"After 1926, the Klan remained out of newspaper reports in the Bay Area." The same year, Piedmont Police Chief Burton Becker, mentioned in earlier reports as a KKK member, was elected Alameda County Sheriff.

Detour from my usual @sfchronicle.com archive finds. We heard the Klan in the 1920s filled an Oakland arena. Turns out 5,000 gathered in Daly City, they marched in Richmond's July 4 parade and burned crosses on Twin Peaks ... twice. History has so many lessons. www.sfchronicle.com/oursf/articl...

Think this is my fifth consecutive Opening Day at the Giants with @heatherknightsf.bsky.social? Game was trash but our pregaming walk on the Embarcadero was better than ever. San Francisco was 🌁💯 today.

Preach.

An HOUR before the game starts the @sfgiants.com are out of chicken. Staffer: “There’s only one oven working downstairs.” WTF?! TICKETS ARE INSANELY EXPENSIVE!! I WANT MY CHA CHA BOWL.

Bulldozers were ready to level this San Francisco peak. Now it has some of the city's best views. This @sfchronicle.com column started as a simple underrated park visit, but it's a stealth treatise about the value of local journalism. RIP Harold Gilliam. 🌁 ❤️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

I love Grandview Park. I found it by accident while exploring the 16th Avenue Steps. Definitely a great hidden gem and the views are a reward for anyone willing to go up a hundred-ish steps 😅

Bulldozers were ready to level this San Francisco peak. Now it has some of the city's best views. This @sfchronicle.com column started as a simple underrated park visit, but it's a stealth treatise about the value of local journalism. RIP Harold Gilliam. 🌁 ❤️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

What should we name the next @sfbayferry.com boats? The @sfchronicle.com's Total SF project is taking nominations! Five vessels will be named. Winners get free ferry rides for a year. I made suggestions ⬇️ you can steal. Or come up with your own. Gift link! ⛴️ 🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

This is fantastic. (And if there’s a transit marketing Oscars, BART need to enter this …) 🚊🥲

San Francisco has a bicycle club called "Fat Cake" that ends every ride at a bakery. @stephenlamphoto.bsky.social & I had to check it out. The visuals in this are amazing. So were the pastries. Gift link! 🎁 🚴‍♂️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

everything about this is delightful. I love road riding most, but oof the culture. I just want to ride bikes. (also, I love an end of ride pastry. The strawberry berliner from Handough I had last weekend was perfection) great piece.

I don't ride over in the West Bay much, but this is great.

San Francisco has a bicycle club called "Fat Cake" that ends every ride at a bakery. @stephenlamphoto.bsky.social & I had to check it out. The visuals in this are amazing. So were the pastries. Gift link! 🎁 🚴‍♂️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

So excited about this find! The Chronicle has some 1907 glass negatives but nothing this clear. The resolution and detail in these 115-year-old images is fantastic.

Pardon my french, but this forecast is fucking absurd. Parts of San Francisco could legitimately flirt with 90 degrees Monday and Tuesday, which would shatter the March record (87F). The city's earliest 90-degree reading is April 6, same with Oakland, in 1989 and 2016, respectively.

Super fun read for your Sunday! We asked the question: How did S.F. homes get so colorful? The answer was a journey, involving battleship paint, psychedelics and a rainbow home a block from the Painted Ladies. (Which were once zoned for demolition! 🤯) 🏠 🌈 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

If you like this story and want to go deeper, check out the new Bob Buckter career retrospective! drcolorbook.com

Super fun read for your Sunday! We asked the question: How did S.F. homes get so colorful? The answer was a journey, involving battleship paint, psychedelics and a rainbow home a block from the Painted Ladies. (Which were once zoned for demolition! 🤯) 🏠 🌈 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

Do not miss this project! Collaboration between our @sfchronicle.com culture, design, data and development teams to determine the most colorful neighborhood — and block — in San Francisco. Just a delightful & beautifully designed read. 🟣🟢🟡🏠🏠🏠🔵🔴🟠 www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

100 years ago today!! Happy birthday to my #1 movie palace of all time, my church, my happy place, the Grand Lake Theater. Looking forward to bringing my grandchildren here. 🍿🎟️❤️

Always read @mingemi.bsky.social!! Wonderful to see Marisa’s @sfstandard.com debut. Already missing Marisa’s Valkyries & Bay FC coverage.

Did you watch “The Pitt”? Did the end-of-episode cliffhanger feel familiar? I dug through the @sfchronicle.com archive & wrote about the ripped from the headlines 1990s Bay Area disaster that apparently inspired the HBO medical drama’s writers. Gift link 🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Did you watch “The Pitt”? Did the end-of-episode cliffhanger feel familiar? I dug through the @sfchronicle.com archive & wrote about the ripped from the headlines 1990s Bay Area disaster that apparently inspired the HBO medical drama’s writers. Gift link 🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

“In many ways it’s a time capsule. And it will be here for another 100 years.” For the Grand Lake’s 100th birthday 🎂🍿 I wrote about a romance between a man and architecture — and how it rescued the best theater in the Bay Area. Gift link for The Town 🌳🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

I made an unofficial rule a few years ago that every park/downtown/other destination I explore for the @sfchronicle.com I’d arrive by bike & public transit. I’ve never wished I had a car. And 90% of the time I walk away thinking “That was way easier than I thought it would be.”

❤️❤️❤️

“You should never be proud of doing what’s right. You should just do what’s right.” When Dean Smith comes up, this story is always the first thing I think of. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colle...

Mannnnn it’s never this warm at night in SF and it’s FEBRUARY

I wrote about the return of my favorite S.F. sculpture, and why CCSF is low-key one of the best art museums in the city. Also, so accessible! One block from Balboa Park @bart.gov and @sfmta.bsky.social stations! Gift link for the OG Steinhart Aquarium fans 🎁 🐳 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

‘What “Whales” fans didn’t realize is that the 11-ton piece had been lost. It was discovered in 1950 during a routine facilities inventory, stashed in a stable where peacocks roamed on the west end of Golden Gate Park’

I wrote about the return of my favorite S.F. sculpture, and why CCSF is low-key one of the best art museums in the city. Also, so accessible! One block from Balboa Park @bart.gov and @sfmta.bsky.social stations! Gift link for the OG Steinhart Aquarium fans 🎁 🐳 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

Counterpoint: Sometimes it's GOOD when we're surprised by the weather. I listened to forecasts and skipped riding my bike ... and it has been glorious. Great day to walk to and from the Ferry Building. Walked home from Hayes Valley lunch sans jacket as a bonus. (Carried an umbrella just in case.)

@jessethorn.bsky.social Got some good news on the photo negatives Valencia & 16th front. Not quite 1989 but in the ballpark …

Opinion I've developed working in the @sfchronicle.com archive: The San Francisco Chronicle has by far the best byline names from a single news agency in the history of newspapering, perhaps the entire history of journalism. Part I: Meet esteemed mid-century art critic Alfred Frankenstein.

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

Sat down with @peterhartlaub.bsky.social to talk about the last time it snowed in San Francisco, a half century ago, and what it would take for it to happen again.

2026 basically

My favorite kind of article: Where I have fun newsroom conversations with colleagues & turn it into content Couple with my fav subject: That time it snowed in S.F.! @sfchronicle.com meteorologist @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social & I break down 2/5/76 Gift link! 🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

My sister and grandmother went to see this speech at Moscone Center. They were beaming when they came home. My sister taught me the “Rainbow! Coalition!” call and answer and my Mexican immigrant grandmother never felt more included by a politician of that era. RIP Jesse Jackson

Oh man. First politician to get my vote. #RainbowCoalition 🌈 RIP www.sfchronicle.com/news/politic...

Super fun day playing the Cal women’s halftime scrimmage with my exceptionally tenacious middle school basketball team. Go Tsunami! 🌊 Go Bears! 🐻

Coyote Point’s geography is similar to other Bay Area parks, a 670-acre shoreline promontory with a tree-covered hill. But the vibes are one of a kind, with airplanes, massive picnic areas, tide pools, a colorful playground and a hidden zoo. Read more → bit.ly/4kDg9cJ

Is it really going to snow in the Bay Area next week? 🧵 The coldest air mass since 2023 is forecast to move over the region Tuesday & Wednesday, dropping the freezing level below 3,000 feet. Snow can fall 500 to 1,000 feet below the freezing level and heavy showers can temporarily drag it lower.

“Watership Down” (1978) (at a very downer 3rd grade bday party 🐇😦) “So I Married an Axe Murderer” (1993) (nearly empty theater) “The Blair Witch Project” (1999) “Team America World Police” (2004) (in a critic screening filled with parents who apparently thought it was a PG-rated puppet movie)

I should’ve known this was a @peterhartlaub.bsky.social joint before I clicked through. The skunk smelling exhibit is my Proustian Madeline!

Biked and took @caltrain.com to my childhood park Coyote Point. It's a lesson how the Bay Area things we grew up with that once felt routine, seem wild and mystical when you return with perspective. 📸: Manuel Orbegozo www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

50 years ago today it snowed in San Francisco. It hasn’t fallen in measurable levels since. Thanks @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social for the reminder — I would have missed this anniversary! Gift link ❄️🎁❄️ www.sfchronicle.com/oursf/articl...