Beth’s local history writing is sooooo good. (Including her A+ book on S.F.’s lost cemeteries.) www.goodreads.com/author/list/...

Hamburger cake at Merritt Bakery. Circa 2012? My younger son Milo in foreground. He loved looking at the cake here. I think there was a Bible cake next to it? Always wondered who got the hamburger cake. It was so big & so random. Later found out that Pixar ordered them for wrap parties. 🍔🎂❤️

I usually tell young journalists to save their best stories as pdf's or similar. Because the odds are good that whatever web site they were published on will be shut down, revamped or generally ***ed up at some point.

Vibes in San Francisco were so great today 🌁 ❤️ Skipped B2B this year but seemed like all the best costumes migrated over to the @sfcityfc.com game.

That was my 1st Bay to Breakers Tee I earned, when you had to pick it up after completing the race and a long walk to the Polo Fields for Footstock. The shirt read “I survived”. Today marks my 40th running of the Bay to Breakers. Here I am from the run 40 years ago in 1986.

My memoir finally published. www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

Dammit why couldn’t Klay hold it together for a few more weeks.

I never had a Doubt(fire) we'd pick five perfect ferry names. Chronicle readers name the next @sfbayferry.com vessels. Boats can't be named after humans, but you still found subtle ways to honor Robin Williams, Willie Mays and ... Jack London? Gift link 🎁 ⛴️ ❤️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

I understand why Ghost Ride the Ship didn't win, but I'm allowed to be sad about it.

Boat Milk Latte would have been great, though

I never had a Doubt(fire) we'd pick five perfect ferry names. Chronicle readers name the next @sfbayferry.com vessels. Boats can't be named after humans, but you still found subtle ways to honor Robin Williams, Willie Mays and ... Jack London? Gift link 🎁 ⛴️ ❤️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

How did Bay to Breakers get so weird? @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social & I used our archive superpowers to pinpoint the race's very first costumes. Honoring two knuckleheads in tuxedos, and a brigadier general turned race director who definitely wasn't a narc. 🏃‍♀️ 🌁 ❤️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

Ben’s a great follow. And I’m going to eat here in the near future 🚴🍔

Wild if you're a runner in 2026: These are the shoes and socks worn by the winners of Bay to Breakers 50 years ago. 📸: Gary Fong/The Chronicle

Atherton. In my 20-ish years searching the Chronicle archive, the only constant is that Atherton and Atherton-adjacent attorneys are at the center of every other anti-housing, anti-transit, anti-infrastructure plan. I’m incapable of surprise at that city’s history of BS. “It’s Always Atherton”

Totally worth it. Valkyries news this week > All the rest of the news in S.F. combined I have my money’s worth for the next three years and we haven’t even tipped off yet.

Just eight more hours to help name our next @sfbayferry.com boats! Voting has been tight. "Say Hey" and the Grateful Dead-inspired "Terrapin" are in a battle for one of the last spots. "Ride the Lightning," "Hella" and "Hyphy" need a miracle. Vote now! 🗳️ ⛴️ ⬇️

@sfchronicle.com crowdsource naming of the ferry ends today, so go vote for Sourdough or Doubtfire 👀

"Long before E-40 and half the Golden State Warriors bought homes in San Ramon Valley, the region was known for its prunes." My history & travelogue of the Iron Horse Trail, Contra Costa County's rails-to-trails win Thanks for the ride @bart.gov! Gift link 🎁 🚴‍♂️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

The $500 the 49ers charged us for our Candlestick Park seats are looking like more and more of a deal …

So proud of my @sfchronicle.com colleagues!! Our first Pulitzer win since 2005 but we’ve had eight nominations in the last five years. www.sfchronicle.com/about/newsro...

Sharing my three favorite "Star Wars" stories for #MayTheFourth Where I tracked down everyone involved with "The Empire Strikes Back" Planet Hoth scene — including George Lucas — to find out once & for all if the Oakland port cranes inspired the snow walkers. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Jordan Silkowitz is a Top 5 must-watch athlete in the Bay Area right now. Last two games — really the last year — have been a clinic. I look forward to Bay FC committing dumb penalties in the box just to watch her heroically stop the PK.

Wearing my lumpy cerulean sweater that I fished out of the bargain bin at some Casual Corner. (The movie was fun. Solid date night fare.)

Pop quiz: 1. What is the name of the Lt. Governor of California? 2. What is the name of the turkey that terrorized citizens near the rose garden in Oakland? Did you answer “Hell if I know” and “Gerald”? Today's @sfchronicle.com column is for you. Gift link 🎁 🦭 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

Happy 8th TotalMuni-versary @heatherknightsf.bsky.social, @jachristian.bsky.social and all who came along for the ride! Rode every @sfmta.bsky.social line in one day. Started on 25 Treasure Island 2:30 a.m. Ended at Giants game during 7th inning stretch. #TotalMuni2018 🚍 🌁 ❤️ 📸: Jessica Christian

Inside info: Carbon-Free Willy was the toughest cut. 😅

Should we name our next ferry boat Doubtfire? Rocco? Ride the Lightning? Frisco? 😬 We received 1,500 Bay Area ferry name nominations. From Boat Milk Latte to Carbon-Free Willy to Wharf Rat and Starfleet, here’s what did and didn’t make our finals. ⛴️ 🗳️ 💯 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

I signed up when @mingemi.bsky.social announced. Just $5 a month with better deals if you sign long-term or for the season. So happy with the coverage & Marisa's approach — journalistic standards but with analysis and even more direct contact with readers. Valkyries fans don't miss out! 🏀 💜 💯

This @tonybravosf.bsky.social story about Elizabeth Taylor’s AIDS ward 5b visit is like being there with her. Moving @sfchronicle.com piece about what empathetic people can do with celebrity — and what they can’t in a close-minded society. Please read, share 💜 www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

First full court pickup basketball game with my son since he exceeded me in both height & weight. Of course he insisted on guarding me for half the games & now I feel like I got hit by a truck. (They don’t tell you about that in the Cat Stevens song.)

Dispatch from the Eric Branch fan club: So much good content coming from our 49ers beat, answering a lot of questions about yesterday’s flurry of draft weirdness. Eric also wrote an A+ history on the 1980s Charles Haley pick — and how a great draft heavy on unknowns boosted the 49ers dynasty. 🏈🗞️💯

Sam Crow Alert! www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti... Thanks as always to @peterhartlaub.bsky.social for helping to bring these images to the public. #sfmemory #sfhistory

One of my favorite annual events! The route-makers really know San Francisco. I've tried all three previous Stair Challenges and found wonderful undiscovered parts of the city each time. 🚶‍♀️ 🌁 💯

“You look at these pictures and go, ‘Wow, I think I saw this woman walking down Haight Street the other day.’” Hundreds of lost 1910s Samuel M. Crow photos are trickling into public view. His candid approach offers a window into a rarely captured S.F. era 📸 🌁 💯 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

I still have some VHS tapes that the networks sent us for TV show reviews which makes me the oldest person alive.

Got chills hearing the "Beat L.A.!" chants tonight. Good work fans. Here's my 2025 story, where I found the "Beat L.A." patient zero (in Boston!), talked to Dusty Baker and cemented my plans to hate the Dodgers forever. Gift link for happy @sfgiants.com fans 🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

I’m 85% sure Pope Leo sold me some very mid weed at the corner of Haight and Shrader streets in 1990.

Happy 4/20! Photo of me (left) age 17 tripping out at the @exploratorium.bsky.social when it was near the Palace of Fine Arts. Three best things to do at the museum stoned, all still there: 3. Squirming palm exhibit ✋🌀 2. Pretty much anything involving giant mirrors 😳🪞 1. Cow eyeball dissection 🐮🔪

The Oakland Ballers have been reliably fun.

ICYMI over the weekend, we got into the OG Marine World. Loved all the comments and memories people shared. Definitely made an impact on a lot of Bay Area kids.

quality reminiscence for those of us from a certain era in California family entertainment since my growing-up time was divided between NorCal and SoCal (among other places) mentally I pair this with Lion Country Safari, which occupied part of the Irvine Ranch for a while and was irrational too

This is so good. Bay Area kids of the 70s and 80s, do yourself a favor and take a trip down memory lane…

"The end of Marine World Africa/U.S.A. in Redwood City, like the beginning, sounded completely made up." Where I pay tribute to the bonkers theme park of our youth, and how its move cemented a Silicon Valley takeover. Gift link for the Peninsula kids 🎁 🐬 🐯 ⬇️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

Physician heal thyself. I wrote about the fantastic and important “The Pitt” finale, and my own realizations about work/life balance at the @sfchronicle.com (I wasn’t always on the optimism beat …) www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

This is the most adorable tiny living space I’ve seen outside a magazine. If I didn’t have a wife, dog, two kids who haven’t fully launched, three bikes & a too large vinyl, CD and LEGO collection I’d outbid every one of you. 🏠❤️

Physician heal thyself. I wrote about the fantastic and important “The Pitt” finale, and my own realizations about work/life balance at the @sfchronicle.com (I wasn’t always on the optimism beat …) www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

So proud that Harsha Devulapalli & I wrote an entire story about this. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

Ann Killion puts into words what so many fans were thinking. Haven’t seen a team exec botch media relations & squander goodwill at this level since the pre-John Lynch 49ers days. Hopefully @wgoldenstate.bsky.social learns and does better going forward. @annkillion.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com

Happy 415 Day, San Francisco! The city was incorporated 176 years ago today.