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mario cortez
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San Diego born. Tijuana raised.
Food reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle
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mario cortez @macortez.bsky.social · Nov 23
Las comidas corridas son el tasting menú del proletariado 🇲🇽
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How much beer is enough for Super Bowl Sunday? Here's how San Francisco's oldest operating sports bar is stocking up 🍻
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How a 125-year-old S.F. sports bar gets ready for the Super Bowl
This San Francisco sports bar is sticking to a simple formula for the Super Bowl: more beer, more security but, perhaps surprisingly, not more bartenders.
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February 6, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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We had a Pharrell sighting in SF last night at a cult-fave Chinese restaurant
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Pharrell Williams had a ‘fantastic’ dinner at this cult-favorite S.F. Chinese restaurant
The music superstar visited San Tung, a longtime S.F. destination for chicken wings.
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February 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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Thought I was done writing about the bullshit that outside media says about S.F.

But this pair — making fun of unhoused people in wheelchairs — coaxed me out of retirement.

On loving the city, and the fragility of visiting adult male Patriots fans.

Gift link 🎁

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Are all Patriots fans this soft? Boston radio hosts mock S.F. in idiotic Super Bowl tirade
Radio hosts Michael Felger and Tony Massarotti failed the empathy test this week when they took to the airwaves to call San Francisco a “zombie apocalypse.”
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February 5, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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ICYMI: Tokyo Central has brought its vast, premium selection of seafood, dry goods and beverages to the East Bay with the opening of its new store
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Hundreds swarm for sushi and sashimi at Bay Area’s newest Japanese supermarket
Tokyo Central brings its vast selection of Japanese seafood, produce and beverages to the Bay Area, including many items unavailable online.
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February 3, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein dined out at local restaurants on multiple visits to the Bay Area, according to emails in the Epstein files.
Here’s where Jeffrey Epstein dined out — or tried to — in the Bay Area
Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein dined out at local restaurants on multiple visits to the Bay Area, according to emails in the Epstein files.
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February 3, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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here, I am calling upon all of us to not leave Minnesota in a lurch. it's time for us to do the work to build up to a nationwide general strike so we can finally abolish ICE www.coyotemedia.org/what-we-owe-...
What We Owe Minnesota
We solve this together or not at all.
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January 26, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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I had a question about ube, so I called my mom. Read what she had to say.
January 23, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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since we’re talking about darrell issa, don’t forget he’s always been a shady crook.
The San Diego Union-Tribune 1980: According to later reporting by the San Francisco Chronicle, Issa was prosecuted with his brother in San Jose in 1980 for allegedly faking the theft of Issa's Mercedes when he had sold it to a car dealer. The case was dismissed for lack of evidence. The same year, he invested in a struggling Cleveland electronics business and acquired it when the owner failed to repay a loan. Within a decade he transformed the company to produce the popular Viper automobile anti-theft device, with Issa's voice as the warning to would-be thieves to "stand back." 1982: According to later reporting by the Los Angeles Times, Issa benefited from a suspicious fire in 1982 at his Ohio factory. Issa denied the report. 1985: He and his wife, Kathy, moved to San Diego's North County. By 1990, Issa's Directed
January 22, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Three SF pizza heavyweights have brought frozen pies to grocery aisles. Which one came put on top of our blind tasting ? 🍕
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What’s the best frozen pizza? We blind-tasted pies from S.F.’s iconic spots to find out
Three of San Francisco’s pizza heavyweights have brought frozen pies to grocery aisles. So we conducted a blind taste-test to find the best one.
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January 21, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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this country's lack of subtlety really drives me up the wall
victinibcn.bsky.social Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 21d
Greg Bovino was seen earlier today at the Minneapolis ICE facility dressed in a very nazi-inspired outfit. They don’t even hide anymore.
January 17, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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Breaking: The last remaining restaurant inside San Francisco's largest mall is now closed. The closing comes as retailers have been asked to leave.
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The last restaurant at SF’s largest mall has closed
San Francisco Centre is now a restaurant-free zone.
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January 14, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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Yo: Voy a dar un paseo para olvidarme del deadline.
La ciudad:
January 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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New Asian grocery stores are opening across the Bay Area and are positioned as retail 'saviors'.

Immigrant culture gets celebrated when it’s profitable — and villainized when it’s not. I wrote an essay about it, and about the mall that raised me: Pacific East Mall ❤️
What the ‘Asian Market Boom’ Is Missing: An Ode to Pacific East Mall
As shiny, new Asian grocery stores are hailed as retail "saviors," the decades-old Pacific East Mall in Richmond shows how immigrant cultural spaces matter beyond their economic benefits.
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January 10, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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No more "Millionaire Bacon" in the Mission. Here's when San Francisco brunch hotspot Kitchen Story is closing: www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
S.F. brunch restaurant touting trademarked bacon is closing after 12 years
The days of Millionaire’s Bacon are coming to an end at this Mission District restaurant.
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January 2, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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There's a clear fusion trend among San Francisco's 2025 class of new Italian restaurants. What dishes can one expect to find? 🤌🏽
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There’s a new trend in San Francisco’s Italian restaurant boom: fusion
Tucked inside the surge of new Italian restaurants in San Francisco is another mini-trend: Italian fusion.
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December 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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A small but thriving community of Asian American farmers across the Bay Area grow organic Asian vegetables that you cannot easily find in grocery stores.
These Asian American farmers are saving seeds as an ‘act of resistance’
A small but thriving community of Asian American farmers across the Bay Area grow organic Asian vegetables that you cannot easily find in grocery stores.
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December 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Someone had to say it
fidel.bsky.social Fidel Martinez @fidel.bsky.social · Dec 28
My last hater take of the morning: pochos y pochas, for the love of god find another song other than “hasta la raiz” to express your flimsy sense of ethnic identity
December 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband
The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband
Once again, the Streisand effect is Streisanding
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December 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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This was a fascinating, tragic and heartwarming story to work on. What a brilliantly creative mind - now trapped inside itself by aphasia.

Will he finish his masterpiece?

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December 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot
An excerpt from The Washington Post's interview with photographer Christopher Anderson: Question: "Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor?" Anderson: "I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, 'Should I smile or not smile?' and I said, 'How would you want to be portrayed?' We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, 'You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.' And I looked at him and I said, 'You know, you do, too.'"
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Mariscos Aguachiles el 8, a top-tier pick for Mexican seafood, has landed a permanent location. Here's where 🦐⤵️
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The Bay Area’s most outrageously spicy Mexican seafood has a permanent home
A Mexican seafood specialist known for his spicy dishes has landed his first brick-and-mortar location in the Bay Area after years of drawing crowds to his backyard and food truck.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
macortez.bsky.social
Ese wey y su colonialismo qué se vayan a chspm
December 16, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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It took me all these years to realize that Alexis Vega has had Cuauhtémoc Blanco's aura all along
cesarhfutbol.bsky.social Cesar Hernandez @cesarhfutbol.bsky.social · Dec 15
Absolute scenes, Alexis Vega scores his penalty and Toluca are now back-to-back Liga MX champions! Los Diablos Rojos are now tied with Chivas for the second-most titles in Mexican soccer.
December 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM