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San Francisco journalist. SFGATE editor-in-chief. Also: Daily Cal Board Member. Always: Cal Golden Bear. Before: Thrillist, Sports Illustrated, SF Examiner, etc.
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My day on Lake Tahoe's floating laboratory to investigate the mysteries of the deep blue. For @sfgate.com. www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/ar...

A leafy pop-up town square by Civic Joy Fund + partners in San Fran has neighbors asking how to make it permanent. We’ve seen through our work that pilots that help residents picture a different future for their communities leads to robust civic commons. Read more @sfgate.com tinyurl.com/2wwmkrx9

In a crucial Game 4 for Warriors-Rockets, how does no one notice that kind of clock screw-up for four straight possessions? via @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...

Some 15 million people visit the Lake Tahoe shoreline every year. But most of the time, the floating lab is alone on the water. Even in the summer, Cane said few people venture out to the middle of the lake, miles off shore. “Out here, there’s almost nobody ever.” www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/ar...

"As inconsequential as choosing not to wear a shirt in an arena might seem in the grand machinery of America, it does reveal a fracture, or at minimum, a disconnected individualism that seems to push against a commonwealth goal." via @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...

Humphrey the whale earned his celebrity status through a lot of trial and error. via @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

Bill Simmons — Celtics superfan, NBA analyst and founder of the Ringer — admitted Friday on the Bill Simmons Podcast that Warriors superstar Steph Curry is getting jobbed by officials in the Dubs’ first-round playoff series against the Houston Rockets. via @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...

THINGS HAVE ESCALATED AS OF DAY THREE

I must have missed this worthwhile read from @drewmagary.bsky.social in SFGate when it first came out earlier in April. Highly recommended:

For 90 minutes, the @bart.gov train will run nonstop, and the doors will not open. via @bimonthly.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

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Can Ben Affleck's latest shoot-'em-up — "Accountant 2" — pass @drewmagary.bsky.social's patent-pending Dad Movie Test? www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

We just published exclusive new details on the string of frightening hantavirus deaths in the Eastern Sierra. 'Tragic and alarming': Mice droppings found at Calif. hotel after employee dies from hantavirus www.sfgate.com/california/a...

My birthday tree project made the news! 🥳 Thanks @sfgate.com for helping me get this project out there & for sharing the inspiration behind it. We just hit 14,000 searches in less than 3 days 🙀 I'm so happy to see so many people enjoying it. 🥰 www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

New story for @sfgate.com: 'Burn you to the f—king ground': Houston radio host goes ballistic on Warriors fans www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...

Is everyone in Houston ok @dcarson.bsky.social? www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...

UPDATE: She got second in her age group! In a race she's never swam before in her entire life (1000 Free)! American Silver Medalist!

When you’re married to a former Cal swimmer who’s competing in Masters Nationals in Texas is it OK to commandeer the big conference room TV at the @sfgate.com office? Asking for a friend…

The restaurant took @tylerflorence.bsky.social almost four years and nearly $7 million to complete. via @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/food/article...

Awful Announcing made sure to note that “most of these comments were strongly negative,” including classic complaints of the duo’s homerism. via @thelatinochild.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...

For @nymag.com years ago, I wrote about the difficult process of getting a Black-led indie film made. This section always stuck with me...

A doomed emblem of the SF’s post-pandemic struggles, its once-busy malls are fast becoming abandoned caverns. But 8K miles away in Thailand, malls are thriving, including one that’s devoted thousands of sqft to a rosier view of SF. via @andrewchamings.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...

🚨JOB ALERT!🚨 We're hiring an experienced reporter and newsroom mentor to join our team as a Senior Health Reporter/Editor. 📝 You'll report on health issues affecting Bay Area Latino and Mayan immigrants — on topics ranging from healthcare access to environmental health and food insecurity.

I'm not even into basketball like that, but this headline 🤣

First identified in California in 1962, enterovirus-D68 once appeared in small, isolated clusters but has since become more common on a worldwide scale. via @arianabindman.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

A Stanford University graduate was sentenced Friday to federal prison for a “Door Dash-style drug delivery operation” in the San Francisco Bay Area, court records show. via @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

Property owners who do not clear combustibles could face heavy fines and penalties, including $98 reinspection fees for every 15 minutes of a visit, fines of up to $500 per day and even misdemeanor convictions for multiple failures to comply. via @ohhkasia.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

Vacant leadership positions are just the tip of the iceberg in jobs that are no longer getting done at the National Park Service under Trump. via @thatsmohrlikeit.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/national-par...

We have a Hunky Jesus winner, San Francisco: Wild West Jesus, who made his entrance on a gleaming disco bison, flanked by a posse of cowboys. via @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

“I’ve really had enough of CJ being boys with everybody. Hate somebody dude.” via @thelatinochild.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...

Moody working his way out of Steve Kerr's Phantom Zone is one of the most underrated tales of perseverance in the history of sports

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr is planning to keep Jonathan Kuminga on the bench and out of the rotation to start the first-round playoff series against the Houston Rockets, according to multiple reports. www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...

The Warriors bar where ‘Roaracle’ never died. via @alexsimonsports.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...

The normally awkward and precarious wedge of road on Carl Street, where the N Judah exits the Sunset Tunnel, had transformed into an unrecognizable urban oasis with 500 plants and an assortment of plush velvet furniture filling the space flanking the train tracks. www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

if you’re someone unfamiliar with san francisco i have two words for you: brazen head

Our very own @amandabartlett.bsky.social chatted with 'Mean Girls' and 'Freaky Friday' director Mark Waters and the SF crew behind San Francisco's most underrated romantic comedy: 'Just Like Heaven' www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

Personally, I’d apologize for a long thread of engagement farming that copies the work of a ~7,000 word NPR investigation without linking to it or acknowledging that it’s the tireless unmatched work of @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social. 🤔

This is frickin awesome....Lacob should at least send a car/driver for him to take him to the game! 💀💀💀 #CruzCurse #Dubnation #Warriors #NBAPlayoffs #NBA

crazy as hell story! www.sfgate.com/northcoast/a...

There's only one thing that can replace Pea Soup Andersen's and that's Pea Soup Andersen's 2: Pea Soup Boogaloo

In a phone call with SFGATE, Suayan admitted that the entire Ted Cruz curse idea has started to transcend social media meme status for Houstonians. via @alexsimonsports.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...

'Everyone is waiting to see what's next.' via @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

“Kevin Kiley knows this is not what you want. He knows that it is deeply unpopular. He knows it hurts the people of Folsom,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “But he is not there to serve working families. He is there to serve himself and the billionaire class that put him there.” www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

During WW2, Chester Wolmack saw the Philippine gov't dump hoards of silver coins into the ocean to keep them from Japan's army. When WW2 ended he retrieved the coins & used them to buy a tavern. He renamed it, fittingly, the Silver Peso. via @gabe-lehman.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/food/article...

"We were just on the bus with Ja Morant coming over here and he's already talking about 'listen man, I can't even think about this celly anymore that I gotta do, because I've got eyes on me all over the place when it comes to that kind of thing now.'" via @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...

“[Kerr] did it with Tatum last year. Like, he doesn’t give a s—t. He has, what does he have, 10 rings? ... Like, he’s just going to do what’s best for the team, and he’s not going to care that Kuminga’s agent is going to be mad.” via @alexsimonsports.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...