Why Coyotes Have Sunk Their Fangs into This Author
Coyotes have become a Bay Area icon. In ‘Trickster at the End of a World,’ author and artist Helen Shewolfe Tseng shares what they could teach us.
Life
COYOTE Calendar: August 6-August 12
This week we've got a papal read-along, mimes, a whole lot of plants, absolutely awful music (on purpose), and pole dancing.
Culture
Why Coyotes Have Sunk Their Fangs into This Author
Coyotes have become a Bay Area icon. In ‘Trickster at the End of a World,’ author and artist Helen Shewolfe Tseng shares what they could teach us.
Power
ChatTJB Wants You to Stop Trusting LLMs
A San Francisco poet is answering your prompts badly, slowly, and earnestly.
Calendar
COYOTE Calendar: August 6-August 12
This week we've got a papal read-along, mimes, a whole lot of plants, absolutely awful music (on purpose), and pole dancing.
San Francisco
Dick Vivian Knew the Right Record Could Change Your Life
The beloved owner of Rooky Ricardo’s Records died in July at 78. But the Haight St. shop’s new owners — and Vivian’s countless musical disciples — say his legacy lives on.
Oakland
A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI
In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?
East Bay
Oakland’s Hottest Influencer Won’t Stop Pooping on Parking Meters
The creator of the Night Herons of Oakland Instagram account shares how she became obsessed with her avian neighbors.
Newsletters
Music
Dick Vivian Knew the Right Record Could Change Your Life
The beloved owner of Rooky Ricardo’s Records died in July at 78. But the Haight St. shop’s new owners — and Vivian’s countless musical disciples — say his legacy lives on.
Food
The Best Dishes Our Food Critic Ate in July
Corn, tomatoes, and everything great about summer in the Bay Area from local pop-ups and restaurants.
Yap Zone
Art
ChatTJB Wants You to Stop Trusting LLMs
A San Francisco poet is answering your prompts badly, slowly, and earnestly.
Behind the Scenes
LGBTQ
A Gay Situationship in a Doom Loop: A 2,000-Year-Old Play Makes Everything New Old Again
‘Satyricon’ brings sex, excess, and the decline of an empire to a historic San Francisco leather bar.
Eating
The Best Dishes Our Food Critic Ate in July
Corn, tomatoes, and everything great about summer in the Bay Area from local pop-ups and restaurants.
Sports
World Cup TikTok’s Schadenfreude Is a Thing of Anti-Imperialist Beauty
On the geopolitical thrills of soccer fandom.
Activism
San Jose
A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI
In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?
First Aid Kit
First Aid Kit: How To Store Water for an Emergency
The most important item to store for a disaster is also the cheapest.
COYOTE
Politics
ChatTJB Wants You to Stop Trusting LLMs
A San Francisco poet is answering your prompts badly, slowly, and earnestly.
Berkeley
A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI
In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?
AI
ChatTJB Wants You to Stop Trusting LLMs
A San Francisco poet is answering your prompts badly, slowly, and earnestly.
Bay Area Music
Queer
The Most Groundbreaking Dance Party in San Francisco Was on ’90s Public Access TV
‘Lavender Lounge,’ a queer variety show that ran from 1991 to 1995, returns to the screen for the first time in 30 years in a new documentary short.
North Bay
The Best Things Our Food Critic Ate in June
A great crab sandwich, heathen ice cream, Korean-Mexican snacks, plus some Giants hate.
ICE
Some Google Searches I, a San Francisco Parent, Have Done In the Past Week
I’m sleeping great, how about you
Books
Why Coyotes Have Sunk Their Fangs into This Author
Coyotes have become a Bay Area icon. In ‘Trickster at the End of a World,’ author and artist Helen Shewolfe Tseng shares what they could teach us.
Food Politics
The Chili Crisps and Handmade Bao Spicing Up Sonoma County's Food Scene
Asian American chefs, farmers, and food makers are reshaping what it means to eat well in Wine Country. It's about time.
Events
To Artist Ton Mak, Whimsy and Weirdness Are the Point
The artist Ton Mak retraces her creative journey, ahead of debuting a new exhibit at Empire Seven Studios in San Jose’s Japantown.
Service
History
World Cup TikTok’s Schadenfreude Is a Thing of Anti-Imperialist Beauty
On the geopolitical thrills of soccer fandom.
Albany
Forget the Zombified Punk Festivals. The Future Is for the Dolls
Doll Fest, a fundraiser and celebration of femmes in punk rock, hits Oakland and Albany March 27–29.
Pet Week
A Pet Week Open Thread (Closed!)
Who are your pets? What are their nicknames? We want to hear from you in the comments!
Restaurants
How a Worker-Owned Restaurant Chose Each Other Over Everything Else
Oakland’s Understory wants you to come for the political mission AND the great food.
Sonoma County
Kelp Wanted: A Morning of Seaweed Gathering on the Sonoma Coast
There's nori, kombu, wakame, and bladderwrack in themthar tide pools!
Journalism
It’s Time To Kill the Hero
On Cesar Chavez, René Redzepi, and all the men we make excuses for in the name of the greater good.
Hip-Hop
An Open Letter to LaRussell
The rapper made an error with the song “Heaven Sent,” writes fellow Bay Area emcee Rocky Rivera. But not listening to his community was the bigger mistake.
Good Riddance 2025
Labor
How a Worker-Owned Restaurant Chose Each Other Over Everything Else
Oakland’s Understory wants you to come for the political mission AND the great food.
Tech
ChatTJB Wants You to Stop Trusting LLMs
A San Francisco poet is answering your prompts badly, slowly, and earnestly.
Leave Your House
A Gay Situationship in a Doom Loop: A 2,000-Year-Old Play Makes Everything New Old Again
‘Satyricon’ brings sex, excess, and the decline of an empire to a historic San Francisco leather bar.
Coffee
Still Gay After All These Pours: The Queer Baristas Keeping the Bay's Coffee Culture Alive
As AI bros, private equity, and Decent espresso machines dominate the narrative, the gays hold the line.
Homeless
SF Hated the Super Bowl in 2016. A Decade Later, What’s Changed?
Ten years ago, protesters took to the streets to slam San Francisco’s Super Bowl City and call for an end to homeless sweeps. As the game returns to the Bay this week, why are things so quiet?
El Cerrito
What the ‘Asian Market Boom’ Is Missing: An Ode to Pacific East Mall
As shiny, new Asian grocery stores are hailed as retail "saviors," the decades-old Pacific East Mall in Richmond shows how immigrant cultural spaces matter beyond their economic benefits.
Immigration
Film
Get Handsy With Weird Instruments at the New Parkway
No audiophiles were hurt in the making of Dogbotic’s July 25 instrument petting zoo.
Education
Meet Holinda, the Fremont High Senior Running a Coffee Cart at Her School
At a barista training program for young immigrants and refugees, Holinda learned how to pull espresso shots and steam milk. Now, the high school senior dreams of opening her own shop.
Yearly Wrap-Up
Eight Stories That Got Away
Surprising sports fans, mysterious hums, and something called “the handshake of monogamy.” These are the stories we didn’t wind up doing, but kind of wish we had.
Money
This Domestic Violence Shelter Was Told It No Longer Aligns With the Trump Administration’s Priorities
Trump’s war on ‘gender ideology’ and diversity is hurting San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter’s ability to help victims — many of whom can’t get help anywhere else. It’s already cost them nearly $500,000.
Cats
An Interview With a Kid Who Loves His 3-Legged Cat
The story of a San Francisco feline who lost a leg and gained his biggest fan.
Housing
Herons or Housing: The Battle Over a Vacant Lot
A large affordable housing development is slated for downtown Oakland. It could displace hundreds of black-crowned night herons, the city’s official bird.
Comics
A Sapphic Fairy Tale For All The Monster Lovers
A comic for lesbians, monsterfuckers, and everyone in-between.
Asian American
A Home for Queer Chinese Stories Opens in Chinatown
‘It’s rare to see Chinese LGBT people or to hear their stories.’ Lesbian artist Xiangchi Chen shares the origin story of the OUT Museum in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Guides
So You’ve Finally Gotten Up the Nerve To Visit a Gay Bathhouse. Now What?
You must provide your own shower shoes, and woe betide you if you forget them. That’s the uniform.
Animals
Help I'm In a Committed Relationship With a Corporation and I Like It
I can’t stop ordering dog toys with weird names!
Mutual Aid
Protest
Area Teachers Tired of Bullshit
San Francisco educators continue their historic strike, and parents and kids are on the picket lines alongside them. But don’t worry, Daniel Lurie is making Instagram videos.
Local Music
Merlin Coleman’s ‘DISPATCHES’ Makes Breathtaking Art from a Wildfire’s Rubble
Using found audio and interviews from the 2017 Tubbs Fire, the sound artist processes a tragedy through song.
Opinion
S.F. Lawmaker Asks Chatbot About 'Suicidally Motivated Civilians' in Gaza
Grok, what's the difference between right and wrong?
Waymo
Peninsula
First Aid Kit: Ang Maaari Nating Gawin Tungkol sa ICE
Nasa Bay Area ang ICE. At oo, may magagawa tayong lahat tungkol dito.
Halloween
Remembering the Dead: A Visit to San Jose’s Hacienda Cemetery
With Halloween and Día de los Muertos upon us, we dispatched a local writer to document her favorite cemetery in the Bay — which features a one-arm burial site.
Dogs
Help I'm In a Committed Relationship With a Corporation and I Like It
I can’t stop ordering dog toys with weird names!
Minneapolis
How Racket, Minneapolis’s Worker-Owned Newsroom, Is Covering Its Hometown Fascist Invasion
“This is the worst fucking time. But watching people’s response to ICE has been the most affirming thing in the world.”
COYOTE About Town
Bodies
Carrie Bradshaw, Transition Already!
When the show is at its most queer, it’s also at its most entertaining. It’s too bad the characters themselves don’t seem to see it.
TikTok
World Cup TikTok’s Schadenfreude Is a Thing of Anti-Imperialist Beauty
On the geopolitical thrills of soccer fandom.
Kids
Berkeley Second Graders say: "Trees R Important"
Meet Poppy, Johnny Jo Bob the 13th, Clover, Sunny, Little Timmy Neon Cloudy, and NJjamba.
Trash
Punishing Poor People Won’t Fix Dumping in Oakland
How the hell did we get from bulky trash pickups to AI-powered drones and sky-high fines?
Death
Any Dog Can Be an Adventure Dog
Take your small dog into the wilderness, all the way to the trail's end.
Party
Rave
Of Course Food Is Fucking Political
Philz Coffee Deals Lethal Blow to Gay 'Little Treat' Culture
The beloved coffee chain nixed its Pride flags in the name of “inclusivity.” What the hell?
Cooperatives
How a Worker-Owned Restaurant Chose Each Other Over Everything Else
Oakland’s Understory wants you to come for the political mission AND the great food.
RIP
Dick Vivian Knew the Right Record Could Change Your Life
The beloved owner of Rooky Ricardo’s Records died in July at 78. But the Haight St. shop’s new owners — and Vivian’s countless musical disciples — say his legacy lives on.
Essay
It’s Time To Kill the Hero
On Cesar Chavez, René Redzepi, and all the men we make excuses for in the name of the greater good.
Vallejo
The Best Things Our Critic Ate in May
Sidewalk rotisserie chicken, maximalist brussels sprouts, and smoked brisket so good it left me wondering, “is the meat curing me?”
Alameda
What Is a Dad, Anyway?
Our provocative ‘Dadliest Band’ bracket inspires deep questions — and a Soleil apology tour.
The Best Things Soleil Ate
The Best Things Our Food Critic Ate in June
A great crab sandwich, heathen ice cream, Korean-Mexican snacks, plus some Giants hate.
Palestine
S.F. Lawmaker Asks Chatbot About 'Suicidally Motivated Civilians' in Gaza
Grok, what's the difference between right and wrong?
Punk Rock
Taifa Nia Finds His Second Wind
With new EP ‘Invidia’ and two more on the way, the San Francisco musician and prolific collaborator comes into his own as a solo artist.
Public Safety
First Aid Kit: Ang Maaari Nating Gawin Tungkol sa ICE
Nasa Bay Area ang ICE. At oo, may magagawa tayong lahat tungkol dito.
South Bay
First Aid Kit: Ang Maaari Nating Gawin Tungkol sa ICE
Nasa Bay Area ang ICE. At oo, may magagawa tayong lahat tungkol dito.
Literature
What to Catch at the Bay Area Book Festival This Weekend
Learn how to narrate an audiobook or make a zine, or dive into discussions around the politics of sideshow noise and the power of hauntings.
2026
Capitalism
Traversing the Mahjong Multiverse
As mahjong grows in popularity, can the diverging fanbases come together?
Gentrification
These Spaceships Weren’t Built For Us
After eight years of grappling with displacement and the loss of community in the Bay Area, I’m publishing a book of poems about it.
SFUSD
Some Google Searches I, a San Francisco Parent, Have Done In the Past Week
I’m sleeping great, how about you
Bummer
Napa’s Biggest Black Culture Festival Didn’t Pay Several Chefs Until They Threatened to Sue
Blue Note's Black Radio Experience drew sold-out crowds to Napa Valley. Months later, some contractors were still chasing their money.
Local Person Has Hobby
Oakland’s Hottest Influencer Won’t Stop Pooping on Parking Meters
The creator of the Night Herons of Oakland Instagram account shares how she became obsessed with her avian neighbors.
Comedy
Frak The Person Is the Actual Mayor of San Francisco
The versatile battle rapper isn’t running for office, but with his new collaborative mixtape ‘Four Square,’ he’s earned my vote.
Self-care
Drag
Richmond
I’m Just Here for the Plants: An Inside Look at a Greenhouse Rave
A party in Richmond starts with a lecture on worms and ends with an angry landlord.
Water
First Aid Kit: How To Store Water for an Emergency
The most important item to store for a disaster is also the cheapest.
Matt Dorsey
ChatTJB Wants You to Stop Trusting LLMs
A San Francisco poet is answering your prompts badly, slowly, and earnestly.