Always read @mingemi.bsky.social!!
Wonderful to see Marisa’s @sfstandard.com debut. Already missing Marisa’s Valkyries & Bay FC coverage.
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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.
Returned to my church.
I’ve never seen “Singin’ in the Rain” in a theater. But mostly want to be around people who love Oakland & love cool old cinemas.
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The Grand Lake Theater is showing free movies all day today!
Happy 100th to an Oakland icon 🍿🎂
www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
“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...
So sorry! I had a similar response!
Was told #2 would be worse and I took the day off preemptively. (I never do that!)
It was much better! Like a 4/10 with little or no discomfort as long as I was chilling & watching TV.
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.”
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The passage reads: One of the people I interviewed for the story was Rev. Robert Seymour, who had been Smith's pastor at the Binkley Baptist Church since 1958, when he first arrived in Chapel Hill. Seymour told me a story about how upset Smith was to learn that Chapel Hill's restaurants were still segregated. He and Seymour came up with an idea: Smith would walk into a restaurant with a black member of the church. "You have to remember," Reverend Seymour said. "Back then, he wasn't Dean Smith. He was an assistant coach. Nothing more." Smith agreed and went to a restaurant where management knew him. He and his companion sat down and were served. That was the beginning of desegregation in Chapel Hill.
The passage reads: When I circled back to Smith and asked him to tell me more about that night, he shot me an angry look. "Who told you about that?" he asked. "Reverend Seymour," I said. "I wish he hadn't done that." "Why? You should be proud of doing something like that." He leaned forward in his chair and in a very quiet voice said something I've never forgotten: "You should never be proud of doing what's right. You should just do what's right."
“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.
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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’
We're overdue!!
I ate many a bad bologna and American cheese sandwich here.
This and the T-Rex skeleton were the field trip meeting spots at @calacademy.bsky.social.
Love that the sculpture got its third act — alongside a Bufano and Diego Rivera mural. I plan to visit often!
www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
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...
Also, @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social is a good social media follow and a very good hang.
Here we are last week celebrating 50 years since the last snow in San Francisco, with Anthony discussing very scientifically whether it could ever happen again.
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 …
And you know Paine Knickerbocker is lined up for later in the thread.
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.
Agreed! And the one outdoor pool is in a magical part of the city that’s somehow 10 degrees warmer.
One bike-friendly pool experience for your day off: Hop on the @sfbayferry.com Richmond ferry & swim at the century-old Richmond Plunge. It’s indoor, salt water. Like swimming at Sutro Baths in 2026.
All declarative sentences!
“I stand of guard for thee!” just hits so much harder than “Oh, say can you see?”
Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!
I need to look for that!!
LOVE this!!! ❤️🌁🌈
Thinking of getting this as a tattoo.
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.
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically