Amanda Bartlett
Culture Writer at SFGate
senior reporter covering culture, science and breaking news @sfgate | recovering movie theater rat | pitch me: [email protected] | she/her🐰
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5 days ago |
sfgate.com | Amanda Bartlett
Gerald McKeegan, an adjunct astronomer at Chabot Space and Science Center, was fielding phone call after phone call on Sunday morning. The Oakland observatory had a telescope viewing event planned for members later in the evening, but he realized they would have to overhaul their programming for an unexpected disruption: the very likely presence of dazzling auroras in the night sky.
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5 days ago |
sfgate.com | Amanda Bartlett
Known for its eclectic menu, long, U-shaped countertops and starring role in the 1993 comedy “So I Married an Axe Murderer,” Fog City (formerly Fog City Diner) is calling it quits after serving its last meal on Friday, owners announced on social media, calling it “the end of an era.”“With a Heavy Heart I share some difficult news,” the post read. “Fog City has closed Permanently with the last day of Service being May 30, 2025.
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1 week ago |
sfgate.com | Amanda Bartlett
It started last month, when a female gray whale washed up dead on Black Sands Beach in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. She was first observed floating on the northwest side of Alcatraz Island, where she surprised a wedding photographer and had scientists paddling out to reach her to collect samples of her skin and blubber and try to understand how she died. They still don’t know, even as record sightings of the massive animals have been reported in San Francisco Bay this year.
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1 week ago |
sfgate.com | Amanda Bartlett
When city officials announced plans to transform San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza last July, locals seemed optimistic. The proposed project included the construction of a new waterfront park more than twice the size of Union Square, with renderings showing five acres of vast greenery replacing the existing concrete expanse and pathways leading to food trucks and sculpture gardens strewn with fairy lights in a bid to draw people downtown again.
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2 weeks ago |
sfgate.com | Amanda Bartlett
What do inflatable rubber ducks, tipsy popes and a space-bound Katy Perry all have in common? They were among the flashiest costumes at Sunday’s Bay to Breakers, a 12K and 15K race stretching all the way from downtown San Francisco to where the ocean meets the Great Highway. As in years past, the local rite of passage has proven to be just as much a display of athleticism (or at least the sheer will to feign sobriety) as it is an exercise in creativity.
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RT @footage: Thanks to @byabartlett at @sfgate for taking notice of the recent outdoor Lost Landscapes event! Showing again this Wednesday…
I talked to Oakland astrophotographer Mich Uyttersprot about capturing this weekend’s Perseid meteor shower, hunting for stars and seeking out subjects up to millions of light years away ☄️ https://t.co/s4JZe5pjxH
RT @stephencouncil: wonderful @byabartlett piece on Twisters, including the making of the movie, the facts behind its science and the chaos…