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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · 1d

And let's not forget one of my fave freelancers, who's about to release a collection of his best work — our dive bar columist @brokeassstuart.bsky.social . Hit me with business profiles that have grabby angles and timely hooks. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

The San Francisco dive bar that caters to the real, not the rich

The bar once packed up shop and moved its entire operation down the street.

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · 1d

This is an oldie, but writing about sex/dating is so hard, and this is a perfect example of how to do it well from freelancer @chinhualu.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

My secret to dating in San Francisco is a spreadsheet

Can a data-driven approach to dating lead to love?

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · 1d

Last year editor at large @andrewchamings.bsky.social unpacked the legacy of Girls' frontman Christopher Owens. A generic band profile won't work for us, this is such a good story because it revisits an important era of SF music history with a new hook (and killer hed) www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

The return of the San Francisco star who lost it all

"A journey to get to this point that I think most people would find unbelievable."

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · 1d

One of our culture reporter @bimonthly.bsky.social 's best stories is about the history of SF's bizarre hairpin bus turn. These types of hyper-local stories are our bread and butter. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

The story behind San Francisco's bizarre, stomach-flipping hairpin turn

The city's most improbable maneuver just won't disappear.

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · 1d

Last week I wrote about Fairyland, a touching new film set in SF www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

The new San Francisco movie that will make you cry

The poignant film is set in SF in the 1970s and '80s.

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite stories this year was a historical on the 20th anniversary of the Sony Bravia bouncy ball ad that took over SF streets www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

'It was chaos': The history of San Francisco's most unforgettable TV ad

The million-dollar shoot resulted in $74,000 in broken windows.

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a PITCH CALL for the #freelancewriters out there. I'm looking for Bay Area stories on venues, characters, trends and historical stories, TV/movies/music with SF ties. $250-$400+. Email me with an angle, not just a topic, and include a headline. cc @studyhall.bsky.social Here's examples... 🧵

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · 2d

Gushed about my favorite DJ, Theo Parrish www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

The best DJ alive comes to San Francisco

He kept going for six hours straight.

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · 6d

The one and only Theo Parrish

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · 15d

Super fun interview with the internet's most famous blinker www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 17d

The Bay Area Maker Faire was this weekend at Vallejo's Mare Island. Makers showed off robots, drones and all sorts of unusual forms of locomotion. Presentations taught aspiring makers from 2 to 92 how to get started building their own wild inventions.

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · 20d

Great feature from @amandabartlett.bsky.social on the making of One Battle After Another sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

Calif. hippie college town serves as backdrop for 'best movie of the year'

The film has been 20 years in the making.

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · 23d

Moodymann as translated by ASL interpreter Josh Navarro at Portola

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · 24d

Our yearly report from Portola — great sets, but nowhere to sit www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

The best and worst of San Francisco's Portola Festival

SFGATE's staff have some compliments and complaints.

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · 24d

Despacio is happiness

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 28d

Few @sfgate.com stories have generated as much feedback as Charles Russo's discovery of a set of lost Ansel Adams photos that were never before seen by the general public and unknown to even his biographers and archivists.

We figured some of it might be worth sharing:
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Readers, academics, trustees overwhelmed by discovery of new Ansel Adams photos

Few stories have generated this much reader feedback.

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · Sep 15

Shaboozey getting tipsy in Civic Center

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · Aug 25

Profiled John Law, a Merry Prankster who may very well be the most interesting man in San Francisco @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

He co-founded Burning Man. It was the least interesting thing he ever did.

After a tragedy in 1996, John Law disavowed the festival he helped launch.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · Aug 21

They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say

Breaking News
1m ago
A close adviser to Mayor Eric Adams was suspended from his campaign after trying to give a journalist cash inside a potato chip bag.

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stephen council @stephco.bsky.social · Aug 15

Who do we blame when an AI chatbot lures a confused retiree away from his family, and in his rush to visit "her," he falls and dies?
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Mark Zuckerberg has never been more dangerous

It's time for a reckoning.

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Gabe Fernandez @thelatinochild.bsky.social · Aug 11

if you don't read this they'll break my thumbs

Gabe Fernandez @thelatinochild.bsky.social · Aug 11

To the average Californian, pickleball is often associated with gentrification and noise complaints. But to those incarcerated in the state's prisons, the sport is a powerful support system based on rehabilitation for those who need it most. My latest: www.sfgate.com/sports/artic...

The unlikely Calif. place where pickleball doesn’t generate noise complaints

There's more to prison pickleball than the Scott Peterson incident.

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · Aug 10

One of the biggest Outside Lands sing-alongs to Tyler, The Creator

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · Aug 6

Nitrous oxide culture around Grateful Dead shows is very real, did a little reporting on it last week www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

SF cops seize the unlikely drug of choice of Grateful Dead fans

Deadheads clamored for "ice cold fatties" outside the festival gates.

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · Aug 1

Sun Ra Arkestra works on the other side of time

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dangentile007.bsky.social @dangentile007.bsky.social · Jul 27

Lots of footage in here I haven’t seen 👀👀

Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · Jul 27

'Eno' is a 1973 documentary short directed by Alfons Sinniger - made shortly after Brian Eno left Roxy Music, it features the recording sessions for Here Come the Warm Jets #video #stream #download ubu.com/media/video/...

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