Emily Dreyfuss

San Francisco

Senior Editor and Fellow, Shorenstein Center and Freelance Writer at Freelance

Culture Editor at The San Francisco Standard. Your mom. [email protected]

Articles

Is ‘Mountainhead’ an accurate critique of the tech industry?

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Emily Dreyfuss

2 hours agoYou Know Rimowa’s Suitcases—Now, Get Ready for Their FurnitureThere’s no official list of status symbols. But if there was, Rimowa’s original cabin carry-on would be on it—the aluminum suitcase is now a mainstay of first class cabins all around the world.
HBO’s ‘Mountainhead’ is a scathing parody of tech culture

3 weeks 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.
Why my California poppy in a sidewalk crack beats your superbloom - The San Francisco Standard

1 month 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.
Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogan shot a sex comedy on BART — and we rode with them - The San Francisco Standard

1 month 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.
Just a normal rush hour on BART. Then Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogen hopped aboard

1 month 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.
In the war on gophers, homeowners get creative — and nasty - The San Francisco Standard

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?
Bay Area Teens mourn their favorite app

Jan 19, 2025 | sfstandard.com | Emily Dreyfuss |Zara Stone

Devastated. Alarmed. Annoyed. But most of all disappointed in a government that seems to them to have a xenophobic agenda. Those are the prevailing feelings of young people in San Francisco coming to terms with the TikTok ban, which goes into effect today. "TikTok is terrible for mental health," said Alex Haag, 18, a 2024 graduate of private high school Fusion Academy who thinks the addictive algorithm is a problem that merits government regulation.
Dave Eggers just opened a library of books written entirely by children

Dec 5, 2024 | sfstandard.com | Emily Dreyfuss

A group of second-graders couldn't believe all the books were by children. "They were like, 'What? What's their deal? What's so special about them?'" curator Jade Howe said. She explained to them, "They're kids like you, kids that like to write!" At the end of that visit, Howe and Eggers invited the class to leave copies of the group project book they had made with their teacher at the library. "You guys are now published writers in an official library," Howe said. The kids were astounded.
Reimagining the future Great Highway Park now that Prop K passed

Nov 11, 2024 | sfstandard.com | Emily Dreyfuss |Astrid Kane |Jesse Rogala

The Great Highway will cease to be a road and become a park - at some point. That's because last week San Francisco voters narrowly passed Proposition K, a measure to extend the ban on vehicles from the section between Sloat Boulevard and Lincoln Way. The only problem? Prop. K didn't offer a plan for how to transform the four-lane divided road into open space, or specify where funding for it might come from. This was a major reason why many voters opposed the measure.
The clocks change this Sunday and it's tearing our newsroom apart

Nov 2, 2024 | sfstandard.com | Emily Dreyfuss |Jeff Bercovici

We're now just days away from the event that will expose the divisions at the heart of American society. That's right: Daylight saving time is ending. The semiannual changing of the clocks, which takes place early Sunday morning, Nov. 3, elicits strong feelings in people, pro and con. Californians, on balance, are against it: In 2018, to join Arizona and Hawaii in opting out of the whole mishegas. Here at The Standard, the rift over daylight saving time runs right down the middle of the newsroom.