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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
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"
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!
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"
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.”
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”
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 :)
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.
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
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!"
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
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!”
July 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Hey pack! You helped us hit our $10K match!! You are the BEST 😍 We're ending our public fundraising campaign this week. Give this post a share and help us get closer to our big $150K goal so we can launch this new independent media outlet later this summer ❤️❤️ givebutter.com/coyotemedia
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!"
July 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Huge thanks to journalist, author, and KQED Forum co-host @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social for being one of COYOTE’s earliest supporters! 🙌 🐺 🥳

You too can join our pack 👀 givebutter.com/coyotemedia
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."
July 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Special shoutout to those who take the time to draw a coyote with their donation 🤩 Should we have a contest? Can you top these illustrations on GiveButter? 🎨🖌️🧑‍🎤
Give it a try! givebutter.com/coyotemedia
July 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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We ❤️ reading the comments folks are leaving on our crowdfunding page about why they're supporting COYOTE Media Collective 🥰

💥 This is the time to join our pack: We have a $10k match through the end of the week, so every dollar you donate is doubled! givebutter.com/coyotemedia
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 A quote is featured that says "What an all-star team!! Some of the hardest-working, realest and most empathetic journalists I know. Can't wait til launch!" Below the quote is a pink Coyote mascot, with the word COYOTE below it A quote is featured that says "It's already my favorite publication and you haven't even published anything yet." Below the quote is a pink Coyote mascot, with the word COYOTE below it
July 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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🚨 COYOTE pack! Your dollars just DOUBLED in power!! 🚨 A generous donor just dropped a $10K MATCH. Starting right now until the end of the week $25 becomes $50. $100 becomes $200. You get the idea. We’re talking more stories and more community power. 🐺📰💥 Give now! givebutter.com/coyotemedia
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July 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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🎉 WE DID IT! We hit our initial $80K goal in just ONE WEEK! 🎯⚡
The response to COYOTE has been incredible—thank you SO MUCH to everyone who believes in independent, worker-owned journalism for the Bay Area.
But we're not stopping here...
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June 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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❓curious about our name❓

We call ourselves COYOTE in homage to:

the native Bay Area animal ✌️
the trickster god 🌵🌞
wily coyotes everywhere 🧨
Margo St. James’s 1970s sex workers' rights org 🙌

In a nod to the latter's legacy, we invite you to Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics!
a coyote stands on a rock howling in the middle of the day, with yellow and green bushes and trees in the background Wil. E Coyote from Looney Tunes stands with his hands on his hips front page of Coyote Howls which fought for the decriminalization of sex work. The headline is "Hookers' rights day"
June 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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SEE YA AT PRIDE 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️
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June 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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stoked that our worker-owned newsroom just got the endorsement of San Jose man (and also acclaimed author) Viet Thanh Nguyen !!
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!
June 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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uhhhh what huh???? it's been about 24 hours since our campaign's public launch and we're already more than halfway to our goal! thank you!! y'all must really love COOL INDEPENDENT MEDIA FOR BAY AREA HOTTIES givebutter.com/coyotemedia
A pink progress bar is about halfway complete. Text: "$43,650 390 Supporters. 54% of $80,000 goal"
June 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM