bart What would you do with a decommissioned BART train car? Rusty Blazenhoff

conservatives Judge orders Huntington Beach to add more democracy to its democracy Jason Weisberger

No way home As Sam Altman pushes for IPO, the wheels are coming off OpenAI Jason Weisberger

AI OpenAI pivots from "do everything" to "please someone pay us for something" Jason Weisberger

worse things happen at sea The world's most advanced aircraft carrier taken down by… a dryer vent fire Jason Weisberger

music Self-proclaimed "PETSMART Truther" asks the tough questions: It is "Pet Smart"? Or "Pet's Mart"? Jennifer Sandlin

burning man Kimball Musk exits Burning Man before the explaining begins Jason Weisberger

History Man spent 40 years perfecting a lettuce cigarette Ellsworth Toohey

trump Apple's authoritarian-pleasing antics have alienated me Séamus Bellamy

festivals Murder on the playa Jason Weisberger

mondo 2000 San Francisco, June 7: Celebrate the cyberculture with Mondo 2000's RU Sirius, Mark Pauline, Cintra Wilson, Rudy Rucker, Cindy Cohn, and phriendz David Pescovitz

Entertainment First look: Epic Universe's Dark Universe, featuring classic Universal monsters, is a theme park masterpiece Ruben Bolling

Space First "artisanal" satellite made from wood launched into space Allan Rose Hill

folk music Traditional folk tunes get a psychedelic dirge reimagining Natalie Dressed

News Jezebel to close after owner G/O Media fails to find buyer Rob Beschizza

music Nick Cave's wild early days captured in documentary, "Mutiny in Heaven" Natalie Dressed

medical mishaps Unbelievable tale of a gentleman's unfortunate bottle encounter Mark Frauenfelder

Science The Anthropocene Working Group has chosen Crawford Lake as a "golden spike" that can help scientists understand this new geological epoch Jennifer Sandlin

Space Exoplanet "like a mirror" due to metallic clouds Rob Beschizza

climate change Big oil published "research" denying that fossil fuels drove climate change. Privately, they knew otherwise. Elías Villoro