Culture
I, for one, welcome our new Pokémon overlords
This weekend’s celebration of all things Pokémon offered a vision of a better, way more fun San Francisco
How will we spend all that AI money?
Plus, Horsies — the ultimate arbiter of SF cool — declares AI lame
San Francisco honors Dolly Parton
She might be Appalachia’s daughter, but she’s a San Francisco patron saint
Operator fatigue leads to another Muni train crash
The July incident is eerily similar to a November 2025 accident
Anti-surveillance protestors flock to Chris Larsen’s house
Plus, TikTok’s newest aesthetic is the anti-AI girlie
The internet hates the new Instagram logo. What do professional designers think?
Four graphics experts critique the mega-platform’s ‘cleaner and more modern’ wordmark
A new dating site wants to match (only) ‘Western’ men to Asian women
Mysterious platform ‘WMAF Meet’ uses AI to facilitate SF’s ‘most in-demand pairing’
The Mechanics’ Institute’s next move
A membership library in the Financial District has attracted readers for nearly two centuries, but its winning advantage is the chessroom
The Phoenix company behind the Giants’ viral ‘Jesus Won’ shirts
By tapping into sports, the brand’s cofounders are bringing their message to the masses and putting another ‘W’ on the board for Christ
Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees
The ‘demeaning’ website was spun up by a local founder with no relationship to the company
