Went for a bit of a walk after set up and found the local Black-crowned Night Heron and Snow Egret roosts! 💕 Thanks for the heads up @coyotemedia.org!

me and the lads

so far @coyotemedia.org has run TWO stories about women are who really into a specific kind of bird and I think that’s just great www.coyotemedia.org/oaklands-hot...

"In my fantasy, if we lived in a city with money that didn't all go to the police department, the city would eminent domain that little lot and just turn it into a little bird sanctuary.” @nuala.bsky.social interviewed Meghan Long, the photographer behind the Night Herons of Oakland IG account.

wahhhh I LOVE LOVE this story by @rahawahaile.bsky.social about wildfires and a local artist's attempt to capture the terror and awe of it all www.coyotemedia.org/merlin-colem...

today -- I wrote up my takeaways re: the Queer Food Conference in Montréal this past weekend. includes erotic apple eating, the perils of explaining "queer food" to border patrol, and other tales www.coyotemedia.org/yap-zone-fin...

Today: @rahawahaile.bsky.social writes about a 40-min quadraphonic “song cycle for 6 voices and soundscape.” Using found sounds, interviews, live singing, & 911 dispatches, it centers on the 2017 Tubbs Fire, once considered the most destructive fire in CA history www.coyotemedia.org/merlin-colem...

I saw one of the best sound performances of my life on Saturday and wrote about it for @coyotemedia.org. “DISPATCHES from the CHARCOAL FOREST” is a 40-minute quadraphonic “song cycle for 6 voices and soundscape,” centering on the 2017 Tubbs Fire and its aftermath.

The @coyotemedia.org calendar is FREE every week — a genuinely a steal, since it's a ton of work and usually 40-50 events plus my incredible jokes. Share with a Bay Area friend (and if you're local, send me your events!) www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...

Welcome to the COYOTE Calendar of rad Bay Area events! This week we've also got queer prom, pinball, seafood foraging, and several ways to treat your mother (defined expansively). You can find all of the events at the link below. www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...

Congratulations to fellow worker-owned co-op @weareravenous.com on their launch day!! The stories look amazing!

"It's becoming this beautiful portrait of something that the queer community and the Bay Area knows," Shand says, "which is: fuck your rules."

Great story alert!

This is a wild story

A few months ago, some friends in Vallejo took me to see this extremely weird and bad AI generated mural. In a town overflowing with artists, how did this happen? The answer is a lot weirder than I expected: www.coyotemedia.org/how-did-an-a...

May Day's coming! As a special holiday treat @reveleth.com packed this week's calendar of Bay Area events with all the walkouts, protests, billionaire pestering parties, and marches they could scrounge up. Make good trouble out there 😈 www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...

Soleil can never escape food reviews, in large part because they're a truly excellent writer. Learned about cool places, cool people, and cool dishes in this little review!

I'm fuckin back and I'm ravenous

KAOKAO MENTIONED

An Oakland bakery that popularized a marriage between Asian American flavors and carefully executed Viennoiserie (think black sesame kumquat buns and Thai tea croissants!!) will soon be opening its second store in Alameda. Read on for the details and open date! www.coyotemedia.org/bake-sum-ala...

Our resident food critic @soleilho.com is finally coming out of culinary hibernation and launching a monthly column about their favorite dishes of the Bay Area (and NorCal)! This month: a gorgeously smoked char siu, grilled squid, and Eritrean-style cheesesteak 👀 www.coyotemedia.org/the-best-thi...

"Every time I buy something, I have to think about how many croissants it would cost. I've been doing a ton of croissant math..." For my first COYOTE food piece, I spoke with Bake Sum owner Joyce Tang about choosing to open her second bakery in Alameda and the unconventional metrics of growth.

It's COYOTE calendar time, and we're back with a slate of excellent Bay Area events! Tempted by tall ships? Curious about cookbooks? Hoping to spend $0 on groceries and medical supplies? Check out our full roster of hand-picked listings on our site. www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...

An Oakland bakery that popularized a marriage between Asian American flavors and carefully executed Viennoiserie (think black sesame kumquat buns and Thai tea croissants!!) will soon be opening its second store in Alameda. Read on for the details and open date! www.coyotemedia.org/bake-sum-ala...

Starting today thru May 4, the SF Int'l Film Fest is taking over Bay Area theaters. COYOTE's 10 picks for the fest include 'The Wages of Fear'; ‘First They Came for My College’; and 'Who Moves America.' Read on for the full list! www.coyotemedia.org/10-movies-to...

New from me for @coyotemedia.org: Recent efforts to crack down on people dumping in Oakland through obscenely high fines, punishing DMV barriers, and AI-powered drones (?!) leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Will any of it even make a difference? If not, what will?

This reminds me of people pooping in the street in SF. SF created the problem by closing all the public bathrooms, then the solution was harsher punishment for people left without other options due to their policy decision. People are already hauling their trash, just give them a free dump site.

Oakland has a trash problem? Looks like Oakland needs more night herons!!!

"Yes, it could identify dump sites… but so could anyone. There’s a heap a few blocks from me that’s been there for weeks. What’s the point in identifying them all if the city is still struggling to keep up?" It's not a mystery where the dump sites are!

Oakland has a trash problem, and nothing pushes a city towards a tough-on-crime approach like negative national media coverage. Now, the city is pushing sky-high fines and AI-powered drones. Will any of this actually reduce dumping? New from @nuala.bsky.social! www.coyotemedia.org/punishing-po...

dumping is a problem that feels so mysterious and so intractable, so I found @nuala.bsky.social's breakdown super helpful. her proposal: to help stop it, we need to focus more on the "why" and less on punishing those who can't afford the $168 landfill fee www.coyotemedia.org/punishing-po...

“The company that owns the drones, Aerbits, tested the technology in SF’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, which has the largest population of Black residents in the city, at the behest of a former Zillow employee who left his job and flew personal drones over the area to find trash.”

It's COYOTE calendar time, and we're back with a slate of excellent Bay Area events! Tempted by tall ships? Curious about cookbooks? Hoping to spend $0 on groceries and medical supplies? Check out our full roster of hand-picked listings on our site. www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...

eeheehee, I did the calendar this week while @reveleth.com is out! so obv I put more poop and food stuff on this one. www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...

In which @soleilho.com visits a queer art gallery in SF and wonders how transmasculinity might be about more than just being a dude. www.coyotemedia.org/queer-transm...

In case you missed it yesterday, @emmaruthless.bsky.social gamely tried to answer a question that pretty much every SF culture person is grappling with right now: how the fuck am I supposed to think about the Civic Joy Fund? Boycott worthy? A necessary evil? www.coyotemedia.org/how-could-yo...

www.coyotemedia.org/how-could-yo... via jwz

Very important new piece by @emmaruthless.bsky.social for @coyotemedia.org. Love and respect for all the artists asking hard questions. Let's work on it. www.coyotemedia.org/how-could-yo...

this is the subhed of which i am the most proud, i know you were wondering www.coyotemedia.org/how-could-yo...

folks i pubbed the biggest story I’ve written in months on a day bluesky was broken, if you think i am not gonna repost it all day today, well www.coyotemedia.org/how-could-yo...

In which some of the most tedious rich blobs in San Francisco seek to cast themselves as half-assed Medicis.

ORB HAPPY HOUR TODAY! Come drink or eat with us, nothing stressful. 4-6pm, Nido's Backyard, on Oak street. (We do these every month or so. Everybody is chill.)

Crucial reporting from Coyote on a dynamic that’s not unique to SF but is particularly acute in SF. And for the record fuck Chris Larsen and every CBD, it is a moral imperative to make public art that could never get a grant from a committee

It's honestly interesting to think about how, 10 years ago, almost every city-backed initiative had some kind of Benioff fingerprint on it, and then like since 2019 or so it gradually shifted to the Chris Larsen show (neighborhood security cameras for CBDs, music fests...)

San Francisco is holding the line — we’re going deep on how. Join us & @coyotemedia.org April 28 at the SF LGBT Center for a live interview series featuring leaders in the fight for trans rights, interviewed by trans journalists who ask the right questions. 
RSVP: bit.ly/tjaSF

“You’re not thinking about how to develop or support artists who come from the city … it's a slap in the face to put up some [barricades] in the street and say, ‘Look how wonderful this all is.’” www.coyotemedia.org/how-could-yo...

COYOTE is a Bay Area publication through and through, but I think this piece probably has corollaries in a lot of big cities struggling to figure out how to fund the arts. Under what conditions do you accept tainted billionaire money to stay alive as an artist? www.coyotemedia.org/how-could-yo...

So glad @emmaruthless.bsky.social dove deep into this story, and that @coyotemedia.org has a tag for "sketchy." Also, @quonky.bsky.social with the most 🔥 quote: "The revolution will not be presented by your local Community Benefit District." www.coyotemedia.org/how-could-yo...

*so* many artists wanted tell me their Civic Joy Fund critiques for this story, but not many were willing to go on record as @quonky.bsky.social said, "it's almost as if, when you're in a precarious situation, you don't feel emboldened to speak out on things" www.coyotemedia.org/how-could-yo...

My take is that Billionaires are incapable of backing or recognizing real art. It's impossible to hold the necessary empathy to do that while sitting on that much money in a world where homelessness and starvation exist. This is also why so many billionaires and centi-millionaires love AI art.