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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

March 5, 2026

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

March 4, 2026

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

March 3, 2026

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

February 26, 2026

The Strokes are slouching towards Bill Graham

The seminal NYC band returns to SF in April after a legendarily bad Outside Lands performance

February 25, 2026

Who (allegedly) runs tech?

Two magazines investigate. Plus, the people want a ‘Silicon Valley’ reboot

February 23, 2026

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

February 23, 2026

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

February 17, 2026

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

February 13, 2026

Slopper Bowl LX

AI’s dark aura was all over the Big Game. Viewers were not fans

February 9, 2026