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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 10h

We’re out here at the Marina Green Triangle for @sfgate.com’s Pop-Up Newsroom from 12-5pm. Come say hi, pitch us a story, grab free merch and support local journalism 👋

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

On Friday, @sfgate.com is building a temporary newsroom in SF's Marina Green Triangle. Only 23% of Americans have spoken to a journalist, we want to change that, so we're bringing a our staff there to hear from our communities, 12pm-5pm. RSVP: partiful.com/e/sZd1l0cA0r...

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🚨 TODAY'S THE DAY! 🚨 @sfgate.com is building a temporary newsroom in GG Park today (JFK & 8th!) and staffing it with a dozen journalists who'll be there 11am-6pm chatting with YOU about what's going on in your hood. We'll also have free merch, professional "Friends" photo shoots and more! Join us!

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

if you’re ever starting to lose faith in humanity, just drop your airpod behind your @caltrain.com seat and watch as the entire train tries to come to your rescue.

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

On Friday (9/18), @sfgate.com is building a temporary pop-up newsroom in Golden Gate Park on JFK Promenade (at 8th). Only 23% of Americans have spoken to a journalist, we want to change that, so we're bringing a our staff there to talk to you in person, 11am-6pm. RSVP: partiful.com/e/twZyfOnVz6...

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

👋 HI! HELLO! Two weeks from today (9/18), @sfgate.com is building a temporary pop-up newsroom in Golden Gate Park on JFK Promenade (at 8th). Only 23% of Americans have spoken to a journalist, we want to change that, so we're bringing a our staff there to talk to you in person, 11am-6pm. Join us!

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

oh my god i was not prepared for these massive new 'welcome to california' signs @mcleantessa.bsky.social discovered: www.sfgate.com/california/a...

13ft welcome to california sign with a huge bear statue on it!

13ft welcome to california sign with a huge moose statue on it!

13ft welcome to California sign with a huge moose statue on it and also fish swimming toward it!

13ft welcome to california sign with a huge standing bear statue on it!

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

favorite easter egg in the new AD-FREE @sfgate.com app is the little greeting you get when you open the app. we wrote over 100 of these so you get a tiny bit of surprise and delight every time you open it.

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I’m looking for recommendations for the best breakfast sandwiches in the ENTIRE Bay Area. Send me your favorites, either here or to grant.marek@sfgate.com. Will do my best to track the journey here, starting with Bay Area breakfast sandwich #1: Verve’s Breakfast Sandwich in Palo Alto. It is good.

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Good news, MLB just released an expanded statement and it is something:

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

What a quote. More from @sfgate.com on Santa Barbara's historic rent freeze now facing a federal lawsuit: www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Oh you want me to make the Easter appetizer? Don’t threaten me with a good time!

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

We did not catch the leprechaun, but we DID learn a valuable lesson: NEVER take the plastic gold coin that was used to lure the leprechaun into the trap because you will awaken to your child in full tears writing a note to him to please return it in exchange for a leprechaun coat. 🤦‍♂️

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

UPDATE: They did in fact kill the Starbucks!

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

it’s gonna be a good day, everyone

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Come for the poignant @drewmagary.bsky.social column, stay for the impressive accompanying art:

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This might be the best quote I've ever gotten, manager at an Eagles bar in Philly talking about 49ers fans pranking the crap out of his bar. Good game day read if you're looking for one: www.sfgate.com/49ers/articl...

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Today is the day I found out my 7-year-old daughter has been plotting for TEN months on a fool-proof leprechaun trap. She walked me through an extremely elaborate plan on our walk to school this morning to "finally get him on leprechaun day."

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Oh hey. @sfgate.com won its first two Society of Professional Journalists awards ever this year, which is great, but what's better is our Senior Photo Editor Charles Russo sitting down to talk about the story behind one of the winners: our photo spread from the A's final game in Oakland.

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Why do we do this? Because it’s awesome to spend more than $200 at an SF corner store that was absolutely not expecting it (plus even more at a great local bar and other great restaurants later on if we do the night right) and it might help them before the holidays ❤️

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

THEN we go to a local dive bar (Maggie McGarry’s!) and get drinks and exchange gifts, and the person with the funniest story of why they got their gift for their person wins the prize (shot of Fernet!)…

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Then we go to a local corner store (@alexsimonsports.bsky.social suggested Grant and Green Market in North Beach) and you have to buy a gift and wrap it for your person for $10 or less…

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

We start at a bar we love, tonight was Specs. We put everyone’s names in a hat and pick someone we’re going to get a secret gift for…

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

🚨BEST DAY OF THE YEAR ALERT 🚨 For the 5th straight year at @sfgate.com we celebrated Corner Store Christmas! Here’s how it works…

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Greatest perk of working at @sfgate.com is the Cal Band visits on the same Friday every year.

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

After piling another 150 giant candy bars on the checkout conveyor belt this year, the lady ringing me up at the supermarket goes 'you must be the fun house in the neighborhood?' moral of the story? never give up on your dreams.

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

we started going big on our decorations that year to try to raise the bar even more, and for the last three halloweens have listened to the ghostbusters theme song for 3 hours straight.

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

it had always been my dream to one day reach Mr. Rogers’ legendary halloween status. so in 2021 i did it, 50 huge ass candies which were stupidly expensive, which we gave away in like an hour, but had kids losing their minds. In 2022, we upped it to 75.

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Wild combination today: Bergum's press office calls @ashleyharrell.bsky.social's @sfgate.com story about squatters and illegal BASE jumpers in Yosemite "FALSE" and then Bergum himself says says they're addressing those exact issues with "appropriate law enforcement action." 🤔

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

took three hours of climbing on the roof, but was worth every second

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

If we really want to solve male loneliness, we should require every male to join a local rec league basketball team, and then get all of the males on that team into a text group. Problem immediately solved.

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

we really need to bring back green day on lower sproul as a thing @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social 👇

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

in case anyone needs a van filled with existential dread and cat photos:

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

What did I do last night? Oh just spent the night trying to find a costume of Derpy the supernatural tiger from 'Kpop Demon Hunters' at the request of my 6-year-old daughter, realized there wasn't one, so spent hours contemplating whether I could turn a blue tiger mascot costume from China into one.

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

“Poultry in Motion” is an all-time tagline for a food distributor.

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Some things never change: Coffee at Tree House Cafe in North Lake Tahoe is still great and John Fisher is still permanently banned. Bonus points for the @lastdivebar.bsky.social sticker!

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

What happens when you let your 6-year-old pack her own suitcase:

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Also really struggling to choose a favorite @drewmagary.bsky.social photo in there — pants in mouth? Drew about to put an ungodly amount of ketchup on something?? Pitching a tent in Vikings gear??? AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL???????

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Only the essentials in my suitcase for my daughter's Water Polo Junior Olympics over the weekend: 1. Clothes 2. Foldable bleachers chair

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Big thanks to the hundreds of people who came out for last night's @sfgate.com Best of Bay Area awards. And big ups to my guys at The Tempest for winning Best Bar! 👏

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Got to hoop it up on the Valkyries court tonight, so check that off the ol’ ‘Impossible Will Never Happen’ Bay Area bucket list!

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