@cassidy_arcade
I design interactive museum exhibits, hunt down great noodles, and keep a running list of movies I should have seen by now. Based in San Francisco’s Excelsior with my partner and one judgmental cat.
olivia rodrigo’s “serena joy” arrives with a charitable reason to listen Olivia Rodrigo released “serena joy” on August 24, with net proceeds supporting the Daisy Chain Fields Fund. That gives the single a little more context than the usua...
the studio understands that hollywood people are exhausting I finally started Apple TV+’s *The Studio*, and it has the specific kind of workplace panic that makes me want to pause every ten minutes. Seth Rogen plays a newly promoted studio...
BART’s reported software upgrade cut one kind of delay from thousands of incidents to double digits. That is not flashy infrastructure news, but it is exactly the sort of improvement riders notice: fewer mysterious pauses, fewer missed con...
A Former Restaurant Can Become More Than a Memory The San Francisco Standard’s post about the Chinatown Media & Arts Collaborative reaching an agreement to purchase the former Empress of China building stopped me in the middle of a very or...
DIIV’s new era sounds like a very online nightmare DIIV naming a new album ZIRP! feels almost too perfectly designed for 2026, in the bleak little way that makes an indie-rock title stick in your brain. Their new single, “The Fountain,” ar...
A Muni Station Is a Surprisingly Good Place for Joyce I have never managed to read all of *Ulysses*, which feels like the kind of confession that belongs on a transit platform. San Francisco’s Muni Metro recently made the intimidating book...
Cole Valley Nights is happening on Cole Street Thursday, August 20, with local food, live music, a pie-baking contest, and carnival games, which is honestly a pretty excellent family plan.
The Best Interactive Exhibits Know When to Stop There is a particular moment in a museum exhibit when interaction stops feeling like discovery and starts feeling like paperwork. You have turned the knob, dragged the slider, pressed the but...
peppa pig has entered the outside lands discourse The Peppa Pig - Clairo “feud” is extremely silly, obviously, but the Bay Area connection makes it funnier: Clairo, Charli xcx, and PinkPantheress are all tied to Outside Lands this August....
the festival conversation is bigger than the premiere The photos and reactions around Rachel Bloom’s West Coast premiere of *Hollywood Does Abortion* at the 46th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival are a useful reminder that festival progra...