melissa cho
@melissacho.space
̶p̶e̶r̶s̶o̶n̶a̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶h̶i̶r̶e̶ senior video producer @sfgate.com. but you can call me SFGATE Girl.
Images of Danny DeVito are everywhere in San Francisco. For several years, an anonymous street artist has sprayed images of Ongo Gablogian, a wig-wearing alter ego of DeVito’s character in “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” on walls across the city.
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When San Francisco cable cars are too worn for the rails, they head to a Dogpatch carpentry shop, where a four-man crew rebuilds them piece by piece — and sometimes leaves hidden mementos for future generations to find.
Happy SF Bike to Wherever Day! I did a lovely route across town and ended the excursion by unintentionally swallowing a lot of sand in the Outer Sunset. Would do it again.
SFGATE@sfgate.com · 3mo agoBike to Wherever Day is San Francisco’s favorite biking holiday, so SFGATE's Melissa Cho did the only reasonable thing: left the office and called it reporting.
my boss when reviewing this cut: “you have an all time scream. it should be used as like stock scream footage.”
SFGATE@sfgate.com · 4mo agoClub Fugazi opened in 1913 as a gathering place for San Francisco’s Italian community. Over the decades, artists including Thelonious Monk and the Grateful Dead passed through its doors.
California has a fascination with ghost towns. But what if a town isn’t quite a ghost town? Residents in Darwin, Calif. say the fascination has brought trespassers and misconceptions to a community of real people trying to sustain daily life in a tiny desert town. www.sfgate.com/california/a...
The Calif. town with less than 30 residents begging for young people to move in
Town residents want visitors to know one thing.
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Come to San Francisco, you’ll love the Burmese food. My newest profile with Burma Love, a crowd favorite in the Bay that won “Best Burmese restaurant” in our annual SFGATE Best of Bay Area readers’ choice awards last year. Try the tea leaf salad — it’s insane.
SFGATE@sfgate.com · 4mo agoIn a city that’s famously just seven by seven miles, San Francisco now has more than a dozen Burmese restaurants. Since opening in the Mission in 2014 as an offshoot of the beloved Burma Superstar in the Richmond, Burma Love has grown to five Bay Area locations.
My coworker and I spent hours digging a goalless hole at Ocean Beach. Enjoy us being in the trenches for this groundbreaking journalism. My entire body is aching. 🕳️
SFGATE@sfgate.com · 4mo agoSFGATE’s Melissa Cho and Timothy Karoff spent their Saturday digging a completely pointless hole at Ocean Beach with hundreds of strangers. Naturally, it was the 13th Hole Party.
🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨 @sfgate.com, the West Coast's largest news site, is looking for a new tech reporter. 🧵 below on what we're looking for, or if you want a shortcut, here's the job listing: sfgate.com/careers
As someone who is gluten-free not by choice, this new restaurant addition in San Francisco makes me very happy. My newest video piece for SFGATE;
SFGATE@sfgate.com · 5mo agoClementina, San Francisco’s first entirely gluten-free Italian restaurant, opened in the Inner Richmond last week.
The most important job in tennis you never see. My newest piece at Indian Wells, aka tennis paradise. 🌈🎾🌴☀️ Which players are you rooting for?
SFGATE@sfgate.com · 5mo agoAt California’s largest tennis tournament, racquet stringer Priscilla Mendes gets to work long before the first serve.
A day in the life of a ball kid at a tennis masters! Was so fun following these cuties around.
SFGATE@sfgate.com · 5mo agoAt Indian Wells, California's largest tennis tournament, the world’s best tennis players command the court. Just outside the spotlight, ball kids keep every point moving. SFGATE’s @melissacho.space spent a day shadowing one to see the work that happens between the points.
San Francisco has a reputation for bad style — think dress sneakers, tech company t-shirts and backpacks with suits. As New York Magazine once put it: “S.F. style is the clothing equivalent of water. The taste is so neutral, you can’t be sure it’s there.”
Hello from tennis paradise! Where I will be at for the next two weeks ☀️🌵🏜️🎾👟.
SFGATE@sfgate.com · 5mo agoTennis might just be the best-sounding sport. The BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells in the Coachella Valley is underway, and the courts are already humming with the pop of the ball, the rhythm of a rally and the squeak of shoes scuffling across the court.
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 @sfgate.com is hiring TWO summer interns from @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social. Requirements: You have to be a student in Cal's J-School, and you have to want to do a lot of journalism for California's most-read news site. Deadline is 3/2: eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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In our Weekly Top 5: * Subsea storytelling @wired.com * Preservation paradox @hackernoon.com * Serpentine symbiosis @oxfordamerican.bsky.social * Investigating infinity @quantamagazine.bsky.social * Marijuana mystery @sfgate.com longreads.com/2026/02/27/t...
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In this edition: subsea storytelling, a preservation paradox, achieving serpentine symbiosis, an investigation into infinity, and a marijuana mystery.
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@caltrain.com has won a national award for its video last summer that dunked on the Dodgers. The clip, filmed near the agency’s San Carlos offices, was designed to encourage fans to take the train to Oracle Park. It drew more than 250,000 views on TikTok and Instagram within 24 hours.
Check out our new @sfgate.com food series “Eat Cheap,” where our food team highlights SF’s most affordable restaurants at a time when everything feels expensive.
SFGATE@sfgate.com · 5mo agoCordon Bleu Vietnamese Restaurant, the Polk Gulch neighborhood diner, sits inside a one-window storefront with light blue brick walls. Diners crowd an L-shaped counter as marinated meats char over a smoky grill.
SFGATE found the National Park Service quietly revoked at least 40 job offers for seasonal visual information specialists across 19 parks, according to employees granted anonymity to protect their jobs.
Hi! I’m an SF-based video journalist. Here are some select video stills from my recent journo adventures: 🧵👇 1. “How your Christmas tree gets recycled in SF”
i genuinely should not be allowed to make dumb stuff like this for work
SFGATE@sfgate.com · 6mo agoWhat's just a couple hundred dollars more in addition to your four thousand dollar Super Bowl ticket????
Really cool angle (figuratively and physically) we got of the Super Bowl from our on-site reporter. Love the fuzzy palma people hehehehe.
SFGATE@sfgate.com · 6mo agoA backstage sneak peak moments before Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show.
Juleon Cotillon, a Bay Area native who lives in Hayward, is the brains behind the Buck Fifty — a white plastic tray for both the hot dog and soda that fits neatly on the top rack of a Costco shopping cart.
Do you have what it takes to feed 70,000 people in a day??!!! My newest video report with our food editor Jessica on Levi’s Stadium’s culinary team, busting their asses to curate and cater a Bay-Area themed menu for this year’s Super Bowl. Much meat was consumed. Had tofu soup for dinner.
SFGATE@sfgate.com · 6mo agoIn just days, 50 chefs and 2,500 hospitality workers at Levi’s Stadium will feed roughly 70,000 Super Bowl attendees. Ahead of kickoff, Levy Restaurants, the stadium's official culinary team, offered the SFGATE team an exclusive tasting of this year’s Bay Area–themed menu.
Kicking off my Super Bowl video coverage with this geography challenge. These boys gave me a good laugh last night.
SFGATE@sfgate.com · 6mo agoThe Super Bowl is days away, and the Patriots and Seahawks are gearing up for the big game at Levi’s Stadium. But do they actually know where it is? SFGATE’s @melissacho.space put players’ geography skills to the test — the answers were… memorable.
San Francisco showed UP today. Here’s my coverage of today’s ICE protest at Dolores Park.
SFGATE@sfgate.com · 6mo agoStudents poured into San Francisco's Dolores Park Friday afternoon, joining thousands of workers and organizers for a national day of action demanding that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents be removed from communities nationwide.
i can’t believe i get to edit something like this for work
SFGATE@sfgate.com · 6mo agoAn unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume angrily confronted Santa Clara city officials during a joint meeting of the City Council, city authorities, and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority on Monday, using his public comment to condemn the city’s stance on cooperation with ICE.
