Dan Gentile

1 week ago | sacbee.com | Dan Gentile

May 4-When celebrities reach a certain level of fame, it's only natural they start slapping their name on products. From Joe Montana's wine to E-40's ice cream (and wine), many Bay Area celebrities have tried their hand at selling branded food items. It'd be easy for Warriors late-season star Jimmy Butler to cash in by selling any old coffee, but his coffee - sold under the brand Bigface - is actually very, very good.

1 week ago | sfgate.com | Dan Gentile

When celebrities reach a certain level of fame, it’s only natural they start slapping their name on products. From Joe Montana’s wine to E-40’s ice cream (and wine), many Bay Area celebrities have tried their hand at selling branded food items. It’d be easy for Warriors late-season star Jimmy Butler to cash in by selling any old coffee, but his coffee — sold under the brand Bigface — is actually very, very good.

2 weeks ago | sfgate.com | Dan Gentile

There’s no personal injury lawyer that casts a shadow over the Bay Area quite like Anh Phoong, whose iconic billboards seen over highways have catapulted her into a cult icon that’s inspired club nights and Halloween costumes. But when she launched a contest in late January for a new billboard design, Phoong drew some unexpected controversy over the prize’s relatively small payout: $500.

4 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Dan Gentile

Most people visiting the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio last weekend likely weren't spending much time in their hotel rooms. As a result, thieves took advantage, striking at least five hotel rooms at the five-star La Quinta Resort and Club, several people who had items stolen told SFGATE. On returning to the hotel on Friday, several groups of guests found their rooms meticulously ransacked.

4 weeks ago | eastbayyesterday.substack.com | Dan Gentile

This may come as a shock if you’re Gen X or older, but 1987 was nearly four decades ago. I was forced to confront this jarring fact after watching “Freaky Tales,” a new film set in Oakland at the tail end of the Ronald Regan-era – or, as the kids call it, “the late 1900s.”The film is fiction, but several of its key plotlines are based on things that actually happened, like an infamous brawl between punks and Nazi skinheads outside Berkeley punk club 924 Gilman.