Gabe Lehman

Oakland

Homepage Editor at SFGate

Editor and writer for: @SFGATE Formerly: @CalAthletics, @Pac12Network Ask me about 4th-down conversion rates and Sunbelt demographic trends.

Articles

After Kevin Durant trade, Warriors and Jonathan Kuminga may be up next

4 days ago | sfgate.com | Gabe Lehman

With the 2024-25 season coming to a close, the NBA rumor mill was kicking into overdrive over the weekend. And on the heels of the Houston Rockets’ blockbuster trade for Kevin Durant, there may be a few more options for the Golden State Warriors and their biggest question mark, forward Jonathan Kuminga. Kuminga was unlikely to be dealt before Durant, who was the biggest name on the trade market.
Bill Simmons pushes conspiracy theory after SF Giants trade for Rafael Devers

1 week ago | sfgate.com | Gabe Lehman

Just a few hours after the Devers deal was first reported and minutes after it became official, Simmons shared on social media a screenshot of an article from the Athletic titled “How can Liverpool afford Florian Wirtz” with the caption “Hmmmmm…”On Friday, Liverpool FC reportedly landed star midfielder Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen for a record transfer fee of 100 million pounds (approximately $136 million) and potentially 16 million pounds in additional fees.
The key to free flights and hotels is hidden in San Francisco library stands

2 weeks ago | sfgate.com | Gabe Lehman

Not only are San Francisco Little Free Library books free, but for two lucky San Francisco residents, they’ll come with a valuable prize. Hidden in books in San Francisco Little Free Libraries are two Golden Bookmarks, redeemable for an all-expenses-paid trip to Portland, Oregon, as part of a nationwide treasure hunt. Travel Portland is sponsoring the campaign, in partnership with Little Free Library and Alaska Airlines. “We have over 30 independent bookstores in Portland.
Tragedy cut this '90s band's fame short, but now the singer's son has the mic

4 weeks ago | sfgate.com | Gabe Lehman

At the time of Bradley Nowell’s death, Sublime was already a popular band, but their self-titled third album, which was released mere months after Bradley’s death, vaulted the group to new heights. The self-titled album sold over 5 million units and featured “Santeria,” which became the band’s biggest song. “[The album] instantly became inescapable,” wrote Stereogum’s Tom Breihan in 2016, the 20th anniversary of the album.
Netflix's most vulgar show comes to San Francisco

1 month ago | sfgate.com | Timothy Karoff |Gabe Lehman |Olivia Hebert |Andrew Chamings

To keep track of hyperlocal moments like these, we started Fogcutter, SFGATE’s weekly column of odds and ends. Every week, our journalists trawl through the Bay Area to report from bookstores, dive bar concerts and block parties to deliver a snapshot of local life between the headlines.
Here are all the celebrities spotted at BottleRock this year

1 month ago | sfgate.com | Gabe Lehman

While it may not hold a candle to fellow California festival Coachella, BottleRock certainly didn’t lack for star power: World-class athletes, Grammy winners and even California’s First Couple were in Napa this past weekend to sample the festival’s famed food and wine offerings and to watch the likes of Green Day, 4 Non Blondes and Justin Timberlake take the stage. One of the only benefits of their early playoff exit is that two Golden State Warriors were able to attend the festival.
Benson Boone draws the biggest crowd at BottleRock

1 month ago | sfgate.com | Gabe Lehman

Like many, I first learned about Benson Boone when he did a front flip in a glimmering singlet at the Grammys. That was all of three months ago. In the time since, he’s been featured on "Saturday Night Live," performed at Coachella and had his biggest hit eclipse 2 billion streams on Spotify. At BottleRock Napa Valley on Saturday, he may have drawn the biggest crowd of the festival. He certainly had the most flips: eight, by my count.
Green Day calls out Trump at BottleRock, brings out rap legend for encore

1 month ago | sfgate.com | Gabe Lehman

Hometown heroes Green Day closed out the first day of BottleRock Napa Valley on Friday by proudly proving their bone-deep San Francisco Bay Area roots. Throughout the 90-minute set, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong made dozens of references, some of them rather obscure, to the rock trio’s beloved home. Like in Green Day’s Coachella set last month, Billie Joe Armstrong changed a lyric in their opening song “American Idiot” to take a swing at the president.
Green Day calls out Trump at BottleRock, brings out rap legend for encore

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Gabe Lehman

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SF band with one of the biggest hits of the '90s returns home after 30 years

1 month ago | sfgate.com | Gabe Lehman

The originally all-woman alt-rock band enjoyed a meteoric rise in the 1980s and 1990s before splitting up abruptly in 1994. In the years since, lead singer Linda Perry went on to have a Hall of Fame-level songwriting career, with credits like Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” and Pink’s “Get the Party Started.”Perry moved to San Francisco on a whim in the late 1980s and immediately felt at peace, she said, settling in the Castro and enmeshing herself in the city’s punk scene.