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Same poster as the one in the quoted post, except Nickelback, Doobie Bros, Korn, Slipknot, Van Halen, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, and Rush have been eliminated
COYOTE Dadliest Band Tournament bracket, written in permanent marker Bands include: Nickelback, Steely Dan, Grateful Dead, Doobie Bros, Green Day, Korn, Metallica, Slipknot, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, ACDC, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rush, Pink Floyd
red long haired chihuahua lounging in a blue bed
table in a brewery covered in merch for COYOTE. there’s a cute green banner with the COYOTE logo as well
COYOTE CALENDAR THU: 5.7 From Wakanda & Beyond: Afrofuturism Explained DRAKE'S BREWING COMPANY, SAN LEANDRO → 6:30PM ~ $25 You've probably heard the term "afrofuturism," but what does it actually mean? Come hear Sherinda Bryant, founder of the Afrofuturism Discovery Academy, talk about the past, present, and future of a fascinating and rich vein of Black creativity. FRI: 5.8 Queer Prom Carnival FREE VETERANS MEMORIAL BUILDING, ALAMEDA → 6-9PM Little me wouldn't have been out enough to go to this, but today's teens can enjoy a night of celebration and joy at this carnival-themed prom! Wear your stilts and your suits and your best ringleader outfits. Grades 6-12 only. MORE →
COYOTE CALENDAR THU: 4.30 Field Notes from the Bay: An Evening of Live Storytelling DEEP OCEAN EXPLORE STORE, ALAMEDA → 5:30-8:30PM ~ $23.18 Come hear environmental scientists from the San Francisco Estuary Institute tell you their best, funniest, and most touching stories of conservation, collaboration, and the natural world. This is what it's really like to protect the Bay. FRI: 5.1 Gay Shame Tour of Technofascist Terror 16TH STREET BART, SF → 7PM FREE Happy May Day! Come make some noise. Bring a light-colored shirt and you can get it screen printed with something cool. Featuring drag, resource giveaways, zines, stickers, piñatas, and whatever you're bringing with you. masks requested. MORE →
COYOTE CALENDAR THU: 4.23 'Girlfight' Screening ORINDA THEATRE → 7:30PM ~ $13 Part of a series featuring women directors, Girlfight is marks two notable debuts: Yellowjackets director Karyn Kusama as feature director and the GOAT action babe Michelle Rodriguez in the lead role. M-Rod's protagonist is a young Brooklynite who seeks emotional release in the male-dominated world of boxing. FRI: 4.24 Laloush's Egyptian Pop-up TAMARACK, OAKLAND → 7PM Nosh on Egyptian home cooking by an indie chef channeling her childhood memories. The menu includes macarona bechamel, or "Egypt's lasagna," beef stuffed into grape leaves, and more. To drink, you'll get to choose from a selection of premium crafted milk teas, brought to you by rogue tea master Falling Goose. MORE →
A bunch of colorful cartoon coyote heads arranged in rows. Start Local. Stay Connected. April 9, 2026 Local News Day
COYOTE CALENDAR THU: 4.9 Aku's BBQ@DTSJ Brewing DTSJ BREWING, SAN JOSE → 6-9PM Roll through for some tasty yakitori, prawn toast, and other izakaya snacks while you sip on local beer. Sometimes happiness really is that simple. FRI: 4.10 Trans Femme Community Workout RADICALLY FIT, OAKLAND → 5-6PM Working out can be fraught as hell if you're trans, and doubly so for trans femmes. But it does not have to be so! No nervous sweating here: only the good kind with a sweet community. Bring a water bottle and be ready to move. COVID SAFE, masks required and provided FREE MORE →
COYOTE CALENDAR THU: 4.2 "Doula Diaries" Series Premiere THE NEW PARKWAY, OAKLAND → 5:30-7:30PM ~ $10 NOTAFLOF Check out the launch of a new documentary series about Black doulas and maternal health with filmmaker Jen Gilomen. Stick around for "a panel discussion, community resource fair, and time for expecting families and service providers to mingle and meet one another will follow the screening." All proceeds go to Black Women Birthing Justice. FRI: 4.3 No One Way: Transmasc Art as Activism in the Bay Area QUEER ARTS FEATURED, SF → 5-8PM FREE At COYOTE we have been debating what, exactly, "Transmasc aesthetic" actually is. Perhaps this art show will provide clues. Check out this exhibit featuring several transmasc artists and their work. MORE →
THU: 3.26 Millbrae BART Station → 4-7pm BART Mart Artist Alley If you think about it, the horse was one of the earliest forms of faster-than-human transportation. Come see a bunch of cool artists making transit-themed (both train and horse) work. And, if you know what Umamusume is (which I... totally do...) bring your phone and join in on some races. FRI: 3.27 ‘The Way Disabled People Love Each Other’ Reading Disability Cultural Center, SF → 7-9PM Come hear Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha read from their new book of poetry. Plus, Piepzna-Samarasinha will present the Disability Grief Portal Altar — an opportunity to grieve, connect, and celebrate. 😷 COVID SAFE (masks required)
THU 3.19 Retro Tech Night: ctrl+art+delight 〰️ Are you ready to feel old? Great! Head to this "retro tech" night and see youth try to figure out how to use stuff you remember being cutting edge. Bring back the see-through computers! 〰️ 6–9pm 〰️ San Jose Museum of Art 〰️ FREE FRI 3.20 Persian New Year: Nowruz Art, Tea & Treats Workshop! 〰️ Celebrate Persian Nowruz with a local Persian arts collective and gift shop! Art supplies, teas and sweets will be provided. Just bring your joy and curiosity — "come ready to create, taste, and connect!" 〰️ 7–9pm 〰️ MintPress Art Studio & Gift Shop, Berkeley 〰️ $17.85
THU: 2.19 ‘The Vegan Creamery’ Author Talk Farming Hope’s Refettorio, SF → 6pm–7:30pm 〰 $30+ Friend to both vegans and the lactose intolerant majority, Miyoko Schinner and her milk-free cheeses and butters are Bay Area treasures. She’s this month’s featured guest chef at local nonprofit Farming Hope, and she’ll be sharing her culinary philosophy (and some small bites) at this event. FRI: 2.20 Lunar New Year Party Disability Cultural Center, SF → 5pM-7:30pm The Disability Cultural Center is hosting LNY with a lion dance, dumplings, and chosen family feels. Welcome the Year of the Horse, with all the bold moves and transformation it brings. 😷 COVID SAFE (masks required in some areas)
THU: 2.12 The Return of Ancient Epic: The Egyptian Book of the Dead Clio’s, Oakland → 7pm–9pm 〰 $7+ Can I get a “hell yea” from my fellow Anubis stans? At this talk, scholar Rita Lucarelli will get deep into how ancient Egyptians prepped themselves, literally and figuratively, for the afterlife. “Expect a vibrant conversation that reveals mythology and afterlife texts as living systems of meaning.” FRI: 2.13 Love Birds Mask-erade Ball Disability Cultural Center, SF → 6pM-9pm Get hot and heavy while celebrating the joy of disability solidarity. Featuring a DJ, photo booth, snacks, and gorgeous handmade facemask bling. 😷 COVID SAFE (masks and testing required)
a video showing hundreds of people marching in the rain during a teachers strike, chanting “say it loud and say it clear, immigrants are welcome here”
a rally with people holding signs that say our students are worth fighting for and pay our teachers a living wage
Michael Moritz, the billionaire co-founder of the San Francisco Standard, has reportedly poured seven figures into a group that could help punt California’s controversial wealth tax proposal.
THU: 2.5 Font Friends Hangout Letterform Archive, SF → 6PM-7:30PM 〰️ $10 donation How do you feel about Comic Sans? Papyrus? What about Bodoni? If you notice when the kerning is off, this meetup is for you. Plus, the folks from the archive will have some piece of their collection out on view for this. Get your font nerdery on! We will not judge you. FRI: 2.6 Heated Rivalry Rave: A Hot Sexy Yearning Party The Stud, SF → 10PM-2Am 〰️ $24-$55 You've read the books, you've watched the show, you've seen the memes, but have you been to the rave? Yes, a Heated Rivalry Rave. Get sweaty. No hockey knowledge required. Bring your own banana.
Illustration of a plumber holding a pipe with a maid looking saucily at him and an older woman scowling behind them. "Welcome to the COYOTE Calendar. This week we've got an antique show, q&A with a plumber, a goth party, and more. to see the full listings, check out our site!"
A hand drawn black and white comic that says "I hosted a mutual aid swap in my back hard and so can you! by Vincent D." Around the words are several animals, including a squirrel, an owl, a raccoon, and a pigeon.
THU: 1.22 Astrology and Tarot Salon Bathers Library, Oakland → 6PM-8PM 〰️ $7+ I am not an astrology guy, but I understand that many of you are (and I love that for you!). So this one is for my witchy baddies: Join fellow tarot and astrology lovers to discuss "the current transits and related tarot cards and themes to better understand the cosmic energy of the moment." FRI: 1.23 Art Walk: 1-800 Happy Birthday at The Guardhouse Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion, SF → 6PM (Free) "The rotating installation — which started as a website and short film in 2014 — honors victims of police killings by inviting family, friends, and strangers to leave birthday messages on repurposed NYC phone booths."
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.
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: 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.
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!
Purple background with a graphic of a coyote with heart eyes and tongue out. Headline says: Coyote sprints to 2026! Let's get to 2,026 paid subscribers by the new year!
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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?
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
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!
Four grey coyotes with glasses read pink books on a pink background. In the center, yellow words read "coyote goes members-only (well mostly)." A purple star shape in the upper righthand corners reads "update"
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."
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"
A person with short brown hair smiles. They're wearing silver framed glasses and a red Hawaiian shirt. Text surrounding them says "Meet the team. Podcasts. Marine Life. Sports. Sculpture. Plants. Reo Eveleth. Oakland based writer, reporter, and artist. Independent Journalism with a Bite! @roseveleth"
Black-haired person with white-rimmed glasses sitting at a picnic table. Text says "Meet the team. Comics. Food. Internet Stuff. Politics. Pop Culture. Soleil Ho. Cultural critic, cookbook writer, and food journalist. Independent Journalism with a bite! @soleil_ho"
A man with tan skin and wearing glasses and a soccer jersey poses with his arms crossed. Text in the image says “Coyote. Meet the team.” From left to right, white sketchy words say “travel, sports, poetry, food, arts and culture, rap.” At bottom, text says “Alan Chazaro: Traveling Bay Area dad and writer currently based in Veracruz. Independent Journalism with a bite! @alan_chazaro”
A collection of stickers on a red surface, including yellow "COYOTE" journalism stickers, holographic "COYOTE MEDIA COLLECTIVE" circular stickers with a coyote illustration, and a black and white cartoon coyote head sticker.
Three figures with coyote heads ride a rocket through the air. The image says "launching soon" at the top, has a star with "update" inside, and at the bottom reads "COYOTE goes live on September 15!"
GIF: background is yellow with floating purple question marks. Grey cartoon coyote head with a speech bubble that says "what's the deal?" in pink text
Quote on a white background reads “The coolest kids who know all the cool music, art, film, and community events, who write really well — and would never write run-on sentences like this one — are getting together in a worker-owned collective to make a magazine without paper that’s independent, local, and corporate-parrot-free. It’s called COYOTE. You’re gonna wanna check it.” By Boots Riley, writer, filmmaker, musician. On the bottom a line green banner reads “COYOTE independent journalism with a bite!”
A pink coyote mascot with yellow eyes stares at the viewer with a toothy grin. Text in a green bubble reads "thank you!" and below it, in a pink square, reads "you helped us make our $10k match!"
A quote in blue and black text reads "This is the Bay Area alt weekly that we've all been waiting for. The team is fascinating and talented. The cooperative model is right for these times. I'm rooting so hard for them and you should, too." The quote is from Alexis Madrigal, a journalist, author and co-host of KQED Forum. The Coyote logo is on a banner along the bottom, with the tagline "independent journalism with a bite."
A quote is featured that says "My little gay heart soars with hope and joy and relief and EXCITEMENT for what yall are doing here. Cheers to this important and incredible achievement!!!" Below the quote is a pink Coyote mascot, with the word COYOTE below it
Illustration of two coyotes howling, with a green speech bubble that says "$10,000 match unlocked!"
Grey cartoon coyote in boxing gear cheering. Logo in the background is green and black: "COYOTE" Black text says "We hit our goal! Independent Journalism With a BITE!" Top right green sticker says "Thank you!" with another identical sticker behind it. Lower left teal sticker says "Update"
a coyote stands on a rock howling in the middle of the day, with yellow and green bushes and trees in the background
close up photo of hand holding stack of green flyers with cartoon coyote logo
White square with black text: When the media world is overrun with corporate behemoths, what we need is a wily COYOTE. Now we have it, and more power to this terrific team of journalists and writers as they channel the genuine Bay Area spirit of the counterculture, of free speech, of challenging the orthodoxy wherever it appears. y VIET THANH NGUYEN PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR Independent Journalism With A BITE!