
Emily Dreyfuss
Senior Editor and Fellow, Shorenstein Center and Freelance Writer at Freelance
Culture Editor at The San Francisco Standard. Your mom. [email protected]
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1 day ago |
sfstandard.com | Emily Dreyfuss |Rya Jetha |Kevin Truong
If you’ve ever been to a networking event in SoMa and found yourself cornered by a coder who hasn’t outgrown their Ayn Rand phase, you’ll immediately recognize the characters in HBO’s new techdoomsday satire “Mountainhead.”In the Bay Area, a grown-up case of infectious Randianism seems to spread seasonally — and no one is too bothered.
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1 week ago |
sfstandard.com | Emily Dreyfuss
You may have noticed a lack of superblooms on the Instagram grid this year, no electric orange fields of wildflowers trampled for engagement and baby photos. Below-average rain across the state this winter meant the wildflower explosions we’ve seen in previous years were more muted this spring. But real California poppy lovers know our scrappy state flower’s beauty lies not in its ability to grow in vast quantities, but to pop up where flowers have no business blooming. In cracks in the sidewalk.
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2 weeks ago |
sfstandard.com | Emily Dreyfuss
Seth Rogan and Olivia Wilde rode BART for hours Tuesday afternoon, right in the middle of rush hour. Rolling back and forth between Glen Park Station and Daly City, the Hollywood A-listers blended right in with actual passengers on their way home from work. The stars were shooting a scene for Wilde’s latest directorial feature, “The Invite,” which follows two couples played by Rogan, Wilde, Penelope Cruz, and Edward Norton, according to Variety. The production will be in town Wednesday, too.
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2 weeks ago |
sfstandard.com | Emily Dreyfuss
Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde rode BART for hours Tuesday afternoon, right in the middle of rush hour. Rolling between Glen Park Station and Daly City, the Hollywood A-listers blended right in with actual passengers on their way home from work. The actors were shooting a scene for Wilde’s latest directorial feature, “The Invite,” which follows two couples played by Rogen, Wilde, Penelope Cruz, and Edward Norton, according to Variety. The production will be in town Wednesday, too.
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Mar 8, 2025 |
sfstandard.com | Emily Dreyfuss
A few months after moving into our cute neo-Tudor home in Ingleside Terraces 6 years ago, I was looking out my front window when I saw a startling sight: My neighbor Tom at the end of my driveway, holding a small rifle. Tom was pointing it into the ground, right at the border between our two lots. We were new neighbors at this point, but I had gotten the sense from our few interactions that he was not the menacing type, so … what was he doing?
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RT @tomoki_chien: ICE asked us to censor photos of their agents on public streets. We said no. https://t.co/BV0bQGnEk6

I accidentally became an extra in a Seth Rogan film this afternoon

Why yes, you did see Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde riding BART today. A star-studded film took over multiple SF locations Tuesday, including a BART station and SF middle school. 📝: @EmilyDreyfuss https://t.co/Ndiucop9l0

RT @superkeara: Your password must contain two characters who talk to each other about something other than a man