The Bay Area has always acted as if it was exceptional – and in some ways it is. The Bay Area is exceptionally beautiful and exceptionally wealthy. It’s also, in some ways, exceptionally full of shit.  The Vallejo Police Department’s history of unchecked murder and normalized use of lesser forms

Metallica is technically an LA band, but they made their lives and spent much of their early careers here. There are few musical acts that are as globally loved as Metallica, and the Bay Area takes pride in the fact that their journey on the road to success was so

If you think your life is chaotic, you can rest assured that it certainly isn’t as chaotic as Sam Bankman-Fried’s life. If you’re unfamiliar with Mr. Bankman, he’s the founder and former CEO of FTX, which up until about 5 fucking minutes ago was the 2nd largest crypto exchange in

BY CURT HOPKINS I saw an article called something like “The 25 Best Museums Did You Visit Them or Are You Some Kind of Asshole?” Out of that fetishist, Instagrammy dick-list, I have visited four: the Pompidou, the Louvre, the Guggenheim, and the Prado. But the only conclusion I drew from

Written By: Habibi Bridges  A member of the police making derogatory statements about people of color? Shocking. Unfortunately, this was the case in Berkeley according to a whistleblower from the Berkeley police force who leaked text receipts indicating that a 20-year police veteran and sergeant sent out questionable messages to

META is definitely cutting from its Facebook Journalism Program, it already let go of several top people at the META Journalism Accelerator, a wing of facebook that gave support, training, and grants to local newspapers and journalists…in our opinion Meta’s most noble cause, given how devastating Meta has been to the news business in general.  

“Irrational exuberance” Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan first uttered the phrase in 1996, describing what he considered an alarming economic trend. The rise of home internet usage was spurring several investors to stake digital claims like an online Oklahoma land run. Tech companies sprang up overnight, each hoping to

When it was first announced that Elon Musk’s plan to buy Twitter was finalized, I was indifferent. My apathy wasn’t because I didn’t view Elon Musk as a problem, he’s a billionaire, by definition he’s a problem. I didn’t care because billionaires own everything important. They own the media. They