Carrie Bradshaw, Transition Already!
When the show is at its most queer, itβs also at its most entertaining. Itβs too bad the characters themselves donβt seem to see it.
When the show is at its most queer, itβs also at its most entertaining. Itβs too bad the characters themselves donβt seem to see it.
Emma Silvers on how we got COYOTE's Bottom of the Hill closure story.
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.
The prolific Alan Chazaro has written about pretty much everything β except one very important thing.
When you're busy making a goofy little website (and learning how to be in a collective, which growing up in the United States absolutely does not teach you how to do), it's hard to slow down. But the interviews I've been doing with COYOTE's worker owners has become a perfect excuse to do just that. Who are these people, outside of the work we know them for?
Last time, I (Soleil) caught up with Cecilia Lei, who shared her experience of learning how to swim. Before that, Nuala Bishari tried to convince me that horses are cool. (Still skeptical!)
This week, we're highlighting Alan Chazaro, a poet, sports guy, and hip hop expert who can truly write about anything. A regular in KQED and many other publications, he's currently based in Veracruz, Mexico but still maintains an unmatched awareness of Bay Area culture. At COYOTE, he's written about airbrushers, ice cream makers, and underground rappers, and I'm sure he's keeping even more features warmed up on the back burner.
But what hasn't he gotten to write about? Turns out, there's one big thing.