Culture
Inside the Tape Vault
While artists rack up billions of streams recording tracks in their bedrooms, Chris von Sneidern’s Tenderloin recording studio continues to make music the hard and fun way
Banana Republic still sells jeans with allegedly stolen design
Despite being called out on social media and in the local press, the elevated casuals company sells yet another pair of jeans that looks suspiciously similar to a one-of-a-kind pant design from the Future Past
A table divided
Charting the distance between Sam Altman and Steve Kerr at the Sydney Goldstein Theater
‘I’m the luckiest drag queen in the world’
Per Sia, the city’s newest Drag Laureate, shares a stage with the mayor
When Satan lived at Fisherman’s Wharf
For a few years in the 1970s, the Museum of Witchcraft & Magic cast a spell on San Francisco tourists
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
