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A ghost’s story

Joel covers the forces in San Francisco — money, business, personalities, local law, and politics — that bind the city and pull it apart. He most recently worked for Bloomberg News reporting on state and federal courts.
Previously, he covered the crime beat for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and was a freelancer in New York City. Before that, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal. He was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, studied public policy at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and has a Masters degree from Columbia Journalism School.
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Joel Rosenblatt

Watching US v. Bosnia-Herzegovina at Uzbegim

Joshua Bote is an associate editor for Gazetteer SF, focusing on the nexus of culture, trends, and digital phenomena within San Francisco.
Previously, he covered technology for The San Francisco Standard and SFGate. He’s also served as a trending news reporter at USA Today, and as a music writer at NPR. His work has been published in places like New York Magazine, Billboard, and Paste.

Joshua Bote

Fog City Flea closes up Mission shop after 9 months

Lurie rebukes anti-Pride Giants players even as DOJ investigates team over alleged discrimination

Shawn Sprockett is a gay professor, designer, and resident of San Francisco. Spurred to action by the “don’t say gay” bills of his home state of Florida, he began documenting alternative perspectives on local queer history — particularly those of womxn and people of color — and offering those stories as a monthly walking tour program, <a href="https://www.unspeakablevice.tours/">Unspeakable Vice</a>, through San Francisco&#8217;s lost gayborhoods.

Shawn Sprockett

Cool gay city of love

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Staff picks: Summer reading recs from your friendly neighborhood booksellers

The phone-freein’ Bob Dylan

Cydney Hayes is a business and tech reporter for Gazetteer SF. She has previously written about tech, culture, music, and media for The Drift, Architectural Digest, Baltimore, Entertainment Weekly, and elsewhere. She also writes a Substack newsletter called OPENWORLD. Subscribe at openw0rld.substack.com.

Cydney Hayes

‘AI’s not going to break your heart the way real life does’

Eddie Kim reports on San Francisco news — including politics, crime, commerce, social conflict, and everything in between.
<div>He was a longtime features writer at the critically acclaimed men&#8217;s magazine Mel, and has contributed to major publications including Vice, Slate, The Guardian and Paste Magazine. He began his career doing hyperlocal journalism at L.A. Downtown News, where he won multiple awards from the L.A. Press Club and California News Publishers Association.</div>
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Eddie Kim

Among the bird nerds

Braving the heat with the Bathing Ape enthusiasts

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