Julie Zigoris
@jzigoris.bsky.social
SF storyteller, award-winning journalist and PhD of Slavic Studies. Current project: The Lost Artist. Former culture reporter @sfstandard. Bylines: @lithub @atlasobscura, @huffpost, @bostonglobe, @nyt, @sfgate and many more. 🔗 www.juliezigoris.com
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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...
What’s in your analog bag?
The latest device-free trend contains everything from knitting to notebooks to Tolstoy
sf.gazetteer.co
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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...
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@jzigoris.bsky.social reports from inside The Box SF in SoMa, where 15 million pieces of ephemera can yours. sf.gazetteer.co/save-all
Save all
15 million individual items, some dating back to the 1600s, are waiting to be discovered at The Box SF
sf.gazetteer.co
November 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
@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
#sanfrancisco #ephemera #antiques #advertising #sf #soma
Save all
15 million individual items, some dating back to the 1600s, are waiting to be discovered at The Box SF
sf.gazetteer.co
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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
#sanfrancisco #ephemera #antiques #advertising #sf #soma
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For Halloween, @jzigoris.bsky.social conjures the spirit of San Francisco’s long lost Museum of Witchcraft & Magic: sf.gazetteer.co/when-satan-l...
When Satan lived at Fisherman’s Wharf
For a few years in the 1970s, the Museum of Witchcraft & Magic cast a spell on San Francisco tourists
sf.gazetteer.co
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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
When Satan lived at Fisherman’s Wharf - sf.gazetteer.co/when-satan-l...
#fishermanswharf #sf #witchcraft #magic #halloween
When Satan lived at Fisherman’s Wharf
For a few years in the 1970s, the Museum of Witchcraft & Magic cast a spell on San Francisco tourists
sf.gazetteer.co
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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
When Satan lived at Fisherman’s Wharf - sf.gazetteer.co/when-satan-l...
#fishermanswharf #sf #witchcraft #magic #halloween
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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...
www.kqed.org/arts/1398257...
AI Is Coming for the Music Industry. How Will Artists Adapt? | KQED
The rise of AI-generated ‘artists’ prompts labor and free speech concerns as big tech aligns itself with the far right.
www.kqed.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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...
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...
#SanFrancisco #teacher #educator #AI #SF #education
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San Francisco private school using AI instead of teachers to teach students
Students spend just two hours on core subjects, all taught by AI-powered apps instead of teachers. And the adults serve as guides and coaches for when students need motivational and emotional support.
www.cbsnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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...
#SanFrancisco #teacher #educator #AI #SF #education
www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...
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Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.
October 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.
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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...
The Chinese Roots of Northern California’s Wine Industry Run Deep | KQED
Despite a long association with Europeans, Chinese laborers established the iconic vineyards of Sonoma and Napa Valleys.
www.kqed.org
September 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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...
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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)!”
Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...
www.wthr.com/article/news...
Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility
Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.
www.wthr.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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)!”
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In messages to faculty and staff, university leaders cited federal policy changes under the Trump administration as key drivers behind the cuts.
Stanford lays off hundreds, citing federal cuts under Trump
In messages to faculty and staff, university leaders cited federal policy changes under the Trump administration as key drivers behind the cuts.
bit.ly
August 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
In messages to faculty and staff, university leaders cited federal policy changes under the Trump administration as key drivers behind the cuts.
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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...
Video New book uses oral history to tell story of the atomic bomb
ABC News' chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz speaks with author Garrett Graff about his new book on the atomic bomb during WWII ahead of the event’s 80th anniversary.
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August 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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...
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Aaron Boehmer examines the hope in human connection and Octavia Butler’s “speech sounds.”
What We Can Give Each Other: On Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds”
In 1983, Octavia E. Butler published “Speech Sounds” in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, a short story that would win her her first Hugo Award a year later. Written, as Butler put it in the…
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August 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Aaron Boehmer examines the hope in human connection and Octavia Butler’s “speech sounds.”
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Aimee Phan started writing another book about young Vietnamese protagonists and ended up with a fantasy. And other new Berkeley books.
Berkeley author’s YA novel tells story of Vietnam’s national heroines with magic and time travel
Aimee Phan started writing another book about young Vietnamese protagonists and ended up with a fantasy. And other new Berkeley books.
www.berkeleyside.org
August 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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
August 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
“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
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"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...
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...
Eating My Ex
I swiped a fingerful of his remains while no one was looking and laid it on my tongue like acid. I wanted to keep a part of him for myself, to integrate his corpse into my living body. I would regr…
doric-literary.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"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...
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
August 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“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
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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.
These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.
‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants
Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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.
These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.
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Baltic sea
Lithuania
Lithuania
July 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Baltic sea
Lithuania
Lithuania
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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.
But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.
Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.
www.motherjones.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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.
But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.
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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...
The Secret Gardens Saving the World’s Rarest Plants
In greenhouses from Berkeley to Santa Barbara, a little-known rescue network protects endangered cycads from poachers, smugglers, and extinction.
www.atlasobscura.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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?
I just got a public death threat from a few folks who noticed I am doing a library event to talk about my career and my books. They called me all the familiar names, then “I won’t be sad if someone shoots her in the face.” And a woman’s reply, “Right between the eyes.”
I am a children’s author.
I am a children’s author.
March 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Repugnant. What is wrong with people?