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The most “Shawshank Redemption” story you’ll hear today:
My younger son tries to sneak sugar packets out of restaurants and eat them in the car. We’ve taken to checking his pockets, so he stuffed five of them in a hollowed-out breadstick.
Omg the library just reopened & people lined up and were so excited and the library staff gave an ovation when they walked through the door.
Just loving human beings so much right now.
SOUND ON!
🥲🥲🥲
@SFPublicLibrary
@katienotopoulos
Key facts: 1. The player survived & we won the game. 2. The tiger was from Marine World. 3. The rival school’s mascot wasn’t even a tiger.
🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨
The
@GrandLake
Theatre has been sold outright to its longtime leaseholder. He plans to register it as a historical landmark, so it can keep showing movies pretty much forever.
#Oaktown
This is for everyone who hauled a drum kit, bacon-wrapped hot dog grill and beer cooler on the BART pedestrian walkway.
As the
@Warriors
leave Oracle, a tribute to the bridge no one wanted, and we all grew to love.
(s/o
@justinberton
for the idea!!)
@katienotopoulos
Before our big rivalry football game, the other school brought a live tiger to their rally and it jumped into the crowd and mauled a player.
WTAF
@SFGiants
!!
Who approved this?!?
This should not be in the Dugout Store. Would be like walking in the Hogwarts store from “Harry Potter” and finding a T-shirt that says “Voldemort.”
😡😡😡
It climbs S.F. hills like a goat, can put out actual fires and “brings out the absolute best in people.”
I’d like to introduce you to your new best friend, Kiri the teeny tiny fire truck.
Holy s—- Alameda Twitter!
There’s an A++ all-teen and pre-teen East Bay metal band playing at Grand and Eagle. Come watch before APD tries to shut it down.
🔥🤘🔥🤘🔥
They’re on Insta.
Greatest diss tracks in history:
6. Ice Cube: “No Vaseline”
5. Nas: “Ether”
4. Dr. Dre & Snoop: “Dre Day”
3. Carly Simon: “You’re So Vain.”
2. Jay-Z: “Takeover”
1. Baltimore Sun: “Better to Have a Few Rats Than to Be One.”
Grew up with this man in my living room. I remember what a treat it was to get to eat dinner in front of CBS Evening News.
And can still say with confidence that 2020 Dan Rather is my favorite Dan Rather.
#Courage
Horrible take.
This is someone who never spent $40 for 4 tickets, 4 hot dogs and 4 bags of chips - to root for Vonteego Cummings at Oracle Arena.
Those of us who endured 35-plus garbage years deserve this, and every win can never grow old or seem anything but joyous and special.
Al Capone was still imprisoned in Alcatraz when this Australian lungfish arrived at
@calacademy
The story behind Methuselah, who likes fresh figs, belly rubs and scaring panicked Steinhart Aquarium guests into thinking she's dead.
🐟🐟🐟
This isn’t a view. It’s a reminder that living in the Bay Area is worth the trouble.
I’m jaded about 93% if things these days, but never get tired seeing this skyline at night. Standing ovation every time.
Manny Machado striking out and falling down to lose the World Series in Los Angeles was my second choice to the Giants having a good team this year.
🏆🏆🏆
I feel bad for Kapler.
He got 107 wins with a roster that was 65% misfit toys, and was rewarded with an 85% and then 90% misfit toys roster.
Also he bike commuted from North Beach, which is fucking cool, and a story I will now never get to write.
@javachik
@nxthompson
I give him a pass. Don't think his intention was to do anything but stop her from attacking a man McCain respects despite differences.
Open House: Son’s teacher asked where we’d go if we could go anywhere & called me first
I said “IDK, just a chain restaurant. Olive Garden. I’d love to eat & not be stressed by everything”
But she meant what COUNTRY b/c she teaches world history & now we have to change schools.
“The Giants sent emails to fans who purchased walkway tiles across McCovey Cove … to inform them that their decades-old messages now will be seen digitally at a kiosk.”
Seriously, WTF is going on with the
@SFGiants
right now?
Scoop from
@JohnSheaHey
⬇️
The death of San Francisco is an illusion, and it always has been.
My essay on the myth of the Golden Age of SF, how history disproves "How San Francisco broke America's heart," and why this city is still brimming with soul.
KFOG was a gift.
My thank you note to every DJ, producer & intern, every guest, every KFOG Kaboom fireworks operator, and every Foghead who helped create this three-decades-long mixtape for the Bay Area.
Please listen to “Solsbury Hill” as you read this
My dog stole my wife
@KellyHartlaub
’s sandwich the other night & now when there’s a sandwich on the counter she’s like El Chapo looking for new ways to escape from prison.
Shohei Ohtani's "perception" of San Francisco? Here's why I'll never care.
Let's stop hand-wringing over outsiders who stoke fear about our city — and ride with the people who believe in a better future.
A free agency manifesto:
🌁💯
Is this the most inspiring survival story in S.F. history?
If I’m correct
@buckhorngrill
, tucked literally in the furthest corner, is the last original business from the 1999 Metreon opening.
Incredible perseverance. This mall has been through hell. Give them a key to the city.
I wrote a story too! And it’s even more 🥲🥲🥲
Wisdom and hope from Russell Lewis, a man who doesn’t go online and was first in line when
@SFPublicLibrary
opened its doors for the first time in 14 months.
“The library is like my best friend.”
My mother Jeanne Leal Hartlaub grounded me in 1983, taking a small bag full of my Atari 2600 cartridges.
She found them last week and on May 13, 2023, returned them to me, a 52-year-old man.
“Here you go. I guess I hid them a little too well.”
🕹️👾🙂
🚨BREAKING!🚨
I was cleaning in the archive and found a random envelope with all the original
@sfchronicle
Little Man concept art.
There was apparently a Little Man with his thumbs up. 🤯 My world makes no sense any more.
cc:
@LilyJaniak
@SFMarMendoza
@MickLaSalle
@MusicSF
BREAKING NEWS:
I started an
@sfchronicle
Zoom meeting this morning with my
@SFGiants
Oracle Park cardboard cutout on the screen, and no one appeared to notice.
@Pat_Dwy3r
@byrnebabyybyrne
If I promise to only feed my kid seaweed snacks and fruit he picked from the yard, can we just stick with the “Shawshank” quotes? Thx much.
I recall when
@hunterpence
played his last
@SFGiants
game I thought, “I hope Hunter &
@LetsGetLexi
come back & visit SF sometime.”
They’re out there planting trees, people. And going on urban hikes. And visiting small business & posting about it.
🧡🖤💯
#ForeverGiant
#TotalSF
It was an honor to plant trees with
@SFUrbanForester
Looking forward to seeing the trees we planted grow and thrive here in the city! Be sure to catch
@LetsGetLexi
new video tomorrow.
I found this 1942
@sfchronicle
archive image 5 yrs ago: A family waits for an internment camp bus as S.F.'s Japantown was erased.
We know the fate of the smiling boy. He returned, and his impact on the city still resonates.
An
#Order9066
mystery solved:
Finnerty's, the New York bar for Bay Area fans, announced it's closure this a.m. due to pandemic-related challenges.
My thank you note to
@Finnertys
. ⬇️
You paid taxes to New York City, but you were the most San Francisco bar I've ever known. 🙏🙏🛎️
This always looks wrong to me. We should paint a rainbow on the other side of Robin Williams Tunnel.
Let’s do this
@CaltransHQ
#DoubleRainbow
in 2023
🌈🌈🌈🌈
“Ma” looks scary but I want a horror movie that’s just Draymond Green dropping his contact lens in different dirty places and then putting it back in his eye.
RIP
@SenFeinstein
A political figure of strength & love for SF all my life.
I’ll always remember her first senate run - when she pulled this college journalist out of a crowd of reporters and said: “You live here? Where’s a good place to get frozen yogurt?”
📸: Sherry Gurtler
This is, we believe, the first
@SFGiants
photo ever taken.
Willie Mays came to SF in 1957, on an advance PR trip to stoke interest in the 1958 arrival of the team.
The weird lines are exposure damage. But we have some new restoration techniques. Should
@BvnthV
& I try to repair?
“... and the always delicious Taco Bell.”
Earlier this year we agreed that if my son got a perfect report card, for dinner he could have every item from the “Talladega Nights” dear Lord baby Jesus banquet sequence.
Tonight, we pay up.
🙏🙏🙏
🤜 🤛
The best views from a football field - maybe in the world? - are at this San Francisco high school.
My
@sfchronicle
story - discovering how a genius decision in 1861 gave Sea Cliff views to generations of public school students.
Uncle Dick in the Deer Stand is my alt-country/folk-punk band.
We're on the bill at Hotel Utah. Be there by 4:30 p.m. because we're going up first again.
#DemDebate2020
Because no one ever saw a whale at The French Laundry ...
Pretty strong case here that the Pacifica
@TacoBell
is the greatest restaurant in human history. I talked to the locals =>
"What did people do before social media, dad?"
"We just walked down the street and looked at the
@GrandLake
Theatre marquee."
(1/20/2021 📸 sent by Allen Michaan)
It’s the one-year anniversary of Orange Skies Day.
🟧🌉🟧
On seminal where-were-you Bay Area moments, “Blade Runner 2049,” auto-white balance and why we must never forget the details of Sept 9, 2020.
The cars are gone. The seagull stays.
Introducing your new 49 Mile Scenic Route:
Guided by
@sfchronicle
readers, we’ve completed a walk & bike-friendly
#49MileMakeover
. Celebrating small businesses, dive bars, good cheeseburgers & constant surprises.
Loving the Bay Area so much right now. 💯💯💯
At Oakland Coliseum to get my older son his second shot, and these National Guard dudes were busy pruning flowers to give to all the mothers driving through.
🌺🌺🌺
For future reference, when the sky looks like this at night, it’s a rip in space and time and the Bay Area will spend the next 12 hours as a Midwestern state.
I want to cry. My local video store just reopened.
If the store renting DVDs is willing to keep fighting, who the f—- am I to be a pessimist and give up hope on my industry, my neighbors, our future?
Be kind. Rewind. That blinking light means reset.
Let’s do this Bay Area.
As a baseball fan, Oakland fan and “Lord of the Rings” fan, I’m endorsing the hobbit-friendly design of the
#HowardTerminal
A’s ballpark.
Which I will be calling “The Shire” if built to these specifications.
Those photos were taken by
@jachristian
from the
@sfchronicle
!!!
You can make it up by buying 44 subscriptions. See her work & the rest of our talented 📸 staff every day.
#SupportLocalNews
The fires across the West Coast are just the latest examples of the very real ways our changing climate is changing our communities. Protecting our planet is on the ballot. Vote like your life depends on it—because it does.
I’m so screwed today.
My kids are doing April Fools jokes.
I’d lecture them about the horrible timing, but when I yelled in the shower it was the happiest we’ve seen them in weeks.
#AprilFools
#wfhwithkids
#WFH
Oh hell no! 😡
As a fan I can handle lukewarm off-seasons, constantly losing top free agents etc - because the ballpark experience is so good
@RenelSFVoyce
is the human representation of that
Over a contract? This feels like
@SFGiants
just filled in McCovey Cove with concrete
Is this the most old school restaurant in San Francisco?
Sam’s Grill doesn’t just give out matchbooks, they still use two letters as the prefix in their phone #
My tribute to the Oakland A’s fan.
The
@sfchronicle
archive confirms what we already knew: You’re the pride of Bay Area fandom, and you don’t deserve any of this.
(Gift link! Because no A’s fan should hit a paywall this week.)
🐘🙏🏼
Finally got around to framing this.
My older son put this scrap of paper under my pillow when he was 6 or 7 years old, after I took away his screens for something.
“Worst perenting ever” is my mantra.