Rob Reich was a one-of-a-kind musician and person, gone much too soon. I’m so glad Andrew Gilbert wrote this piece for him for Mission Local missionlocal.org/2025/05/rob-re…

Ahead of two sold-out reunion shows, Dance Hall Crashers' Karina Denike and Jason Hammon reflect on the mid-’90s, ska, and selling out. kqed.org/arts/13976994/…

I'm incredibly stoked to be joining Jeff Weiss and Emma Silvers to discuss this beautiful beast of a book + the pop star at its center in SF next month at Book Passage! See ya at the Ferry Building on July 15: bookpassage.com/event/jeff-wei…

TONIGHT: Dance Hall Crashers reunite for the first time in 20 years at Great American Music Hall. As a Berkeley kid of a certain age I've been a fan since I was 13 and last week I interviewed them for KQED Arts & Culture. Sometimes nice things happen kqed.org/arts/13976994/…

“This shit’s going into the White House.” I spoke to Rolling Stone about how a group of tech billionaires with an extreme ideology have penetrated Trump's White House. rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

A group of my favorite renegade journalists are launching COYOTE, the first worker-owned news collective in the Bay Area. Here’s a look at who we are and why we’re bringing back the alt-weekly spirit. (Thanks for the write up Sarah Hotchkiss 🫶) kqed.org/arts/13977806/…

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Wow I must have missed SF’s “progressive experiment.” Was it between the homeless sweeps and the occupation of Union Square by the national guard? Maybe sometime after the mass arrests and amicus brief for Grants Pass? Lots going on.

Livestreaming the benefit show for the great Viveca Hawkins at The Independent TONIGHT! Bay Area all-stars in the house for a good cause: youtube.com/live/18bX1E35-…

Next Tuesday in SF. Doing a reading of Waiting For Britney Spears, then having a discussion about it with the scholars Emma Silvers and Zack Ruskin. Then the entire audience will do a group sing-a-long of Andre Nickatina's "4 AM Bay Bridge Music." Come through.

I stan this Daniel Bromfield x Jeff Weiss Q&A in 48 Hills, and would much rather hear it in a club than "SexyBack." 48hills.org/2025/07/waitin…

thanks for the vote of confidence Boots Riley ✨ COYOTE is a worker-owned, alt-weekly-style digital media outlet launching in the Bay Area later this summer. No time like the present to support independent journalism: givebutter.com/coyotemedia

instantaneous headache

Parents say San Francisco's controversial ethnic studies course is underbaked, too advanced for freshmen, and full of problematic material. But the students? They seem to love it. “It made me feel stronger," one said. missionlocal.org/2025/07/sfusd-…

A fully mask off moment.

fantastic reporting and data viz from Kelly Waldron and Frankie Solinsky Duryea here

loved this special and the most normal I ever feel is hearing Maron describe the specific ways his anxiety manifests, and then every piece of coverage is like “obviously he is uniquely grumpy and mentally ill,”