Farley Elliott
@farleyelliott.bsky.social
SoCal Bureau Chief for SFGate. I live in LA because LA is the best.
Joe Roth quietly played his senior year at Cal with cancer, dying 3 months after his final game. He became a campus hero w/ a memorial game named in his honor. Now, 49yrs later, Cal is trying to profit off his legacy, to his last living brother's dismay. My latest: www.sfgate.com/collegesport...
Cal sure seems to be cashing in on the tragedy of Joe Roth
Joe Roth died three months after playing his senior season with melanoma.
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On Friday (9/18), @sfgate.com is building a temporary pop-up newsroom in Golden Gate Park on JFK Promenade (at 8th). Only 23% of Americans have spoken to a journalist, we want to change that, so we're bringing a our staff there to talk to you in person, 11am-6pm. RSVP: partiful.com/e/twZyfOnVz6...
"She would always request to sit in the gold booth."
For 40 years, Dolly Parton was a regular at the Madonna Inn
"She would always request to sit in the gold booth."
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🚨 NEWS! 🚨 @sfgate.com is partnering with @sfrecpark.bsky.social to build temporary pop-up newsrooms in parks across SF, starting with the JFK Promenade (at 8th) in GG Park on 9/18, 11am-6pm. Only 23% of Americans have spoken to a journalist, we want to change that: www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
SFGATE launches a series of pop-up newsrooms at parks across San Francisco
Just 23% of Americans say they've talked to a journalist. Let's change that.
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The singer-turned-global icon loved exploring the West Coast.
Dolly Parton's quiet decades-long life in California
The singer-turned-global icon loved exploring the West Coast.
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Cameron’s Pub is the most polarizing restaurant in the Bay Area. Not anecdotally. Not politically. It quite literally has almost the same number of 5-star and 1-star reviews on Yelp. I go deep down the Half Moon Bay rabbit hole to find out why: www.sfgate.com/food/article...
Why Cameron's Pub is the Bay Area's most polarizing restaurant
It has nearly an identical number of 5-star and 1-star reviews on Yelp.
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It’s Fogust in San Francisco, so naturally I spent a week searching for the city’s undisputed foggiest bar. I talked to fog academics, data scientists and even Foggy, SFCFC’s fog mascot, and what I found was all kinds of wholesome. My latest for @sfgate.com: www.sfgate.com/food/article...
A face-soaking search for San Francisco's foggiest bar
Can fog academics, data scientists and Foggy help me find SF's foggiest bar?
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Upset the NYT Mini is paywalled? No problem. Ours is free.
California Mini Crossword Puzzle | SFGATE
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this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2mo agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
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@chriswarcraft.bsky.social swears that, even now, he doesn’t want to be a politician. He just wishes that everyday things in his longtime hometown of Huntington Beach made sense. It’s an increasingly tough ask. www.sfgate.com/politics/art... @farleyelliott.bsky.social via @sfgate.com
Huntington Beach is a MAGA stronghold. Chris Kluwe has other plans
"I want my politicians to be willing to take a stand."
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We're hiring! Please share this with your networks. CalMatters and @grist.org seek a reporter to cover the impacts of climate change in California’s Central Valley, a vibrant and diverse community that serves as the nation’s bread basket while sitting at the center of important climate issues.
Climate Reporter, CalMatters
CalMatters and Grist seek a reporter to cover the impacts of climate change in California’s Central Valley, a vibrant and diverse community that serves as the nation’s bread basket while sitting at the center of important climate issues. In this role, you’ll be based at CalMatters, a statewide nonprofit newsroom that wins national awards for […]
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“It was no grand plan,” Young recalled, nearly 22 years later, when reached by phone at his home in Walnut Creek. “We just asked. We thought they’d say no.” via @farleyelliott.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/food/article...
The SF tech worker whose 100-patty order broke In-N-Out forever
Now, he's back to rethink fast food entirely.
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Rose Bowl gets $1M to avoid toilet disaster at LA Olympics www.sfgate.com/la/article/o...
LA's Rose Bowl gets $1M to avoid toilet disaster at Olympics
"If those things fail during a major event ..."
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According to internal communications reviewed by @sfgate.com and interviews with multiple national parks employees, the Department of the Interior has blacklisted SFGATE. One employee was told SFGATE isn’t “in line with the administration’s views.” www.sfgate.com/national-par...
National parks employees say SFGATE has been blacklisted
National Park Service communicators no longer respond to SFGATE media requests.
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The soup and salad are endless at the all-you-can-eat restaurant.
A lovely lunch in the California husk of a dead Souplantation
The soup and salad are endless at the all-you-can-eat restaurant.
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Exclusive: Aramark tells Yosemite workers it's axing most of their housing rights www.sfgate.com/national-par...
Aramark tells Yosemite workers it's axing most of their housing rights
Aramark says it now has the right to revoke their housing rights at any time.
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my SFGATE colleague Anna Guth spoke with scientists about the dumbest fringe theory in sports www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
A fringe theory about 49ers injuries has gone viral. Here's what scientists say.
The theory hunts for an explanation to all the injuries.
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As the nation turns to the best college football programs in the country this weekend, we turn our attention to one of the worst: Lincoln University, a downtown Oakland school whose head coach, and athletic director, threatened me at the end of our interview. www.sfgate.com/collegesport...
For Calif.'s worst college football team, a 0-287 slump is the tip of a scandal
Are the Oaks an aspiring folktale or an ill-fated fantasy?
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🚨BEST DAY OF THE YEAR ALERT 🚨 For the 5th straight year at @sfgate.com we celebrated Corner Store Christmas! Here’s how it works…
For a decade, SF has been a frequent punching bag for the likes of Fox News and Joe Rogan. It was a dangerous place according to them, and you shouldn’t go there. But was that reality? And has it changed? We explore both in this, @sfgate.com's first mini documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge1z...
Is San Francisco actually on the rise?
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So glad to be able to chat with @niemanlab.org about what we're up to with @sfgate.com in Los Angeles. I'm proud to run a local newsroom, staffed by real Angelenos who live here and care. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/more...
“More of everything”: In Los Angeles, an “explosion” of new efforts aim to up the city’s local news game
A well-funded coalition building out neighborhood news, a new newsletter from an expanding for-profit site, and a nonprofit breaking through on social media are just a few examples of the latest bids ...
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In-N-Out did not respond to a request for comment on the “6-7” phenomenon. via @farleyelliott.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/food/article...
The latest teenage craze is causing headaches at In-N-Out
In-N-Out's order-numbering style has led to numerous viral videos recently.
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For @sfgate.com: How Cam Skattebo rose from tiny Calif. town to become 'irreplaceable' Giants star www.sfgate.com/49ers/articl... It’s a real bummer that NorCal-born-and-raised Skattebo won’t face the #49ers, his favorite team growing up, this week.
How Cam Skattebo rose from tiny Calif. town to be 'irreplaceable' Giants star
Skattebo's rookie season is over, but his journey is still making an impact.
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Wild combination today: Bergum's press office calls @ashleyharrell.bsky.social's @sfgate.com story about squatters and illegal BASE jumpers in Yosemite "FALSE" and then Bergum himself says says they're addressing those exact issues with "appropriate law enforcement action." 🤔
