Joe Rosato Jr.

San Francisco

Field Producer and Video Journalist at KNTV-TV (San Jose, CA)

Emmy Award-winning video-journalist with NBC Bay Area News. Musician, songwriter -- Vespa rider.

Articles

Legendary San Francisco preacher Dr. Amos Brown to retire from the pulpit — sort of

1 week ago | nbcbayarea.com | Joe Rosato Jr.

After nearly 50 years delivering fiery sermons bearing messages of empathy, equality and salvation from the pulpit of San Francisco’s Third Baptist Church, Dr. Amos Brown is retiring as head pastor. This weekend, the church will celebrate Brown’s near half-century as head of the church, though he still plans to play a robust role in the church’s programs.
Sunflower sea star project seeks to release purple urchin-eating machines

2 weeks ago | nbcbayarea.com | Joe Rosato Jr.

Purple sea urchins, beware: There’s a purple urchin-eating predator on the horizon — and its name is the sunflower sea star. That’s the plot line coming from a small upstart research facility in Moss Landing hoping to restore balance to the West Coast’s oceans by breeding critically endangered sunflower stars – the main predator of purple sea urchins.
Glide pastor celebrates queerness with new Tenderloin gallery

2 weeks ago | nbcbayarea.com | Joe Rosato Jr.

As Marvin K. White strolled down a Tenderloin sidewalk toward his job at Glide Memorial Church where he serves as minister of celebration, everyone he encountered on the sidewalk received a morning greeting. “Good morning,” to a man wrapped in a blanket slumped against a building. Watch NBC Bay Area News free wherever you are “Good morning, sir,” to another rising from his sidewalk lodging.
Scenic forest trails near Santa Cruz to open to public for the first time

3 weeks ago | nbcbayarea.com | Joe Rosato Jr.

The 6,000-acre Cotoni Coast Dairies, a swath of mountainous terrain with scenic woodlands, Pacific Ocean vistas and miles of newly-cut trails, will open to the public for the first time in August. The one-time dairy-turned-national monument sits nine miles north of Santa Cruz at the edge of the Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking the ocean. Its opening this summer will cap years of fundraising and labor to convert the scenic landscape into a public recreational destination.
Artifact of historic Doolittle Raid lands at USS Hornet Museum

1 month ago | nbcbayarea.com | Joe Rosato Jr.

Some eight decades after 16 bombers left the U.S. for a brazen bombing raid on Tokyo following the attack on Pearl Harbor, a small piece of wreckage from the squadron that became known as the Doolittle Raiders has come home to the Bay Area.
San Francisco scooter fanatic gets back in the saddle to open new cafe

1 month ago | nbcbayarea.com | Joe Rosato Jr.

If ever someone was destined to sit at the odd intersection of mod vintage scooter culture and coffee, it would have to be John Quintos. Who else could check all the boxes? Prime mover in the Bay Area’s vintage scooter scene, a businessman who opened a series of scooter themed cafes in San Francisco, Quintos surveys the landscape from a unique perch.
Vietnam refugee feels shadow of war 50 years later

1 month ago | nbcbayarea.com | Joe Rosato Jr.

The Buddhist altar perched in the middle of Lien Le’s San Pablo home seemed to stand as a testament to her family’s faith following its harrowing escape from Vietnam a half-century ago. A ripe orange sat as offering, flanked by lights, statues and pictures of departed family members, some who made the trek to the United States, some who did not. Its mere presence signified the tug of the old world here in the new one.
What to know about San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Genny Lim

1 month ago | nbcbayarea.com | Joe Rosato Jr.

The clacking of cable cars, the whipping bay winds and the bray of the fog horn were all among the rhythms of Genny Lim’s childhood growing up on a sharp San Francisco hill overlooking the bay in North Beach. It’s a view that’s inspired many a poetic impulse, so it’s only appropriate Lim would also find a life path toward poetry. “The place is very important,” Lim said sitting in her Rincon Hill apartment.
Emeryville artist tells the story of disappearing kelp

2 months ago | nbcbayarea.com | Joe Rosato Jr.

If there is a central ingredient in Ann Holsberry’s art, it’s not paints or brushes, the silk tapestries or the innovative chemical systems she uses to craft her unique art. It’s nature. If nature is prominent in her art, it’s only because it’s prominent in Holsberry’s life. The Emeryville artist grew up on the Gulf Coast of Florida and the shape of water was always in her peripheral. Nature was her muse, and its artifacts were her canvas. “I was kind of a quiet young child,” Holsberry said.
New study paints gloomy picture of climate change's impact on commercial fishing

2 months ago | nbcbayarea.com | Joe Rosato Jr.

A new study of some of California’s most commercially significant aquatic species paints a grim picture for the future of the state’s fishing industry under the growing threat of climate change. The study, compiled by a host of researchers including federal and state scientists as well as researchers from UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis, looked at 34 aquatic species in an attempt to gauge how each would fare under predicted climate change scenarios.