‘How Could You Be Against Joy?’: Bay Area Artists Are Turning on the Civic Joy Fund A private initiative founded by the mayor and backed by a crypto billionaire is increasingly shaping San Francisco’s arts scene. Musicians are asking questions — and some are calling for a boycott.

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...

April 22 is the streaming release of “I Am John Mayer” & we are celebrating with a show in Golden Gate Park at the Music Concourse Bandshell! Cowboy Beauty Queen starts at 4pm and then the full Band of Supervisors will play new and old hits and misses spanning four presidencies until dinner time. ❤️🏆

Devastatingly dumb.

Thank you Joe!! 🏆

AWESOME!!! ❤️

I love Muni so much. So does our two year old. We rely on it daily.

“Everyone” is fascinating.

Multiple nannies.

Another example of this season’s writers being a little too on the nose.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Works!

Forgive my ignorance here. Is this different from the Empire Builder?

This 1-2 punch is disqualifying in 2025. What an embarrassment.

Is there a link to the newsletter somewhere?

The Strøget opens up into a large central space filled with people in central Copenhagen.

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

@bandcamp.com listening party to the new album TODAY on @bandcamp.com! 10am PST. I'll be chillin' in the chat and listening along with whoever stops by. johnelliott.bandcamp.com/merch/i-am-j....

Come to my favorite website (YouTube) today at 10am PST for a full album bike ride! www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Lh.... Also, today is @bandcamp.com Friday so it's a great day to support artists over there. Coincidentally, "I Am John Mayer" is now on @bandcamp: johnelliott.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-j...!

The new album (available now but not streaming: www.thehereafterishere.com) made it on a year end list: www.kqed.org/.../the-best.... Thank you @kqedarts.bsky.social for the shoutout and kind words! ❤️ Feels good to be included with this incredible group of artists down here at the end of the year. 🏆

I'm going to start sharing very exciting bike ride song snippets from the new album! Today, please enjoy this VERSE from “Layin Low” (track 6) and pre-order the album on vinyl, CD, or digital download ➢
www.thehereafterishere.com/iamjohnmayer

“I Am John Mayer (Single Version)” is streaming now: song.link/iamjohnmayer! Try before you buy, then pre-order the album: www.thehereafterishere.com! The single version is only the first half of the song so listening to it is like stopping Forrest Gump after he meets Jenny in our nation’s capital.♥️

Thank you!! Really really great and encouraging start over here in the cottage industry of John Elliott Inc despite widespread global despair. Thank you. ❤️🏆

With Bay Area transit funding on ‘life support,’ advocates rally in S.F. for state money While there’s concern Gov. Newsom’s office will table a key transit loan until next year, politicians suggest there’s still hope for the funding measure to find approval before this week’s...

You were represented front and center at the protest against massive transit cuts in CA, @thewaroncars.bsky.social @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social ❤️ www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

I Am John Mayer: NEW ALBUM Pre-Order! I am very excited to share that the album I have been working on all year is finished and available for pre-order now: vinyl, compact disc, and digital download: www.thehereafterishere.com/iamjohnmayer ♥️

Awesome. Which songs?!

The new album is (almost) mastered and the pre-sale tour begins this weekend in Bellingham, Washington at the Subdued Stringband Jamboree and then continues in CA in SF, Santa Cruz, Arcata, Caspar, and more in the coming weeks! Hyperlocal+extended Bay Area radius pre-release and release tour! ♥️🏆

It's this September...

Friends of Sunset Dunes

We just transformed a 2 mile, 4 lane oceanfront highway into a new park in San Francisco. 55-45 citywide vote…and big mad vroomers collected signatures for a recall election of the Supervisor because of it. 🤷‍♂️ sunsetdunes.org

Can we put a train line down the middle while we’re at it?

I hung up posters like it’s the 90s for the 1st (annual?) SF SecretFest at La Promenade Cafe in the Outer Richmond on Balboa. All ages! FREE (with suggested donation of $1-$100). 5-7pm this Saturday, July 19th. They have food and drinks there, including the kind with alcohol. 🏆♥️

You got this!