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Jess Paiz is a contributor at Gazetteer San Francisco with an endless TBR and an unwavering devotion to books in the Bay. Catch her reading on Muni.

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Prints of the city

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Matt Haber is editor-in-chief of Gazetteer SF. He started his journalism career in 1995 as a freelance writer for Wired. He’s worked for The Village Voice, The New York Observer, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Inc., Alta Journal, and others. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Guardian.
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Matt Haber

Your summer Dolores Park Bingo card

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

Spencer Sunshine has been writing about the Far Right for over 20 years. His book <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Neo-Nazi-Terrorism-and-Countercultural-Fascism-The-Origins-and-Afterlife-of-James-Masons-Siege/Sunshine/p/book/9780367190606">Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege</a> was published by Routledge in 2024. He has a PhD in Sociology, and his writings have been published by the Daily Beast, Southern Poverty Law Center, The Forward, and The Battleground.

Spencer Sunshine

It happened here: When the American Front marched on Haight Street

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Staff picks: Summer reading recs from your friendly neighborhood booksellers

Olivia Peluso is a food and drink reporter for Gazetteer SF.
Previously, she covered young founders and changemakers for Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. She has contributed coverage on business, technology, and climate to publications including Vogue Business, Business Insider, and Travel + Leisure.

Olivia Peluso

The circle of life

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

Season of the rich: A Q&A with Jonathan Weber

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.

Julie Zigoris

Save the Mothers Building!

Carlos Dengler is a multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actor and writer-at-large based in Troy, NY and New York City. He has written for Compact, n +1, Tablet and others. In the 2000s he cofounded the rock group Interpol and performed as their bassist and keyboardist.

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