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Best food in the world? Accessible public transit? 🤨 We asked you for your hot takes of the Bay Area at KQED Fest 2026. Here are only some of the things we heard 🤣

Hosted by @kqed_forum co-host @minakim885
Produced by @myroncari

@andrewtourssf takes us to three cheap eats in the Tenderloin! #KQEDPartner

1. Pho 2000 (for delicious pho in large portions)

2. Cantoo (for Venezuelan Chinese food)

3. Saigon Sandwich (for banh mi)

Want to learn more about the Bay Area's food scene, from the best late-night eats to the latest pop-ups? Tap the link in our bio.

Fortune cookies are basically a remix 🥠 Here's the origin story you’re not going to get at a restaurant.

Unwrap the California origins of the fortune cookie with the full story from Bay Curious. Link in bio!

📝 Suzie Racho
🎬 @itsantsorrells

When Boots Riley (@bootsriley) looks back at his debut feature, ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ it’s not the rave reviews, near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score or $18 million in box office revenue that stand out. It’s the messages he got from labor organizers. Dozens wrote to tell him they swayed their colleagues to form unions or authorize strikes after showing them his film, about a call center worker who discovers a shady corporate conspiracy to turn people into literal workhorses.

With his stylish new satire ‘I Love Boosters,’ the Oakland director places a bet that art can fuel a mass labor movement. “It starts with understanding that a situation in which people have solidarity is helping your own personal interests as well. And from that grows a different kind of consciousness,” Riley tells KQED.

Read our interview on kqed.org/arts before ‘I Love Boosters’ opens in theaters nationwide this weekend.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Beth LaBerge/KQED (@bethlaberge); Tâm Vũ/KQED (@tamatoess); Courtesy of NEON

When Boots Riley (@bootsriley) looks back at his debut feature, ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ it’s not the rave reviews, near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score or $18 million in box office revenue that stand out. It’s the messages he got from labor organizers. Dozens wrote to tell him they swayed their colleagues to form unions or authorize strikes after showing them his film, about a call center worker who discovers a shady corporate conspiracy to turn people into literal workhorses.

With his stylish new satire ‘I Love Boosters,’ the Oakland director places a bet that art can fuel a mass labor movement. “It starts with understanding that a situation in which people have solidarity is helping your own personal interests as well. And from that grows a different kind of consciousness,” Riley tells KQED.

Read our interview on kqed.org/arts before ‘I Love Boosters’ opens in theaters nationwide this weekend.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Beth LaBerge/KQED (@bethlaberge); Tâm Vũ/KQED (@tamatoess); Courtesy of NEON

When Boots Riley (@bootsriley) looks back at his debut feature, ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ it’s not the rave reviews, near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score or $18 million in box office revenue that stand out. It’s the messages he got from labor organizers. Dozens wrote to tell him they swayed their colleagues to form unions or authorize strikes after showing them his film, about a call center worker who discovers a shady corporate conspiracy to turn people into literal workhorses.

With his stylish new satire ‘I Love Boosters,’ the Oakland director places a bet that art can fuel a mass labor movement. “It starts with understanding that a situation in which people have solidarity is helping your own personal interests as well. And from that grows a different kind of consciousness,” Riley tells KQED.

Read our interview on kqed.org/arts before ‘I Love Boosters’ opens in theaters nationwide this weekend.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Beth LaBerge/KQED (@bethlaberge); Tâm Vũ/KQED (@tamatoess); Courtesy of NEON

When Boots Riley (@bootsriley) looks back at his debut feature, ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ it’s not the rave reviews, near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score or $18 million in box office revenue that stand out. It’s the messages he got from labor organizers. Dozens wrote to tell him they swayed their colleagues to form unions or authorize strikes after showing them his film, about a call center worker who discovers a shady corporate conspiracy to turn people into literal workhorses.

With his stylish new satire ‘I Love Boosters,’ the Oakland director places a bet that art can fuel a mass labor movement. “It starts with understanding that a situation in which people have solidarity is helping your own personal interests as well. And from that grows a different kind of consciousness,” Riley tells KQED.

Read our interview on kqed.org/arts before ‘I Love Boosters’ opens in theaters nationwide this weekend.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Beth LaBerge/KQED (@bethlaberge); Tâm Vũ/KQED (@tamatoess); Courtesy of NEON

When Boots Riley (@bootsriley) looks back at his debut feature, ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ it’s not the rave reviews, near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score or $18 million in box office revenue that stand out. It’s the messages he got from labor organizers. Dozens wrote to tell him they swayed their colleagues to form unions or authorize strikes after showing them his film, about a call center worker who discovers a shady corporate conspiracy to turn people into literal workhorses.

With his stylish new satire ‘I Love Boosters,’ the Oakland director places a bet that art can fuel a mass labor movement. “It starts with understanding that a situation in which people have solidarity is helping your own personal interests as well. And from that grows a different kind of consciousness,” Riley tells KQED.

Read our interview on kqed.org/arts before ‘I Love Boosters’ opens in theaters nationwide this weekend.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Beth LaBerge/KQED (@bethlaberge); Tâm Vũ/KQED (@tamatoess); Courtesy of NEON

When Boots Riley (@bootsriley) looks back at his debut feature, ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ it’s not the rave reviews, near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score or $18 million in box office revenue that stand out. It’s the messages he got from labor organizers. Dozens wrote to tell him they swayed their colleagues to form unions or authorize strikes after showing them his film, about a call center worker who discovers a shady corporate conspiracy to turn people into literal workhorses.

With his stylish new satire ‘I Love Boosters,’ the Oakland director places a bet that art can fuel a mass labor movement. “It starts with understanding that a situation in which people have solidarity is helping your own personal interests as well. And from that grows a different kind of consciousness,” Riley tells KQED.

Read our interview on kqed.org/arts before ‘I Love Boosters’ opens in theaters nationwide this weekend.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Beth LaBerge/KQED (@bethlaberge); Tâm Vũ/KQED (@tamatoess); Courtesy of NEON

When Boots Riley (@bootsriley) looks back at his debut feature, ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ it’s not the rave reviews, near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score or $18 million in box office revenue that stand out. It’s the messages he got from labor organizers. Dozens wrote to tell him they swayed their colleagues to form unions or authorize strikes after showing them his film, about a call center worker who discovers a shady corporate conspiracy to turn people into literal workhorses.

With his stylish new satire ‘I Love Boosters,’ the Oakland director places a bet that art can fuel a mass labor movement. “It starts with understanding that a situation in which people have solidarity is helping your own personal interests as well. And from that grows a different kind of consciousness,” Riley tells KQED.

Read our interview on kqed.org/arts before ‘I Love Boosters’ opens in theaters nationwide this weekend.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Beth LaBerge/KQED (@bethlaberge); Tâm Vũ/KQED (@tamatoess); Courtesy of NEON

Over the past nine years, Oaklash has grown from a humble, grassroots block party to a full-scale drag festival — not to mention an arts incubator that has put on some truly mind-melting performances.

On Saturday, May 16, hundreds of drag fans gathered in Old Oakland to watch dozens of performers on multiple stages. There were soul-stirring lip syncs, flawless fashion reveals, gravity-defying dance moves and lots of dollar bills flying through the air.

See more at kqed.org/arts.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Juliana Yamada (@julianayamadaphoto)

Over the past nine years, Oaklash has grown from a humble, grassroots block party to a full-scale drag festival — not to mention an arts incubator that has put on some truly mind-melting performances.

On Saturday, May 16, hundreds of drag fans gathered in Old Oakland to watch dozens of performers on multiple stages. There were soul-stirring lip syncs, flawless fashion reveals, gravity-defying dance moves and lots of dollar bills flying through the air.

See more at kqed.org/arts.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Juliana Yamada (@julianayamadaphoto)

Over the past nine years, Oaklash has grown from a humble, grassroots block party to a full-scale drag festival — not to mention an arts incubator that has put on some truly mind-melting performances.

On Saturday, May 16, hundreds of drag fans gathered in Old Oakland to watch dozens of performers on multiple stages. There were soul-stirring lip syncs, flawless fashion reveals, gravity-defying dance moves and lots of dollar bills flying through the air.

See more at kqed.org/arts.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Juliana Yamada (@julianayamadaphoto)

Over the past nine years, Oaklash has grown from a humble, grassroots block party to a full-scale drag festival — not to mention an arts incubator that has put on some truly mind-melting performances.

On Saturday, May 16, hundreds of drag fans gathered in Old Oakland to watch dozens of performers on multiple stages. There were soul-stirring lip syncs, flawless fashion reveals, gravity-defying dance moves and lots of dollar bills flying through the air.

See more at kqed.org/arts.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Juliana Yamada (@julianayamadaphoto)

Over the past nine years, Oaklash has grown from a humble, grassroots block party to a full-scale drag festival — not to mention an arts incubator that has put on some truly mind-melting performances.

On Saturday, May 16, hundreds of drag fans gathered in Old Oakland to watch dozens of performers on multiple stages. There were soul-stirring lip syncs, flawless fashion reveals, gravity-defying dance moves and lots of dollar bills flying through the air.

See more at kqed.org/arts.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Juliana Yamada (@julianayamadaphoto)

Over the past nine years, Oaklash has grown from a humble, grassroots block party to a full-scale drag festival — not to mention an arts incubator that has put on some truly mind-melting performances.

On Saturday, May 16, hundreds of drag fans gathered in Old Oakland to watch dozens of performers on multiple stages. There were soul-stirring lip syncs, flawless fashion reveals, gravity-defying dance moves and lots of dollar bills flying through the air.

See more at kqed.org/arts.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Juliana Yamada (@julianayamadaphoto)

Over the past nine years, Oaklash has grown from a humble, grassroots block party to a full-scale drag festival — not to mention an arts incubator that has put on some truly mind-melting performances.

On Saturday, May 16, hundreds of drag fans gathered in Old Oakland to watch dozens of performers on multiple stages. There were soul-stirring lip syncs, flawless fashion reveals, gravity-defying dance moves and lots of dollar bills flying through the air.

See more at kqed.org/arts.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Juliana Yamada (@julianayamadaphoto)

Over the past nine years, Oaklash has grown from a humble, grassroots block party to a full-scale drag festival — not to mention an arts incubator that has put on some truly mind-melting performances.

On Saturday, May 16, hundreds of drag fans gathered in Old Oakland to watch dozens of performers on multiple stages. There were soul-stirring lip syncs, flawless fashion reveals, gravity-defying dance moves and lots of dollar bills flying through the air.

See more at kqed.org/arts.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Juliana Yamada (@julianayamadaphoto)

Over the past nine years, Oaklash has grown from a humble, grassroots block party to a full-scale drag festival — not to mention an arts incubator that has put on some truly mind-melting performances.

On Saturday, May 16, hundreds of drag fans gathered in Old Oakland to watch dozens of performers on multiple stages. There were soul-stirring lip syncs, flawless fashion reveals, gravity-defying dance moves and lots of dollar bills flying through the air.

See more at kqed.org/arts.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Juliana Yamada (@julianayamadaphoto)

Over the past nine years, Oaklash has grown from a humble, grassroots block party to a full-scale drag festival — not to mention an arts incubator that has put on some truly mind-melting performances.

On Saturday, May 16, hundreds of drag fans gathered in Old Oakland to watch dozens of performers on multiple stages. There were soul-stirring lip syncs, flawless fashion reveals, gravity-defying dance moves and lots of dollar bills flying through the air.

See more at kqed.org/arts.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Juliana Yamada (@julianayamadaphoto)

Over the past nine years, Oaklash has grown from a humble, grassroots block party to a full-scale drag festival — not to mention an arts incubator that has put on some truly mind-melting performances.

On Saturday, May 16, hundreds of drag fans gathered in Old Oakland to watch dozens of performers on multiple stages. There were soul-stirring lip syncs, flawless fashion reveals, gravity-defying dance moves and lots of dollar bills flying through the air.

See more at kqed.org/arts.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Juliana Yamada (@julianayamadaphoto)

Over the past nine years, Oaklash has grown from a humble, grassroots block party to a full-scale drag festival — not to mention an arts incubator that has put on some truly mind-melting performances.

On Saturday, May 16, hundreds of drag fans gathered in Old Oakland to watch dozens of performers on multiple stages. There were soul-stirring lip syncs, flawless fashion reveals, gravity-defying dance moves and lots of dollar bills flying through the air.

See more at kqed.org/arts.

✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia)
📸: Juliana Yamada (@julianayamadaphoto)

📢 BAY AREA: On May 28, Boots Riley will be joining Alexis Madrigal of @kqed_forum and @cityartssf for a special live conversation at the Sydney Goldstein Theater.

Riley will celebrate his new film, I Love Boosters, by diving into the ideas, his creative process, and the cultural questions that fuel his work.

Get your tickets now — link in our bio or at kqed.org/live.

This event is co-presented by City Arts & Lectures.

📢 BAY AREA: On May 28, Boots Riley will be joining Alexis Madrigal of @kqed_forum and @cityartssf for a special live conversation at the Sydney Goldstein Theater.

Riley will celebrate his new film, I Love Boosters, by diving into the ideas, his creative process, and the cultural questions that fuel his work.

Get your tickets now — link in our bio or at kqed.org/live.

This event is co-presented by City Arts & Lectures.

📢 BAY AREA: On May 28, Boots Riley will be joining Alexis Madrigal of @kqed_forum and @cityartssf for a special live conversation at the Sydney Goldstein Theater.

Riley will celebrate his new film, I Love Boosters, by diving into the ideas, his creative process, and the cultural questions that fuel his work.

Get your tickets now — link in our bio or at kqed.org/live.

This event is co-presented by City Arts & Lectures.

📢 BAY AREA: On May 28, Boots Riley will be joining Alexis Madrigal of @kqed_forum and @cityartssf for a special live conversation at the Sydney Goldstein Theater.

Riley will celebrate his new film, I Love Boosters, by diving into the ideas, his creative process, and the cultural questions that fuel his work.

Get your tickets now — link in our bio or at kqed.org/live.

This event is co-presented by City Arts & Lectures.

📢 BAY AREA: On May 28, Boots Riley will be joining Alexis Madrigal of @kqed_forum and @cityartssf for a special live conversation at the Sydney Goldstein Theater.

Riley will celebrate his new film, I Love Boosters, by diving into the ideas, his creative process, and the cultural questions that fuel his work.

Get your tickets now — link in our bio or at kqed.org/live.

This event is co-presented by City Arts & Lectures.

Elon Musk’s lawsuit against his OpenAI co-founders has been rejected by a federal judge in Oakland, who found his claims were outside the statute of limitations.

Musk, who helped form OpenAI as a nonprofit in 2015, had alleged that co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman violated the company’s original nonprofit mission to create safe and open-source artificial intelligence in order to enrich themselves. An Oakland jury took just a few hours to declare that Musk’s claim came too late. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rodgers, who had the final say in the case, agreed with the jury’s advisory verdict.

“I think there’s a substantial amount of evidence to support the jury’s finding,” she said Monday.

This past weekend, thousands of runners participated in San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 🏃

📸 @marcus_aureliuz

This past weekend, thousands of runners participated in San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 🏃

📸 @marcus_aureliuz

This past weekend, thousands of runners participated in San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 🏃

📸 @marcus_aureliuz

This past weekend, thousands of runners participated in San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 🏃

📸 @marcus_aureliuz

This past weekend, thousands of runners participated in San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 🏃

📸 @marcus_aureliuz

This past weekend, thousands of runners participated in San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 🏃

📸 @marcus_aureliuz

This past weekend, thousands of runners participated in San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 🏃

📸 @marcus_aureliuz

This past weekend, thousands of runners participated in San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 🏃

📸 @marcus_aureliuz

This past weekend, thousands of runners participated in San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 🏃

📸 @marcus_aureliuz

This past weekend, thousands of runners participated in San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 🏃

📸 @marcus_aureliuz

This past weekend, thousands of runners participated in San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 🏃

📸 @marcus_aureliuz

This past weekend, thousands of runners participated in San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 🏃

📸 @marcus_aureliuz

This past weekend, thousands of runners participated in San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 🏃

📸 @marcus_aureliuz

This past weekend, thousands of runners participated in San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 🏃

📸 @marcus_aureliuz

Thousands of runners pack the streets of San Francisco at this year's Bay to Breakers.

❔ Did you participate in the run?

🎥 Eric Thurber (@thurber_shots )

Bix isn’t just a restaurant, it’s a whole mood.

Live music nightly, classic cocktails, and a room designed for style—not fashion. Open since 1988, and designated a San Francisco Legacy Business in 2019, Bix is for the regulars, the first-time martini drinkers, and everybody in between.

What should you order? Probably the steak tartare. It’s a classic, and it’s been on the menu since the restaurant opened its doors!

🎥 @the.alex.tran
⭐ @sommeligay
🎬 @itsantsorrells

Each year on the third Sunday of May, thousands of people turn what would otherwise be just your average San Francisco footrace into Bay to Breakers: a moving block party complete with costumes, house parties and plenty of refreshments.

Learn more about Bay to Breakers at the 🔗 in our bio.

✍🏼 Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman
📸 Kori Suzuki

Each year on the third Sunday of May, thousands of people turn what would otherwise be just your average San Francisco footrace into Bay to Breakers: a moving block party complete with costumes, house parties and plenty of refreshments.

Learn more about Bay to Breakers at the 🔗 in our bio.

✍🏼 Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman
📸 Kori Suzuki

Each year on the third Sunday of May, thousands of people turn what would otherwise be just your average San Francisco footrace into Bay to Breakers: a moving block party complete with costumes, house parties and plenty of refreshments.

Learn more about Bay to Breakers at the 🔗 in our bio.

✍🏼 Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman
📸 Kori Suzuki

Each year on the third Sunday of May, thousands of people turn what would otherwise be just your average San Francisco footrace into Bay to Breakers: a moving block party complete with costumes, house parties and plenty of refreshments.

Learn more about Bay to Breakers at the 🔗 in our bio.

✍🏼 Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman
📸 Kori Suzuki

Each year on the third Sunday of May, thousands of people turn what would otherwise be just your average San Francisco footrace into Bay to Breakers: a moving block party complete with costumes, house parties and plenty of refreshments.

Learn more about Bay to Breakers at the 🔗 in our bio.

✍🏼 Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman
📸 Kori Suzuki

Each year on the third Sunday of May, thousands of people turn what would otherwise be just your average San Francisco footrace into Bay to Breakers: a moving block party complete with costumes, house parties and plenty of refreshments.

Learn more about Bay to Breakers at the 🔗 in our bio.

✍🏼 Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman
📸 Kori Suzuki

If you couldn't make it to KQED Fest last weekend, here’s what you missed👀

Attendees from across the Bay experienced a FREE block party and open house at our headquarters in San Francisco’s Mission District! From performances by the winner of NPR’s Tiny Desk @rubyibarra to a live conversation with @thesnacksensei, KQED Fest 2026 had something for everyone.

Stay up-to-date on our other community events at kqed.org/events.