Reporting on the long tail of sadness left by Claude's death in San Francisco for @missionlocal.org 🐊 #Claude #RIP #SanFrancisco #CalAcademy missionlocal.org/2025/12/clau...

Today in #ArtAdventCalendar, commemorating a local legend. Claude was an albino alligator who lived at the Cal Academy of Sciences. Rest well, Claude. #artyear #illustration

RIP Claude, who is so beloved in our family we once made his likeness in Rice Krispies for my daughter’s birthday 😭 #claude #calacademy #sanfrancisco

"The future of San Francisco is going to thrive because we look at the past." @peterhartlaub.bsky.social #SanFrancisco #history #wnp #neighborhoods

Analog Bags—sacks filled with tactile distractions like books and knitting—are a welcome break from phones. @jzigoris.bsky.social asked San Franciscans about the things they carry: sf.gazetteer.co/whats-in-you...

@jzigoris.bsky.social reports from inside The Box SF in SoMa, where 15 million pieces of ephemera can yours. sf.gazetteer.co/save-all

There's no place in San Francisco — no place in the world — like The Box. Yet so few locals know it exists. I didn't, until a couple months ago. That's why I love reporting on this city; there's always more to uncover. #sanfrancisco #ephemera #antiques #advertising #sf #soma

For Halloween, @jzigoris.bsky.social conjures the spirit of San Francisco’s long lost Museum of Witchcraft & Magic: sf.gazetteer.co/when-satan-l...

Real life can be so scary that my historical deep dive into SF’s former museum of witchcraft felt downright charming. When Satan lived at Fisherman’s Wharf - sf.gazetteer.co/when-satan-l... #fishermanswharf #sf #witchcraft #magic #halloween

Don't miss Nastia Voynovskaya's sobering, in-depth report on the state of AI-generated music and musicians — and the avenues left to human musicians (because now we have to specify that): www.kqed.org/arts/1398257...

As a former educator, I thought the role of teacher was one thing AI could not replace. Then I learned about this new private school that opened in SF ... #SanFrancisco #teacher #educator #AI #SF #education www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

Here's @jzigoris.bsky.social with a deep dive into the Chinese workers who basically built up Northern California's wine country from scratch in the 1860s and 1870s. I didn't know this history! www.kqed.org/arts/1398179...

It’s crazy how they can just start chucking law-abiding people in prison and change societal expectations around that, so that many people just say “welp, that’s just a thing that happens here now (and it ain’t me)!”

In messages to faculty and staff, university leaders cited federal policy changes under the Trump administration as key drivers behind the cuts.

ABC News’ “This Week” looks back at the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings and interviews me about my new oral history and the importance of remembering first-hand accounts: abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/vid...

Aaron Boehmer examines the hope in human connection and Octavia Butler’s “speech sounds.”

Aimee Phan started writing another book about young Vietnamese protagonists and ended up with a fantasy. And other new Berkeley books.

“Bodies generally fit together, it’s people who don’t.” A beautiful reading last night by @tomasmmoniz.bsky.social at @mcwconf.bsky.social in the quaint Crown Hall. #mendocino #mcwc25

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.

"I’m not sure what made me eat his ashes that night..." Start a new month with a #debut #fiction publication from Grace Ballard @doricliterary.bsky.social You know that relationship you were warned about but went ahead with anyway? It's about that! #Rollercoaster doric-literary.com/2025/08/01/e...

“We never end up with the book we began writing.” Wise words from @pegalfordpursell.bsky.social at @mcwconf.bsky.social that feel especially relevant as my project shapeshifts thanks to stellar feedback from my workshop crew. #mcwc25 #mendocino #books #writing #thelostartist

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

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A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference. But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.

In my latest piece for @atlasobscura.com, I step inside the world of the illegal plant trade—the fourth largest black market after the ones for humans, drugs and arms. I learned so much working on this piece. #berkeley #plants #blackmarket #botanical #cycad www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pla...

Repugnant. What is wrong with people?

Tickets for the 2025 SFFILM Festival go on sale tomorrow tomorrow at 10 a.m. and I plucked out some gems from 150+ films for ya: www.kqed.org/arts/1397367...

Three years ago, I did a deep dive on Gap falling apart at the seams. Today I have a story out with the inverse narrative: The brand is poised to make a comeback, thanks to crisp marketing, Parker Posey and Zac Posen. Will it last? #SanFrancisco #gap #sfgate www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

Alexsandr Dugin—Putin's favorite philosopher—wrote in 1997 in the Foundations of Geopolitics that Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts ..."

Thanks so much for sharing, Sam! Writing this piece was a weird and wonderful escape in these dark times—I never thought it would also be so relevant.

@jzigoris.bsky.social chronicles how the San Francisco Rare Book Fair showcased the resilience of booksellers in the wake of the LA wildfires.

A new Stanford exhibition captures the beauty of climate change—and by doing arrests our attention on the devastation we are wreaking on the world. Read my review in the Sunday print edition of the NYT. #anthropocene #stanford #cantor #photography #climatechange sfarts.org/story/cantor...

Damn www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Prominent chef Tyler Florence abruptly left two cafes he had been running in San Francisco’s Union Square this weekend.

After the corporate park for the coolest brand of the '90s became a city park the turf wars began: canines vs. kids. So the plan to renovate Esprit Park became prickly. My reporting on that hard fought war for Alta: #SanFrancisco #dogpatch #Alta #Esprit #parks www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...

I've made my own pilgrimage to Paris, to follow the art I've been writing about for nearly a year: www.kqed.org/arts/1397161... #Lochakov #Loshakov #mystery #art #sanfrancisco #jewish #holocaust #kqed

If you've followed @jzigoris.bsky.social's fantastic, award-winning reporting on the cache of artwork found on an SF park bench, I'm pleased to say we have another update in this ever-evolving mystery (and it's really satisfying): www.kqed.org/arts/1397161...

In a dispatch from SCI Huntingdon in Pennsylvania, an incarcerated writer shares when Luigi Mangione came to his prison.

In 2022, employees from the Port of San Francisco discovered 48 abandoned artworks in Crane Cove Park on this bench. Now those works, many of them by an obscure but important Jewish artist Ary Lochakov, are headed back to Paris.

A renovated Esprit Park opened today, and the weather could not have been more gorgeous after days of torrential rain. Years of tousles finally resulted in human-canine compromise. “I’m not going to say the curse is over,” said Donovan Lacy. “But the sky did open.” #esprit #sf #dogpatch

Sociology world mourns after hit-and-run driver on Grand Avenue kills legendary labor scholar

Constant rain couldn’t keep the treasure hunters away from the San Francisco rare book fair, where business was brisk and organizers said they had record attendance. Reporting in the field at Fort Mason for LitHub 📝 #books #rarebooks #sanfrancisco #fortmason #lithub #booksellers #sf

There's only a few sky bridges left in #SanFrancisco, and last week I got the unique perspective of looking down from one of them. A long-defunct department store on Market Street shuttled merchandise to its warehouse through this passageway, and it's now considered a #historic resource of #sf.

I finally set up a Blue Sky account and this is my first post! I'm a journalist who writes about arts, culture and San Francisco. I'm also working on a book project that emerged from my reporting. #sanfrancisco #books #arts #freelance #journo #reporting #sf #amwriting #author