Greg Keraghosian

San Francisco

Senior Home Page Editor at SFGate

Senior Homepage Editor with @SFGATE. SF native now in Emeryville. Proudly baking Armenian pizza again. Formerly Associate Editor @YahooTravel

Articles

The San Francisco writer who turned down a Pulitzer and used his Oscar as a doorstop

1 week ago | sacbee.com | Greg Keraghosian

You wouldn't know to look at it now, but the Academy Award that sits in a small San Francisco office above a bank has been through enough adventure, distress and mystery to warrant a movie of its own. That Oscar went missing, with no one knowing for sure how long, before reappearing in a Mission District pawn shop window. The widely celebrated local writer who first won it had reportedly used it as a garage doorstop or hat holder after a legendary clash with the film's studio head.
The SF writer who turned down a Pulitzer and used his Oscar as a doorstop

1 week ago | sfgate.com | Greg Keraghosian
Guess how many stars Francis Ford Coppola gave his new film, 'Megalopolis'

Sep 18, 2024 | sfgate.com | Greg Keraghosian

Francis Ford Coppola isn’t about to let fake movie reviews tarnish his new blockbuster film, “Megalopolis.” So he’s rating the movie himself. The legendary Bay Area director recently joined Letterboxd, a sort of social media app for film buffs. On Wednesday, he made his first “diary” entry, where users log the movies they watch with ratings of up to five stars. Guess how many stars Coppola gave his new film, which opens in theaters Sept. 27.
Legendary California hard rock band performs rare show in Golden Gate Park

Aug 19, 2024 | sfgate.com | Greg Keraghosian

As it turns out, Outside Lands 2024 was merely one big volume check. Where the heavily attended three-day music festival thrilled fans with pink-infused pop stars and mostly mellower fare one week earlier, the remaining stage for Golden Gate Park’s one-day show on Saturday evoked a black-clad, ear-piercing turn to San Francisco’s dark side, led by two California bands who redefined the meaning of metal 25 years ago.
Legendary Calif. band's Golden Gate Park show was louder than Outside Lands

Aug 19, 2024 | flipboard.com | Greg Keraghosian

6 hours agoPhil Donahue, who in the 1960s reinvented the television talk show with a democratic flourish, inviting audiences to question his guests on topics as resolutely high-minded as human rights and international relations, and as unblushingly lowbrow as male strippers and safe-sex orgies, died on Sunday …
Wildfire near California-Nevada state line forces shutdown of eastbound I-80

Aug 11, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Greg Keraghosian

'The girls are going to Heaven and I’m going to Hell to wait for you': Dad kidnapped twins, intentionally drove pickup off cliff into ocean
Wildfire near California-Nevada state line forces shutdown of eastbound I-80

Aug 11, 2024 | sfgate.com | Greg Keraghosian

Evacuations were ordered and Eastbound Interstate 80 was closed near the California-Nevada border Sunday night after a brush fire was sparked by a vehicle fire, officials said. The Quilici Fire had burned around 300 acres by 8 p.m., Truckee fire officials said. Westbound traffic on I-80 remained open. Those ordered to evacuate, around the Quilici Ranch Road area, could report to the Northwest Reno Library on 2325 Robb Drive.
Two hikers at Yosemite are reported missing

Aug 4, 2024 | sfgate.com | Greg Keraghosian

A man and woman were reported missing for more than a day at Yosemite National Park on Sunday evening, and park officials were asking the public for help in finding them. Ana Rodarte, 40, and Miguel Delgado, 63, left Bridalveil Creek Campground on Saturday morning for a hike, possibly toward Ostrander Lake, Yosemite officials said. They were expected back in around two hours, but as of Sunday evening they had not returned.
This is the most underrated San Francisco movie ever made. Here's why.

May 22, 2024 | sfgate.com | Greg Keraghosian

In the 20 years since I first saw “The Conversation,” I can’t walk past Union Square without hearing the haunting piano score and picturing what I believe to be the best opening shot in San Francisco cinematic history. Although in recent years it has become a deserted symbol of the city’s so-called doom loop, Union Square is bustling with people as the film’s opening credits roll. A wide aerial shot high above makes it impossible to know which person in the crowd we’re tracking.
Lost fortunes, deadly duel: A hidden Death Valley hike has it all

Apr 4, 2024 | sfgate.com | Greg Keraghosian

No roads lead to the Death Valley National Park hike that begins on a cliff near a water tank sprinkled with bullet holes in a long-abandoned town. The steep, narrow trail is dotted with iron stakes that once helped carry ore, mining supplies and workers via a truck winched to cables. After negotiating 1.7 miles with 1,600 feet of elevation change, a remarkable scene left in place 80 years ago comes into view.