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Looking for stuff to do this week? Why not a water-themed rave, an anti-🧊 party, or a talk all about SPAM?

Most events are FREE or under $60. Stop doomscrolling, start participating 🌿

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THU: 1.15 ¡FUERA ICE! El Rio, SF → 8PM-12AM 〰️ $15 NOTAFLOF Shit is fucking bad right now y'all. Show up for your community, go out and document ICE, help your neighbors, support your communities, but also build in time to celebrate that there are way more of us than there are of them. In the words of the organizers of this event: "KEEP ON FAMILY! BE RADICAL! BE READY! PRAY! LOVE! CRY! SING! RUN! JUMP! DANCE! AND PRAY SOME MORE!" FRI: 1.16 Cookbook Swap Preserved, Oakland → 6PM-7PM 〰️ REGISTRATION REQUIRED I love the premise of this event, and I wish it was more common for all books! Here's how it works: Bring a cookbook you're ready to part with, give a little pitch for why you love it, and then send it along to a new home, and pick a new one for yourself. SAT: 1.17 Trans Bay Area Walk and Draw at Lake Merritt Lake Merritt (meet by the Fairyland sign) → 1Pm–3pm Meet up with trans cuties and draw together at Lake Merritt! In these times it's so crucial to do fun cute things with fun cute people and this is a great way to do that. Make sure to wear comfy shoes and bring whatever art supplies you wish. Tenant and Neighborhood Councils Clothing Swap Two Pitchers Brewery, Oakland → 2PM-5pm Don't give your clothes to Goodwill (fuck them), bring them to a community meetup or mutual aid swap like this one. And if you need new clothes, come get some here. Plus, meet up with members of the Bay's autonomous tenant union — they do great work. SUN: 1.18 Aquatic Algorave TIAT, SF → 9pm–12Am 〰️ $10-$25 (suggested) A night of aquatic themed raving, where the music and visuals are coded in real-time. Dress like a fish, or the water they swim in, and vibe the night away. MON: 1.19 MLK Day of Service @ Urban Tilth Richmond Greenway Trail → 9AM-1pm Join community members to help maintain and improve the Richmond Greenway Trail. My Friend Fernando X Wingen Bakery Wingen Bakery & Restaurant, Livermore → 5pm & 8pm 〰️ $161 Mexican meets Italian in this collaboration between Jacob Croom and Aimee & Bryan Wingen. A perfect combination of classic and surprising, in a homey environment. TUES: 1.20 Omnivore Books, SF → 6:30pm Kelly A. Spring talks SPAM: A Global History I'm a vegetarian and the thing I miss the most about eating meat is SPAM. I'm not ashamed! SPAM is fucking delicious. It's also extremely interesting. Spring's book "explores how [SPAM] became a WWII cultural marker, spreading American values globally." WED: 1.21 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest Screening & Party Internet Archive, SF → 6pm-10pm 〰️ $15 Forget the Golden Globes, this is the real red carpet that matters. This year, creative work from 1930, and sound recordings from 1925 entered the public domain. And if you come to this, you'll see what the creative people of today did with those pieces.
January 15, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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Tamales + karaoke at the library, climate justice walking tours, letter writing for incarcerated queer folks, plant sales & sweater repair clinics — Jan 8-14 is packed

Most events are FREE or under $60. Stop doomscrolling, start participating 🌿

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Illustration of two women sewing. Text: COYOTE Calendar Jan 8-Jan 14. Welcome to the COYOTE Calendar. This week we've got tamales, a plant sale, sweater repair, and more. To see the full listings, check out our site! THU: 1.8 Tamales Karaoke Berkeley Public Library - West Branch → 5PM-7PM Hey, whoever is doing the events for the Berkeley Public Library these days is killing it. Whoever you are: I see you. I appreciate you. This one offers answers to pressing questions like: “Does Bad Bunny have a hearty appetite? Does Lalo Guerrero have the best lyrics about Mexican food?” Tamale dreams, pop song fantasies, and more at the library. FRI: 1.9 Minor Chord Seasonal Showcase Ivy Room, Albany → 7PM 〰️ $10 in advance, $15 at the door A fun lineup of slightly gritty, boppy bands. (Can you tell I'm not a music critic?) The Strange Ones, The Helltones, Crop Top, The BPMs, Lost Objects and Normal Weirdos. SAT: 1.10 Climate Justice in Chinatown: An Oakland Walking Tour Oakland (register FOR location) → 11Am–2pm Travel through historic Oakland Chinatown and see for yourself “what environmental inequity looks like in an urban context and how it intersects with issues like gentrification, inequitable development, and privatization of green spaces.” But it's not all bleak. The tour will also feature stories of resilience and community organizing around green spaces and low-income housing projects. Letter Writing w/ Flying Over Walls Sour Cherry Comics, SF → 1PM-4pm Write letters and birthday cards to queer/trans incarcerated comrades! Supplies provided, all you have to bring is yourself and your good heart. SUN: 1.11 Plant Sale Fundraiser Free Oakland UP, Oakland → 12pm–4pm I'm fascinated by the model of Free Oakland UP — a community shop that offers people one free item inside per day. To help support that, they're running a plant sale — featuring houseplants, garden plants, hanging plants, monsteras, ferns, begonias, tillandsia, rhipsalis, hoyas, philodendrons, carnivorous plants, cactus, succulents and more. MON: 1.12 They Have Names: Hind Rajab, in her voice Medicine for Nightmares, SF → 6:30pM-8:30pm It's hard to believe that it's been nearly a year since Hind Rajab and her family were killed in Gaza. This theatre piece returns to her, “not to recount death, but to be remembered as she lived -playful, wise, and full of dreams.”
January 8, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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What's going on in the Bay Area this week? Check out this snapshot of COYOTE's weekly calendar of hand-picked events to get you off the couch!

This week, we've got a new year's day hike, DIY spectroscopes, vision boarding, and more. To see the full listings, check out coyotemedia.org
Coyote Calendar Jan 1-7. Welcome to the COYOTE Calendar. This week we've got hikes, free jazz, vision boarding, and more. to see the full listings, check out our site! Image of 7 masculine figures walking on grass New Year’s Day Hike If you're not hungover (or maybe even if you are) there's no better way to start a new year than with a hike. Get out of the house, touch grass, and maybe set a tone for the year in which you aren't scrolling on your phone for 12 hours a day. Cut it down to 11 this year. I believe in you. THU: 1.1 Half Moon Bay State Beach → 10AM FRI: 1.2 First Friday Night at CuriOdyssey CuriOdyssey, San Mateo → 5pm-8PM 〰️ $28 hese happen at CuriOddyssey every first Friday, but this one is special because it's your last chance to play around with their light-based exhibit IlluminOdyssey, which features the opportunity to build your own spectroscope. If you don't know what that is, this is one very fun way to find out. Angel Bat Dawid & 9MAGICFOREVER1: 9th Gate Sonic Research Society (N.G.S.R.S.) SAT: 1.3 The Freight, Berkeley → 8pm 〰️ $39 in advance, $44 at the door What better way to start the new year than with a little afrofuturist experimental music as a treat? Two Chicago-based artists are coming through with their project N.G.S.R.S. which is "inspired by Chicago’s rich traditions of free jazz, avant-garde music, and Sun Ra’s cosmic explorations..." Sharks x Earthquakes Bay Area Unite SAP Center, San Jose → 1PM 〰️ $47+ The Sharks don't suck ass this year! Trust the process, blah blah blah. Come out and see them play before tickets get stupid expensive. SUN: 1.4 Mushrooms in the Garden Does every COYOTE calendar have some kind of mushroom or lichen event? Possibly. I am who I am. The fungal events will continue until morale improves. This one is at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, one of my favorite places in the East Bay. Let Cat Callaway, UCBG horticulturist for Ethnobotanical Collections teach you about mushrooms. UC Berkeley Botanical Garden → 10aM–11am 〰️ $24 MON: 1.5 The Man in the Moon The Orinda Theatre is doing a series called "50 Movies You May Not Have Seen, That You Should" and this is one of them — featuring Reese Witherspoon's first movie role! After the film there will be a discussion with author and film critic Derek Zemrak. Orinda Theatre → 6:30pM 〰️ $711
January 1, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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What's going on in the Bay Area this week? Check out this snapshot of COYOTE's weekly calendar of hand-picked events to get you off the couch!

This week, we've got a Christmas party at Seafood City, Alicia Silverstone (!!!), eggnog, and more. To see the full listings, check out coyotemedia.org.
THU: 12.11 Frankenstein (1931) on 16mm Balboa Theatre, SF → 6:30PM 〰️ $17.95 Cleanse your palate of the bad taste that the new (terrible, sorry) Frankenstein left by returning to the original classic. And this isn't just any showing — it's a rare 16mm screening. FRI: 12.12 Seafood City Christmas Party Seafood City, Daly City → 8pM–12AM Fish fry party! An evening of sounds, community, and kababayan Christmas energy. Claws of Mantis at Oh G Burger Oh G Burger, Oakland → 6pm 〰️ $65 Four-course tasting menu featuring "Funky Viet" flavors like lemongrass pork collar, bruléed banana with peanut brittle, and beef cheek gnocchi.
December 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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What's going on in the Bay Area this week? Check out this snapshot of COYOTE's weekly calendar of hand-picked events to get you off the couch!

This week, we've got a sea urchin dye workshop, hot gay surfers, Panamanian Mother's Day, and more. To see the full listings, check out www.coyotemedia.org
COYOTE Calendar Dec 4-10. Welcome to the COYOTE Calendar. This week we've got LGBTQ Surfers, sea urchins, ska, and more. To see the full listings, check out our site! Image: illustration of a sea urchin. spiky! THU: 12.04 Nomadic Bookshop, Oakland → 6Pm–8PM Come Celebrate (With) Us: An SFF/Nomadic Literary Awards Reading We've been excited about the opening of this new bookshop for a while now. Swing by the brand new Nomadic Bookshop to hear winners of the SFF/Nomadic Literary Awards read a bit of their work at the very first event the space is hosting. Welcome to the Bay Area, book friends! FRI: 12.05 Queer Surf Party El Rio, SF → 6pM–10PM I love that surfing groups have to specify when they hang out out of the water by noting that this is a "dryland gather." Come meet the folks of Queer Surf, talk waves, and watch some cool surf footage. Mad Hatter Holiday Festival and Parade SAT: 12.06 Downtown Vallejo → 4:30pm Don't tell the other holiday festivals, but this one is my favorite. I mean, so far no other parade has featured a fire breathing steampunk dragon. Plus, last year they had LaRussell as the Grand Marshall. How to Dye Fabric with Sea Urchins Aquarium of the Bay, SF → 12pm–4pm 〰️ $125 Did you know that the sea urchin population is currently out of control? (That’s bad!) Did you also know that you can dye fabric with those purple spiky boys? (That’s good!) This class will help you use the former, to help the latter. No previous experience required. Children 11+ are welcome and must be accompanied by an adult. SUN: 12.07 Joan Chen at the Great Star Theater Come watch Saving Face, followed by a Q&A with the legendary Joan Chen (陈冲). Tickets help raise money for the 100-year-old historic venue that helps nurture local artists and support the community. Great Star Theater, SF → 2pm 〰️ $35+ Panamanian Mother’s Day with Chiricana Every ticket includes: "a welcome drink of warm chicheme, a three course dinner with Panamanian classics with contemporary spins (vegan and gluten free option available), a facilitated discussion on Panamanian culture and identity between courses, and family portrait photography." Bring your mom, wear your polleras, and have a great time. Open Test Kitchen, Oakland → 6pM–9pm 〰️ $85
December 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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COYOTE Media Collective is launching ‘Sprint to 2026’ — our ambitious/maybe a little delusional quest to hit 2,026 paid subscribers by Dec 31! 🐺👟💨

We’ve published more than 70 pieces in 2.5 months with a tiny, feral team. To keep doing that, we need ~600 more members.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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TONIGHT! SF! Join us at Casements in the Mission for food, drinks, a live DJ set from @bff.fm, priceless gossip with journalists and indie music folks, tote bags… what more could you want, truly luma.com/f2jy4dho?tk=...
a ridiculously cute small dog curled up with a tote bag featuring nine cartoon drawings of coyotes by Ace Ty, all with different facial expressions. It reads “how are you feeling today?” And has “independent journalism with a BITE!” at the bottom along with @coyotemediacollective a flyer for a happy hour that reads “COYOTE x BFF.fm, happy hour, December 2, 2025, 5-8pm, Casements Bar, 2351 Mission St, San Francisco” with a cartoon coyote wearing headphones and carrying a boom box on a purple background
December 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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What's going on in the Bay Area this week? Check out this snapshot of COYOTE's weekly calendar of hand-picked events to get you off the couch!

This week, we've got a boozy plant swap, anti-consumerist Black Friday markets, paper-making, and more. To see the full listings, check out coyotemedia.org!
THU: 11.27 Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Spend the morning giving thanks "for the survival of our Peoples, sacred places, cultures and ways of life, and to commemorate the 1969 Alcatraz Occupation that sparked the national and international Indigenous Peoples’ movement for justice, rights and truth in history." Alcatraz Island → 4:15am–7:15aM 〰️ $15.50 FRI: 11.28 F#ck Black Friday Market Fundraiser Place Community, Oakland → 12pM–4PM Wow yet another opportunity to yell about how much we hate Black Friday and capitalism, all for a good cause!? Indeed! Quartz is hosting an F×ck Black Friday market to shop small local queer businesses in collaboration with StopCopCityBayArea. Plantsgiving SAT: 11.29 Fire Ecology: From Ashes to Life Black Diamond Mines, Pittsburg → 9:30am–12pm Shall we celebrate the end of fire season (hopefully) together? How about a guided walk through the burnt hills of Black Diamond Mines? Learn how "native plants and animals have adapted to fire, how changing fire seasons are affecting our open spaces, and how wildfire behavior can be modified through fuels management." Propagation, SF → 6pm–11pm Sip on cocktails and win plants (someone hold me back!!!) at a plant themed–bar's annual Plantsgiving. "Come thirsty, come lucky, and leave with a leafy friend guaranteed to outlast your holiday leftovers. 🌱✨" SUN: 11.30 Paste Paper Making Imagine getting a gift and learning that the person not only selected the perfect thing, but made the wrapping paper too? Well you could be that gift giver this season. Learn how to create decorative paste papers with instructor Alexandra Sarette. Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland → 1pm–4pm 〰️ $33.85 MON: 12.01 Día de las Velitas: a Colombian Christmas Brunch Celebration In Colombia, Día de las Velitas marks the beginning of the Christmas season, and families gather to light candles, share food, and celebrate community. And now you can join in no matter how Colombian you might be (or not) — plus, a mini market with additional vendors. Open Test Kitchen, Oakland → 10AM–3pm TUES: 12.02 COYOTE x BFF.fm Holiday Party Come hang out with COYOTE in San Francisco!! We're teaming up with BFF.fm, SF's coolest nonprofit community radio station, to have a little holiday shindig. Live DJ set from DJ NoBe all evening, and a whole lot of baddies to talk to about how we can all build a better media ecosystem in the Bay Area. Casements Bar, SF → 5pm–8PM WED: 12.03 Love Rebels author talk with Kitty Stryker Hear author Kitty Stryker talk about her experiences as a community organizer and street medic, and her new book Love Rebels: How I Learned to Burn It Down Without Burning Out — part memoir, part how–to guide to sustainable activism. Berkeley Public Library, North Branch → 6:30pm
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Given the passing of disability activist and light-in-the-world Alice Wong, we at COYOTE invite people to share what she and her work meant to them. Whether you knew Alice personally, organized with her, or were simply a fan of her writing, we'd love to hear from you. (1/3)

(📷: Jen White-Johnson)
Digital portrait by Jen White-Johnson featuring a photo of Alice Wong, an Asian American woman with honey blonde hair. She is in a wheelchair and there is a tracheostomy at her neck connected to a ventilator. She is wearing a silky multicolored shirt and a bold red lip color. She is looking intently at the camera with the heat of a thousand suns. Behind her are red and purple flowers with a red circle in the background framing her face like a warm sun. The background of the portrait is purple.
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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What's going on in the Bay Area this week? Check out this snapshot of COYOTE's weekly calendar of hand-picked events to get you off the couch!

This week we've got wrestling lesbians, an anime convention, pop-up pastries, and more. To see the full listings, check out www.coyotemedia.org.
Lez Wrestle Are you ready to throw down? Queer wrestling meets queer nightlife at this crossover event, with performance fights, DJs, drinks, and community. THU: 11.13 Beaux, SF → 9PM–2AM 〰️ $11, NOTAFLOF FRI: 11.14 Seafood City’s Late Night Madness Seafood City, DAly City → 8PM–12Am 〰️ $25 A nightclub at a Filipino grocery store? Count us in. Seafood City’s “Late Night Madness” runs Friday and Saturday nights, with dancing and DJs in the aisles of the grocery store. Proceeds support Cebu & Mindanao relief. COYOTE Calendar. Put Your Soul in Your Hand and Walk SAT: 11.15 The New Parkway, Oakland → 3pm 〰️ $20 Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi records a series of video calls with a young Palestinian photojournalist, Fatma Hassouna, who describes her life confined in Gaza during the current regional conflict. MORE → Anime Destiny UC Berkeley → 10AM–7PM 〰 $15 The premier anime festival at UC Berkeley is back, featuring voice actors from various anime and video games, meet and greets with VTubers, a VTuber mini concert, and a Cosplay Contest judged by "professional master-level cosplayers.” COYOTE Calendar. SUN: 11.16 Three-Way Pastry Pop-Up If you were faced with a salted yolk molten custard mooncake, a pumpkin cheesecake panna cotta, or a peppercorn marshmallow bonbon, what would you choose? Choices are for suckers, have them all! This Pastry Boys popup features creations by three incredible pastry businesses: Stay Sweet, Gong Dessert Shop, and Macbox Desserts. 1oz Coffee, San Mateo → 10Am–3pm MON: 11.17 Tùm Lum Tùm La at Sfizio Vietnamese pop-up Tùm Lum Tùm La is testing out a new menu at Sfizio! The menu will be family style, with rice and small dishes. Sfizio, Oakland → 5:30pm COYOTE Calendar. TUES: 11.18 Author Talk: Gordon Walker Learn all about mushrooms and mushroom-adjacent organisms at this book talk by local TikTok star Dr. Gordon Walker. His new book, Dr. Fun Guy's Passport to Kingdom Fungi, is a guide to foraging, cooking, and identifying shrooms. Lafayette Library → 7pm 〰️ $20 Cuffing Szn Speed Dating Put on that ugly holiday sweater. Arm yourself with intriguing questions. Then head to a good, old-fashioned-but-updated-for-the-modern-human speed dating event. When you arrive, you’ll have a card taped to your back — and only through talking to other guests can you figure out your identity. For ages 25-40. Great Notion Brewing, Berkeley → 6pm–9pm WED: 11.19
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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What's going on in the Bay Area this week? Check out this snapshot of COYOTE's weekly calendar of hand-picked events to get you off the couch!

This week we've got SHEEP MEDITATION, spooky drag, a search for boobies, and more. www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calendar-october-16-22/
Image: scary sheep. Coyote calendar Oct 16-22. Welcome to the COYOTE Calendar. This week we've got spooky drag, apple pressing, sheep, and more. To see the full listings, check out our site! Coyote Calendar THU: 10.16 GLOSSTOBER Repeat after me: Halloween Punk Rock Drag Show. What more could you want? And per the invitation: "WEAR YR COSTUMES!!! DRESS LIKE A SCARY SLVT" Eli's Mile High Club, Oakland → 10PM 〰️ $15 FRI: 10.17 An Ecosexual Walking Tour In Search of the Elusive Boobie Bird Cushion Works, SF → 6–7:30PM. Free Do you need more than the title of this event? Don't want to know what the heck this even is? What is an ecosexual? Do boobies actually live in the Bay Area? The only way to find out is to go. According to their website: "It's going to be fun." Coyote Calendar. SAT: 10.18 Apple Cider Pressing Ardenwood Family Farm, Fremont → 11:30AM–12:30pm. Free It's fall, baby! Time to snuggle up with some autumnal tasks and pretend like we don't live in a hellscape driven by weird AI videos. Take part in some vintage apple pressing on carefully-restored farm machinery. Princess Nokia benefit for NorCal Resist Come see a murderer's row of women in hip-hop with Princess Nokia, Fijiana, Lil MC, Gina Madrid, Tiedye Trippin, Telice and T.U.R.F. Squad, Diabbla, and Luna The Blooma, all performing to raise funds for Norcal Resist. UC Theater, Berkeley → 7pm 〰️ $45.96 SUN: 10.19 Sheep Meditation Goat yoga is so over. Sheep meditation is where it's at now. Enjoy the sounds of nature and crystal singing bowls as you sit with some rescued sheep. Charlie's Acres Farm Animal Sanctuary, Sonoma → 10Am 〰️ $63.60 MON: 10.20 Hetty Lui McKinnon • Linger: Salads, Sweets and Stories to Savor If you know me, you know I'm a salad skeptic. But I think that perhaps this book might convince me otherwise because apparently two of Hetty Lui McKinnon's rules for salads are that they don't have to have leafy greens, and that anything can be a salad. I'm listening, and you can too at this talk in which McKinnon discusses her new book. Omnivore Books, SF → 6:30pm
October 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Check out this snapshot of COYOTE's weekly calendar of hand-picked events to get you off the couch! This week we've got a free California mushroom hang, Oakland Style Week picks, a BBQ crunchwrap pop-up, and more. The full listings: www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...
text: Mushrooms of Sonoma County (free!) Mushroom season is beginning! And if you want to know where to find them, what to know about local mushrooms, and how to know whether you can eat them, check out this meeting and potluck. And if you've got mushrooms you need help identifying, bring them. THU: 10.09 sebastopol grange → 5:30PM FRI: 10.10 La Flor en Paradis First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto → 7:30PM 〰 $0-$55 “Discover the luminous world of 13th-century France through an intimate combination of voice and portative organ with vielle and percussion." Listen, do I know what that means? No. Am I interested? Yes. Meet me there? text: EMERGENCE: LIBERATION Bebe's BBQ Crunchwrap Collab SAT: 10.11 Fluid510, Oakland → 7pM 〰️ $23.13 This show combines National Coming out Day and Oakland Style Week to present a runway spectacle of boundary-pushing looks created by local QTPOC and LGBTQIA2S+ designers. Come see what fashion can really do. Masks HIGHLY ENCOURAGED and distributed at the event. SUN: 10.12 Crunchwrap 🤝 BBQ. Come through to taste the results of this incredible act of gastronomic diplomacy and try the special brisket crunchwrap. Eat an extra for me because I can't have one please. Sfizio, Oakland → 5pm text: MON: 10.13 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Rap Album Release Party (free!) To commemorate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, San Jose-raised rapper Miguel Kultura is hosting a release party for his latest album, Mal Entendido. The project was mixed, mastered, and visually branded by fellow Shark City rapper and producer Rey Resurrección. Nexus, San Jose → 7pm–10pm TUES: 10.14 Lion Dance Cafe at Millennium One night only: A vegan five-course dinner from the brains and hands of C-Y and Shane of Lion Dance Cafe at Millennium. "Expect their bold, award-winning Italo-Chinese-Singaporean flavors side by side with the food you know Millennium for." Millennium, Oakland → 5pm 〰️ $125 text: WED: 10.15 Leather Roundup Crafting Class It's too late to learn leatherworking for this year's Folsom Street Fair, but if you start now you have plenty of time to get good and make your own custom getup for next year. Or, you know, make a wallet or something. "Whether you’ve been tooling leather since forever or have always dreamed of creating your first piece, we’re saving you a spot at the table." The Exchange, Vallejo → 6:30pm–8:30pm 〰️ $70 Fieldress, Glass Egg, Asha Wells I sometimes discover new bands thanks to doing research for this calendar, and I'm really digging Fieldress right now. Dreamy indie rock with lowkey special guitar playing. Check them out. Thee Stork Club, Oakland → 8pm 〰️ $10 adv/$12 door
October 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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What does a Black Cowboy Parade. 🐴 a trans potluck 🍰 and a moonrise ceremony 🌙 have in common? They're all part of COYOTE's curated calendar roundup for the week! Organize your friends, meet in the streets, howl at the moon! More details and kickass events here: www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...
A green border surrounds a black-and-white photo of the moon. Text below says COYOTE calendar Oct 2-Oct 8. To see the full listings, including line dancing, and several options to gaze at the moon, check out coyotemedia.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Awooo! This week on the curated COYOTE calendar we have plant sales 🪴 chef swaps 👩‍🍳 line dancing 👯 several options to gaze at the moon 🌓 and more. Check it out! Go do some stuff! www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...
A lime green frame surrounds a black and white picture of a clay pigeon. Text below says COYOTE calendar, Oct 2-Oct 8. Welcome to the COYOTE calendar. This week we've got sad bands, bird walks, killer sandos, and more. To see the full listings, check out our site!
October 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Awoooo! We hope you are enjoying reading our stories as much as we've enjoyed creating them! 🎉 We were so excited to share our work with you that we made all COYOTE content FREE for 2 weeks. Today, we're implementing registration and paywalls on the site. Here's the scoop... 1/4
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September 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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As the class clowns of local media, alternative newsweeklies were smarter than they looked: They fearlessly called out corruption, launched artists’ and writers’ careers, and made journalism fun. Can COYOTE bring that energy back?

Read more from @emmaruthless.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/2w4jj9vk
A collage of different covers from the now-defunct San Francisco alt-weekly the Bay Guardian. Covers have headlines like "Downtown Highrises: the monsters that ate 12,000 jobs," "Bette Midler Up Close," "Queer Youth: Did It Get Bettter," and "Nude beaches."
September 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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We found our name in the pesky, wily coyote — howls, claws, fangs, and all. But we are not the first COYOTE in the Bay Area; in the 70s, a sex worker rights group launched by Margo St. James demanded you Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics! Read the story by @nuala.bsky.social here: bit.ly/4nALvkw
Margo St. James and other protesters march down a street with a sign that has a picture of a coyote, and the words "my ass is mine"
September 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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❤️🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESSES! 🔥❤️

COYOTE Media Collective is live!! We’re so incredibly proud of this smart, fierce, unapologetic Bay Area media project. Dive in, see what we’ve been building, read our stories, and join the pack! coyotemedia.org
September 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Today we're showcasing @reveleth.com, a writer and artist based in Oakland. In their career as a reporter and podcast producer, Reo has covered a wide range of stories, including a fake tumbleweed farm and million-dollar baccarat heists. Catch Reo’s coverage when COYOTE launches NEXT WEEK!
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September 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Next is @soleilho.com, a cultural critic, cookbook writer and food journalist. After a restful hiatus, Soleil is looking forward to covering the Bay Area's vibrant and always-shifting food culture in the Bay Area again.

📸: Celeste Noche
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September 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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1st up is co-founder @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social, a traveling Bay Area dad and writer who is currently based in Veracruz, Mexico. Alan is most excited to cover the underground rap and creative scenes of the Bay Area because “this soil never stops producing weirdly singular trendsetters.”
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August 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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awoooooooo we got stickers, baby!!! wanna grab some IRL? we'll be at Rainbow Grocery's anniversary party in SF, Sunday August 17 :)
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August 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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After months of hard work we’re thrilled to announce that COYOTE Media Collective will launch Sept. 15th 🚀

THANK YOU for believing in us and supporting this dream of a new, worker-owned Bay Area publication 💫

We're nearly at our $150k goal! Can you help us close the gap? givebutter.com/coyotemedia
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August 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Bay Area friends! have you ever seen something funky and thought, "What's the deal with that?!" at COYOTE, we live to serve. and that means we want to answer those questions! send us your curiosities, your nosy questions, your burning inquiries for us to chase >:3 airtable.com/app0YLCupdLE...
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July 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Hey @bootsriley.bsky.social thanks for the shoutout!! 🎤💕

We’re so excited to launch our rad Bay Area worker-owned alt-weekly-style publication later this summer 👀

givebutter.com/coyotemedia
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July 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM