Forget "Redefining Masculinity." These Artists Are Blowing the Whole Thing Up A Castro gallery show and a new Oakland bar ask what masculinity could look like if we stopped trying to nail it down.

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...

‘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.

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...

Let them eat block parties In February, at the “Music Industry Summit” — the conclusion to San Francisco Music Week, another Lurie project — I watched as the mayor strode to the stage at the Swedish American Music Hall. There, before an audience of struggling artists, engineers, and small venue staff, he triumphantly reported that the last summer of concerts in Golden Gate Park resulted in “$150 million worth of economic impact,” and that, according to new data, “our independent music venues generate $1.4 billion in economic impact annually.” Lurie paused for applause. “That’s because of all of you in this room.” We clapped dutifully, but the people in that room did not need to be reassured that they had contributed to $1.4 billion in “economic impact.” They would have preferred to hear that any of their favorite clubs might exist next year. The people in that room could use health insurance — and they might be able to afford it if Lurie’s billionaire buddies were taxed appropriately; say, with a one-time 5% excise tax on net worth exceeding $1 billion to save Medi-Cal. But hey, that sentiment doesn’t make for great social media content.

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‘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...

Let them eat block parties In February, at the “Music Industry Summit” — the conclusion to San Francisco Music Week, another Lurie project — I watched as the mayor strode to the stage at the Swedish American Hall. There, before an audience of struggling artists, engineers, and small venue staff, he triumphantly reported that the last summer of concerts in Golden Gate Park resulted in “$150 million worth of economic impact,” and that, according to new data, “our independent music venues generate $1.4 billion in economic impact annually.” Lurie paused for applause. “That’s because of all of you in this room.”

We clapped dutifully, but the people in that room did not need to be reassured that they had contributed to $1.4 billion in “economic impact.” They would have preferred to hear that any of their favorite clubs might exist next year. The people in that room could use health insurance — and they might be able to afford it if Lurie’s billionaire buddies were taxed appropriately; say, with a one-time 5% excise tax on net worth exceeding $1 billion to save Medi-Cal. But hey, that sentiment doesn’t make for great social media content.

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

‘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.

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.)

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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...)

Event poster for "Holding the Line" featuring images of four speakers (Zendaya Blossom, David Chiu, Honey Mahogany, and Per Sia) with event details for a trans rights discussion on April 28, 6 PM, at SF LGBT Center. Free RSVP. Hosted by TJA and Coyote Media Collective.

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.

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‘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.

“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.’”

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‘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.

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...

‘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.

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."

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‘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.

*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.

‘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.

“I’m hearing artists rightfully starting to question, like, ‘Ultimately, who is this for?’ Is it for the public, or is it to set up this area as being worthy of real estate investment?”
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It’s frustrating, he says, to see the large-scale parties which the Civic Joy Fund pours $$$ into. "It’s one day, and they put $200,000 into these things, and you could have saved an entire community with that. You could have created the conditions that would allow a venue to flourish for years."

‘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.

for @coyotemedia.org, I did a deep dive on the growing artist backlash against the Civic Joy Fund, an initiative founded by the mayor & backed by a crypto billionaire to use free arts & entertainment as a means of "economic revitalization" for SF

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

‘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.

SF’s Civic Joy Fund is one of those hidden-picture tests: Do you see a lamp or a woman’s face? Are billionaires using tax loopholes to advance a technofash takeover of public space, or are they philanthropists swooping in to save the arts when no one else will? www.coyotemedia.org/how-could-yo...

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COYOTE Calendar: April 16-April 22 This week we've got art, more art, even more art, Earth day, lesbians, whales, kites, pinball, and scent foraging.

Happy calendar day! This weekend, driving between SF and the East Bay is going to be hella challenging — so take BART or enjoy all the amazing stuff happening in your own backyard.

This week we've got whales, kimchi, sea shanties, and scent foraging.
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COYOTE Calendar: April 16-April 22 This week we've got art, more art, even more art, Earth day, lesbians, whales, kites, pinball, and scent foraging.

This week's @coyotemedia.org calendar has whale tracking, paper flowers, poetry, a LAN party, and the word "gobble hole." Go out and do stuff! There is good shit happening!

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Calendar - COYOTE Independent journalism with a bite!

Hey if you're in the Bay Area and wondering what there is to do, @coyotemedia.org puts together a weekly calendar that is pretty fucking good. I write it, so I'm biased obviously. But you can get it for FREE on our site and in your inbox: www.coyotemedia.org/tag/calendar/

In Beans We Trust In the Bay Area, the humble legume has quietly become a cultural touchstone — and a mirror for how we eat through uncertain times.

got a little silly and earnest with it this week! on bean culture in the Bay Area and why a recent bean picnic/meetup brought in 70 PEOPLE www.coyotemedia.org/in-beans-we-...

Coyote is so great, loved this article on bean culture.

(I have the ingredients for a dense bean salad in the fridge, perhaps that is my lunch today)