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Julie Zigoris

Julie Zigoris reports on arts and culture in the Bay Area and beyond. Her work has been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists, the California News Publishers Association, the San Francisco Press Club and the Los Angeles Press Club. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, HuffPost, Lit Hub, Atlas Obscura, KQED, SFGATE, the San Francisco Standard and other outlets. She’s the author of Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag.

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

October 31, 2025