark
A former Condor Club bartender remembers the kindness of manager Mark Calcagni
Welcome to the room
While the resemblance between the band in ‘Stereophonic’ and Fleetwood Mac is for the lawyers to parse, the show’s recording studio setting is clearly inspired by Sausalito’s legendary Record Plant
Who gets a tattoo at a tech convention?
There’s no better way to remember your TechCrunch Disrupt experience forever than to get a free flash tat
The American AI strategy
As the government shutdown drags on, VCs gathered at the Commonwealth Club to look at boobs on their phones and hear two congressmen gab about AI
If these walls could talk
With an Instagram account you can practically smell, Brooke Janser documents the noble rot of San Francisco dive bar bathrooms
Veteran Black SFJAZZ director sues for discrimination
The San Francisco musical institution has acknowledged 'systemic racism and bias' in the past
Pay to play
'Relationships company' 222 wants to solve the loneliness problem with an algorithm
So funny we forgot to laugh
AI slop billboards have gotten so absurd that even an obvious satire is being taken seriously
All quiet on the Castro front
Residents and workers in the city’s most storied neighborhood wonder what a National Guard deployment might look like
