Matt Charnock
Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance
Founder at Underscore_SF
SF queerdo and Dark Mode fan. | Founder of @Underscore_SF | Ex-EIC of @thebolditalic; former @SFist editor | Words in @thisisinsider, @Hoodline, etc. | He/They
Articles
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1 week ago |
7x7.com | Eric Millman |Anna Volpicelli |Matt Charnock
Austin, Texas, is affectionately known as the live music capital of the world, and is, of course, equally famous for its barbecue. But there's more to the Lone Star State's blue center than finger-licking brisket and crooning hipsters—well, thankfully, there is a whole lot of that, too.
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2 months ago |
underscoresf.com | Matt Charnock
A pair of falcons that regularly roosted at UC Berkeley haven't been seen for months, leaving many speculating they died of the bird flu.
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2 months ago |
underscoresf.com | Matt Charnock
The double-headed serpent is housed inside Northern California’s largest reptile shop and has already eaten nine times to great success. The odds of being struck by lightning are comparatively high; you’d likely get hit by an atmospheric bolt about 215 times before you’d ever get bit by a shark — a one in roughly three million happenstance event. But for a reptile to be born with two functioning heads is an entirely different scale of rarity … think about one in four hundred million births.
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Mar 14, 2025 |
underscoresf.com | Matt Charnock
After SF’s most embattled and controversial Safeway location closed in February, tens of thousands of San Franciscans found themselves unexpectedly far from an affordable grocer overnight. — over 10% of the country’s population — live within food deserts, where people reside comparably long distances from a supermarket.
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Mar 13, 2025 |
underscoresf.com | Matt Charnock
The San Francisco Bay Area is iconic for its memeability. Silicon Valley investors, gaggles of tech bros, out-of-touch one percenters (who demand their nannies have at least four-year college educations, preferably in psychology fields), and the overt startup culture have led to head scratching behaviours that could only happen there. In the age of social media, no longer are those shenanigans reserved only to those who glimpsed them briefly IRL or scrolled past them on dial-up connections.
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