Culture
Tennis comes slamming back to San Francisco
Player-turned-coach Brad Gilbert hopes the Laver Cup puts the city back on the tennis map
Everyone is talking about the Waymo Portola ticket discount except Waymo
Early festival ticket buyers are not happy about the 25% off sale; Waymo isn’t even advertising it
Taxi driver
Wayne Wang’s ‘Chan is Missing’ led viewers past the tourist spots and deeper into San Francisco’s Chinatown of the 1980s
Face Time: Rick and Megan Prelinger
The archivists and researchers look backward — and forward — in a city where exchange and flow are bedrock
The work of art in the age of artificial intelligence
The experimental art collective TIAT is bringing together artists, technologists, and hundreds of admirers who want a robot to draw them
Fiber optics
Feeling logy after months of proteinmaxxing? You may wanna sit down: now it’s all about fibermaxxing
Do androids dream of biang biang noodles?
‘Automatic Noodle’ author Annalee Newitz on SF, Chinese food videos, and whether bots should be allowed into labor unions
Why is this woman laffing?
In a town full of outsized weirdos, Laffing Sal is still the weirdest
A Stanford dropout turned indie pop talent
ROHAN is playing the Brick and Mortar Hall Friday
Page against the machine
San Francisco’s zinesters are fighting AI slop, surveillance capitalism, and corporate media one indie pub at a time
