Culture
San Francisco’s future spokespeople: Coyotes
A new city ad is rumored to be in the works, headed up by ‘Last Black Man in San Francisco’ director Joe Talbot
Soon Technology is tech-pilled and loving it
A Vice Media alum’s ‘new media’ company offers up friendly coverage to an increasingly controversial industry
Noise Pop’s space travel and Muni rides
Jay Som and Sun Ra Arkestra brought their fans to transcendence, but only one shouted out KEXP’s Cheryl Waters from the stage
Table for 400
A group of young Bay Area Muslims is hosting a free outdoor dinner to break bread, pray, and teach their neighbors about Ramadan
The Strokes are slouching towards Bill Graham
The seminal NYC band returns to SF in April after a legendarily bad Outside Lands performance
Who (allegedly) runs tech?
Two magazines investigate. Plus, the people want a ‘Silicon Valley’ reboot
How the uncanny valley could kill the Valley
Porn performer Siri Dahl and others have started sounding the alarm about AI's impacts on privacy, free speech, and legal sex work
The high-fantasy cult of Anthropic
Plus, its fight with the Pentagon, OpenAI and Meta race to deploy AI agents to the masses, and tasteless AI people argue about taste
The New Liberals just want to enjoy their Tax Havens
At The Irish Bank, policy wonks debate the Billionaire’s March and Georgist land taxes









