Bay Area Writer & Photojournalist _______________SFGATE Photo Editor _____________Author of “Striking Distance: Bruce Lee & the Dawn of Martial Arts in America”
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Joined January 2012
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New @SFGate story from our trip to Sacramento, courtesy of @thelatinochild:
'The owner's a piece of s—t': The A's refusal to embrace Sacramento is backfiring
sfgate.com/athletics/article…
#Athletics
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Oakland has a chance to save one of the Bay Area's most historic buildings, but time might be running out...
sfgate.com/local/article/16t… via @SFGate
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Will we ever again get THIS kind of stunning view from the base of Coit Tower? @AndrewChamings investigates 🕵️ 🌲 sfgate.com/local/article/coi…
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Doom loopers be damned: It's actually an amazing time to live in San Francisco right now 🌁✨ sfgate.com/local/article/rea…
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I explored the psychology behind Bay Area restaurants' loud, unhinged Spotify playlists – and discovered that businesses use a wide variety of hostile methods to wring more money out of consumers.
sfgate.com/food/article/bay-…
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I got to visit one of my favorite houses and it was just as magical as I hoped... sfgate.com/realestate/articl… via @SFGate
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In the summer of 1997 a teenager vanished from a mall in San Francisco. @KatieDowd and I spoke with the people closest to the case. Maybe the saddest and most baffling story I’ve worked on. We hope someone reads it who can help find Kristen. sfgate.com/bayarea/article/s…
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Exciting news: My newsroom colleagues and I at Embarcadero Media are unionizing!
So proud to join them in forming @EMNewsGuild and to work with them to create a better workplace for current and future employees #UnionStrong
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San Francisco was described as a "dying, sick city" with empty downtown buildings and a "commercial colic," in 1939. Every few decades the city is pronounced dead. It's not. sfgate.com/local/article/san…
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Have you ever noticed the vault lights in front of our bookstore on Columbus Avenue?
@SFGate on why his little-known San Francisco oddity could soon disappear from the city streets.
sfgate.com/local/article/san…
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I've spent the past 6 months visiting all 37 of San Francisco's mini parks. From hidden hilltops to epic playgrounds, this was an incredibly fun project sfgate.com/local/article/san…
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I went long on Replika, the AI chatbot born out of its founder’s loss. In February, its erotic role-play functions were nerfed. Users were gutted.
But there's more to the story. It’s also about loneliness, intimacy and what we owe each other. (1/4) sfgate.com/tech/article/repl…
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I haven't hit Coachella since '07, but @RussoCharlie nails what made the early years so special. People don't realize how much it changed American festival culture sfgate.com/sf-culture/articl… @SFGate
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30 years later I finally got to write my Nirvana benefit concert at the Cow Palace review (yes, I still have the shirt (!) The show was ALL CHILDREN. Nirvana may be a Gen-X band, but it was the Xennials and elder millennials who represented that night: sfgate.com/music/article/nir…
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"Pong is timeless," says @dag_spicer. Read about Atari's innovative game in this story from @SFGate: bit.ly/3T3nfJz
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“With Pong, there was this novelty of being able to manipulate something on a video screen. That was new and engaging and kind of wild,” says Lapetino. “Pong gave you the ability to play TV.” #longreads @RussoCharlie @SFGate sfgate.com/local/article/bay…
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Coit Tower once had a small apartment inside it that 3 lucky people lived in over the past 90 years. Here’s what it looks like. #sanfrancisco bit.ly/3ZcQyf1
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With so many small venues & warehouses shut down, record stores are serving as community spaces for the Bay Area's DIY music scene. sfgate.com/local/article/eas… via @SFGate
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I recently kayaked out to get a better look at the only privately owned island in the Bay. It’s just a hunk of rock, but it’s also prime Bay Area real estate. bit.ly/3KrW3lF
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"I would enjoy seeing it burned. Even if it were burned I believe the fumes would pollute the air.”
for Valentine's Day, I wrote about Lenore Kandel's groundbreaking work of erotic poetry, "The Love Book" + the obscenity trial that followed in '60s SF.
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