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Erica Pan. “Dado que las setas de la muerte pueden confundirse fácilmente con setas comestibles seguras, recomendamos a la población que no recolecte setas silvestres durante esta temporada de alto riesgo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La seta mortal, cuyo nombre científico es \u003cem>Amanita phalloides\u003c/em>, es particularmente peligrosa porque, debido a su apariencia y sabor normales, se puede confundir fácilmente con otras setas comestibles seguras, explicó Bruch Reed, director de operaciones de la \u003ca href=\"https://namyco.org/\">Asociación micológica de América del Norte\u003c/a>. El estado ha advertido que cocinarlos, hervirlos, secarlos o congelarlos no los hace seguros para el consumo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando tenga dudas, deséchelo”, advirtió Reed, cuya organización también cuenta con un comité de toxicología. Como regla general, instó a los recolectores a nunca consumir un hongo si no están 100 % seguros de que es seguro; es decir, si está leyendo este artículo para decidir si debe comer un hongo que podría ser una seta venenosa, no lo haga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si no puede distinguir entre las dos, si tiene alguna duda, no vale la pena arriesgar la vida”, dijo Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070353\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-2.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La seta venenosa Amanita phalloides aparece fotografiada en Victoria, en la isla de Vancouver, Columbia Británica. \u003ccite>(Cortesía de Britt Bunyard, del libro “Amanitas of North America”)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Si le preocupa la salud de amigos o familiares que recolectan hongos y que quizá no conocen la reciente advertencia del estado, siga leyendo para obtener más información sobre el hongo tóxico, cómo reconocer los síntomas de intoxicación por seta de la muerte y qué hacer si accidentalmente consume un hongo peligroso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y si usted presenta algún síntoma después de consumir hongos silvestres o recolectados, acuda de inmediato a un hospital y llame a la línea gratuita disponible las 24 horas del día del Sistema de Control de Envenenamientos de California al 1-800-222-1222. Ellos pueden indicarle el hospital más cercano y no compartirán su nombre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vaya directamente a\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#venenosa\">\u003cstrong>¿Cómo es una seta venenosa?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#setas\">\u003cstrong>¿Cuáles son los síntomas de la intoxicación por setas venenosas?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#tipos\">\u003cstrong>¿Con qué tipos de setas se confunden las setas venenosas?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"venenosa\">\u003c/a>¿Qué es una seta venenosa?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Al igual que muchas otras setas que se pueden encontrar en el suelo del bosque, o incluso en los estantes del supermercado, las setas venenosas suelen ser blancas, de color amarillo verdoso claro o incluso bronce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La seta mortal tiene sombrero y tallo y, “se parece a muchas otras setas”, afirma Britt Bunyard, micólogo, antiguo profesor universitario y jefe editorial de la revista FUNGI Magazine. También es autor del libro “Amanitas of North America”, que investiga las varias especies de setas mortales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cocinar la seta no elimina su toxicidad, reiteró Heather Hallen-Adams, profesora en la Universidad de Nebraska, Lincoln, y presidenta de toxicología de la Asociación micológica de América del Norte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hallen-Adams recibió un informe sobre el envenenamiento la semana pasada de un hospital de Salinas, donde el personal buscaba identificar las setas después de tratar a pacientes con síntomas gastrointestinales que afirman haberlas comido.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Por qué son tan peligrosas las setas venenosas?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Según Bunyand, esta especie de seta venenosa causa entre el 90% y el 95% de las muertes relacionadas con hongos en todo el mundo. La seta venenosa tiene una tasa de mortalidad de alrededor del 50%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Se parece a muchas otras setas, por lo que no hay nada que indique que es peligrosa”, subrayó Bunyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070354\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-3.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-3-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La seta venenosa Amanita phalloides aparece junto a la seta no venenosa Amanita vernicoccora, lo que ilustra lo fácil que es confundir ambas especies. \u003ccite>(Cortesía de Britt Bunyard, del libro “Amanitas of North America”)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lo mismo ocurre con su sabor, explicó Bunyard. Aunque técnicamente no es dañino masticar el hongo y escupirlo, algo que él aún no recomienda en absoluto, esto tampoco sirve de advertencia, ya que “no tiene un sabor amargo ni desagradable”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No hay indicio de que sea venenoso de ninguna manera”, dijo. “No huelen mal en absoluto”. Y a pesar de su peligro letal, las setas venenosas “en realidad huelen bien y saben bien”, afirmó Bunyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Son peligrosas las setas de la muerte para las mascotas?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sí, estas setas también son peligrosas para mascotas como los perros, dijo Bunyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dicho esto, no todos los animales se ven afectados por las setas de la muerte, y dijo que aún no está del todo claro cuál es la función de la toxina en sí.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es una de esas cosas que resulta increíblemente venenosa para los mamíferos y especialmente para los humanos, pero no para muchos otros organismos”, dijo Bunyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Son comunes las setas venenosas?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Según los expertos, el aumento de las lluvias provoca un repunte en la aparición de setas como estas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Amanita phalloides\u003c/em> es una especie invasora procedente de Europa que llegó a California alrededor de la década de 1930 y que desde entonces se ha extendido rápidamente por las costas este y oeste, principalmente cerca de las zonas urbanas, pero aún no se ha adentrado ni se ha extendido por los bosques, según Bunyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simplemente suelen crecer en lugares donde hay gente”, dijo Bunyard, lo que hace que su proximidad a los humanos sea aún más peligrosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La seta mortal también tiene una relación de dependencia mutua con los árboles locales, como el roble costero y los pinos, que abundan en toda la zona de la bahía y en el estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parece que la \u003cem>Amanita phalloides\u003c/em> está teniendo un momento de fructificación en California en este momento”, dijo Reed. “Nadie se lo comería a propósito”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"setas\">\u003c/a>¿Cuáles son los síntomas de la intoxicación mortal por setas venenosas?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si ha comido un hongo tóxico como el hongo de la muerte, es posible que no sienta los síntomas de inmediato, dijo Reed. Pueden pasar seis, ocho o incluso 24 horas antes de que empiece a sentirse mal, con síntomas similares a los de la gripe, entre los que se incluyen:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Vómitos\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dolores\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dolor de estómago\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Diarrea acuosa\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Náuseas\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Deshidratación\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>En estos casos de intoxicación recientemente reportados, Hallen-Adams dijo que los síntomas no aparecieron hasta unas 24 horas después.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incluso es posible que empiece a sentirse mejor, dijo Reed, pensando que solo tenía gripe y sin molestarse en ir al hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070357\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070357\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-4.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-4-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Las setas Amanita phalloides se parecen a las setas comestibles comunes, como la Agaricus californicus, que es tóxica pero no mortal. \u003ccite>(Cortesía de Britt Bunyard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Y luego, dos o tres días después, sus órganos dejan de funcionar y probablemente no sobreviva”, dijo Reed. “Es insidiosamente engañoso”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La advertencia del estado también alertaba sobre la “engañosa” mejoría momentánea que pueden experimentar las víctimas de intoxicación por hongos. Pero una vez que el veneno entra en su organismo, dijo Bunyard, ataca su hígado y otros órganos, recirculando a través de su torrente sanguíneo y, en esencia, volviendo a dosificarse con la toxina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras empieza a sentirse mejor, el daño ya está hecho, dijo Bunyard. Su hígado está destruido y puede morir por las otras toxinas que ya están en su cuerpo y que su hígado ya no puede tratar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Básicamente, con respecto a la intoxicación por hongo venenoso, o se somete a diálisis el resto de su vida, o le trasplantan el hígado, o muere”, dijo. “Así que no solo es potencialmente letal, sino que tampoco es una buena forma de morir”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si se identifica la toxina a tiempo y se acude al hospital de inmediato, dijo Bunyard, la intoxicación por hongo venenoso es tratable, ”pero no conviene arriesgarse”, añadió.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si experimenta algún síntoma después de comer setas silvestres o recolectadas, acuda inmediatamente al hospital y llame a la línea gratuita disponible las 24 horas del día del Sistema de Control de Envenenamientos de California al 1-800-222-1222. Le indicarán el hospital más cercano y no revelarán su nombre.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tipos\">\u003c/a>¿Con qué tipos de setas se pueden confundir fácilmente las setas mortales?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>En California, las setas mortales se parecen mucho a las setas comestibles comunes, como las setas de campo y las setas de botón, como Agaricus campestris, dijo Bunyard. También se pueden confundir con Amanita vernicoccora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si no sabe nada sobre setas, parecen muy similares”, dijo Bunyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunca utilice la inteligencia artificial para identificar setas, advierte Reed, y nunca coma setas silvestres recolectadas por personas en las que no confía al 100% para identificarlas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Cuáles son algunos mitos comunes sobre la recolección de setas?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cuando da conferencias, Bunyard dijo que la gente pide saber las reglas estrictas sobre lo que no se debe comer. Pero la verdad número uno sobre la recolección de setas, dijo, es que no hay reglas generales, excepto una.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La única regla general es que hay que saber exactamente qué seta se está comiendo antes de hacerlo”, afirmó. “De lo contrario, se puede correr un grave peligro”.[aside label='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advirtió contra el seguimiento de consejos populares como cocinar las setas con plata y esperar a que se pongan negras como prueba de la presencia de toxinas, lo cual es un mito, según él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bunyard reiteró que no todas las setas tóxicas dan señales de que son perjudiciales, ya sea visualmente, por su sabor o por su olor. Además, la seta de la muerte, en particular, es completamente segura al tacto, al olfato y a la vista, y no hace daño a nadie cuando crece en un césped o en un bosque.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En general, Reed afirmó que aumentar el conocimiento sobre las setas a través de la educación, especialmente el conocimiento local y presencial, puede ayudar a prevenir errores “terribles” como estos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esta historia se ha actualizado para aclarar que las setas Agaricus californicus, aunque no son mortales, siguen siendo tóxicas.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La seta mortal, cuyo nombre científico es \u003cem>Amanita phalloides\u003c/em>, es particularmente peligrosa porque, debido a su apariencia y sabor normales, se puede confundir fácilmente con otras setas comestibles seguras, explicó Bruch Reed, director de operaciones de la \u003ca href=\"https://namyco.org/\">Asociación micológica de América del Norte\u003c/a>. El estado ha advertido que cocinarlos, hervirlos, secarlos o congelarlos no los hace seguros para el consumo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando tenga dudas, deséchelo”, advirtió Reed, cuya organización también cuenta con un comité de toxicología. Como regla general, instó a los recolectores a nunca consumir un hongo si no están 100 % seguros de que es seguro; es decir, si está leyendo este artículo para decidir si debe comer un hongo que podría ser una seta venenosa, no lo haga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si no puede distinguir entre las dos, si tiene alguna duda, no vale la pena arriesgar la vida”, dijo Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070353\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-2.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La seta venenosa Amanita phalloides aparece fotografiada en Victoria, en la isla de Vancouver, Columbia Británica. \u003ccite>(Cortesía de Britt Bunyard, del libro “Amanitas of North America”)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Si le preocupa la salud de amigos o familiares que recolectan hongos y que quizá no conocen la reciente advertencia del estado, siga leyendo para obtener más información sobre el hongo tóxico, cómo reconocer los síntomas de intoxicación por seta de la muerte y qué hacer si accidentalmente consume un hongo peligroso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y si usted presenta algún síntoma después de consumir hongos silvestres o recolectados, acuda de inmediato a un hospital y llame a la línea gratuita disponible las 24 horas del día del Sistema de Control de Envenenamientos de California al 1-800-222-1222. Ellos pueden indicarle el hospital más cercano y no compartirán su nombre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vaya directamente a\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#venenosa\">\u003cstrong>¿Cómo es una seta venenosa?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#setas\">\u003cstrong>¿Cuáles son los síntomas de la intoxicación por setas venenosas?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#tipos\">\u003cstrong>¿Con qué tipos de setas se confunden las setas venenosas?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"venenosa\">\u003c/a>¿Qué es una seta venenosa?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Al igual que muchas otras setas que se pueden encontrar en el suelo del bosque, o incluso en los estantes del supermercado, las setas venenosas suelen ser blancas, de color amarillo verdoso claro o incluso bronce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La seta mortal tiene sombrero y tallo y, “se parece a muchas otras setas”, afirma Britt Bunyard, micólogo, antiguo profesor universitario y jefe editorial de la revista FUNGI Magazine. También es autor del libro “Amanitas of North America”, que investiga las varias especies de setas mortales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cocinar la seta no elimina su toxicidad, reiteró Heather Hallen-Adams, profesora en la Universidad de Nebraska, Lincoln, y presidenta de toxicología de la Asociación micológica de América del Norte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hallen-Adams recibió un informe sobre el envenenamiento la semana pasada de un hospital de Salinas, donde el personal buscaba identificar las setas después de tratar a pacientes con síntomas gastrointestinales que afirman haberlas comido.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Por qué son tan peligrosas las setas venenosas?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Según Bunyand, esta especie de seta venenosa causa entre el 90% y el 95% de las muertes relacionadas con hongos en todo el mundo. La seta venenosa tiene una tasa de mortalidad de alrededor del 50%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Se parece a muchas otras setas, por lo que no hay nada que indique que es peligrosa”, subrayó Bunyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070354\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-3.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-3-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La seta venenosa Amanita phalloides aparece junto a la seta no venenosa Amanita vernicoccora, lo que ilustra lo fácil que es confundir ambas especies. \u003ccite>(Cortesía de Britt Bunyard, del libro “Amanitas of North America”)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lo mismo ocurre con su sabor, explicó Bunyard. Aunque técnicamente no es dañino masticar el hongo y escupirlo, algo que él aún no recomienda en absoluto, esto tampoco sirve de advertencia, ya que “no tiene un sabor amargo ni desagradable”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No hay indicio de que sea venenoso de ninguna manera”, dijo. “No huelen mal en absoluto”. Y a pesar de su peligro letal, las setas venenosas “en realidad huelen bien y saben bien”, afirmó Bunyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Son peligrosas las setas de la muerte para las mascotas?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sí, estas setas también son peligrosas para mascotas como los perros, dijo Bunyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dicho esto, no todos los animales se ven afectados por las setas de la muerte, y dijo que aún no está del todo claro cuál es la función de la toxina en sí.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es una de esas cosas que resulta increíblemente venenosa para los mamíferos y especialmente para los humanos, pero no para muchos otros organismos”, dijo Bunyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Son comunes las setas venenosas?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Según los expertos, el aumento de las lluvias provoca un repunte en la aparición de setas como estas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Amanita phalloides\u003c/em> es una especie invasora procedente de Europa que llegó a California alrededor de la década de 1930 y que desde entonces se ha extendido rápidamente por las costas este y oeste, principalmente cerca de las zonas urbanas, pero aún no se ha adentrado ni se ha extendido por los bosques, según Bunyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simplemente suelen crecer en lugares donde hay gente”, dijo Bunyard, lo que hace que su proximidad a los humanos sea aún más peligrosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La seta mortal también tiene una relación de dependencia mutua con los árboles locales, como el roble costero y los pinos, que abundan en toda la zona de la bahía y en el estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parece que la \u003cem>Amanita phalloides\u003c/em> está teniendo un momento de fructificación en California en este momento”, dijo Reed. “Nadie se lo comería a propósito”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"setas\">\u003c/a>¿Cuáles son los síntomas de la intoxicación mortal por setas venenosas?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si ha comido un hongo tóxico como el hongo de la muerte, es posible que no sienta los síntomas de inmediato, dijo Reed. Pueden pasar seis, ocho o incluso 24 horas antes de que empiece a sentirse mal, con síntomas similares a los de la gripe, entre los que se incluyen:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Vómitos\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dolores\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dolor de estómago\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Diarrea acuosa\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Náuseas\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Deshidratación\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>En estos casos de intoxicación recientemente reportados, Hallen-Adams dijo que los síntomas no aparecieron hasta unas 24 horas después.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incluso es posible que empiece a sentirse mejor, dijo Reed, pensando que solo tenía gripe y sin molestarse en ir al hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070357\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070357\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-4.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/mushroom-4-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Las setas Amanita phalloides se parecen a las setas comestibles comunes, como la Agaricus californicus, que es tóxica pero no mortal. \u003ccite>(Cortesía de Britt Bunyard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Y luego, dos o tres días después, sus órganos dejan de funcionar y probablemente no sobreviva”, dijo Reed. “Es insidiosamente engañoso”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La advertencia del estado también alertaba sobre la “engañosa” mejoría momentánea que pueden experimentar las víctimas de intoxicación por hongos. Pero una vez que el veneno entra en su organismo, dijo Bunyard, ataca su hígado y otros órganos, recirculando a través de su torrente sanguíneo y, en esencia, volviendo a dosificarse con la toxina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras empieza a sentirse mejor, el daño ya está hecho, dijo Bunyard. Su hígado está destruido y puede morir por las otras toxinas que ya están en su cuerpo y que su hígado ya no puede tratar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Básicamente, con respecto a la intoxicación por hongo venenoso, o se somete a diálisis el resto de su vida, o le trasplantan el hígado, o muere”, dijo. “Así que no solo es potencialmente letal, sino que tampoco es una buena forma de morir”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si se identifica la toxina a tiempo y se acude al hospital de inmediato, dijo Bunyard, la intoxicación por hongo venenoso es tratable, ”pero no conviene arriesgarse”, añadió.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si experimenta algún síntoma después de comer setas silvestres o recolectadas, acuda inmediatamente al hospital y llame a la línea gratuita disponible las 24 horas del día del Sistema de Control de Envenenamientos de California al 1-800-222-1222. Le indicarán el hospital más cercano y no revelarán su nombre.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tipos\">\u003c/a>¿Con qué tipos de setas se pueden confundir fácilmente las setas mortales?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>En California, las setas mortales se parecen mucho a las setas comestibles comunes, como las setas de campo y las setas de botón, como Agaricus campestris, dijo Bunyard. También se pueden confundir con Amanita vernicoccora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si no sabe nada sobre setas, parecen muy similares”, dijo Bunyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunca utilice la inteligencia artificial para identificar setas, advierte Reed, y nunca coma setas silvestres recolectadas por personas en las que no confía al 100% para identificarlas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Cuáles son algunos mitos comunes sobre la recolección de setas?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cuando da conferencias, Bunyard dijo que la gente pide saber las reglas estrictas sobre lo que no se debe comer. Pero la verdad número uno sobre la recolección de setas, dijo, es que no hay reglas generales, excepto una.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La única regla general es que hay que saber exactamente qué seta se está comiendo antes de hacerlo”, afirmó. “De lo contrario, se puede correr un grave peligro”.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071216/san-francisco-mountain-lion-is-tranquilized-as-officials-work-to-capture-the-cougar\">young mountain lion\u003c/a> roaming the streets of San Francisco has been captured, city officials said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities warned residents late Monday that a mountain lion had been spotted in the Lafayette Park area of Pacific Heights. They said Tuesday morning the wild feline had been tranquilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This latest sighting — in a more rare urban setting — might have you wondering: “How exactly \u003cem>should \u003c/em>I react if I see a mountain lion?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Encountering a mountain lion up-close\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two decades ago, Zara McDonald was on a run in Marin near \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997579/bay-area-hikes-views-clouds-marine-inversion-layer\">Mount Tamalpais\u003c/a> around dusk when a mountain lion suddenly appeared above her, just 5 feet away — and stared at her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its eyes then fixed on something behind her, and the mountain lion disappeared back into the bushes. When she turned around, she saw three deer on the hillside behind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt really small,” said McDonald, a biologist and researcher who’s now the founder and president of the \u003ca href=\"https://bapp.org/\">Bay Area Puma Project\u003c/a>, a local wild cat research and conservation organization that’s part of the \u003ca href=\"https://felidaefund.org/\">Felidae Conservation Fund\u003c/a>. “I disrupted his opportunity to get a meal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#avoid-mountain-lions\">How to avoid mountain lions — and what to do if you see one\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>And while she had fears, “he was not a threat,” she said. Rather, “I left feeling like I was an intruder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For McDonald, this experience back in the early 2000s was “transformative” in how she saw humans’ relationship to nature. Now, her organization has around \u003ca href=\"https://bapp.org/our-work/remote-cameras\">200 cameras placed around the Bay Area\u003c/a> that collect data on mountain lion movement — and is also \u003ca href=\"https://bapp.org/updates/updates/bay-area-puma-project/scat-field-work-2024\">studying their fecal matter for information on genetics and overall population health\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Coe01_Sep-9-2023_puma-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Coe01_Sep-9-2023_puma-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Coe01_Sep-9-2023_puma-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Coe01_Sep-9-2023_puma-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Coe01_Sep-9-2023_puma-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Coe01_Sep-9-2023_puma-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Coe01_Sep-9-2023_puma-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mountain lion stares into a wildlife camera on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Photo by Felidae Conservation Fund/Bay Area Puma Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mountain lion is the second-largest cat in all of North America and is native to the Bay Area. While you may have never seen one, \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Mountain-Lion#632445330-statewide-integrated-population-modeling\">40% of the state is considered suitable for mountain lion habitat,\u003c/a> making it likely that these elusive animals are around hiking trails or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13897584/here-kitty-kitty-that-mountain-lion-spotted-in-bernal-heights-has-been-captured\">areas you might already be frequenting.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain lions are \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/science/apex-predator\">apex predators\u003c/a>, but experts say for the most part, they just want to do their own thing. \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Mountain-Lion#632445330-statewide-integrated-population-modeling\">According to the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife\u003c/a>, there have been only 26 total verified mountain lion attacks on humans in California in the last four decades — and four deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how common are these animals, really? And how afraid should you be of them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Education is our best tool for preventing conflict,” McDonald said. “When people understand mountain lion behavior, fear turns into respect. And respect is the foundation of coexistence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do I know it’s a mountain lion?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You should know: \u003ca href=\"https://felidaefund.org/news/general/mistaken-mountain-lion-sightings-have-major-consequences\">upwards of 90% of all “mountain lion sightings” in California are not actually mountain lions\u003c/a>. And there are only about 3,200 to 4,500 lions across the entire state, said Mairan Smith, a CDFW unit biologist for the Bay Delta region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, they’re often confused for \u003ca href=\"https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/bobcat\">bobcats \u003c/a>or stray domestic cats. But an actual mountain lion will be:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.openspace.org/where-to-go/nature/mountain-lions\">Much larger\u003c/a>, with adult males reaching around 8 feet long and up to 150 pounds\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gray, brown or tan in color with black-tipped ears\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Likely \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Mountain-Lion#632445330-statewide-integrated-population-modeling\">traveling alone.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCIOIbRtAWs\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where am I most likely to see a mountain lion?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Smith said they thrive in redwood forests, brushland and mountain environments — all of which are habitats found in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the animals can live almost everywhere in the state, most people who report sightings are closer to the rural-urban divide, she said — not only because these areas are more likely to be their habitat, but also because they’re often a source of livestock or other food.[aside postID=news_12042615 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/E.-CSL-Quly-left-and-Togozees_release_8-4-23_photo-by-Bill-Hunnewell-%C2%A9-The-Marine-Mammal-Center-2-1020x754.jpg']Mountain lions are predators, and their main prey is deer. “Wherever deer move, lions are going to follow,” McDonald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For food or other resources, they will travel across large territories — up to around 200 square miles for males, which makes places like urban parks, which connect them from area to area, so important, McDonald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mountain lions are really trying to figure out how to get that space they need so they can move through it safely and reproduce,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given this movement, conservation experts want to keep populations of mountain lions connected — and join currently siloed groups to one another. John Benson, associate professor of Vertebrate Ecology at the University of Nebraska’s School of Natural Resources, is \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Mountain-Lion#632445330-statewide-integrated-population-modeling\">currently studying population dynamics of mountain lions across California\u003c/a> to better “understand what we can do from a conservation perspective to get more connectivity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benson said in the Bay Area, the waters of the San Francisco Bay itself — \u003ca href=\"https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2688-8319.12093#:~:text=Our%20results%20indicate%20that%20mountain,human%20activity%20on%20the%20landscape.\">as well as human infrastructure like housing development and roads\u003c/a> — all play a role in dividing up populations. And as they travel from one open space area to another, \u003ca href=\"https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.1013\">this may raise your chances of running into a mountain lion. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as mountain lions and human development share more of the same space, the danger to these animals increases. \u003ca href=\"https://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/news/mountain-lion-mortality-maps-show-rough-road-cougars\">One of the leading causes of mountain lion mortalities is being struck by a car, McDonald said.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mountain lions still live in the Bay Area and move through the Bay Area because we’ve preserved enough habitat to support them,” she said. “But along with that privilege comes the responsibility to coexist,” — and it’s a common misconception that mountain lions are becoming more adapted to humans, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YW3ESNuGWY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing more mountain lion activity near urban edges, not because they’re changing — but because we are, and development is pushing deeper into their habitat,” she said. “It’s really just survival instinct for them. It’s not anything to do with humans — it’s in \u003cem>spite \u003c/em>of humans that they’re going into these areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I avoid \u003ca id=\"avoid-mountain-lions\">\u003c/a>mountain lion encounters altogether?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Around your home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While attacks on humans by mountain lions are extremely rare, they are nonetheless “a risk to outdoor pets and livestock,” Smith said. “It’s really important to keep your pets inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That goes for outdoor cats and unsupervised dogs in yards as well as livestock like goats and sheep, she said — advising you keep them fully enclosed at night or consider other methods of safeguarding them, like a \u003ca href=\"https://monocounty.ca.gov/animal/page/livestock-protection-dogs\">livestock guardian dog\u003c/a> or noise deterrents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COE06A_2024Feb12_puma3-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052075\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COE06A_2024Feb12_puma3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1448\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COE06A_2024Feb12_puma3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COE06A_2024Feb12_puma3-2000x1131.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COE06A_2024Feb12_puma3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COE06A_2024Feb12_puma3-1536x869.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COE06A_2024Feb12_puma3-2048x1158.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A puma passes by a wildlife camera on March 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Video by Felidae Conservation Fund/ Bay Area Puma Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Anywhere in the Bay Area, if you have livestock, it’s something you should probably be thinking about,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also clear brush around your property or install lights if you’re worried about hiding spots for mountain lions, Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you feed stray cats that approach your home, Smith said that the food you leave out can also attract deer, and mountain lions may follow as they hunt their prey — the food itself might tempt them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mountain lions will come up and eat cat food off of people’s porches,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the most part, “the last thing most [mountain lions] want to do is encounter us,” Benson said. “In general, they do an excellent job of staying away from people and avoiding areas where they think they’re likely to run into people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re concerned about running into a mountain lion while walking or hiking on a trail, remember that they’re nocturnal and crepuscular animals — meaning they are most active at night and during the sunset and sunrise hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means that you can avoid being out on the trail altogether at those times — or allay your fears by traveling in pairs on trails if you know you’re in an area they inhabit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain lions also tend to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/yoursafety_mountainlions.htm\">stick to densely vegetated areas\u003c/a>. So if you’re worried about stumbling upon one, head to a more open area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What to do if you see a mountain lion\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the mountain lion is still some distance from you, and you think they haven’t yet noticed you, “you could just sort of quietly slip away,” Benson said.[aside postID=news_12050823 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Armstrong-Redwoods-1.png']But if the mountain lion has indeed spotted you, remember: “the last thing you want to do is run or show fear,” Benson said. Stand your ground, he said, and look as big as possible. If you have a dog or child with you, you can pick them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a backpack, you can put that over your head to make yourself seem a bit bigger,” he said. If the mountain lion is advancing toward you, you can even throw rocks or sticks at it, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are certainly a lot of stories out there of people that successfully were able to fight the mountain lion off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in general, remember: mountain lion attacks — especially fatal ones — are extremely rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052047\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052047\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COE01A_2023Nov12_puma-kittens4-scaled-e1755118173322.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mountain lion kittens are caught on wildlife cameras on Nov. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>( Felidae Conservation Fund/Bay Area Puma Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The most likely thing that will happen is that it will walk away,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember: Even just seeing a mountain lion is “pretty special,” she said. And if you do, you can report your sighting on the \u003ca href=\"https://apps.wildlife.ca.gov/wir\">CDFW website,\u003c/a> which will be forwarded to a regional biologist for study, and the Bay Area Puma Project’s own \u003ca href=\"https://bapp.org/meet-puma/sightings\">Puma and Bobcat Sightings Map.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCeDp_MY_h4G6VWj_-VPl-BJlQ3Uya2H0vxRZZd_47BpXwVA/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">Carly Severn\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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When she turned around, she saw three deer on the hillside behind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt really small,” said McDonald, a biologist and researcher who’s now the founder and president of the \u003ca href=\"https://bapp.org/\">Bay Area Puma Project\u003c/a>, a local wild cat research and conservation organization that’s part of the \u003ca href=\"https://felidaefund.org/\">Felidae Conservation Fund\u003c/a>. “I disrupted his opportunity to get a meal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#avoid-mountain-lions\">How to avoid mountain lions — and what to do if you see one\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>And while she had fears, “he was not a threat,” she said. Rather, “I left feeling like I was an intruder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For McDonald, this experience back in the early 2000s was “transformative” in how she saw humans’ relationship to nature. Now, her organization has around \u003ca href=\"https://bapp.org/our-work/remote-cameras\">200 cameras placed around the Bay Area\u003c/a> that collect data on mountain lion movement — and is also \u003ca href=\"https://bapp.org/updates/updates/bay-area-puma-project/scat-field-work-2024\">studying their fecal matter for information on genetics and overall population health\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Coe01_Sep-9-2023_puma-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Coe01_Sep-9-2023_puma-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Coe01_Sep-9-2023_puma-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Coe01_Sep-9-2023_puma-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Coe01_Sep-9-2023_puma-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Coe01_Sep-9-2023_puma-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Coe01_Sep-9-2023_puma-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mountain lion stares into a wildlife camera on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Photo by Felidae Conservation Fund/Bay Area Puma Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mountain lion is the second-largest cat in all of North America and is native to the Bay Area. While you may have never seen one, \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Mountain-Lion#632445330-statewide-integrated-population-modeling\">40% of the state is considered suitable for mountain lion habitat,\u003c/a> making it likely that these elusive animals are around hiking trails or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13897584/here-kitty-kitty-that-mountain-lion-spotted-in-bernal-heights-has-been-captured\">areas you might already be frequenting.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain lions are \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/science/apex-predator\">apex predators\u003c/a>, but experts say for the most part, they just want to do their own thing. \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Mountain-Lion#632445330-statewide-integrated-population-modeling\">According to the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife\u003c/a>, there have been only 26 total verified mountain lion attacks on humans in California in the last four decades — and four deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how common are these animals, really? And how afraid should you be of them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Education is our best tool for preventing conflict,” McDonald said. “When people understand mountain lion behavior, fear turns into respect. And respect is the foundation of coexistence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do I know it’s a mountain lion?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You should know: \u003ca href=\"https://felidaefund.org/news/general/mistaken-mountain-lion-sightings-have-major-consequences\">upwards of 90% of all “mountain lion sightings” in California are not actually mountain lions\u003c/a>. And there are only about 3,200 to 4,500 lions across the entire state, said Mairan Smith, a CDFW unit biologist for the Bay Delta region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, they’re often confused for \u003ca href=\"https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/bobcat\">bobcats \u003c/a>or stray domestic cats. But an actual mountain lion will be:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.openspace.org/where-to-go/nature/mountain-lions\">Much larger\u003c/a>, with adult males reaching around 8 feet long and up to 150 pounds\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gray, brown or tan in color with black-tipped ears\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Likely \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Mountain-Lion#632445330-statewide-integrated-population-modeling\">traveling alone.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/jCIOIbRtAWs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/jCIOIbRtAWs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>Where am I most likely to see a mountain lion?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Smith said they thrive in redwood forests, brushland and mountain environments — all of which are habitats found in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the animals can live almost everywhere in the state, most people who report sightings are closer to the rural-urban divide, she said — not only because these areas are more likely to be their habitat, but also because they’re often a source of livestock or other food.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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John Benson, associate professor of Vertebrate Ecology at the University of Nebraska’s School of Natural Resources, is \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Mountain-Lion#632445330-statewide-integrated-population-modeling\">currently studying population dynamics of mountain lions across California\u003c/a> to better “understand what we can do from a conservation perspective to get more connectivity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benson said in the Bay Area, the waters of the San Francisco Bay itself — \u003ca href=\"https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2688-8319.12093#:~:text=Our%20results%20indicate%20that%20mountain,human%20activity%20on%20the%20landscape.\">as well as human infrastructure like housing development and roads\u003c/a> — all play a role in dividing up populations. And as they travel from one open space area to another, \u003ca href=\"https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.1013\">this may raise your chances of running into a mountain lion. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as mountain lions and human development share more of the same space, the danger to these animals increases. \u003ca href=\"https://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/news/mountain-lion-mortality-maps-show-rough-road-cougars\">One of the leading causes of mountain lion mortalities is being struck by a car, McDonald said.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mountain lions still live in the Bay Area and move through the Bay Area because we’ve preserved enough habitat to support them,” she said. “But along with that privilege comes the responsibility to coexist,” — and it’s a common misconception that mountain lions are becoming more adapted to humans, she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/0YW3ESNuGWY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/0YW3ESNuGWY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“We’re seeing more mountain lion activity near urban edges, not because they’re changing — but because we are, and development is pushing deeper into their habitat,” she said. “It’s really just survival instinct for them. It’s not anything to do with humans — it’s in \u003cem>spite \u003c/em>of humans that they’re going into these areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I avoid \u003ca id=\"avoid-mountain-lions\">\u003c/a>mountain lion encounters altogether?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Around your home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While attacks on humans by mountain lions are extremely rare, they are nonetheless “a risk to outdoor pets and livestock,” Smith said. “It’s really important to keep your pets inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That goes for outdoor cats and unsupervised dogs in yards as well as livestock like goats and sheep, she said — advising you keep them fully enclosed at night or consider other methods of safeguarding them, like a \u003ca href=\"https://monocounty.ca.gov/animal/page/livestock-protection-dogs\">livestock guardian dog\u003c/a> or noise deterrents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COE06A_2024Feb12_puma3-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052075\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COE06A_2024Feb12_puma3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1448\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COE06A_2024Feb12_puma3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COE06A_2024Feb12_puma3-2000x1131.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COE06A_2024Feb12_puma3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COE06A_2024Feb12_puma3-1536x869.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COE06A_2024Feb12_puma3-2048x1158.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A puma passes by a wildlife camera on March 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Video by Felidae Conservation Fund/ Bay Area Puma Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Anywhere in the Bay Area, if you have livestock, it’s something you should probably be thinking about,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also clear brush around your property or install lights if you’re worried about hiding spots for mountain lions, Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you feed stray cats that approach your home, Smith said that the food you leave out can also attract deer, and mountain lions may follow as they hunt their prey — the food itself might tempt them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mountain lions will come up and eat cat food off of people’s porches,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the most part, “the last thing most [mountain lions] want to do is encounter us,” Benson said. “In general, they do an excellent job of staying away from people and avoiding areas where they think they’re likely to run into people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re concerned about running into a mountain lion while walking or hiking on a trail, remember that they’re nocturnal and crepuscular animals — meaning they are most active at night and during the sunset and sunrise hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means that you can avoid being out on the trail altogether at those times — or allay your fears by traveling in pairs on trails if you know you’re in an area they inhabit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain lions also tend to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/yoursafety_mountainlions.htm\">stick to densely vegetated areas\u003c/a>. So if you’re worried about stumbling upon one, head to a more open area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What to do if you see a mountain lion\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the mountain lion is still some distance from you, and you think they haven’t yet noticed you, “you could just sort of quietly slip away,” Benson said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068555/im-diabetic-what-should-i-know-about-insulin-price-changes-in-2026\">Leer en inglés\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California es el primer estado del país en asociarse con una organización sin fines de lucro para desarrollar, producir y vender \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1998855/california-will-offer-deeply-discounted-insulin-in-january\">su propia insulina\u003c/a> como solución a los altos precios de esta \u003ca href=\"https://diabetes.org/es/herramientas-recursos/insulina-asequible\">hormona vital\u003c/a>, que ayuda al organismo a \u003ca href=\"https://diabetes.org/es/salud-bienestar/medicamentos/conceptos-b%C3%A1sicos-sobre-insulina\">procesar o almacenar\u003c/a> el azúcar procedente de los alimentos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La organización sin fines de lucro, Civica, actualmente va desarrollando una inyección subcutánea bajo la marca CalRx y que proveerá “insulina biosimilar”, lo que hace referencia a la insulina comercial que ya ha sido aprobada por la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA por sus siglas en inglés) y no presenta “\u003ca href=\"https://calrx.ca.gov/biosimilar-insulin-initiative/\">diferencias clínicamente significativas\u003c/a> con respecto a su producto de referencia en términos de seguridad, pureza y potencia”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La inyección CalRx puede sustituir a Lantus y otras insulinas glarginas de marca, según un portavoz del Departamento de Acceso e Información Sanitaria (HCAI por sus siglas en inglés) del estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California no esperó a que la industria farmacéutica hiciera lo correcto, nosotros tomamos cartas en el asunto”, declaró el gobernador Gavin Newsom en un \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/16/governor-newsom-announces-affordable-calrx-insulin-11-a-pen-will-soon-be-available-for-purchase/\">comunicado de prensa de octubre\u003c/a> sobre la insulina CalRx.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ningún californiano debería tener que racionar la insulina o endeudarse para seguir con vida, y no voy a parar hasta que se reduzcan los costes sanitarios para todos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La iniciativa podría suponer un importante alivio financiero para \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/our-work/diabetes\">casi 3.5 millones de californianos\u003c/a> a los que se les ha diagnosticado diabetes, la mayoría de los cuales padecen diabetes tipo 2, en la que el cuerpo no puede utilizar la insulina correctamente. El tipo 1 se da cuando el cuerpo produce poca o ninguna insulina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://diabetes.org/health-wellness/medication/insulin-basics\">La diabetes tipo 1 o tipo 2\u003c/a> puede afectar a los \u003ca href=\"https://www.uvahealth.com/conditions/diabetes-types#googtrans/en/es/\">niveles de energía y al funcionamiento de los órganos\u003c/a>. Las inyecciones de insulina, o en algunos casos, las pastillas para la diabetes ayudan a las funciones principales del cuerpo. El \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/php/data-research/index.html\">Informe Nacional de Estadísticas sobre la Diabetes\u003c/a> reveló que 38.4 millones de personas tienen diabetes, casi el 12% de la población del país.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siga leyendo para obtener más información sobre los cambios en el precio de la insulina en California, cómo funcionarán las recetas y dónde encontrar más recursos.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>¿Cuál es el precio previsto de la insulina CalRx?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>La dificultad para conseguir la insulina en EE.UU. es \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/11/12/fake-eli-lilly-twitter-account-claims-insulin-is-free-stock-falls-43/\">un problema \u003c/a>ya bien documentado debido a un mercado \u003ca href=\"https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/the-price-of-insulin-a-qanda-with-kasia-lipska/\">dominado por tres grandes empresas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La insulina es entre \u003ca href=\"https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/the-price-of-insulin-a-qanda-with-kasia-lipska/\">siete y diez veces más cara en EE.UU. que en otros países\u003c/a>, a pesar de que su producción es de bajo costo, según un artículo de 2023 de la facultad de medicina de la Universidad de Yale. De hecho, esta investigación explica que “el mismo vial de insulina que costaba 21 dólares en Estados Unidos en 1996 ahora cuesta más de 250 dólares”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalRx pretende ser otro competidor en el mercado y presenta una alternativa más económica, con uno de los motivos de esta iniciativa pública siendo que otros fabricantes “\u003ca href=\"https://calrx.ca.gov/biosimilar-insulin-initiative/\">bajen sus precios también\u003c/a>“.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según el estado y Civica, el \u003ca href=\"https://calrx.ca.gov/biosimilar-insulin-initiative/\">precio de venta\u003c/a> al público sugerido es:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>No más de 30 dólares por un vial de insulina de 10 ml.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>No más de 55 dólares por un paquete de 5 inyecciones de 3 ml.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Según el portavoz de la HCAI en un correo electrónico enviado a KQED, “el precio que paga el consumidor podría ser incluso menor., dependiendo de la cobertura de su seguro médico”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varios grupos que defienden las necesidades de las personas con diabetes consideran el lanzamiento de este producto una victoria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Esperamos con interés el lanzamiento de la insulina CalRx® en enero”, escribió Christine Fallabel, directora de asuntos gubernamentales estatales de la Asociación Americana de Diabetes, en un correo electrónico enviado a KQED. “Cualquier medida significativa para mejorar la asequibilidad de la insulina y ofrecer opciones adicionales es una victoria para las personas con diabetes”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fallabel también señaló la reciente aprobación del \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB40/id/3030089\">proyecto de ley 40 del Senado\u003c/a>, que prohíbe los copagos elevados por el suministro mensual de insulina, como otra decisión estatal que contribuye a la accesibilidad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069465\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomInsulinAP-1536x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gavin Newsom hace una presentación en una pequeña farmacia.\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomInsulinAP-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomInsulinAP-1536x1024-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El gobernador de California, Gavin Newsom, presenta las inyecciones de insulina glargina de la marca CalRx en una conferencia de prensa el 16 de octubre de 2025 en una farmacia en Los Ángeles. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>¿Qué debo hacer si estoy pagando más de 55 dólares?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Según el portavoz de la HCAI, “CalRx y Civica no pueden imponer el precio final al consumidor, ya que esto entraría en conflicto con la ley antimonopolio y de competencia”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, el portavoz afirmó en un correo electrónico a KQED que Civica tiene previsto incluir un código QR en el lateral de las cajas del producto, para que los consumidores puedan informar si gastaron más de 55 dólares en su compra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En ese momento, Civica se pondría en contacto con la farmacia para solucionar el problema”, dijo el portavoz.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>¿Dónde puedo conseguir la insulina CalRx? ¿Necesito receta médica?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No es necesario completar una solicitud para acceder a la nueva insulina y no hay requisitos de elegibilidad. \u003ca href=\"https://calrx.ca.gov/biosimilar-insulin-initiative/\">No es necesario tener seguro médico\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La amplia distribución al por mayor permitirá a cualquier farmacia de California pedir insulina glargina CalRx”, explicaron funcionarios del estado por correo electrónico. Un sistema de entrega a domicilio todavía sigue en desarrollo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las personas interesadas en la insulina CalRx pueden “preguntar a su farmacéutico o médico si pueden cambiar su receta por insulina glargina CalRx”, informó a KQED el portavoz de la HCAI. Pero cabe agregar que la insulina CalRx es intercambiable con otras marcas y por esa razón, \u003ca href=\"https://calrx.ca.gov/biosimilar-insulin-initiative/\">no se necesita una nueva receta médica\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los planes de salud se encargarán de comunicar la insulina glargina CalRx a sus proveedores y redes de pacientes”, afirmó la HCAI.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>¿Pueden acceder a ella personas de otros estados?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>El portavoz de la HCAI confirmó con KQED que “sí, la insulina glargina de Civica Rx estará disponible en otros estados bajo la etiqueta de Civica Rx”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Dónde puedo obtener más información?\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calrx.ca.gov/\">Sitio web de CalRx\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://calrx.ca.gov/uploads/2025/10/CalRx_Fact-Sheet.pdf\">Hoja informativa de CalRx\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://diabetes.org/es/sobre-nosotros/informacion-del-centro\">Centro de información de la Asociación Americana de Diabetes\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://diabetes.org/es/sobre-nosotros/informacion-del-centro\">Conceptos básicos sobre la insulina para la diabetes\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://civicainsulin.org/\">Insulina Civica\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.t1international.com/media/assets/file/Sept_2022_Update_-_T1International_Affordability_Resources.pdf\">T1International\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adembosky\">April Dembosky\u003c/a>, de KQED, ha contribuido a este artículo, el cual fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y esa traducción fue editada por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068555/im-diabetic-what-should-i-know-about-insulin-price-changes-in-2026\">Leer en inglés\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California es el primer estado del país en asociarse con una organización sin fines de lucro para desarrollar, producir y vender \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1998855/california-will-offer-deeply-discounted-insulin-in-january\">su propia insulina\u003c/a> como solución a los altos precios de esta \u003ca href=\"https://diabetes.org/es/herramientas-recursos/insulina-asequible\">hormona vital\u003c/a>, que ayuda al organismo a \u003ca href=\"https://diabetes.org/es/salud-bienestar/medicamentos/conceptos-b%C3%A1sicos-sobre-insulina\">procesar o almacenar\u003c/a> el azúcar procedente de los alimentos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La organización sin fines de lucro, Civica, actualmente va desarrollando una inyección subcutánea bajo la marca CalRx y que proveerá “insulina biosimilar”, lo que hace referencia a la insulina comercial que ya ha sido aprobada por la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA por sus siglas en inglés) y no presenta “\u003ca href=\"https://calrx.ca.gov/biosimilar-insulin-initiative/\">diferencias clínicamente significativas\u003c/a> con respecto a su producto de referencia en términos de seguridad, pureza y potencia”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La inyección CalRx puede sustituir a Lantus y otras insulinas glarginas de marca, según un portavoz del Departamento de Acceso e Información Sanitaria (HCAI por sus siglas en inglés) del estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California no esperó a que la industria farmacéutica hiciera lo correcto, nosotros tomamos cartas en el asunto”, declaró el gobernador Gavin Newsom en un \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/16/governor-newsom-announces-affordable-calrx-insulin-11-a-pen-will-soon-be-available-for-purchase/\">comunicado de prensa de octubre\u003c/a> sobre la insulina CalRx.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ningún californiano debería tener que racionar la insulina o endeudarse para seguir con vida, y no voy a parar hasta que se reduzcan los costes sanitarios para todos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La iniciativa podría suponer un importante alivio financiero para \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/our-work/diabetes\">casi 3.5 millones de californianos\u003c/a> a los que se les ha diagnosticado diabetes, la mayoría de los cuales padecen diabetes tipo 2, en la que el cuerpo no puede utilizar la insulina correctamente. El tipo 1 se da cuando el cuerpo produce poca o ninguna insulina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://diabetes.org/health-wellness/medication/insulin-basics\">La diabetes tipo 1 o tipo 2\u003c/a> puede afectar a los \u003ca href=\"https://www.uvahealth.com/conditions/diabetes-types#googtrans/en/es/\">niveles de energía y al funcionamiento de los órganos\u003c/a>. Las inyecciones de insulina, o en algunos casos, las pastillas para la diabetes ayudan a las funciones principales del cuerpo. El \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/php/data-research/index.html\">Informe Nacional de Estadísticas sobre la Diabetes\u003c/a> reveló que 38.4 millones de personas tienen diabetes, casi el 12% de la población del país.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siga leyendo para obtener más información sobre los cambios en el precio de la insulina en California, cómo funcionarán las recetas y dónde encontrar más recursos.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>¿Cuál es el precio previsto de la insulina CalRx?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>La dificultad para conseguir la insulina en EE.UU. es \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/11/12/fake-eli-lilly-twitter-account-claims-insulin-is-free-stock-falls-43/\">un problema \u003c/a>ya bien documentado debido a un mercado \u003ca href=\"https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/the-price-of-insulin-a-qanda-with-kasia-lipska/\">dominado por tres grandes empresas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La insulina es entre \u003ca href=\"https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/the-price-of-insulin-a-qanda-with-kasia-lipska/\">siete y diez veces más cara en EE.UU. que en otros países\u003c/a>, a pesar de que su producción es de bajo costo, según un artículo de 2023 de la facultad de medicina de la Universidad de Yale. De hecho, esta investigación explica que “el mismo vial de insulina que costaba 21 dólares en Estados Unidos en 1996 ahora cuesta más de 250 dólares”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalRx pretende ser otro competidor en el mercado y presenta una alternativa más económica, con uno de los motivos de esta iniciativa pública siendo que otros fabricantes “\u003ca href=\"https://calrx.ca.gov/biosimilar-insulin-initiative/\">bajen sus precios también\u003c/a>“.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según el estado y Civica, el \u003ca href=\"https://calrx.ca.gov/biosimilar-insulin-initiative/\">precio de venta\u003c/a> al público sugerido es:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>No más de 30 dólares por un vial de insulina de 10 ml.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>No más de 55 dólares por un paquete de 5 inyecciones de 3 ml.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Según el portavoz de la HCAI en un correo electrónico enviado a KQED, “el precio que paga el consumidor podría ser incluso menor., dependiendo de la cobertura de su seguro médico”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varios grupos que defienden las necesidades de las personas con diabetes consideran el lanzamiento de este producto una victoria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Esperamos con interés el lanzamiento de la insulina CalRx® en enero”, escribió Christine Fallabel, directora de asuntos gubernamentales estatales de la Asociación Americana de Diabetes, en un correo electrónico enviado a KQED. “Cualquier medida significativa para mejorar la asequibilidad de la insulina y ofrecer opciones adicionales es una victoria para las personas con diabetes”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fallabel también señaló la reciente aprobación del \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB40/id/3030089\">proyecto de ley 40 del Senado\u003c/a>, que prohíbe los copagos elevados por el suministro mensual de insulina, como otra decisión estatal que contribuye a la accesibilidad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069465\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomInsulinAP-1536x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gavin Newsom hace una presentación en una pequeña farmacia.\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomInsulinAP-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomInsulinAP-1536x1024-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El gobernador de California, Gavin Newsom, presenta las inyecciones de insulina glargina de la marca CalRx en una conferencia de prensa el 16 de octubre de 2025 en una farmacia en Los Ángeles. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>¿Qué debo hacer si estoy pagando más de 55 dólares?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Según el portavoz de la HCAI, “CalRx y Civica no pueden imponer el precio final al consumidor, ya que esto entraría en conflicto con la ley antimonopolio y de competencia”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, el portavoz afirmó en un correo electrónico a KQED que Civica tiene previsto incluir un código QR en el lateral de las cajas del producto, para que los consumidores puedan informar si gastaron más de 55 dólares en su compra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En ese momento, Civica se pondría en contacto con la farmacia para solucionar el problema”, dijo el portavoz.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>¿Dónde puedo conseguir la insulina CalRx? ¿Necesito receta médica?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No es necesario completar una solicitud para acceder a la nueva insulina y no hay requisitos de elegibilidad. \u003ca href=\"https://calrx.ca.gov/biosimilar-insulin-initiative/\">No es necesario tener seguro médico\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La amplia distribución al por mayor permitirá a cualquier farmacia de California pedir insulina glargina CalRx”, explicaron funcionarios del estado por correo electrónico. Un sistema de entrega a domicilio todavía sigue en desarrollo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las personas interesadas en la insulina CalRx pueden “preguntar a su farmacéutico o médico si pueden cambiar su receta por insulina glargina CalRx”, informó a KQED el portavoz de la HCAI. Pero cabe agregar que la insulina CalRx es intercambiable con otras marcas y por esa razón, \u003ca href=\"https://calrx.ca.gov/biosimilar-insulin-initiative/\">no se necesita una nueva receta médica\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los planes de salud se encargarán de comunicar la insulina glargina CalRx a sus proveedores y redes de pacientes”, afirmó la HCAI.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>¿Pueden acceder a ella personas de otros estados?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>El portavoz de la HCAI confirmó con KQED que “sí, la insulina glargina de Civica Rx estará disponible en otros estados bajo la etiqueta de Civica Rx”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Dónde puedo obtener más información?\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calrx.ca.gov/\">Sitio web de CalRx\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://calrx.ca.gov/uploads/2025/10/CalRx_Fact-Sheet.pdf\">Hoja informativa de CalRx\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://diabetes.org/es/sobre-nosotros/informacion-del-centro\">Centro de información de la Asociación Americana de Diabetes\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://diabetes.org/es/sobre-nosotros/informacion-del-centro\">Conceptos básicos sobre la insulina para la diabetes\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://civicainsulin.org/\">Insulina Civica\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.t1international.com/media/assets/file/Sept_2022_Update_-_T1International_Affordability_Resources.pdf\">T1International\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you’re looking for free \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022427/things-to-do-in-the-bay-area-families-events-live-music-listings-newsletters\">things to do in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, especially during the rain — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13929182/7-ways-to-keep-your-cool-with-young-kids-this-summer\">need ideas for fun cheap things to do with kids \u003c/a>— our region has dozens of museums, ranging from immersive experiences at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco, to planetariums and giant telescopes at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, plus extensive art collections at the San José Museum of Art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"arts_13929182\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/RS58459_032_KQED_HeatWaveConcord_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]Visiting a museum when you’re paying full price can be expensive, especially with a larger family. But there are several ways to find free or low-cost tickets for Bay Area museums, from regular free days to using your library card or your EBT card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for a list of free days at major local museums, as well as details of free museum entry for kids. Alternatively, jump straight to more options for finding free museum tickets:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#freemuseumlibrarycard\">I have a library card\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#freemuseumebt\">I have an EBT card\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#freemuseumbankofamerica\">I have a Bank of America or Merrill credit or debit card\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Go on a museum’s free day\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Best if: You don’t mind being flexible about which museum you visit.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the museums in the Bay Area have certain days on which it’s totally free to enter — usually in the first week of every month. Often, these free days will have no conditions attached. But sometimes, you’ll need to prove you’re a resident of that city or region, with photo ID. We’ve marked with an asterisk (\u003cstrong>*\u003c/strong>) the museums that only extend this promotion to residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember that special exhibits are rarely included in free general admission, and that some museums could have a crowd capacity limit on free days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a specific museum you want to visit for free, the most reliable way to find their free day(s) is to search for their website and find details of any free days they offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, here’s just some of the major Bay Area museums with free days each month, plus the days they offer them and any residency requirements. Be sure to click through to see details of free entry, including whether online reservations are needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://about.asianart.org/plan-your-visit/\">Asian Art Museum Free First Sundays\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Asian Art Museum is free on the first Sunday of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Free museum entry for kids here?\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://about.asianart.org/plan-your-visit/\">Free always for ages 12 and under.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.famsf.org/visit/free-reduced-admission\">de Young Museum and Legion of Honor\u003c/a>*\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.famsf.org/events/free-saturdays-de-young\">Free Saturdays at the de Young Museum\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.famsf.org/events/free-saturdays-legion-of-honor\">Free Saturdays at the Legion of Honor\u003c/a> offer free admission for Bay Area residents every Saturday. \u003ca href=\"https://www.famsf.org/visit/free-reduced-admission\">Both museums are free for all, not just Bay Area residents, on the first Tuesday of every month.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Free museum entry for kids here?\u003c/strong> Free always for ages 17 and under.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/events#events-calendar\">\u003cstrong>Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MoAD offers free admission with its THRIVE @ MoAD Community Day every second Saturday of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Free museum entry for kids here?\u003c/strong> Free always for ages 11 and under.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/first-sundays/\">Oakland Museum of California\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first Sunday of every month, general admission at the Oakland Museum of California is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Free museum entry for kids here? \u003c/strong>Free always for ages 12 and under.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://chabotspace.org/events/events-listing/\">Chabot Space and Science Center\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chabot offers free telescope viewing (not museum entry) on Friday and Saturdays 7:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m., weather permitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Free museum entry for kids here? \u003c/strong>Free always for ages under 2.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/event/free-first-thursdays\">\u003cstrong>BAMPFA, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BAMPFA offers free entry to all galleries on the first Thursday of each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Free museum entry for kids here? \u003c/strong>Free always for ages 18 and under, and one adult accompanying a child age 13 and under also gets free admission.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sjmusart.org/hours-and-admission\">\u003cstrong>San José Museum of Art\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Free admission after 6 p.m. on the first Friday of every month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Free museum entry for kids here? \u003c/strong>Free always for ages 17 and under.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/free-days/#family-day\">SFMOMA Free Days\u003c/a>*\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please note that as of January, SFMOMA has “temporarily paused” its Free Day program, which previously offered free admission for Bay Area residents on the first Thursday of the month. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/free-days/#free-family-days\">The next SFMOMA Free Family Day in 2026 is still scheduled for Sunday, June 14\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Free museum entry for kids here?\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/visit/\"> Free always for ages 18 and under.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Regularly scheduled free days aren’t the only way to visit a museum near you for free or a small cost. Keep reading for more ways to find free or low-cost tickets to museums in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"freemuseumlibrarycard\">\u003c/a>Get free entry with your library card thanks to a Discover and Go pass\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Best if: You have a Bay Area library card, and don’t mind some forward planning.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a library card in the Bay Area, you can use the local Discover and Go program, which offers free or low-cost passes to museums and other attractions. You’ll need to already have a library card to choose and secure a Discover and Go pass, and each pass is attached to a specific venue, for a specific date. (That is, you can’t get a blanket Discover and Go pass to use across several venues.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Which museums can I get free or low-cost entry to?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of participating Discover and Go sites includes museums, zoos and other attractions around the Bay Area, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calacademy.org/\">California Academy of Sciences\u003c/a>, the\u003ca href=\"https://chabotspace.org/\"> Chabot Space and Science Center\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.exploratorium.edu/\">Exploratorium\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://discoverandgo.org/venues/venuenames.php\">See a full list of Bay Area museums and attractions offering Discover and Go passes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When can I go?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It depends. Different museums and attractions will make Discover and Go passes available for different days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do I get these free or low-cost museum tickets? How many tickets can I get?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before you head out, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.discoverandgo.org/\">secure your Discover and Go passes online\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and bring along either the printed pass or have it downloaded on your phone. You’ll also need to show valid photo ID at the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each venue has different rules on how many adults and kids can get free entry with a Discover and Go pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.discoverandgo.org/\">\u003cstrong>To secure a pass, visit discoverandgo.org\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, select your local library and log in with your library credentials (your library card number and your PIN). You’ll then select the date you’re looking for and see which venues have Discover and Go passes available to reserve. You can have two active reservations per library card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you need more help, the East Bay family blog \u003ca href=\"https://www.510families.com/about-us/\">510families.com\u003c/a> has \u003ca href=\"https://www.510families.com/discover-go/\">a detailed guide to successfully finding Discover and Go passes\u003c/a> at local museums.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"freemuseumebt\">\u003c/a>Get free or low-cost museum tickets with your EBT card\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Best if: You already have an EBT card, want flexibility with dates and have a larger group.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://museums4all.org/\">Museums for All program\u003c/a> offers free or low-cost entry to many museums nationwide for people receiving \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/calfresh\">CalFresh food benefits\u003c/a> (also known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.benefits.gov/benefit/361\">SNAP\u003c/a>, or food stamps). San Francisco has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/san-francisco-museums-all\">its own local version of the program\u003c/a>, which also includes city residents who are on Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Which museums can I get free or low-cost entry to?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://museums4all.org/#!\">Museums for All program\u003c/a> includes the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calacademy.org/\">California Academy of Sciences\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.exploratorium.edu/\">Exploratorium\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://deyoung.famsf.org/\">de Young Museum\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/\">Legion of Honor\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://chabotspace.org/\">Chabot Space and Science Center\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/\">Oakland Museum of California\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://filoli.org/\">Filoli Historic House and Garden\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See a \u003ca href=\"https://museums4all.org/#!\">full list of all the Bay Area museums participating in the Museums for All program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When can I go?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anytime, usually, but be aware that some museums will ask you to also make a reservation online for entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do I get these free or low-cost museum tickets? How many tickets can I get?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All you usually have to do to get free or reduced access is show your EBT card — the card you receive your benefits funds on — and a valid ID at the entrance, and ask for Museums for All tickets. For some museums, you may also have to make online reservations too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up to four individuals per \u003ca>EBT (electronic benefit transfer) card\u003c/a> can get Museum for All tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We recommend that you \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915329/how-to-get-free-or-low-cost-museum-entry-this-summer-with-your-ebt-card\">read our 2022 guide to how to redeem your free or low-cost ticket with your EBT card before you go\u003c/a>, since some museums have different rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a San Francisco resident and want to use the city’s local version of the program, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/san-francisco-museums-all\">which covers 22 museums and cultural institutions\u003c/a>, you will have to bring an ID that shows you are an SF resident, as well as your EBT or Medi-Cal card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974262/extra-discounts-your-ebt-card-could-offer-from-free-museums-to-the-farmers-market\">Read more about the discounts your EBT card can get you.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"freemuseumbankofamerica\">\u003c/a>Visit on a Bank of America free museum day\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Best if: You have an eligible credit or debit card, and don’t mind being tied to a specific weekend.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a Bank of America credit or debit card, or a Merrill credit or debit card, you can get free entry to several Bay Area museums on the first weekend of every month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Which museums can I get free or low-cost entry to?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Museums that offer this free entry as part of Bank of America’s Museums on Us program include the \u003ca href=\"https://sjmusart.org/\">San José Museum of Art\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://deyoung.famsf.org/\">de Young Museum\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/\">Legion of Honor\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/\">the Oakland Museum of California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://about.bankofamerica.com/en/making-an-impact/museums-on-us-find-locations-map\">See a map of participating museums around the Bay Area.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When can I go?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bank of America Museums on Us program applies to the first \u003cem>full\u003c/em> weekend every month. In 2026, those weekends are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>January 2 and 3, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>February 7 and 8, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>March 7 and 8, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>April 4 and 5, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>May 2 and 3, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>June 6 and 7, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>July 4 and 5, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>August 1 and 2, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>September 5 and 6, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>October 3 and 4, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>November 7 and 8, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>December 5 and 6, 2026.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do I get these free or low-cost museum tickets? How many can I get?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://about.bankofamerica.com/en/making-an-impact/arts-and-culture#museums-on-us\">Show your (active, not expired) Bank of America credit or debit card\u003c/a>, or a Merrill credit or debit card and a photo ID when you enter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each credit or debit card will get you only \u003ca href=\"https://about.bankofamerica.com/en/making-an-impact/arts-and-culture#museums-on-us\">one free general admission ticket\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story originally published on Aug. 9, 2023, and contains reporting by KQED’s Jasmine Garnett, Sarah Mohamad and Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Visiting a museum when you’re paying full price can be expensive, especially with a larger family. But there are several ways to find free or low-cost tickets for Bay Area museums, from regular free days to using your library card or your EBT card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for a list of free days at major local museums, as well as details of free museum entry for kids. Alternatively, jump straight to more options for finding free museum tickets:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#freemuseumlibrarycard\">I have a library card\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#freemuseumebt\">I have an EBT card\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#freemuseumbankofamerica\">I have a Bank of America or Merrill credit or debit card\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Go on a museum’s free day\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Best if: You don’t mind being flexible about which museum you visit.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the museums in the Bay Area have certain days on which it’s totally free to enter — usually in the first week of every month. Often, these free days will have no conditions attached. But sometimes, you’ll need to prove you’re a resident of that city or region, with photo ID. We’ve marked with an asterisk (\u003cstrong>*\u003c/strong>) the museums that only extend this promotion to residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember that special exhibits are rarely included in free general admission, and that some museums could have a crowd capacity limit on free days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a specific museum you want to visit for free, the most reliable way to find their free day(s) is to search for their website and find details of any free days they offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, here’s just some of the major Bay Area museums with free days each month, plus the days they offer them and any residency requirements. Be sure to click through to see details of free entry, including whether online reservations are needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://about.asianart.org/plan-your-visit/\">Asian Art Museum Free First Sundays\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Asian Art Museum is free on the first Sunday of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Free museum entry for kids here?\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://about.asianart.org/plan-your-visit/\">Free always for ages 12 and under.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.famsf.org/visit/free-reduced-admission\">de Young Museum and Legion of Honor\u003c/a>*\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.famsf.org/events/free-saturdays-de-young\">Free Saturdays at the de Young Museum\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.famsf.org/events/free-saturdays-legion-of-honor\">Free Saturdays at the Legion of Honor\u003c/a> offer free admission for Bay Area residents every Saturday. \u003ca href=\"https://www.famsf.org/visit/free-reduced-admission\">Both museums are free for all, not just Bay Area residents, on the first Tuesday of every month.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Free museum entry for kids here?\u003c/strong> Free always for ages 17 and under.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/events#events-calendar\">\u003cstrong>Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MoAD offers free admission with its THRIVE @ MoAD Community Day every second Saturday of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Free museum entry for kids here?\u003c/strong> Free always for ages 11 and under.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/first-sundays/\">Oakland Museum of California\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first Sunday of every month, general admission at the Oakland Museum of California is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Free museum entry for kids here? \u003c/strong>Free always for ages 12 and under.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://chabotspace.org/events/events-listing/\">Chabot Space and Science Center\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chabot offers free telescope viewing (not museum entry) on Friday and Saturdays 7:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m., weather permitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Free museum entry for kids here? \u003c/strong>Free always for ages under 2.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/event/free-first-thursdays\">\u003cstrong>BAMPFA, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BAMPFA offers free entry to all galleries on the first Thursday of each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Free museum entry for kids here? \u003c/strong>Free always for ages 18 and under, and one adult accompanying a child age 13 and under also gets free admission.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sjmusart.org/hours-and-admission\">\u003cstrong>San José Museum of Art\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Free admission after 6 p.m. on the first Friday of every month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Free museum entry for kids here? \u003c/strong>Free always for ages 17 and under.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/free-days/#family-day\">SFMOMA Free Days\u003c/a>*\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please note that as of January, SFMOMA has “temporarily paused” its Free Day program, which previously offered free admission for Bay Area residents on the first Thursday of the month. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/free-days/#free-family-days\">The next SFMOMA Free Family Day in 2026 is still scheduled for Sunday, June 14\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Free museum entry for kids here?\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/visit/\"> Free always for ages 18 and under.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Regularly scheduled free days aren’t the only way to visit a museum near you for free or a small cost. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"freemuseumlibrarycard\">\u003c/a>Get free entry with your library card thanks to a Discover and Go pass\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Best if: You have a Bay Area library card, and don’t mind some forward planning.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a library card in the Bay Area, you can use the local Discover and Go program, which offers free or low-cost passes to museums and other attractions. You’ll need to already have a library card to choose and secure a Discover and Go pass, and each pass is attached to a specific venue, for a specific date. (That is, you can’t get a blanket Discover and Go pass to use across several venues.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Which museums can I get free or low-cost entry to?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of participating Discover and Go sites includes museums, zoos and other attractions around the Bay Area, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calacademy.org/\">California Academy of Sciences\u003c/a>, the\u003ca href=\"https://chabotspace.org/\"> Chabot Space and Science Center\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.exploratorium.edu/\">Exploratorium\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://discoverandgo.org/venues/venuenames.php\">See a full list of Bay Area museums and attractions offering Discover and Go passes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When can I go?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It depends. Different museums and attractions will make Discover and Go passes available for different days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do I get these free or low-cost museum tickets? How many tickets can I get?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before you head out, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.discoverandgo.org/\">secure your Discover and Go passes online\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and bring along either the printed pass or have it downloaded on your phone. You’ll also need to show valid photo ID at the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each venue has different rules on how many adults and kids can get free entry with a Discover and Go pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.discoverandgo.org/\">\u003cstrong>To secure a pass, visit discoverandgo.org\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, select your local library and log in with your library credentials (your library card number and your PIN). You’ll then select the date you’re looking for and see which venues have Discover and Go passes available to reserve. You can have two active reservations per library card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you need more help, the East Bay family blog \u003ca href=\"https://www.510families.com/about-us/\">510families.com\u003c/a> has \u003ca href=\"https://www.510families.com/discover-go/\">a detailed guide to successfully finding Discover and Go passes\u003c/a> at local museums.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"freemuseumebt\">\u003c/a>Get free or low-cost museum tickets with your EBT card\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Best if: You already have an EBT card, want flexibility with dates and have a larger group.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://museums4all.org/\">Museums for All program\u003c/a> offers free or low-cost entry to many museums nationwide for people receiving \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/calfresh\">CalFresh food benefits\u003c/a> (also known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.benefits.gov/benefit/361\">SNAP\u003c/a>, or food stamps). San Francisco has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/san-francisco-museums-all\">its own local version of the program\u003c/a>, which also includes city residents who are on Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Which museums can I get free or low-cost entry to?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://museums4all.org/#!\">Museums for All program\u003c/a> includes the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calacademy.org/\">California Academy of Sciences\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.exploratorium.edu/\">Exploratorium\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://deyoung.famsf.org/\">de Young Museum\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/\">Legion of Honor\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://chabotspace.org/\">Chabot Space and Science Center\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/\">Oakland Museum of California\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://filoli.org/\">Filoli Historic House and Garden\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See a \u003ca href=\"https://museums4all.org/#!\">full list of all the Bay Area museums participating in the Museums for All program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When can I go?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anytime, usually, but be aware that some museums will ask you to also make a reservation online for entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do I get these free or low-cost museum tickets? How many tickets can I get?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All you usually have to do to get free or reduced access is show your EBT card — the card you receive your benefits funds on — and a valid ID at the entrance, and ask for Museums for All tickets. For some museums, you may also have to make online reservations too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up to four individuals per \u003ca>EBT (electronic benefit transfer) card\u003c/a> can get Museum for All tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We recommend that you \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915329/how-to-get-free-or-low-cost-museum-entry-this-summer-with-your-ebt-card\">read our 2022 guide to how to redeem your free or low-cost ticket with your EBT card before you go\u003c/a>, since some museums have different rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a San Francisco resident and want to use the city’s local version of the program, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/san-francisco-museums-all\">which covers 22 museums and cultural institutions\u003c/a>, you will have to bring an ID that shows you are an SF resident, as well as your EBT or Medi-Cal card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974262/extra-discounts-your-ebt-card-could-offer-from-free-museums-to-the-farmers-market\">Read more about the discounts your EBT card can get you.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"freemuseumbankofamerica\">\u003c/a>Visit on a Bank of America free museum day\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Best if: You have an eligible credit or debit card, and don’t mind being tied to a specific weekend.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a Bank of America credit or debit card, or a Merrill credit or debit card, you can get free entry to several Bay Area museums on the first weekend of every month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Which museums can I get free or low-cost entry to?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Museums that offer this free entry as part of Bank of America’s Museums on Us program include the \u003ca href=\"https://sjmusart.org/\">San José Museum of Art\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://deyoung.famsf.org/\">de Young Museum\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/\">Legion of Honor\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/\">the Oakland Museum of California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://about.bankofamerica.com/en/making-an-impact/museums-on-us-find-locations-map\">See a map of participating museums around the Bay Area.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When can I go?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bank of America Museums on Us program applies to the first \u003cem>full\u003c/em> weekend every month. In 2026, those weekends are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>January 2 and 3, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>February 7 and 8, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>March 7 and 8, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>April 4 and 5, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>May 2 and 3, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>June 6 and 7, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>July 4 and 5, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>August 1 and 2, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>September 5 and 6, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>October 3 and 4, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>November 7 and 8, 2026\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>December 5 and 6, 2026.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do I get these free or low-cost museum tickets? How many can I get?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://about.bankofamerica.com/en/making-an-impact/arts-and-culture#museums-on-us\">Show your (active, not expired) Bank of America credit or debit card\u003c/a>, or a Merrill credit or debit card and a photo ID when you enter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each credit or debit card will get you only \u003ca href=\"https://about.bankofamerica.com/en/making-an-impact/arts-and-culture#museums-on-us\">one free general admission ticket\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story originally published on Aug. 9, 2023, and contains reporting by KQED’s Jasmine Garnett, Sarah Mohamad and Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve ever tried to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022427/things-to-do-in-the-bay-area-families-events-live-music-listings-newsletters\">plan a hangout\u003c/a> in the evening that doesn’t involve going to a bar, you may have discovered: Finding places to socialize after 6 p.m. that don’t involve “grabbing a drink” can be tricky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are plenty of reasons you might not want — or need — alcohol involved in a night out. For one thing, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/nx-s1-5662527/the-origins-of-dry-january\">you might be observing “Dry January,”\u003c/a> when people commit to giving up booze for the month after the holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More broadly, there’s also been a\u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7203140/gen-z-drinking-less-alcohol/\"> decline in alcohol consumption\u003c/a> among Gen-Z and younger millennials. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/509690/young-adults-drinking-less-prior-decades.aspx\">2023 Gallup analysis\u003c/a>, the alcohol consumption rate among adults aged 18 to 34 has declined in the last 20 years — from 72% of this age group saying they “ever have occasion to use alcoholic beverages” in 2001–03 to 62% in 2021–23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, as this author knows from experience, adventures — or chill nights — that aren’t necessarily bar-based are still possible in the Bay Area after a certain time. Keep reading for just some of the after-hours haunts that don’t revolve around alcohol, with ideas for things to do in San Francisco, Oakland, San José and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be sure to double-check business hours before going out since they can be subject to change. And remember — especially if you’re used to nightlife in places like New York — \u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2022/08/25/4am-last-call-bill-dies-a-quick-death-once-again-this-time-in-the-assembly/\">even “late-night” spots in the Bay Area still close around 2 a.m\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Late-night coffee\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This author can’t say enough good things about Yemeni coffeehouses, which have\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/26/business/yemeni-coffee-shops-us-popularity/index.html\"> blossomed in popularity across the country\u003c/a> as a cozy, lively \u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscoparksalliance.org/park-talk/2024/06/third-spaces/\">third-space\u003c/a> alternative for people — especially Arabs and Muslims — to hang out in the far late hours of the night. (My go-to order, in case you were wondering, is a classic Adani chai with sugar — pots and pots of it at 1 a.m. I am not a big sleeper.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are multiple coffeehouse and chai options in the Bay Area taking inspiration from traditions across the world, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://delahcoffee.com/locations/\">\u003cstrong>Delah’s Coffee\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, with two locations in San Francisco, one in Oakland and one in Berkeley. Most locations are open until 11 p.m. on the weekends.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sanaahousecafe.com/\">\u003cstrong>Sana’a Cafe\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, with several locations across the Bay, including San Francisco and Oakland.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.elaichico.com/\">\u003cstrong>elaichi co.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Berkeley, usually open until 10 or 11 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.qamariacoffee.com/cafes\">\u003cstrong>Qamaria\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Fremont, usually open until 12 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.toasttab.com/local/order/haraz-coffee-franklin-street-san-francisco-ca-1452-franklin-st/r-a7051549-b323-4a1a-9ebd-2a423e082a55\">\u003cstrong>Haraz Coffee\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> House in San Francisco, open until 11 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mohkahouse/?hl=en\">\u003cstrong>Mohka House\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Oakland, open until 9 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/heyma-yemeni-coffee-berkeley#location-and-hours\">\u003cstrong>Heyma Yemeni Coffee\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Berkeley, open until 11 p.m. or 12 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Dessert cafes open late\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are plenty of dessert cafes serving Asian-inspired treats like shaved ice or dessert toast. These include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://udessertstory.com/\">\u003cstrong>U:Dessert Story\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco and Berkeley, usually closing around 10 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nayadessertcafe.com/\">\u003cstrong>NaYa Dessert Cafe\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, with two locations in San Francisco, usually closing around 12 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/a-buttercup-dessert-house-san-francisco\">\u003cstrong>Buttercup Dessert House\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, usually closing around 11 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.shootingstarhkcafe.com/\">\u003cstrong>Shooting Star Cafe\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Oakland, closing at 12 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1060US1060&sca_esv=0d7d1c00198975e0&cs=0&output=search&tbm=lcl&kgmid=/g/11vf18wzgh&q=Dessert+Cafe&shndl=30&shem=lcuac,uaasie&source=sh/x/loc/uni/m1/1&kgs=a61057afa1f9db09&safe=active&ssui=on#rlfi=hd:;si:14864135445584477703,l,ChVEZXNzZXJ0IENhZmUgQmVya2VsZXmSARJkZXNzZXJ0X3Jlc3RhdXJhbnTgAQA;mv:%5B%5B37.855938177319025,-122.26615775312568%5D,%5B37.85557822268096,-122.2666136468743%5D%5D\">\u003cstrong>Dessert Cafe\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Berkeley, closing at 12 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2121px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030360\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1264454508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1264454508.jpg 2121w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1264454508-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1264454508-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1264454508-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1264454508-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1264454508-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1264454508-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2121px) 100vw, 2121px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are a lot of dessert options and cafes spread out across the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Sing your heart out at karaoke\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A lot of karaoke joints are karaoke bars, where you sing in public onstage — and are often subject to a two-drink minimum spend at the bar itself. However, the Bay Area has no shortage of karaoke venues, which offer private rooms for rental by the hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Private rooms\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.k-box-karaoke.com/\">\u003cstrong>K-Box\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Japantown, open to either 12 a.m. or 4 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://pandorakaraoke.com/private-rooms/\">\u003cstrong>Pandora Karaoke\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/auracinemasf/?hl=en\">\u003cstrong>Aura Cinema\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until 1:30 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.karaokesf.com/pure-karaoke\">\u003cstrong>Pure Karaoke\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Milpitas, open until 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.karaokesf.com/focus-karaoke\">\u003cstrong>Focus Karaoke\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San José, open until 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.karaokesf.com/k-time-karaoke\">\u003cstrong>K-Time Karaoke\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.musictunnelktv.com/home\">\u003cstrong>Music Tunnel KTV and Cafe\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until 12 a.m. or 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://taishosf.com/\">\u003cstrong>Taisho\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until 12 a.m. or 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2123px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030348\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-524384397.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2123\" height=\"1413\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-524384397.jpg 2123w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-524384397-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-524384397-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-524384397-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-524384397-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-524384397-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-524384397-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2123px) 100vw, 2123px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karaoke venues are mostly open late, if you’re looking to belt out some tunes. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On public floor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are options for those who are brave enough to sing in front of strangers and who don’t necessarily mind a bar setting. (Many of these venues will, however, provide non-alcoholic options — may I suggest the Shirley Temple at Festa?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://festalounge.com/\">\u003cstrong>Festa Lounge\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco open to either 1 a.m. or 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/club-maris-san-francisco#location-and-hours\">\u003cstrong>Club Mari’s\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open to 12 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://7bamboo.com/\">\u003cstrong>7 Bamboo\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San José, open to 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://themint.net/\">\u003cstrong>The Mint\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open to 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://vinyl-room.com/home\">\u003cstrong>Vinyl Room\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Burlingame and its second location\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/persona-san-francisco-2\"> \u003cstrong>Persona\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open to 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.soolsf.com/karaoke\">\u003cstrong>Sool\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open to 12 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=Dimples+San+Francisco&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1060US1060&sca_esv=2e83ef3dd22d1d30&cs=0&tbm=lcl&ei=l53HZ6e4Asj10PEP-5GsoAs&ved=0ahUKEwjn34ej2vGLAxXIOjQIHfsIC7QQ4dUDCAs&uact=5&oq=Dimples+San+Francis%5Cco&gs_lp=Eg1nd3Mtd2l6LWxvY2FsIhZEaW1wbGVzIFNhbiBGcmFuY2lzXGNvSABQAFgAcAB4AJABAJgBAKABAKoBALgBA8gBAJgCAKACAJgDAJIHAKAHAA&sclient=gws-wiz-local&safe=active&ssui=on#rlfi=hd:;si:12078521520036973492,l,ChVEaW1wbGVzIFNhbiBGcmFuY2lzY29IvLvWpOiAgIAIWiUQABgAGAEYAiIVZGltcGxlcyBzYW4gZnJhbmNpc2NvKgQIAhAAkgEHa2FyYW9rZaoBPhABMh8QASIbvIXv9yWEeX9EcKHAS0PCC4-rE-zsbGkIWT6MMhkQAiIVZGltcGxlcyBzYW4gZnJhbmNpc2Nv4AEA,y,7aSv7aEo8Sw;mv:%5B%5B37.785869477319025,-122.42995156941527%5D,%5B37.78550952268096,-122.43040703058469%5D%5D\">\u003cstrong>Dimples\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open to 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.melodeecocktails.com/\">\u003cstrong>Mel-o-dee\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in El Cerrito, open until 12 a.m. or 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://legionnairesaloon.com/\">\u003cstrong>Legionnaire Karaoke Saloon\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Oakland, open until 1 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Try the arcade (and other games)\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even suggesting going to the arcade makes me feel like a kid in an ’80s movie (\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Maddsaic/status/1848446886912438750\">or like this guy\u003c/a>.) But they are fun; \u003ca href=\"https://www.round1usa.com/locations\">some offer bowling, too,\u003c/a> and you might even win a claw-machine plushie of a character from an anime you have never heard of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the options below are arcade bars, but you do not need to order from the bar. Many also provide non-alcoholic options. (You do, however, need to pay for the games.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.detoursf.com/\">\u003cstrong>The Detour\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open to mostly 12 a.m. or 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.emporiumarcadebar.com/locations/san-francisco/\">\u003cstrong>Emporium\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thrillersocialclub.com/hours\">\u003cstrong>Thriller Social Club\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until 11 a.m. or 1 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.round1usa.com/locations\">\u003cstrong>Round 1\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pinball machines at\u003ca href=\"https://pinballmap.com/map/?by_location_id=7660\"> \u003cstrong>Alamo Drafthouse\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until around 11 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://museemecanique.com/\">\u003cstrong>Musée Mécanique\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, with an array of vintage coin-operated machines. Open until 8 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030337\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2121px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030337\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1175884873.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1175884873.jpg 2121w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1175884873-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1175884873-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1175884873-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1175884873-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1175884873-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1175884873-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2121px) 100vw, 2121px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arcades are fun, and many offer non-alcoholic options. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you are into tabletop or board games, you can follow \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandboardgamers.com/\">Oaklandish Board Gamers\u003c/a> to see if there may be opportunities to join a meet up. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dogpatch.games/\">Dogpatch Games\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.thegameparlour.com/\">The Game Parlor\u003c/a> also had frequent events and times to play at nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Go for a late-night spin\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has a surprising number of rinks and outdoor events centered around biking or roller skating for those who need to fulfill a roller derby fantasy. (Times for events below vary.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034548\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034548\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/RS58797_030_KQED_ChurchOf8WheelsSF_09202022-qut_1920x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/RS58797_030_KQED_ChurchOf8WheelsSF_09202022-qut_1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/RS58797_030_KQED_ChurchOf8WheelsSF_09202022-qut_1920x1080-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/RS58797_030_KQED_ChurchOf8WheelsSF_09202022-qut_1920x1080-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/RS58797_030_KQED_ChurchOf8WheelsSF_09202022-qut_1920x1080-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/RS58797_030_KQED_ChurchOf8WheelsSF_09202022-qut_1920x1080-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David G. Miles Jr. skates back to his DJ booth at the Church of 8 Wheels in San Francisco on Sept. 20, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.churchof8wheels.com/schedule.html\">\u003cstrong>Church of 8 Wheels\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, which also has\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/welcome-to-alterna-goth-night-at-the-church-of-8-wheels-tickets-1245262526739?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=PAY2xjawIeYd9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABpmK4T9S4y9ViV_XtUfFHjK9t9p8SU_YLQgCjOf5TE10Xgo34E49Zs34xzA_aem_0pQK8wKZ5NyJHlI9BNEccg\"> goth nights\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://sfbikeparty.wordpress.com/\">San Francisco Bike Parties \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://skateopenspaces.com/\">\u003cstrong>Open skate nights\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Redwood City\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://paradiseskate.com/paradise-skate-roller-rink/\">\u003cstrong>Paradise Skate Roller Rink\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Antioch\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://alohafuncenter.com/\">\u003cstrong>Aloha Eastridge\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San José\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.skateescapemarin.com/\">\u003cstrong>Skate Escape\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Marin\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Catch a movie\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s always a good night to watch a movie, especially at some of the best theaters in the Bay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf\">\u003cstrong>Alamo Drafthouse\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/\">\u003cstrong>The Roxie\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.renaissancerialto.com/\">\u003cstrong>Grand Lake Theater\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thenewparkway.com/\">\u003cstrong>The New Parkway\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://proxysf.net/\">\u003cstrong>Proxy\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco (an outdoor theater)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/\">\u003cstrong>Balboa Theater\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://grayarea.org/\">\u003cstrong>Gray Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco (venue for experimental digital projects)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/\">\u003cstrong>4 Star Theater\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.voguemovies.com/\">\u003cstrong>The Vogue Theater\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cineloungefilm.com/our-locations/x00xx-cinelounger-tiburon/\">\u003cstrong>Cinelounge\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Tiburon\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030342\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some theaters run midnight shows that are a party unto themselves. This one’s from the Clay Theater’s ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ screening in 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Take a look at the stars\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can catch Jupiter’s moons and the Andromeda galaxy at the\u003ca href=\"https://physics.sfsu.edu/observatory\"> San Francisco State Observatory\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The observatory is open for the spring up until May 9. Keep in mind to\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfsu_observatory/\"> check the weather on the observatory’s Instagram\u003c/a> — the building is only open to the public on nights with clear skies. The show runs until 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also visit the \u003ca href=\"https://chabotspace.org/programs/free-telescope-viewings/\">Chabot Observatory Deck\u003c/a> in Oakland every Friday and Saturday, open until 10:30 p.m. (\u003ca href=\"https://eastbayastro.org/chabot-telescope-status/\">weather permitting\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Keep your eye out for events\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and the wider Bay Area will always have a reliable stream of events you can attend — especially if\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/\"> you know\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://thethirdplace.is/explore\"> where to look\u003c/a>. KQED also has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022427/things-to-do-in-the-bay-area-families-events-live-music-listings-newsletters\">a list of local newsletters you can subscribe to that round up events around the Bay Area\u003c/a>.[aside postID=arts_13973430 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/ONDAM-1536x1536.jpg']If you use social media, you may also find the algorithm hand-delivering certain events to you that it thinks you might be interested in. I also regularly check the Instagram pages of Bay Area places I am curious about — which is how I ended up at\u003ca href=\"https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/31/a-red-carpet-affair-celebrating-public-domain-day-2025-in-1929-hollywood-style/\"> a swanky Internet Archive event\u003c/a> earlier this year, complete with 1920s-style red carpet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few events to keep your eyes on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Night markets, \u003c/strong>which you can usually find news about on\u003ca href=\"https://sf.funcheap.com/\"> SF Funcheap\u003c/a> or Instagram.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Drag shows \u003c/strong>at venues like\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoasis.com/events\"> Oasis\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.calacademy.org/nightlife\">\u003cstrong>Nightlife at the California Academy of Sciences\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>every Thursday until 10 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfghosthunt.com/\"> \u003cstrong>San Francisco Ghost Hunt tour\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700225/the-ghost-of-a-legend-how-a-san-francisco-civil-rights-icon-was-made-a-monster\">takes you through the Pacific Heights neighborhood.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Don’t forget the restaurants for night owls\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>KQED Arts has a series on\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/the-midnight-diners\"> \u003cstrong>excellent midnight (and beyond) eats\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> around San Francisco and the Bay Area, featuring spots like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13970445/haidilao-hot-pot-fremont-late-night\">\u003cstrong>Haidilao Hot Pot\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Fremont, open until 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13962340/late-night-hawaiian-barbecue-donuts-palo-alto\">\u003cstrong>SH Hawaiian BBQ & Donuts\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Palo Alto, open until 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13966030/tallboy-martinis-hot-dogs-oakland-cocktail-bar-late-night\">\u003cstrong>Tallboy\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Oakland, open until 12 a.m. or 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Don’t want to go out? Take matters into your own hands: throw a party\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In January, \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em>’s Ellen Cushing declared that\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/01/throw-more-parties-loneliness/681203/\"> Americans need to party more\u003c/a>. The article cited a Bureau of Labor Statistics report, which found\u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/tus/tables/a2-2023.pdf\"> only 4.1% of people nationwide\u003c/a> attended or hosted a social event on an average weekend or holiday in 2023 —\u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/tus/tables/a2_2004.pdf\"> a 35% decrease\u003c/a> since 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/fashion/death-of-the-party.html\">Several \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/bd937e7d-abf7-4e17-8069-105dea98bc70\">commentators\u003c/a> have also been\u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/why-doesnt-anyone-have-parties-anymore-224254\"> predicting\u003c/a> “the end of the house party,” blaming high costs of living and too-small living spaces, among many other factors. But a great party can also be a tiny, intimate one — so\u003ca href=\"https://partiful.com/\"> get on that Partiful\u003c/a>, come up with a stupid theme and invite a few people over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve ever tried to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022427/things-to-do-in-the-bay-area-families-events-live-music-listings-newsletters\">plan a hangout\u003c/a> in the evening that doesn’t involve going to a bar, you may have discovered: Finding places to socialize after 6 p.m. that don’t involve “grabbing a drink” can be tricky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are plenty of reasons you might not want — or need — alcohol involved in a night out. For one thing, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/nx-s1-5662527/the-origins-of-dry-january\">you might be observing “Dry January,”\u003c/a> when people commit to giving up booze for the month after the holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More broadly, there’s also been a\u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7203140/gen-z-drinking-less-alcohol/\"> decline in alcohol consumption\u003c/a> among Gen-Z and younger millennials. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/509690/young-adults-drinking-less-prior-decades.aspx\">2023 Gallup analysis\u003c/a>, the alcohol consumption rate among adults aged 18 to 34 has declined in the last 20 years — from 72% of this age group saying they “ever have occasion to use alcoholic beverages” in 2001–03 to 62% in 2021–23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, as this author knows from experience, adventures — or chill nights — that aren’t necessarily bar-based are still possible in the Bay Area after a certain time. Keep reading for just some of the after-hours haunts that don’t revolve around alcohol, with ideas for things to do in San Francisco, Oakland, San José and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be sure to double-check business hours before going out since they can be subject to change. And remember — especially if you’re used to nightlife in places like New York — \u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2022/08/25/4am-last-call-bill-dies-a-quick-death-once-again-this-time-in-the-assembly/\">even “late-night” spots in the Bay Area still close around 2 a.m\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Late-night coffee\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This author can’t say enough good things about Yemeni coffeehouses, which have\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/26/business/yemeni-coffee-shops-us-popularity/index.html\"> blossomed in popularity across the country\u003c/a> as a cozy, lively \u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscoparksalliance.org/park-talk/2024/06/third-spaces/\">third-space\u003c/a> alternative for people — especially Arabs and Muslims — to hang out in the far late hours of the night. (My go-to order, in case you were wondering, is a classic Adani chai with sugar — pots and pots of it at 1 a.m. I am not a big sleeper.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are multiple coffeehouse and chai options in the Bay Area taking inspiration from traditions across the world, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://delahcoffee.com/locations/\">\u003cstrong>Delah’s Coffee\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, with two locations in San Francisco, one in Oakland and one in Berkeley. Most locations are open until 11 p.m. on the weekends.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sanaahousecafe.com/\">\u003cstrong>Sana’a Cafe\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, with several locations across the Bay, including San Francisco and Oakland.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.elaichico.com/\">\u003cstrong>elaichi co.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Berkeley, usually open until 10 or 11 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.qamariacoffee.com/cafes\">\u003cstrong>Qamaria\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Fremont, usually open until 12 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.toasttab.com/local/order/haraz-coffee-franklin-street-san-francisco-ca-1452-franklin-st/r-a7051549-b323-4a1a-9ebd-2a423e082a55\">\u003cstrong>Haraz Coffee\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> House in San Francisco, open until 11 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mohkahouse/?hl=en\">\u003cstrong>Mohka House\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Oakland, open until 9 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/heyma-yemeni-coffee-berkeley#location-and-hours\">\u003cstrong>Heyma Yemeni Coffee\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Berkeley, open until 11 p.m. or 12 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Dessert cafes open late\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are plenty of dessert cafes serving Asian-inspired treats like shaved ice or dessert toast. These include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://udessertstory.com/\">\u003cstrong>U:Dessert Story\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco and Berkeley, usually closing around 10 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nayadessertcafe.com/\">\u003cstrong>NaYa Dessert Cafe\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, with two locations in San Francisco, usually closing around 12 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/a-buttercup-dessert-house-san-francisco\">\u003cstrong>Buttercup Dessert House\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, usually closing around 11 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.shootingstarhkcafe.com/\">\u003cstrong>Shooting Star Cafe\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Oakland, closing at 12 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1060US1060&sca_esv=0d7d1c00198975e0&cs=0&output=search&tbm=lcl&kgmid=/g/11vf18wzgh&q=Dessert+Cafe&shndl=30&shem=lcuac,uaasie&source=sh/x/loc/uni/m1/1&kgs=a61057afa1f9db09&safe=active&ssui=on#rlfi=hd:;si:14864135445584477703,l,ChVEZXNzZXJ0IENhZmUgQmVya2VsZXmSARJkZXNzZXJ0X3Jlc3RhdXJhbnTgAQA;mv:%5B%5B37.855938177319025,-122.26615775312568%5D,%5B37.85557822268096,-122.2666136468743%5D%5D\">\u003cstrong>Dessert Cafe\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Berkeley, closing at 12 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2121px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030360\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1264454508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1264454508.jpg 2121w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1264454508-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1264454508-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1264454508-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1264454508-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1264454508-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1264454508-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2121px) 100vw, 2121px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are a lot of dessert options and cafes spread out across the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Sing your heart out at karaoke\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A lot of karaoke joints are karaoke bars, where you sing in public onstage — and are often subject to a two-drink minimum spend at the bar itself. However, the Bay Area has no shortage of karaoke venues, which offer private rooms for rental by the hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Private rooms\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.k-box-karaoke.com/\">\u003cstrong>K-Box\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Japantown, open to either 12 a.m. or 4 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://pandorakaraoke.com/private-rooms/\">\u003cstrong>Pandora Karaoke\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/auracinemasf/?hl=en\">\u003cstrong>Aura Cinema\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until 1:30 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.karaokesf.com/pure-karaoke\">\u003cstrong>Pure Karaoke\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Milpitas, open until 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.karaokesf.com/focus-karaoke\">\u003cstrong>Focus Karaoke\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San José, open until 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.karaokesf.com/k-time-karaoke\">\u003cstrong>K-Time Karaoke\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.musictunnelktv.com/home\">\u003cstrong>Music Tunnel KTV and Cafe\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until 12 a.m. or 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://taishosf.com/\">\u003cstrong>Taisho\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until 12 a.m. or 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2123px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030348\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-524384397.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2123\" height=\"1413\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-524384397.jpg 2123w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-524384397-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-524384397-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-524384397-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-524384397-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-524384397-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-524384397-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2123px) 100vw, 2123px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karaoke venues are mostly open late, if you’re looking to belt out some tunes. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On public floor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are options for those who are brave enough to sing in front of strangers and who don’t necessarily mind a bar setting. (Many of these venues will, however, provide non-alcoholic options — may I suggest the Shirley Temple at Festa?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://festalounge.com/\">\u003cstrong>Festa Lounge\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco open to either 1 a.m. or 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/club-maris-san-francisco#location-and-hours\">\u003cstrong>Club Mari’s\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open to 12 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://7bamboo.com/\">\u003cstrong>7 Bamboo\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San José, open to 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://themint.net/\">\u003cstrong>The Mint\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open to 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://vinyl-room.com/home\">\u003cstrong>Vinyl Room\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Burlingame and its second location\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/persona-san-francisco-2\"> \u003cstrong>Persona\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open to 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.soolsf.com/karaoke\">\u003cstrong>Sool\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open to 12 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=Dimples+San+Francisco&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1060US1060&sca_esv=2e83ef3dd22d1d30&cs=0&tbm=lcl&ei=l53HZ6e4Asj10PEP-5GsoAs&ved=0ahUKEwjn34ej2vGLAxXIOjQIHfsIC7QQ4dUDCAs&uact=5&oq=Dimples+San+Francis%5Cco&gs_lp=Eg1nd3Mtd2l6LWxvY2FsIhZEaW1wbGVzIFNhbiBGcmFuY2lzXGNvSABQAFgAcAB4AJABAJgBAKABAKoBALgBA8gBAJgCAKACAJgDAJIHAKAHAA&sclient=gws-wiz-local&safe=active&ssui=on#rlfi=hd:;si:12078521520036973492,l,ChVEaW1wbGVzIFNhbiBGcmFuY2lzY29IvLvWpOiAgIAIWiUQABgAGAEYAiIVZGltcGxlcyBzYW4gZnJhbmNpc2NvKgQIAhAAkgEHa2FyYW9rZaoBPhABMh8QASIbvIXv9yWEeX9EcKHAS0PCC4-rE-zsbGkIWT6MMhkQAiIVZGltcGxlcyBzYW4gZnJhbmNpc2Nv4AEA,y,7aSv7aEo8Sw;mv:%5B%5B37.785869477319025,-122.42995156941527%5D,%5B37.78550952268096,-122.43040703058469%5D%5D\">\u003cstrong>Dimples\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open to 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.melodeecocktails.com/\">\u003cstrong>Mel-o-dee\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in El Cerrito, open until 12 a.m. or 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://legionnairesaloon.com/\">\u003cstrong>Legionnaire Karaoke Saloon\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Oakland, open until 1 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Try the arcade (and other games)\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even suggesting going to the arcade makes me feel like a kid in an ’80s movie (\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Maddsaic/status/1848446886912438750\">or like this guy\u003c/a>.) But they are fun; \u003ca href=\"https://www.round1usa.com/locations\">some offer bowling, too,\u003c/a> and you might even win a claw-machine plushie of a character from an anime you have never heard of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the options below are arcade bars, but you do not need to order from the bar. Many also provide non-alcoholic options. (You do, however, need to pay for the games.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.detoursf.com/\">\u003cstrong>The Detour\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open to mostly 12 a.m. or 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.emporiumarcadebar.com/locations/san-francisco/\">\u003cstrong>Emporium\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thrillersocialclub.com/hours\">\u003cstrong>Thriller Social Club\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until 11 a.m. or 1 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.round1usa.com/locations\">\u003cstrong>Round 1\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until 2 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pinball machines at\u003ca href=\"https://pinballmap.com/map/?by_location_id=7660\"> \u003cstrong>Alamo Drafthouse\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until around 11 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://museemecanique.com/\">\u003cstrong>Musée Mécanique\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, with an array of vintage coin-operated machines. Open until 8 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030337\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2121px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030337\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1175884873.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1175884873.jpg 2121w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1175884873-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1175884873-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1175884873-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1175884873-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1175884873-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1175884873-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2121px) 100vw, 2121px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arcades are fun, and many offer non-alcoholic options. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you are into tabletop or board games, you can follow \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandboardgamers.com/\">Oaklandish Board Gamers\u003c/a> to see if there may be opportunities to join a meet up. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dogpatch.games/\">Dogpatch Games\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.thegameparlour.com/\">The Game Parlor\u003c/a> also had frequent events and times to play at nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Go for a late-night spin\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has a surprising number of rinks and outdoor events centered around biking or roller skating for those who need to fulfill a roller derby fantasy. (Times for events below vary.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034548\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034548\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/RS58797_030_KQED_ChurchOf8WheelsSF_09202022-qut_1920x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/RS58797_030_KQED_ChurchOf8WheelsSF_09202022-qut_1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/RS58797_030_KQED_ChurchOf8WheelsSF_09202022-qut_1920x1080-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/RS58797_030_KQED_ChurchOf8WheelsSF_09202022-qut_1920x1080-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/RS58797_030_KQED_ChurchOf8WheelsSF_09202022-qut_1920x1080-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/RS58797_030_KQED_ChurchOf8WheelsSF_09202022-qut_1920x1080-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David G. Miles Jr. skates back to his DJ booth at the Church of 8 Wheels in San Francisco on Sept. 20, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.churchof8wheels.com/schedule.html\">\u003cstrong>Church of 8 Wheels\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco, which also has\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/welcome-to-alterna-goth-night-at-the-church-of-8-wheels-tickets-1245262526739?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=PAY2xjawIeYd9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABpmK4T9S4y9ViV_XtUfFHjK9t9p8SU_YLQgCjOf5TE10Xgo34E49Zs34xzA_aem_0pQK8wKZ5NyJHlI9BNEccg\"> goth nights\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://sfbikeparty.wordpress.com/\">San Francisco Bike Parties \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://skateopenspaces.com/\">\u003cstrong>Open skate nights\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Redwood City\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://paradiseskate.com/paradise-skate-roller-rink/\">\u003cstrong>Paradise Skate Roller Rink\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Antioch\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://alohafuncenter.com/\">\u003cstrong>Aloha Eastridge\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San José\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.skateescapemarin.com/\">\u003cstrong>Skate Escape\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Marin\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Catch a movie\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s always a good night to watch a movie, especially at some of the best theaters in the Bay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf\">\u003cstrong>Alamo Drafthouse\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/\">\u003cstrong>The Roxie\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.renaissancerialto.com/\">\u003cstrong>Grand Lake Theater\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thenewparkway.com/\">\u003cstrong>The New Parkway\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://proxysf.net/\">\u003cstrong>Proxy\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco (an outdoor theater)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/\">\u003cstrong>Balboa Theater\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://grayarea.org/\">\u003cstrong>Gray Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco (venue for experimental digital projects)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/\">\u003cstrong>4 Star Theater\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.voguemovies.com/\">\u003cstrong>The Vogue Theater\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cineloungefilm.com/our-locations/x00xx-cinelounger-tiburon/\">\u003cstrong>Cinelounge\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Tiburon\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030342\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some theaters run midnight shows that are a party unto themselves. This one’s from the Clay Theater’s ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ screening in 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Take a look at the stars\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can catch Jupiter’s moons and the Andromeda galaxy at the\u003ca href=\"https://physics.sfsu.edu/observatory\"> San Francisco State Observatory\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The observatory is open for the spring up until May 9. Keep in mind to\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfsu_observatory/\"> check the weather on the observatory’s Instagram\u003c/a> — the building is only open to the public on nights with clear skies. The show runs until 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also visit the \u003ca href=\"https://chabotspace.org/programs/free-telescope-viewings/\">Chabot Observatory Deck\u003c/a> in Oakland every Friday and Saturday, open until 10:30 p.m. (\u003ca href=\"https://eastbayastro.org/chabot-telescope-status/\">weather permitting\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Keep your eye out for events\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and the wider Bay Area will always have a reliable stream of events you can attend — especially if\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/\"> you know\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://thethirdplace.is/explore\"> where to look\u003c/a>. KQED also has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022427/things-to-do-in-the-bay-area-families-events-live-music-listings-newsletters\">a list of local newsletters you can subscribe to that round up events around the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article originally published in 2020. It has been lightly updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Ben Kaiser asked for our favorite movies that are filmed and set in San Francisco. While we don’t normally take on subjective questions, we figured with cozy season upon us, it was a great time to cuddle up on the sofa with some classics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC4565381532&light=true\" width=\"100%\" we asked peter hartlaub san francisco chronicle culture critic and host carly severn kqed senior editor of audience news resident movie obsessive to share their top picks on a recent bay curious podcast episode. they shared the movies would be most likely sit down watch over holidays not necessarily critically acclaimed films. our some favorites too>Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOhoIBkOYf0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092007/\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> “To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> This charming, lighthearted movie makes the Bay Area look undeniably fun. One KQED fan said the film was “influential in shaping how I think about the environment and is the Star Trek movie with the most heart in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Inside Out (2015)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRUAzGQ3nSY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673/\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> “After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions — Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness — conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> Pixar has dropped Bay Area references in several animated films over the years, but “Inside Out” takes it to the next level. The film takes place in the Bay Area, and features rich and detailed imagery from around the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Zodiac (2007)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNncHPl1UXg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443706/\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> “In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> “Second only to Alfred Hitchcock, director David Fincher has a great sensibility for San Francisco,” says Peter Hartlaub. “This film absolutely captures a place in time. The music choices, the visual cues, the production design. Nothing’s wasted. I was a little kid, and I remember hearing about the Zodiac killer, and this movie brought that back so well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0FnJDhY9-0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4353250/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> One of the few films on our list that is a commentary on the Bay Area, and how gentrification has decimated once vibrant Black neighborhoods. The cinematography will absolutely take your breath away. Pause the movie at any point and you might be inspired to hang the still image on your wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Basic Instinct (1992)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f96x3UpoaQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103772/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> “The plot is ludicrous … but it’s a romp. It’s a riot. It also looks way better than it needs to, and it sounds way better than it needs to,” says Carly Severn. “I love the way it uses San Francisco. It goes for all the classic shots — there’s North Beach, there’s Telegraph Hill.” You’ll also find lots of gorgeous helicopter shots in this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Always Be My Maybe (2019)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHBcWHY9lN4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7374948/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Everyone assumed Sasha and Marcus would wind up together except for Sasha and Marcus. Reconnecting after 15 years, the two start to wonder — maybe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> “It makes San Francisco look really cool, but it also makes San Francisco look normal. A lot of it is set in the Outer Richmond,” says Carly Severn. “As a resident of the Bay Area there’s such a pleasure in looking at the screen and saying, ‘Oh, I know that! That’s cool!”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc_0dlmSq7I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>: \u003c/strong>When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, where they replicate the residents into emotionless automatons one body at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> “I think this is the most underrated San Francisco movie,” says Peter Hartlaub. “A lot of directors come in and they love San Francisco, but they shoot from the same seven places — Telegraph Hill, the Golden Gate Bridge, The Palace of Fine Arts. Director Philip Kaufman shot in places I think he always wanted to shoot — the Tenderloin is a huge character in the movie. Civic Center. Obscure places like Pier 70.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Vertigo (1958)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5jvQwwHQNY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> If you’re going to watch one movie set in San Francisco, a lot of critics would argue it should be this Alfred Hitchcock classic. The plot is woven into the location in a way that few movies can rival. And if you’re wanting to really *see* the city — this film is a hit parade of gorgeous locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>So I Married an Axe Murderer! (1993)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yto08I_IiAg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108174/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A San Francisco poet who fears commitment suspects his girlfriend may have a knack for killing off her significant others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> One KQED fan says it “captures something of the SF that I grew up in” and another calls this film “a love letter to SF.” It highlights many of the city’s most famous sights — like the Golden Gate Bridge to the Palace of Fine Arts and Alcatraz.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Bullitt (1968)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsvD806qNM8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062765/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> Do we need to say much more than “epic car chase scenes on San Francisco hills?” This film features tons of on-location filming, so you’ll get a big taste of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3euGQ7-brs4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107614/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>: \u003c/strong>After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> We couldn’t leave this film off the list. After all, it features one of the Bay Area’s most beloved celebrities, Robin Williams. After his death, the house featured in this film at 2640 Steiner St. became a pop-up memorial. You’ll spot everything from ordinary streets to iconic San Francisco locations throughout the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>The Rock (1996)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DWu_dT0Phc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> Much of the film was shot on in and around Alcatraz, a tall order given the production crew had to do it all while tour groups milled around the site of the former federal penitentiary. Other locations in the film include the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco City Hall and Pier 39.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These 12 films are still just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to great movies filmed in the Bay Area. Other audience favorites include: Chan Is Missing, The Conversation, Blindspotting, Sorry to Bother You, The Princess Diaries, Parrots of Telegraph Hill and La Mission. Find even more suggestions on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/KQED/status/1336822068541734912\">this X thread\u003c/a>, and on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQED/posts/10157640695916191\">KQED’s Facebook page. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey everyone, I’m Olivia Allen Price and this is Bay Curious. Let’s go!\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My name is Ben Kaiser and believe it or not I live in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ben visited San Francisco for the first time four years ago. And as soon as he got here, he felt a connection.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It sort of seemed like I had been there before or that I belonged there. And I just absolutely fell in love with it. And I’ve been back in four years, probably nine or ten times.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That’s a lot of flights between Atlanta and SFO. Now, when Ben can’t be here, he’s found a way to visit without leaving his living room.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because I don’t live in San Francisco, I want to be connected to it as much as I possibly can. And one of the ways is watching movies shot there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anything that can transport him here, even if only for a few hours. Ben’s seen a lot already, but he wants more, so he came to Bay Curious.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I asked what were some of the movies set in San Francisco that were actually shot in San Francisco, and which ones are your favorites or your recommendations?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now we don’t often delve into subjective matters here on the show, but hey, it’s the holidays, cozy season is here, and we thought maybe we could all use some solid movie recommendations. Today’s episode will sound a little bit different from what you usually hear on Bay Curious. We’ve got a panel of local cultural experts here to convince Ben and you how you should spend some time devouring the Bay Area in all its cinematic glory. This episode first aired in 2020 and has been lightly revised for you today. So throw some popcorn in the microwave, cozy up on your couch, and press play. All right, I have to start out this episode with a confession. I, Olivia Allen Price, am really bad at movies, like possibly the last person that you would want on your trivia team during the movie round. So I called in some much needed backup on this one. Here to help me out today is Peter Hartlaub. He was born and raised in the Bay Area. He’s a cultural critic with the San Francisco Chronicle, and he writes the total SF newsletter. Welcome, Peter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you so much for having me.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah. Also, I’ve got Carly Severn here. She’s a senior editor here at KQED and a Bay Curious Reporter, who you are probably familiar with. She’s also a former co-host of The Cooler Podcast and one of KQED’s resident movie obsessives. Hey Carly.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey, Olivia. Hey, Peter. Lovely to be here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So before we get into recommendations, I’m curious, what do you guys think makes San Francisco a good spot to shoot a film?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Internationally recognizable landmarks, Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, the topography. You can get up on a hill and see those landmarks. You can have a chase scene and get a little air. But I think the biggest thing is the weather. And it’s sort of the secret ingredient because it allows a director to convey mood. And then the city sort of becomes the mood of the director. You have the fog coming in, you have the sun coming in, subtle shifts. You can’t do that in Atlanta. You can’t do it in Houston. You can’t even really do that in LA. And I think that’s a big reason why San Francisco ends up being, you know, a top pick if you’re a director and you want to shoot like a thriller or an action film, something like that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would agree with all of that and I must kind of confess I do have a similar cinematic relationship with San Francisco as listener Ben does. I grew up watching San Francisco on screen as a kid in the middle of nowhere in England and it just seemed like the coolest place in the world to me. So I get it. I get his quest.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, despite all these things, all these sort of great attributes that make, you know, San Francisco a great place to shoot, you still don’t see it in films as often as, you know, in New York or in LA or maybe even in Atlanta, even though you don’t necessarily know you’re in Atlanta when you are in Atlanta. A lot of sh movies are shot there. Why do you all think that is?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s expensive to get a hotel here, much less a bunch of hotels if you’ve got a lot of people coming. People are all crammed in together. And if you’re gonna shoot Sister Act in Noe Valley, or if you’re gonna shoot a car chase scene going through Russian Hill, the neighbors are gonna notice. And I think San Francisco, more than some of those other cities, because it’s sort of compact like that, makes it harder to film. Expensive and compact.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I think logistically you have all of these issues, but I do think there’s this thematic problem with San Francisco, it’s so in your face. It is it does end up being a character. If you want to just have like any town USA to set your story in, like San Francisco is not the place to come. It really isn’t, because you’ll end up having to do all of this narrative work bending over backwards to kind of explain why it’s a San Francisco story. That’s my take anyway.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, I do want to get on to answering Ben’s question and get to some of your San Francisco movie recommendations, but I thought we’d actually start with his because he has seen a lot of movies and he has his own thoughts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vertigo’s probably my all time favorite movie in the fact that it’s shot in San Francisco. But, you know, a lot of the real common ones, you know, I I’m not embarrassed to say the other night I watched The Rock and enjoyed The Rock. But you know, Mrs. Doubtfire, Milk, The Room, those are just, you know, some of the ones that I enjoy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it sounds like he’s definitely seen some of the classics, which I know we aren’t necessarily gonna talk as much about today in your lists, right?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vertigo, The Conversation, the Hitchcock films, the Coppola films. If I’m teaching a film class about San Francisco, they’re gonna be right in there. If I’m turning on my TV right now ’cause I just need to chill and escape a little bit, I’ve got a whole different set of films that I’m gonna pick, my favorite films, and that’s what I’m gonna pick today.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A hundred percent cosign. And may I just say to Ben that he never has to be embarrassed about watching the rock. There is nothing to be embarrassed about there.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s totally cool to just love the rock and shout it from the rooftops.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, so I asked each of you guys to bring your top three recommendations. And what we’re gonna do is go through all of those and then let Ben decide who has been the most convincing and which movie he is going to watch next. So let’s dive in, Carly. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let us know what is your number three pick and why.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carly Severn: First of all, I want to kind of set up my thinking here. I wanted to pay homage to the classic TLC album Crazy Sexy Cool with three picks that make San Francisco look either crazy, sexy, or cool. And so I’m gonna start with cool. It is Always Be My Maybe. It is the 2019 Netflix movie directed by Nahnatchka Khan . It’s got Ali Wong as a celebrity chef, and she returns home to San Francisco, where she grew up, and she reconnects with her childhood boyfriend, Randall Park.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Always Be My Maybe\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[00:07:18] \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I love this movie so much. It makes San Francisco look really cool, but it also makes it look really normal. And it’s not the kind of parade of Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park Ad nauseum. Like a lot of it’s set in the outer Richmond, like the farmers market that they go to. It’s not some bougie little farmer’s market. It’s the like the civic center farmers market. So as a resident of the Bay Area, there’s such a pleasure in in kind of doing that thing where you’re looking at the screen going like, Oh, I know that. That’s really cool. I should admit that so much of it is filmed in San Francisco at these amazing locations that are like super normal and super lived in. But Vancouver, of course it’s always Vancouver. Vancouver actually doubles for a lot of the San Francisco locations. Particularly Goodluck Dim sum, which is where Ali Wong it’s one of her favorite restaurants in San Francisco. She’s it’s on Clements Street. She says it’s where she grew up eating. She really wanted that set there, but they had to double the interior in Vancouver. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Always Be My Maybe \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She thought that the restaurant would really love the fact that she had given them the shout-out, and it turns out they they kind of didn’t care. She put on Instagram that she had gone to the restaurant, and this is her caption. So the picture is of her waiting in line at this place that she’s just made super famous in a movie. And she’s like, Me, hello, I’m Ali Wong. The dim sum scene in my movie Always Be My Maybe is based on this very place where I grew up eating. Good luck, dim sum staff. We don’t give a bleep. We have no idea who you are. Get in line.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh I love that. Tough being famous in San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There’s a lot of little things in there that are San Francisco too. Ali Wong got Dan the Automator to do the score and also write the music for the greatest San Francisco band in a movie, Hello Peril, which do three songs in the movie, including the closing credits. My only complaint, and Carly mentioned it, and I don’t want to start like negative ad campaigns here, but we’re winning Ben’s vote, and there’s only one vote. They did the exterior on Clement Street, and they’re walking down what’s supposed to be Clement Street, and it is so not Clements Street. It is so Vancouver. I love the movie, but as a location, San Francisco location movie, I find it to be kind of hit and miss.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, well let’s get on to your number three then, mister Hartlob. What do you got?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mine is \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I think it’s the most underrated San Francisco movie. Shot, it came out in 1978, a Philip Kaufman movie. He’s a San Francisco resident to this day. And it was a remake of a 1950s movie about alien pods that come in, they’re replacing the human race slowly, and you can’t fall asleep. And it’s there’s just a lot of intrigue and it’s a thriller and it’s horror. I love it as a San Francisco movie because a lot of directors come in and they love San Francisco, but they shoot from the same seven places. You know, Telegraph Hill, Golden Gate Bridge, Palace of Fine Arts. Philip Kaufman shot in places that I think he always wanted to shoot, that that really add to the movie. The tenderloin is a huge, huge character in the movie. Civic Center. There’s a couple of really cool shots there. Obscure places like Pier 70. Right here, we have Donald Sutherland in a very famous scene where he is revealing himself to be one of the pod people by screeching. The screech is a pig squeal, I believe played backwards. And he’s pointing, he’s pointing at you on the other side of the screen. He’s in the civic center, pointing at you. Great San Francisco movie, great horror movie, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I loved this movie. I actually was ashamed to say that I hadn’t seen it before I started prepping to have this conversation with you guys. And it starts off, you know, like a little bit cheesy, and I was like, oh god, what has Peter chosen? I couldn’t have been more wrong. It is such a great movie. I I could not agree ever with more with everything he said about the way it uses San Francisco, and particularly like a lot of like civic buildings around Civic Center, and just like a lot of it set at the the Department of Public Health, which I always like it when those guys are the good guys in the movie.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know, I haven’t seen this movie yet. It’s now gonna be on my list, I will say, but I am I love the idea that there’s a movie that that really highlights some of the lesser used locations around San Francisco. Because I think there is, you know, a divide between how tourists experience the city and how people who live in the city experience the city. Let’s move on to your number two picks, making our way up the list. Carly, what do you have?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, I did say I was gonna do Crazy Sexy Cool, and we’re now into the sexy phase of this pick. It is 1992’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basic Instinct\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And I thought long and hard before choosing this one because, you know, many parts of it haven’t aged well, let’s be honest. But it is a prime example of the 90s erotic thriller. It is made by Paul Verhoven, and the plot is ludicrous. Michael Douglas is the shady San Francisco detective. He’s investigating this bombshell crime novelist, Sharon Stone, who definitely, maybe almost certainly, killed one of her boyfriends. It’s a romp, it’s a riot, it wants to be a Hitchcock noir very, very badly. So it looks way better than it needs to, and it sounds way better than it needs to. I tried long and hard to find a safe for Bay Curious clip from this movie and failed miserably. So let’s just listen to a little bit of the trailer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Basic Instinct \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love the way it uses San Francisco. It goes for all the classic shots, like, you know, there’s North Beach, there’s Telegraph Hill. One thing I should note is that San Francisco wasn’t always thrilled about being the kind of poster child for this movie. Sharon Stone’s character is bisexual and setting a movie with an LGBTQ woman who has a lot of sex and kills the people that she sleeps with in San Francisco in 1992 at a time when AIDS was still so prevalent and claiming so many lives. Like that’s a definite choice. And this isn’t just like 2020 hindsight. The movie was picketed at the time by LGBTQ groups for being kind of prejudice in its representation of that community. So I do feel like I should flag that. A lot of that animosity, I feel like, has gone away over time, but it’s definitely something to note. Also, I think the reason people don’t like this movie is that they take it quite seriously. And I think if you look at Paul Behoven’s back catalog, like Starship Troopers, like Total Recall, like Showgirls, I think he has a sense of humor about what he’s doing. So I think that this movie should be taken as a time capsule and with a hefty fistful of salt.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love this film. I think it’s a great pick. I think it’s underrated. There are more helicopter shots in this movie of San Francisco, of someone driving a car around a windy road. His embracing San Francisco, making love to San Francisco with his camera budget was off the charts. So I think it’s a great pick. I really like this movie a lot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Definitely one that makes San Francisco look sexy, Carly. Don’t you agree?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, okay, so this is where I genuinely want you guys’ opinion, because I have spent the best part of a week thinking about this question. Is San Francisco a sexy city? And I was trying to think of cities that are like off the charts sexy, you’re right. New Orleans sprang to mind. But then I’m thinking, is it just about like sweating? Is it just like the weather? Is is is that all sexiness is to me.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I gotta say, the the weather is it. You don’t sweat in San Francisco. LA sexy city. New Orleans sexy city. Miami. Miami Vice sexy city. Streets of San Francisco is not a sexy TV show.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’m gonna have to disagree with you guys and you are the cultural critics here, so your your opinion has more weight than mine, but I don’t know, I see fog and I wanna cuddle. 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Well let’s get into Peter, what’s your number two pick?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My number two is\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Zodiac\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It is a David Fincher film. He shot \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Game\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> first and then \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zodiac\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in San Francisco. And second to Hitchcock, I think he’s the one who really is a great sensibility for San Francisco. It is shot also in the San Francisco Chronicle Newsroom. They shot in our publisher’s office, I believe, outside, and they used our lobby and elevator. The story goes that David Fincher came up to our newsroom, walked inside, said an expletive and said this is too much of a mess, walked outside and they recreated our newsroom pillar for pillar. You cannot tell the difference in Los Angeles. But absolutely, absolutely captures a place in time. The music choices, the visual cues, the production design, nothing’s wasted. And honestly, even though they didn’t shoot in the Chronicle Newsroom, the newsroom banter is pitch perfect. Here’s a little bit of it right now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Vertigo \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that’s the way we talk. That’s the way we talk to each other. It’s all like a David Fincher or Aaron Sorkin drama.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Vertigo\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No, this is this is a great film, and the plot is almost secondary in this film, a killer from the 70s and 80s who they never caught, and I’m giving away the ending, but the ending isn’t the important thing. The important thing is the mood, the city, what it felt like to be in the 1970s and be scared. I was a little kid. I remember hearing about the Zodiac Killer, and this movie brought that back so well. My favorite shot in the film, it is a visual effects shot of them in sped up time building the Transamerica Pyramid, and again, just David Fincher using every little arrow in his quiver to capture that mood of San Francisco at a particular time. It’s a fantastic location movie.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I think it’s the only one on this list that is based on a true story unless there’s something I need to know about \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think that’s true. And and and you know, there there’s a little bit of myth in there, but he he’s stuck a lot closer than a lot of other people do to the facts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will say as somebody who was not living in the Bay Area at the time of Zodiac, I found \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zodiac\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to be really helpful just to kind of I guess get a sense of what it was like to be here during that time, like you experienced, Peter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, and people remember and if people weren’t around, they know the myth. When when people come to the chronicle and ask for a tour, the two things they want to see are Herb Kane’s typewriter and the Zodiac Files. Can you show us the Zodiac files?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, let’s get on to your top choices. These are top of your list. Let’s let’s hear it, Carly. What do you got?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, guys, I’m reaching the climax of my crazy sexy cool plan, which I think paid off. My number one pick, it’s Crazy San Francisco. It’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Trek 4\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 1986. It is directed by Mr. Spark himself, Leonard Nimoy. I almost find it hard to talk about this film kind of critically because I love it so much. Just to quickly tell you about the plot, it picks up where 1984’s Search for Spark, Star Trek III left off. So the Earth of the Future is being menaced by a big alien probe. Only Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise can save the planet by time traveling back to 1980s San Francisco to bring back two Wales to talk to the alien probe and get it to leave Earth alone. You have to go with it. That’s the plot, and I can’t change that, okay? It’s not the best Star Trek movie. That’s The Wrath of Khan. That’s just undisputable. But it is the best Star Trek movie set in San Francisco with Wales, which is to say, it is the only one of that. Where do I start with how wonderful this movie is? People think I’m joking when I say that it’s the reason I moved to San Francisco, and I’m like 5% joking about that. But the other 95% is really serious. Growing up with this movie and watching San Francisco just look so fun, so warm, so crazy, so inviting. Like I wanted to be a part of that. It is totally joyous. Ben, if you’re listening and you haven’t seen Star Trek 4, don’t worry. You don’t need to watch any of the other Star Trek movies. It stands alone, it’s kind of perfect in that sense. The pleasures of watching like the quite serious crew of the Enterprise traverse San Francisco and just have a ball doing it. It’s just great. So I really wanted to play you one of the most iconic scenes, which is Kirk and Spock on a Muni bus that is traveling over the Golden Gate Bridge. Mr. Spock has to take out a young punk on the bus and get him to stop playing his music. And then this happens.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Star Trek 4\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The gag there, of course, being that Jacqueline Cezanne and Harold Robbins. Oh, I had to look up Harold Robbins, by the way. Like, they are not the giants of literature, but it’s just hilarious to think that the people of the future have deemed them to be so. I know of no movie that is like warmer and and sweeter than Star Trek Four. So, Ben, pick me, pick Star Trek Four. The choice is easy. Come on.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know, I don’t even wanna argue against you, and I’m gonna pick a number one, but I love this film so much. It is just a lovely movie, funny movie, finds all kinds of different ways to explore San Francisco and make it part of the gag, but in a in a funny, warm way. It’s one of the greats, one of the classics.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, and up there with one of the greats must be your number one choice, Peter. What do you have for your number one?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2015 Pixar film Inside Out. It takes place inside the brain of tween girl coming of age, Riley. And then also outside in San Francisco, Riley has moved from I believe Minnesota to San Francisco, and she’s horrified. And what the Pixar people did with animation is so fantastic. They take San Francisco and make it like 10 to 15% more. The streets are a little narrower, parking’s a little harder, street signs are a little more incomprehensible. Fantastic, fantastic use of San Francisco. It’s more of a character in the movie than any of their other movies. They had always kind of flirted around with the Bay Area and maybe dropped San Pablo Avenue and the Incredibles. This one, they really talk about San Francisco. And you don’t see that often. You see a lot of mainstream films set in San Francisco, and San Francisco is a backdrop and it’s almost like a prop. Very few films are a commentary on the city. Last black man in San Francisco, Medicine for Melancholy, and Inside Out. Inside Out is poking fun of the city. It is completely honest. If you live here, you totally get it. If you’re not from here, you’re gonna get some of the humor, including taking just an absolute, absolute dagger stab at our Pizza.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Inside Out\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Honestly, the first time I saw this film, I didn’t love it. I liked it a lot. I’m glad I didn’t review it because I think I would have given it less than the highest rating. Upon rewatch, there’s so many little things that come out. You learn more things, and the San Francisco parts become clearer and clearer. I just think it’s a fantastic film, and it’s a fantastic San Francisco location film.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well I think Ben is gonna have a really hard time deciding between all of those very compelling pitches for for movies he should be watching this weekend. Peter Hartlob, Bay Area native, culture critic with the SF Chronicle, co-host of Total SF podcast. Thank you so much. Is there anywhere that listeners can connect with you further?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subscribe to the Total SF newsletter, that’s where I explore the Bay Area and pass on all my favorite finds, the best hikes to take, the best tourist traps to visit, where I’m finding the best papusas to eat, and read my work at sfchronicle.com.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Awesome. And Carly, you are my longtime pop culture, I don’t know, guru. You’ve you’ve really helped me with questions over the years. So thank you for coming on the show. Where can people connect with you?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, you can find my work for Bay Curious in the podcast feed, including my two part series on the Donner Party in the archives, since we’re now feeling the wintry vibes here in the bay. You can also visit kqbd.org slash explainers to see what me and my team are up to every day in the KQED newsroom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alright, well thanks to you both. Big thanks to Ben for asking this week’s question.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carly and Peter, I appreciate your suggestions for which San Francisco movie I should watch next. Full disclosure, three of them I’ve already seen. Those are: Always Be My Maybe, Basic Instinct and Zodiac, which is one of my all-time favorite movies. So it comes down to the other three, but I’m torn between Inside Out and Star Trek Four. But in the end, my vote is going to go to Star Trek Four. I’ve never seen a Star Trek movie, but it seems to be such a beloved film, and Carly campaigned it very, very well. So tonight, that’s what I’ll be watching.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is our last episode of the year, and I wanted to offer a warm thanks to you, our listeners, for your inspiring questions and your steadfast support. If you’re not yet a member of KQED, join us now by making a year-end donation. Details at kqed.org/slash donate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bay Curious is made at KQED in San Francisco by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen Price. Additional Engineering by Jim Bennett. We get extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Jen Chien,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethan Tovin Lindsay and everyone on Team KQED. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California local. I hope you have a wonderful holiday. I’ll see ya in twenty twenty six.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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I was a little kid, and I remember hearing about the Zodiac killer, and this movie brought that back so well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)\u003c/h1>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/C0FnJDhY9-0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/C0FnJDhY9-0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4353250/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> One of the few films on our list that is a commentary on the Bay Area, and how gentrification has decimated once vibrant Black neighborhoods. The cinematography will absolutely take your breath away. Pause the movie at any point and you might be inspired to hang the still image on your wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Basic Instinct (1992)\u003c/h1>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4f96x3UpoaQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4f96x3UpoaQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103772/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> “The plot is ludicrous … but it’s a romp. It’s a riot. It also looks way better than it needs to, and it sounds way better than it needs to,” says Carly Severn. “I love the way it uses San Francisco. It goes for all the classic shots — there’s North Beach, there’s Telegraph Hill.” You’ll also find lots of gorgeous helicopter shots in this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Always Be My Maybe (2019)\u003c/h1>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/iHBcWHY9lN4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/iHBcWHY9lN4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7374948/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Everyone assumed Sasha and Marcus would wind up together except for Sasha and Marcus. Reconnecting after 15 years, the two start to wonder — maybe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> “It makes San Francisco look really cool, but it also makes San Francisco look normal. A lot of it is set in the Outer Richmond,” says Carly Severn. “As a resident of the Bay Area there’s such a pleasure in looking at the screen and saying, ‘Oh, I know that! That’s cool!”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)\u003c/h1>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vc_0dlmSq7I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vc_0dlmSq7I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>: \u003c/strong>When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, where they replicate the residents into emotionless automatons one body at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> “I think this is the most underrated San Francisco movie,” says Peter Hartlaub. “A lot of directors come in and they love San Francisco, but they shoot from the same seven places — Telegraph Hill, the Golden Gate Bridge, The Palace of Fine Arts. Director Philip Kaufman shot in places I think he always wanted to shoot — the Tenderloin is a huge character in the movie. Civic Center. Obscure places like Pier 70.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Vertigo (1958)\u003c/h1>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Z5jvQwwHQNY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Z5jvQwwHQNY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> If you’re going to watch one movie set in San Francisco, a lot of critics would argue it should be this Alfred Hitchcock classic. The plot is woven into the location in a way that few movies can rival. And if you’re wanting to really *see* the city — this film is a hit parade of gorgeous locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>So I Married an Axe Murderer! (1993)\u003c/h1>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/yto08I_IiAg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/yto08I_IiAg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108174/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A San Francisco poet who fears commitment suspects his girlfriend may have a knack for killing off her significant others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> One KQED fan says it “captures something of the SF that I grew up in” and another calls this film “a love letter to SF.” It highlights many of the city’s most famous sights — like the Golden Gate Bridge to the Palace of Fine Arts and Alcatraz.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Bullitt (1968)\u003c/h1>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/BsvD806qNM8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/BsvD806qNM8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062765/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> Do we need to say much more than “epic car chase scenes on San Francisco hills?” This film features tons of on-location filming, so you’ll get a big taste of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)\u003c/h1>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/3euGQ7-brs4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3euGQ7-brs4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107614/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>: \u003c/strong>After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> We couldn’t leave this film off the list. After all, it features one of the Bay Area’s most beloved celebrities, Robin Williams. After his death, the house featured in this film at 2640 Steiner St. became a pop-up memorial. You’ll spot everything from ordinary streets to iconic San Francisco locations throughout the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>The Rock (1996)\u003c/h1>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/6DWu_dT0Phc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/6DWu_dT0Phc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> Much of the film was shot on in and around Alcatraz, a tall order given the production crew had to do it all while tour groups milled around the site of the former federal penitentiary. Other locations in the film include the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco City Hall and Pier 39.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These 12 films are still just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to great movies filmed in the Bay Area. Other audience favorites include: Chan Is Missing, The Conversation, Blindspotting, Sorry to Bother You, The Princess Diaries, Parrots of Telegraph Hill and La Mission. Find even more suggestions on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/KQED/status/1336822068541734912\">this X thread\u003c/a>, and on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQED/posts/10157640695916191\">KQED’s Facebook page. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey everyone, I’m Olivia Allen Price and this is Bay Curious. Let’s go!\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My name is Ben Kaiser and believe it or not I live in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ben visited San Francisco for the first time four years ago. And as soon as he got here, he felt a connection.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It sort of seemed like I had been there before or that I belonged there. And I just absolutely fell in love with it. And I’ve been back in four years, probably nine or ten times.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That’s a lot of flights between Atlanta and SFO. Now, when Ben can’t be here, he’s found a way to visit without leaving his living room.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because I don’t live in San Francisco, I want to be connected to it as much as I possibly can. And one of the ways is watching movies shot there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anything that can transport him here, even if only for a few hours. Ben’s seen a lot already, but he wants more, so he came to Bay Curious.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I asked what were some of the movies set in San Francisco that were actually shot in San Francisco, and which ones are your favorites or your recommendations?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now we don’t often delve into subjective matters here on the show, but hey, it’s the holidays, cozy season is here, and we thought maybe we could all use some solid movie recommendations. Today’s episode will sound a little bit different from what you usually hear on Bay Curious. We’ve got a panel of local cultural experts here to convince Ben and you how you should spend some time devouring the Bay Area in all its cinematic glory. This episode first aired in 2020 and has been lightly revised for you today. So throw some popcorn in the microwave, cozy up on your couch, and press play. All right, I have to start out this episode with a confession. I, Olivia Allen Price, am really bad at movies, like possibly the last person that you would want on your trivia team during the movie round. So I called in some much needed backup on this one. Here to help me out today is Peter Hartlaub. He was born and raised in the Bay Area. He’s a cultural critic with the San Francisco Chronicle, and he writes the total SF newsletter. Welcome, Peter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you so much for having me.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah. Also, I’ve got Carly Severn here. She’s a senior editor here at KQED and a Bay Curious Reporter, who you are probably familiar with. She’s also a former co-host of The Cooler Podcast and one of KQED’s resident movie obsessives. Hey Carly.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey, Olivia. Hey, Peter. Lovely to be here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So before we get into recommendations, I’m curious, what do you guys think makes San Francisco a good spot to shoot a film?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Internationally recognizable landmarks, Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, the topography. You can get up on a hill and see those landmarks. You can have a chase scene and get a little air. But I think the biggest thing is the weather. And it’s sort of the secret ingredient because it allows a director to convey mood. And then the city sort of becomes the mood of the director. You have the fog coming in, you have the sun coming in, subtle shifts. You can’t do that in Atlanta. You can’t do it in Houston. You can’t even really do that in LA. And I think that’s a big reason why San Francisco ends up being, you know, a top pick if you’re a director and you want to shoot like a thriller or an action film, something like that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would agree with all of that and I must kind of confess I do have a similar cinematic relationship with San Francisco as listener Ben does. I grew up watching San Francisco on screen as a kid in the middle of nowhere in England and it just seemed like the coolest place in the world to me. So I get it. I get his quest.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, despite all these things, all these sort of great attributes that make, you know, San Francisco a great place to shoot, you still don’t see it in films as often as, you know, in New York or in LA or maybe even in Atlanta, even though you don’t necessarily know you’re in Atlanta when you are in Atlanta. A lot of sh movies are shot there. Why do you all think that is?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s expensive to get a hotel here, much less a bunch of hotels if you’ve got a lot of people coming. People are all crammed in together. And if you’re gonna shoot Sister Act in Noe Valley, or if you’re gonna shoot a car chase scene going through Russian Hill, the neighbors are gonna notice. And I think San Francisco, more than some of those other cities, because it’s sort of compact like that, makes it harder to film. Expensive and compact.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I think logistically you have all of these issues, but I do think there’s this thematic problem with San Francisco, it’s so in your face. It is it does end up being a character. If you want to just have like any town USA to set your story in, like San Francisco is not the place to come. It really isn’t, because you’ll end up having to do all of this narrative work bending over backwards to kind of explain why it’s a San Francisco story. That’s my take anyway.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, I do want to get on to answering Ben’s question and get to some of your San Francisco movie recommendations, but I thought we’d actually start with his because he has seen a lot of movies and he has his own thoughts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vertigo’s probably my all time favorite movie in the fact that it’s shot in San Francisco. But, you know, a lot of the real common ones, you know, I I’m not embarrassed to say the other night I watched The Rock and enjoyed The Rock. But you know, Mrs. Doubtfire, Milk, The Room, those are just, you know, some of the ones that I enjoy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it sounds like he’s definitely seen some of the classics, which I know we aren’t necessarily gonna talk as much about today in your lists, right?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vertigo, The Conversation, the Hitchcock films, the Coppola films. If I’m teaching a film class about San Francisco, they’re gonna be right in there. If I’m turning on my TV right now ’cause I just need to chill and escape a little bit, I’ve got a whole different set of films that I’m gonna pick, my favorite films, and that’s what I’m gonna pick today.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A hundred percent cosign. And may I just say to Ben that he never has to be embarrassed about watching the rock. There is nothing to be embarrassed about there.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s totally cool to just love the rock and shout it from the rooftops.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, so I asked each of you guys to bring your top three recommendations. And what we’re gonna do is go through all of those and then let Ben decide who has been the most convincing and which movie he is going to watch next. So let’s dive in, Carly. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let us know what is your number three pick and why.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carly Severn: First of all, I want to kind of set up my thinking here. I wanted to pay homage to the classic TLC album Crazy Sexy Cool with three picks that make San Francisco look either crazy, sexy, or cool. And so I’m gonna start with cool. It is Always Be My Maybe. It is the 2019 Netflix movie directed by Nahnatchka Khan . It’s got Ali Wong as a celebrity chef, and she returns home to San Francisco, where she grew up, and she reconnects with her childhood boyfriend, Randall Park.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Always Be My Maybe\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[00:07:18] \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I love this movie so much. It makes San Francisco look really cool, but it also makes it look really normal. And it’s not the kind of parade of Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park Ad nauseum. Like a lot of it’s set in the outer Richmond, like the farmers market that they go to. It’s not some bougie little farmer’s market. It’s the like the civic center farmers market. So as a resident of the Bay Area, there’s such a pleasure in in kind of doing that thing where you’re looking at the screen going like, Oh, I know that. That’s really cool. I should admit that so much of it is filmed in San Francisco at these amazing locations that are like super normal and super lived in. But Vancouver, of course it’s always Vancouver. Vancouver actually doubles for a lot of the San Francisco locations. Particularly Goodluck Dim sum, which is where Ali Wong it’s one of her favorite restaurants in San Francisco. She’s it’s on Clements Street. She says it’s where she grew up eating. She really wanted that set there, but they had to double the interior in Vancouver. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Always Be My Maybe \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She thought that the restaurant would really love the fact that she had given them the shout-out, and it turns out they they kind of didn’t care. She put on Instagram that she had gone to the restaurant, and this is her caption. So the picture is of her waiting in line at this place that she’s just made super famous in a movie. And she’s like, Me, hello, I’m Ali Wong. The dim sum scene in my movie Always Be My Maybe is based on this very place where I grew up eating. Good luck, dim sum staff. We don’t give a bleep. We have no idea who you are. Get in line.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh I love that. Tough being famous in San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There’s a lot of little things in there that are San Francisco too. Ali Wong got Dan the Automator to do the score and also write the music for the greatest San Francisco band in a movie, Hello Peril, which do three songs in the movie, including the closing credits. My only complaint, and Carly mentioned it, and I don’t want to start like negative ad campaigns here, but we’re winning Ben’s vote, and there’s only one vote. They did the exterior on Clement Street, and they’re walking down what’s supposed to be Clement Street, and it is so not Clements Street. It is so Vancouver. I love the movie, but as a location, San Francisco location movie, I find it to be kind of hit and miss.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, well let’s get on to your number three then, mister Hartlob. What do you got?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mine is \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I think it’s the most underrated San Francisco movie. Shot, it came out in 1978, a Philip Kaufman movie. He’s a San Francisco resident to this day. And it was a remake of a 1950s movie about alien pods that come in, they’re replacing the human race slowly, and you can’t fall asleep. And it’s there’s just a lot of intrigue and it’s a thriller and it’s horror. I love it as a San Francisco movie because a lot of directors come in and they love San Francisco, but they shoot from the same seven places. You know, Telegraph Hill, Golden Gate Bridge, Palace of Fine Arts. Philip Kaufman shot in places that I think he always wanted to shoot, that that really add to the movie. The tenderloin is a huge, huge character in the movie. Civic Center. There’s a couple of really cool shots there. Obscure places like Pier 70. Right here, we have Donald Sutherland in a very famous scene where he is revealing himself to be one of the pod people by screeching. The screech is a pig squeal, I believe played backwards. And he’s pointing, he’s pointing at you on the other side of the screen. He’s in the civic center, pointing at you. Great San Francisco movie, great horror movie, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I loved this movie. I actually was ashamed to say that I hadn’t seen it before I started prepping to have this conversation with you guys. And it starts off, you know, like a little bit cheesy, and I was like, oh god, what has Peter chosen? I couldn’t have been more wrong. It is such a great movie. I I could not agree ever with more with everything he said about the way it uses San Francisco, and particularly like a lot of like civic buildings around Civic Center, and just like a lot of it set at the the Department of Public Health, which I always like it when those guys are the good guys in the movie.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know, I haven’t seen this movie yet. It’s now gonna be on my list, I will say, but I am I love the idea that there’s a movie that that really highlights some of the lesser used locations around San Francisco. Because I think there is, you know, a divide between how tourists experience the city and how people who live in the city experience the city. Let’s move on to your number two picks, making our way up the list. Carly, what do you have?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, I did say I was gonna do Crazy Sexy Cool, and we’re now into the sexy phase of this pick. It is 1992’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basic Instinct\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And I thought long and hard before choosing this one because, you know, many parts of it haven’t aged well, let’s be honest. But it is a prime example of the 90s erotic thriller. It is made by Paul Verhoven, and the plot is ludicrous. Michael Douglas is the shady San Francisco detective. He’s investigating this bombshell crime novelist, Sharon Stone, who definitely, maybe almost certainly, killed one of her boyfriends. It’s a romp, it’s a riot, it wants to be a Hitchcock noir very, very badly. So it looks way better than it needs to, and it sounds way better than it needs to. I tried long and hard to find a safe for Bay Curious clip from this movie and failed miserably. So let’s just listen to a little bit of the trailer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Basic Instinct \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love the way it uses San Francisco. It goes for all the classic shots, like, you know, there’s North Beach, there’s Telegraph Hill. One thing I should note is that San Francisco wasn’t always thrilled about being the kind of poster child for this movie. Sharon Stone’s character is bisexual and setting a movie with an LGBTQ woman who has a lot of sex and kills the people that she sleeps with in San Francisco in 1992 at a time when AIDS was still so prevalent and claiming so many lives. Like that’s a definite choice. And this isn’t just like 2020 hindsight. The movie was picketed at the time by LGBTQ groups for being kind of prejudice in its representation of that community. So I do feel like I should flag that. A lot of that animosity, I feel like, has gone away over time, but it’s definitely something to note. Also, I think the reason people don’t like this movie is that they take it quite seriously. And I think if you look at Paul Behoven’s back catalog, like Starship Troopers, like Total Recall, like Showgirls, I think he has a sense of humor about what he’s doing. So I think that this movie should be taken as a time capsule and with a hefty fistful of salt.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love this film. I think it’s a great pick. I think it’s underrated. There are more helicopter shots in this movie of San Francisco, of someone driving a car around a windy road. His embracing San Francisco, making love to San Francisco with his camera budget was off the charts. So I think it’s a great pick. I really like this movie a lot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Definitely one that makes San Francisco look sexy, Carly. Don’t you agree?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, okay, so this is where I genuinely want you guys’ opinion, because I have spent the best part of a week thinking about this question. Is San Francisco a sexy city? And I was trying to think of cities that are like off the charts sexy, you’re right. New Orleans sprang to mind. But then I’m thinking, is it just about like sweating? Is it just like the weather? Is is is that all sexiness is to me.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I gotta say, the the weather is it. You don’t sweat in San Francisco. LA sexy city. New Orleans sexy city. Miami. Miami Vice sexy city. Streets of San Francisco is not a sexy TV show.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’m gonna have to disagree with you guys and you are the cultural critics here, so your your opinion has more weight than mine, but I don’t know, I see fog and I wanna cuddle. That’s my take.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I don’t know.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think Peter and I are of the same mind here where we’re just like It’s step one, guys.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s a cuddly city. I don’t know if it’s a sexy city.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I cuddle my dog. All right.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right. Well let’s get into Peter, what’s your number two pick?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My number two is\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Zodiac\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It is a David Fincher film. He shot \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Game\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> first and then \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zodiac\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in San Francisco. And second to Hitchcock, I think he’s the one who really is a great sensibility for San Francisco. It is shot also in the San Francisco Chronicle Newsroom. They shot in our publisher’s office, I believe, outside, and they used our lobby and elevator. The story goes that David Fincher came up to our newsroom, walked inside, said an expletive and said this is too much of a mess, walked outside and they recreated our newsroom pillar for pillar. You cannot tell the difference in Los Angeles. But absolutely, absolutely captures a place in time. The music choices, the visual cues, the production design, nothing’s wasted. And honestly, even though they didn’t shoot in the Chronicle Newsroom, the newsroom banter is pitch perfect. Here’s a little bit of it right now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Vertigo \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that’s the way we talk. That’s the way we talk to each other. It’s all like a David Fincher or Aaron Sorkin drama.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Vertigo\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No, this is this is a great film, and the plot is almost secondary in this film, a killer from the 70s and 80s who they never caught, and I’m giving away the ending, but the ending isn’t the important thing. The important thing is the mood, the city, what it felt like to be in the 1970s and be scared. I was a little kid. I remember hearing about the Zodiac Killer, and this movie brought that back so well. My favorite shot in the film, it is a visual effects shot of them in sped up time building the Transamerica Pyramid, and again, just David Fincher using every little arrow in his quiver to capture that mood of San Francisco at a particular time. It’s a fantastic location movie.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I think it’s the only one on this list that is based on a true story unless there’s something I need to know about \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think that’s true. And and and you know, there there’s a little bit of myth in there, but he he’s stuck a lot closer than a lot of other people do to the facts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will say as somebody who was not living in the Bay Area at the time of Zodiac, I found \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zodiac\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to be really helpful just to kind of I guess get a sense of what it was like to be here during that time, like you experienced, Peter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, and people remember and if people weren’t around, they know the myth. When when people come to the chronicle and ask for a tour, the two things they want to see are Herb Kane’s typewriter and the Zodiac Files. Can you show us the Zodiac files?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, let’s get on to your top choices. These are top of your list. Let’s let’s hear it, Carly. What do you got?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, guys, I’m reaching the climax of my crazy sexy cool plan, which I think paid off. My number one pick, it’s Crazy San Francisco. It’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Trek 4\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 1986. It is directed by Mr. Spark himself, Leonard Nimoy. I almost find it hard to talk about this film kind of critically because I love it so much. Just to quickly tell you about the plot, it picks up where 1984’s Search for Spark, Star Trek III left off. So the Earth of the Future is being menaced by a big alien probe. Only Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise can save the planet by time traveling back to 1980s San Francisco to bring back two Wales to talk to the alien probe and get it to leave Earth alone. You have to go with it. That’s the plot, and I can’t change that, okay? It’s not the best Star Trek movie. That’s The Wrath of Khan. That’s just undisputable. But it is the best Star Trek movie set in San Francisco with Wales, which is to say, it is the only one of that. Where do I start with how wonderful this movie is? People think I’m joking when I say that it’s the reason I moved to San Francisco, and I’m like 5% joking about that. But the other 95% is really serious. Growing up with this movie and watching San Francisco just look so fun, so warm, so crazy, so inviting. Like I wanted to be a part of that. It is totally joyous. Ben, if you’re listening and you haven’t seen Star Trek 4, don’t worry. You don’t need to watch any of the other Star Trek movies. It stands alone, it’s kind of perfect in that sense. The pleasures of watching like the quite serious crew of the Enterprise traverse San Francisco and just have a ball doing it. It’s just great. So I really wanted to play you one of the most iconic scenes, which is Kirk and Spock on a Muni bus that is traveling over the Golden Gate Bridge. Mr. Spock has to take out a young punk on the bus and get him to stop playing his music. And then this happens.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Star Trek 4\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The gag there, of course, being that Jacqueline Cezanne and Harold Robbins. Oh, I had to look up Harold Robbins, by the way. Like, they are not the giants of literature, but it’s just hilarious to think that the people of the future have deemed them to be so. I know of no movie that is like warmer and and sweeter than Star Trek Four. So, Ben, pick me, pick Star Trek Four. The choice is easy. Come on.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know, I don’t even wanna argue against you, and I’m gonna pick a number one, but I love this film so much. It is just a lovely movie, funny movie, finds all kinds of different ways to explore San Francisco and make it part of the gag, but in a in a funny, warm way. It’s one of the greats, one of the classics.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, and up there with one of the greats must be your number one choice, Peter. What do you have for your number one?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2015 Pixar film Inside Out. It takes place inside the brain of tween girl coming of age, Riley. And then also outside in San Francisco, Riley has moved from I believe Minnesota to San Francisco, and she’s horrified. And what the Pixar people did with animation is so fantastic. They take San Francisco and make it like 10 to 15% more. The streets are a little narrower, parking’s a little harder, street signs are a little more incomprehensible. Fantastic, fantastic use of San Francisco. It’s more of a character in the movie than any of their other movies. They had always kind of flirted around with the Bay Area and maybe dropped San Pablo Avenue and the Incredibles. This one, they really talk about San Francisco. And you don’t see that often. You see a lot of mainstream films set in San Francisco, and San Francisco is a backdrop and it’s almost like a prop. Very few films are a commentary on the city. Last black man in San Francisco, Medicine for Melancholy, and Inside Out. Inside Out is poking fun of the city. It is completely honest. If you live here, you totally get it. If you’re not from here, you’re gonna get some of the humor, including taking just an absolute, absolute dagger stab at our Pizza.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Inside Out\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Honestly, the first time I saw this film, I didn’t love it. I liked it a lot. I’m glad I didn’t review it because I think I would have given it less than the highest rating. Upon rewatch, there’s so many little things that come out. You learn more things, and the San Francisco parts become clearer and clearer. I just think it’s a fantastic film, and it’s a fantastic San Francisco location film.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well I think Ben is gonna have a really hard time deciding between all of those very compelling pitches for for movies he should be watching this weekend. Peter Hartlob, Bay Area native, culture critic with the SF Chronicle, co-host of Total SF podcast. Thank you so much. Is there anywhere that listeners can connect with you further?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subscribe to the Total SF newsletter, that’s where I explore the Bay Area and pass on all my favorite finds, the best hikes to take, the best tourist traps to visit, where I’m finding the best papusas to eat, and read my work at sfchronicle.com.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Awesome. And Carly, you are my longtime pop culture, I don’t know, guru. You’ve you’ve really helped me with questions over the years. So thank you for coming on the show. Where can people connect with you?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, you can find my work for Bay Curious in the podcast feed, including my two part series on the Donner Party in the archives, since we’re now feeling the wintry vibes here in the bay. You can also visit kqbd.org slash explainers to see what me and my team are up to every day in the KQED newsroom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alright, well thanks to you both. Big thanks to Ben for asking this week’s question.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carly and Peter, I appreciate your suggestions for which San Francisco movie I should watch next. Full disclosure, three of them I’ve already seen. Those are: Always Be My Maybe, Basic Instinct and Zodiac, which is one of my all-time favorite movies. So it comes down to the other three, but I’m torn between Inside Out and Star Trek Four. But in the end, my vote is going to go to Star Trek Four. I’ve never seen a Star Trek movie, but it seems to be such a beloved film, and Carly campaigned it very, very well. So tonight, that’s what I’ll be watching.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is our last episode of the year, and I wanted to offer a warm thanks to you, our listeners, for your inspiring questions and your steadfast support. If you’re not yet a member of KQED, join us now by making a year-end donation. Details at kqed.org/slash donate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bay Curious is made at KQED in San Francisco by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen Price. Additional Engineering by Jim Bennett. We get extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Jen Chien,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethan Tovin Lindsay and everyone on Team KQED. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California local. I hope you have a wonderful holiday. I’ll see ya in twenty twenty six.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Thanksgiving holiday can be an anxious time for people facing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063723/food-insecurity-on-campus-how-snap-is-a-lifeline-for-many-students\">food insecurity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, the run-up to the holiday season has been even more fraught, as hundreds of thousands of Bay Area residents receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — known as CalFresh in the state — saw their\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060770/snap-calfresh-food-stamps-government-shutdown-november-payments-ebt\"> payments delayed during the now-ended government shutdown\u003c/a>. Federal employees in the region also went without pay during the shutdown, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061440/calfresh-snap-ebt-shutdown-find-food-banks-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-alameda-oakland-contra-costa-newsom-national-guard\">causing demand at Bay Area food banks to soar\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Foodbank\">Jump straight to: Where to find a food bank this Thanksgiving\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While CalFresh benefits have finally been restored, many local families remain food insecure as Thanksgiving approaches. And in response, organizations around the Bay Area are getting ready to provide meals to people who need them this holiday season, from hot food to distribution boxes for use at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone is welcome to come — it doesn’t matter what zip code you live in or what your situation is,” Demone Carter, director of community engagement at Sacred Heart Community Services, told KQED in 2024. This San José-based nonprofit offers a food box distribution each Thanksgiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953001\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Stacked brown cardboard boxes of cauliflower and sweet potatoes in a paved outdoor area.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boxes of vegetables await distribution at a San Francisco-Marin Food Bank pop-up pantry in the Richmond District of San Francisco on June 13, 2023. Volunteers at food pantries often help set up, build grocery bags, distribute food, check in participants, manage the line, and help with other tasks as needed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for a list of more places that are offering either hot meals or food boxes to the community this Thanksgiving week — or jump straight to where to find:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to where to find Thanksgiving meals: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#sanfrancisco\">Free Thanksgiving meals in San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#eastbay\">Free Thanksgiving meals in the East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#southbay\">Free Thanksgiving meals in the South Bay and Peninsula\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you’re hoping to volunteer with one of these organizations this Thanksgiving, look for “For volunteers” below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind that not all groups listed below will serve their Thanksgiving meals on Thursday, but rather a day or two before. We’ll continue to update the list as we find more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Foodbank\">\u003c/a>Looking for a food bank near you instead?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For community members who prefer to take food home on their own schedule, the Bay Area’s food banks and pantries have already begun gearing up to meet community needs for Thanksgiving — after already dealing with several weeks of soaring demand due to the shutdown and SNAP delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to the Alameda County Community Food Bank’s hotline skyrocketed in November, said Michael Altfest, the organization’s director of community engagement and marketing — with roughly a third of calls coming from people who hadn’t used a food bank before. The shutdown created “an extraordinary situation,” Altfest said, “and we’ve seen in the past that when there is an emergency like this, it typically hits the more vulnerable communities harder, and it takes them longer to recover from it.”[aside postID=news_12062018 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FoodPantryGetty1.jpg']ACCFB is among the local food banks offering specialty food items as Thanksgiving approaches, based on requests from the community. This year, these items include over 100,000 whole chickens, corn meal, grits, masa, stuffing, fresh cranberries, stock and an increased amount of fresh produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the two terms are often used interchangeably, \u003ca href=\"https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-blog/what-difference-between-food-bank-and-food-pantry\">a food bank like ACCFB is usually where food is stored in a warehouse\u003c/a>, to be delivered to local food programs, which include food pantries. But don’t worry too much about the difference, as food banks specialize in helping connect you to where to actually physically pick up the food itself, and will be clear with you about the best locations near you to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many food banks have phone hotlines that can assist you in finding food nearby this holiday season. ACCFB’s helpline — 1-510-635-3663, open Monday through Friday 9 a.m.–4 p.m. — is available in multiple languages and promises to connect callers “to a source for groceries or a hot meal the same day you call us.” You can also search online using ACCFB’s \u003ca href=\"http://foodnow.net/\">FoodNow.net\u003c/a> tool for food sources near you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SF-Marin Food Bank has \u003ca href=\"https://foodlocator.sfmfoodbank.org/?_gl=1*3xmc3d*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3NjM2Njk3OTMuQ2p3S0NBaUFsZnZJQmhBNkVpd0FjRXJweVdOclRrU0dQc25ON1FkMTktTF9DcjI1YnI3RFRyeS1YUkIwM3RsY0xmaDZRcUw3RmxMS1V4b0NHMzRRQXZEX0J3RQ..*_gcl_au*MTAyODY0MTk3MC4xNzYxNjg5MjU3&_ga=2.164845503.1219262661.1763669793-1779016062.1761689258&_gac=1.229238510.1763669793.CjwKCAiAlfvIBhA6EiwAcErpyWNrTkSGPsnN7Qd19-L_Cr25br7DTry-XRB03tlcLfh6QqL7FlLKUxoCG34QAvD_BwE\">a Food Locator tool \u003c/a>to help you find food assistance in San Francisco and Marin, including monthly food boxes for seniors and one-time emergency food. You can also contact their San Francisco office at 415-824-3663 and their Marin office at 415-824-3663.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José’s Second Harvest has \u003ca href=\"https://www.shfb.org/get-food/?filter_mode=distribution/\">a Find Food online search tool\u003c/a>, and you can call their Food Connection helpline at 1-800-984-3663 (or email foodconnection@shfb.org).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear in mind that many food banks and their distribution sites may be closed over the Thanksgiving holiday itself. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061440/calfresh-snap-ebt-shutdown-find-food-banks-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-alameda-oakland-contra-costa-newsom-national-guard\">Find a food bank near you in the Bay Area.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For volunteers:\u003c/em> Sign-ups for Thanksgiving Day itself are always popular, and ACCFB’s volunteer shifts for the holiday are completely booked — although Altfest recommends checking for cancellations if you’re determined. At this stage of the year, “we’re really encouraging people to look to January, February and March for volunteering,” Altfest said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking to support your local food bank with donations, giving money rather than food itself gives these organizations far more flexibility, as they’re able to negotiate special deals for the food they buy in bulk, at much better prices than you can access as a private customer at a store. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062018/how-to-volunteer-donate-food-bank-near-me-thanksgiving-free-meals-san-francisco-bay-area-snap-calfresh-delays-ebt-november-shutdown\">Read more tips on how to support your local food bank this Thanksgiving.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"sanfrancisco\">\u003c/a>Thanksgiving meals in San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Martin de Porres House of Hospitality, 225 Potrero Ave.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A late \u003ca href=\"https://martindeporres.org/\">morning meal\u003c/a> will be served on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27, between 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For volunteers: \u003c/em>While the organization has enough volunteers to serve the Thanksgiving meal, people are encouraged to bring a homemade pie to their annual Thanksgiving Pie Drop-Off on Tuesday, Nov. 25, from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>St. Anthony’s Dining Room, 121 Golden Gate Ave.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celebrating its 75th year in the Tenderloin, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanthonysf.org/75-years-of-love-and-community-in-the-tenderloin-this-thanksgiving/\">St. Anthony Foundation\u003c/a> plans to serve more than 2,000 Thanksgiving meals on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27, between 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. this year. Doors will open at 7 a.m. for coffee and pastries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GLIDE, 330 Ellis St.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a celebration at Glide Memorial Church, \u003ca href=\"https://www.glide.org/holidays-at-glide/\">Thanksgiving meals\u003c/a> of ham, turkey and all the fixings will be served on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For volunteers: \u003c/em>The church is accepting donations of frozen turkeys on Nov. 25 and 26 from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CityTeam, 164 Sixth St.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warm meals will be available for pickup on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27, from 8 a.m. to noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 26, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cityteamsf/\">Thanksgiving Eve brunch\u003c/a> will be served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. while supplies last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For volunteers: \u003c/em>Community members are welcome to bring sides and desserts and help with distribution on Thanksgiving Day from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"eastbay\">\u003c/a>Thanksgiving meals in the East Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Oakland Collective, 7800 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DRIBOdcDyBD/\">Free Thanksgiving\u003c/a> staples and turkeys will be available for pickup on Thursday, Nov. 20, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. while supplies last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect wait times and lines. First-come, first-served — no advanced registration required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lake Merritt United Methodist Church, enter either at 1330 Lakeshore Ave. or 1255 First Ave., Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warm meals, which include turkey, will be served on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27, between noon and 1:30 p.m. for the 40th annual meal this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For volunteers:\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0F45A5A72AA3F49-58766683-2026#/\">Complete a sign-up form online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"southbay\">\u003c/a>Thanksgiving meals on the Peninsula and South Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sacred Heart Community Service, 1381 S. 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Preregistration is \u003ca href=\"https://www.marthas-kitchen.org/ourservices\">available online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Salvation Army, 200 West Fifth St., Gilroy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of the 95020, 95046 and 95037 zip codes can get drive-through food supplies on Tuesday, Nov. 25, at 9 a.m. and a hot Thanksgiving lunch at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For volunteers:\u003c/em> The organization expects to feed 250 families, and is \u003ca href=\"https://gilroy.salvationarmy.org/\">accepting donations and volunteers for both days online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Samaritan House Martin Luther King Center, 725 Monte Diablo Ave., San Mateo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole community is invited to a \u003ca href=\"https://samaritanhousesanmateo.org/\">Thanksgiving Day meal\u003c/a> from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 27, with all the fixings, music and raffles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While CalFresh benefits have finally been restored, many local families remain food insecure as Thanksgiving approaches. And in response, organizations around the Bay Area are getting ready to provide meals to people who need them this holiday season, from hot food to distribution boxes for use at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone is welcome to come — it doesn’t matter what zip code you live in or what your situation is,” Demone Carter, director of community engagement at Sacred Heart Community Services, told KQED in 2024. This San José-based nonprofit offers a food box distribution each Thanksgiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953001\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Stacked brown cardboard boxes of cauliflower and sweet potatoes in a paved outdoor area.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boxes of vegetables await distribution at a San Francisco-Marin Food Bank pop-up pantry in the Richmond District of San Francisco on June 13, 2023. Volunteers at food pantries often help set up, build grocery bags, distribute food, check in participants, manage the line, and help with other tasks as needed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for a list of more places that are offering either hot meals or food boxes to the community this Thanksgiving week — or jump straight to where to find:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to where to find Thanksgiving meals: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#sanfrancisco\">Free Thanksgiving meals in San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#eastbay\">Free Thanksgiving meals in the East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#southbay\">Free Thanksgiving meals in the South Bay and Peninsula\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you’re hoping to volunteer with one of these organizations this Thanksgiving, look for “For volunteers” below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind that not all groups listed below will serve their Thanksgiving meals on Thursday, but rather a day or two before. We’ll continue to update the list as we find more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Foodbank\">\u003c/a>Looking for a food bank near you instead?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For community members who prefer to take food home on their own schedule, the Bay Area’s food banks and pantries have already begun gearing up to meet community needs for Thanksgiving — after already dealing with several weeks of soaring demand due to the shutdown and SNAP delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to the Alameda County Community Food Bank’s hotline skyrocketed in November, said Michael Altfest, the organization’s director of community engagement and marketing — with roughly a third of calls coming from people who hadn’t used a food bank before. The shutdown created “an extraordinary situation,” Altfest said, “and we’ve seen in the past that when there is an emergency like this, it typically hits the more vulnerable communities harder, and it takes them longer to recover from it.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>ACCFB is among the local food banks offering specialty food items as Thanksgiving approaches, based on requests from the community. This year, these items include over 100,000 whole chickens, corn meal, grits, masa, stuffing, fresh cranberries, stock and an increased amount of fresh produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the two terms are often used interchangeably, \u003ca href=\"https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-blog/what-difference-between-food-bank-and-food-pantry\">a food bank like ACCFB is usually where food is stored in a warehouse\u003c/a>, to be delivered to local food programs, which include food pantries. But don’t worry too much about the difference, as food banks specialize in helping connect you to where to actually physically pick up the food itself, and will be clear with you about the best locations near you to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many food banks have phone hotlines that can assist you in finding food nearby this holiday season. ACCFB’s helpline — 1-510-635-3663, open Monday through Friday 9 a.m.–4 p.m. — is available in multiple languages and promises to connect callers “to a source for groceries or a hot meal the same day you call us.” You can also search online using ACCFB’s \u003ca href=\"http://foodnow.net/\">FoodNow.net\u003c/a> tool for food sources near you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SF-Marin Food Bank has \u003ca href=\"https://foodlocator.sfmfoodbank.org/?_gl=1*3xmc3d*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3NjM2Njk3OTMuQ2p3S0NBaUFsZnZJQmhBNkVpd0FjRXJweVdOclRrU0dQc25ON1FkMTktTF9DcjI1YnI3RFRyeS1YUkIwM3RsY0xmaDZRcUw3RmxMS1V4b0NHMzRRQXZEX0J3RQ..*_gcl_au*MTAyODY0MTk3MC4xNzYxNjg5MjU3&_ga=2.164845503.1219262661.1763669793-1779016062.1761689258&_gac=1.229238510.1763669793.CjwKCAiAlfvIBhA6EiwAcErpyWNrTkSGPsnN7Qd19-L_Cr25br7DTry-XRB03tlcLfh6QqL7FlLKUxoCG34QAvD_BwE\">a Food Locator tool \u003c/a>to help you find food assistance in San Francisco and Marin, including monthly food boxes for seniors and one-time emergency food. You can also contact their San Francisco office at 415-824-3663 and their Marin office at 415-824-3663.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José’s Second Harvest has \u003ca href=\"https://www.shfb.org/get-food/?filter_mode=distribution/\">a Find Food online search tool\u003c/a>, and you can call their Food Connection helpline at 1-800-984-3663 (or email foodconnection@shfb.org).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear in mind that many food banks and their distribution sites may be closed over the Thanksgiving holiday itself. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061440/calfresh-snap-ebt-shutdown-find-food-banks-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-alameda-oakland-contra-costa-newsom-national-guard\">Find a food bank near you in the Bay Area.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For volunteers:\u003c/em> Sign-ups for Thanksgiving Day itself are always popular, and ACCFB’s volunteer shifts for the holiday are completely booked — although Altfest recommends checking for cancellations if you’re determined. At this stage of the year, “we’re really encouraging people to look to January, February and March for volunteering,” Altfest said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking to support your local food bank with donations, giving money rather than food itself gives these organizations far more flexibility, as they’re able to negotiate special deals for the food they buy in bulk, at much better prices than you can access as a private customer at a store. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062018/how-to-volunteer-donate-food-bank-near-me-thanksgiving-free-meals-san-francisco-bay-area-snap-calfresh-delays-ebt-november-shutdown\">Read more tips on how to support your local food bank this Thanksgiving.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"sanfrancisco\">\u003c/a>Thanksgiving meals in San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Martin de Porres House of Hospitality, 225 Potrero Ave.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A late \u003ca href=\"https://martindeporres.org/\">morning meal\u003c/a> will be served on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27, between 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For volunteers: \u003c/em>While the organization has enough volunteers to serve the Thanksgiving meal, people are encouraged to bring a homemade pie to their annual Thanksgiving Pie Drop-Off on Tuesday, Nov. 25, from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>St. Anthony’s Dining Room, 121 Golden Gate Ave.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celebrating its 75th year in the Tenderloin, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanthonysf.org/75-years-of-love-and-community-in-the-tenderloin-this-thanksgiving/\">St. Anthony Foundation\u003c/a> plans to serve more than 2,000 Thanksgiving meals on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27, between 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. this year. Doors will open at 7 a.m. for coffee and pastries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GLIDE, 330 Ellis St.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a celebration at Glide Memorial Church, \u003ca href=\"https://www.glide.org/holidays-at-glide/\">Thanksgiving meals\u003c/a> of ham, turkey and all the fixings will be served on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For volunteers: \u003c/em>The church is accepting donations of frozen turkeys on Nov. 25 and 26 from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CityTeam, 164 Sixth St.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warm meals will be available for pickup on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27, from 8 a.m. to noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 26, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cityteamsf/\">Thanksgiving Eve brunch\u003c/a> will be served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. while supplies last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For volunteers: \u003c/em>Community members are welcome to bring sides and desserts and help with distribution on Thanksgiving Day from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"eastbay\">\u003c/a>Thanksgiving meals in the East Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Oakland Collective, 7800 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DRIBOdcDyBD/\">Free Thanksgiving\u003c/a> staples and turkeys will be available for pickup on Thursday, Nov. 20, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. while supplies last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect wait times and lines. First-come, first-served — no advanced registration required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lake Merritt United Methodist Church, enter either at 1330 Lakeshore Ave. or 1255 First Ave., Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warm meals, which include turkey, will be served on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27, between noon and 1:30 p.m. for the 40th annual meal this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For volunteers:\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0F45A5A72AA3F49-58766683-2026#/\">Complete a sign-up form online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"southbay\">\u003c/a>Thanksgiving meals on the Peninsula and South Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sacred Heart Community Service, 1381 S. First St., San José\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food boxes will be distributed on Monday, Nov. 24, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 25, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Wednesday, Nov. 26, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. No appointment is required, but you do need to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacredheartcs.org/new-member\">sign up to become a member here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Martha’s Kitchen, 749 Story Road, San José\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanksgiving dine-in meals will be available from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 25, and Wednesday, Nov. 26. Preregistration is \u003ca href=\"https://www.marthas-kitchen.org/ourservices\">available online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Salvation Army, 200 West Fifth St., Gilroy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of the 95020, 95046 and 95037 zip codes can get drive-through food supplies on Tuesday, Nov. 25, at 9 a.m. and a hot Thanksgiving lunch at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For volunteers:\u003c/em> The organization expects to feed 250 families, and is \u003ca href=\"https://gilroy.salvationarmy.org/\">accepting donations and volunteers for both days online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Samaritan House Martin Luther King Center, 725 Monte Diablo Ave., San Mateo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole community is invited to a \u003ca href=\"https://samaritanhousesanmateo.org/\">Thanksgiving Day meal\u003c/a> from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 27, with all the fixings, music and raffles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With Halloween around the corner, and spooky season in full swing, now is the best time to explore the Bay Area’s darkest, eeriest and downright scariest spots outdoors that might make you squirm — or at least elicit some pleasing chills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From haunted-feeling hikes and tunnels to neighborhood ghost tours and creepy critters, keep reading for our pre-Halloween outdoor recommendations for making the most of the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to where to discover:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Localcemeteries\">Local cemeteries\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Batsinnature\">Bats in nature\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Tunnelsandcaves\">Tunnels and caves\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Bayareaghosts\">Bay Area ghosts\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Localcritters\">Local critters\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Spookyphotoshootopportunities\">Spooky photoshoot opportunities\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Batsinnature\">\u003c/a>Go bat watching\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While this year’s UC Berkeley Botanical Garden’s “\u003ca href=\"https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/event/bay-area-bats/\">Bay Area Bats” event\u003c/a> is already full, you still have the chance to see the spooky creatures yourself in the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closest place to spot bats is near Livermore at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/7130/habitats-for-bats-kids-build-homes-for-east-bays-thriving-bat-population\">Del Valle Regional Park\u003c/a>, where hundreds of these animals munch on insects all night long. \u003ca href=\"https://www.7x7.com/where-to-go-bat-watching-in-the-bay-area-2096256783.html\">Some say\u003c/a> they can even be spotted in San Francisco, in Golden Gate Park at Blue Heron Lake or even at Lake Merced.[aside postID=arts_13979698 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/UCB-hike-1536x1054.png']And while \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=465\">Olompali State Historic Park\u003c/a> in Novato is known for its annual “\u003ca href=\"https://visitnovato.com/event/olompali-bat-night/\">Bat Night\u003c/a>” event in summer, with eight types of bats living in the park, you stand a good chance of seeing them here in the fall too.\u003cbr>\nAnd don’t forget about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/quest/22006/science-on-the-spot-bats-beneath-us\">iconic bats of Yolo County\u003c/a> near Davis, where the animals take flight at sunset every evening from underneath the Yolo Causeway bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re willing to travel even further into true bat territory, consider making the trip to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/nature/bats.htm\">Pinnacles National Park\u003c/a> in the Central Valley. There, you can explore caves where bats hibernate and raise their young. Just be sure to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/planyourvisit/cavestatus.htm\">check on the status\u003c/a> of the caves before you go, as they close seasonally to protect the creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro tip: To maximize your chances of seeing bats, remember they’re nocturnal and love water (especially the insects that lakes attract). But don’t ever touch the animals: not only are they a \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcmvcd.org/bats\">protected species in California\u003c/a>, they’re more likely than other animals to \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/content/article/bats-really-do-harbor-more-dangerous-viruses-other-species\">carry diseases\u003c/a> that are dangerous to humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Localcemeteries\">\u003c/a>Visit a cemetery (respectfully)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is home to the city of Colma, known affectionately as the “City of Souls,” owing to the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10779164/why-are-so-many-dead-people-in-colma-and-so-few-in-san-francisco\">most of San Francisco’s graves were relocated there \u003c/a>in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. So if you’re looking to roam and reflect among the headstones, head to any one of the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.colma.ca.gov/cemetery-contacts-locations/\">16 cemeteries\u003c/a>: the oldest and largest of which is the \u003ca href=\"https://sfcathcems.org/holy-cross-colma/\">Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery\u003c/a>, spanning 300 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also a number of other atmospheric and unique cemeteries across the city and Bay Area. In the city proper, you can still visit the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/sanfrancisco.asp\">San Francisco National Cemetery\u003c/a> in the Presidio. Or, for a birds-eye view, head to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054079/best-hikes-san-francisco-presidio-views-trails-hiking\">Cemetery Overlook\u003c/a> for unobstructed views of the Golden Gate Bridge — a perfect hike on a foggy evening at dusk, even when the bridge itself is shrouded by mist. There’s also a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009656/the-presidio-pet-cemetery-a-resting-place-for-furry-friends\">pet cemetery in the Presidio\u003c/a>, where you can visit with companions of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-PRESIDIO-PET-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009678\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-PRESIDIO-PET-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Tombstones in a cemetery.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-PRESIDIO-PET-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-PRESIDIO-PET-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-PRESIDIO-PET-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-PRESIDIO-PET-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-PRESIDIO-PET-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-PRESIDIO-PET-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tombstones at the Presidio of San Francisco Pet Cemetery in San Francisco on Oct. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11914175/the-only-place-you-can-leave-your-heart-forever-in-san-francisco-the-inner-richmonds-palace-of-ashes\">The San Francisco Columbarium\u003c/a> in the Laurel Heights neighborhood is open to the public and adorned with stained glass, a soaring rotunda and several sculptures and fountains. More than 8,000 people are interned there, including gay rights leader and politician \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/harvey-milk\">Harvey Milk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more cemeteries with views, try the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainviewcemetery.org/\">Piedmont cemetery\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.skylawnmemorialpark.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_ven=ib&utm_kw=brand&campid=22372724787&agid=175776669583&adid=741873217167&term=kwd-2225399559821&network=g&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22372724787&gbraid=0AAAAACxqlIXDxxpsVl-S54TzMxp5sMZWT&gclid=CjwKCAjwu9fHBhAWEiwAzGRC_804iEaFlkxth5pB8aHaZsNpBmsawf4sH87kIv6tDzSrAbbp2xV0ARoCNP8QAvD_BwE\">Skylawn Memorial Park\u003c/a> on Skyline Drive near Half Moon Bay. Or, if you’re feeling more adventurous, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/nortonville-and-black-diamond-loop\">take an almost-6-mile hike\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/sites/default/files/black_diamond_rose_hill_brochure.pdf\">Rose Hill Cemetery\u003c/a> in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/black-diamond\">Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve\u003c/a> in Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just remember: If you’re planning on visiting any of these cemeteries, be sure to respect the sanctity of these spaces — these are the resting places of peoples’ loved ones, after all. In that vein, make sure you’re aware of other visitors who may be visiting to honor passed family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Tunnelsandcaves\">\u003c/a>Explore local tunnels — safely\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Eager to go underground? And no — we’re not talking about the BART or Muni tunnels (which you should obviously never venture into, except while riding transit).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Bay Area has fewer mysterious tunnels than \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/may/30/underground-cities-in-pictures\">other, older metropolitan areas\u003c/a>, what we \u003cem>do \u003c/em>have are coastlines — with cliff areas where tunnels open up seasonally, like those that tend to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041355/what-is-that-massive-tunnel-on-the-beach-south-of-fort-funston\">crop up around Fort Funston\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/obscuresf/article/historic-tunnel-at-SF-Sutro-Baths-16988820.php\">Sutro Baths\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10936320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/23992229385_6dd9eac96c_o-e1761074667713.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10936320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/23992229385_6dd9eac96c_o-e1761074667713.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once a thriving water park, the Sutro Baths are now just ruins. \u003ccite>(Derek Bruff )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for a longer hike, in the East Bay, check out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/sites/default/files/indian-joe-nature-trail-to-flag-hilltrail-sunol-regional-wilderness.pdf\">Indian Joe Cave Rocks\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/sunol\">Sunol Wilderness Regional Preserve,\u003c/a> popular with hikers and climbers for their basalt rocks that tower overhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or head to the Marin Headlands, where old bunkers like \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/battery-townsley.htm\">Battery Townsley\u003c/a> hid top-secret guns during World War I. The battery is open to the public for tours from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the first Sunday of every month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We cannot emphasize this enough — if you’re going to go tunnel exploring, be safe. If you’re on the coast, always research the tides beforehand, as you don’t want to ever get stuck in or near a tunnel. Always bring a light and don’t trespass — \u003cem>especially \u003c/em>into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782405/tunnels-under-san-francisco-inside-the-dark-dangerous-world-of-the-sewers\">San Francisco’s vast sewer network\u003c/a>, which can contain lethal levels of toxic gases.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Bayareaghosts\">\u003c/a>Find ghosts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936965/san-francisco-ghost-tours-true-crime-history-halloween\">Ghost tours in the Bay Area are aplenty,\u003c/a> but this one in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfghosthunt.com/\">San Francisco’s Pacific Heights\u003c/a> neighborhood is especially apt for those who want their ghosts with a hefty side of history.[aside postID=arts_13982172 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/carrie.jpg']You won’t just learn about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700225/the-ghost-of-a-legend-how-a-san-francisco-civil-rights-icon-was-made-a-monster\">the supposed hauntings of the area \u003c/a>— you’ll also become immersed in the complex lives of the early San Franciscans who are rumored to still occupy the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could also opt to make contact with the spirit world all by yourself. The \u003ca href=\"https://uss-hornet.org/\">USS Hornet\u003c/a>, once a World War II Navy aircraft carrier that was also used to recover the Apollo 11 and 12 crafts, is now a museum docked in Alameda, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011685/the-uss-hornet-in-alameda-is-a-destination-for-paranormal-enthusiasts-and-you-can-spend-the-night-there\">which is also apparently quite haunted\u003c/a>. You can also stay inside it overnight … if you dare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13879301/5-haunted-bay-area-locations-to-scare-people-into-social-distancing\">Another possible haunted stay\u003c/a>? \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/21/berkeley-claremont-hotel-ghost-tour-halloween/\">The Claremont Hotel\u003c/a> in Berkeley, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.hauntedrooms.com/california/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/claremont-hotel-berkeley\">reports \u003c/a>of children crying, smells of smoke rumored to be from \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2011/11/04/claremont-hotel-is-a-towering-east-bay-landmark/\">the 1901 fire that burned down the original hotel structure\u003c/a> and ghostly apparitions have all been reported. The Claremont is now offering \u003ca href=\"https://claremontresortandclub.com/claremont_event/haunted-history-tours/\">haunted tours\u003c/a> during the month of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Localcritters\">\u003c/a>Hang out with spooky critters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Eager to spend the fall season with some uncanny creatures? The \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayvivarium.org/\">East Bay Vivarium\u003c/a> is your best bet for reptiles and other creepy crawlers. While their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13977949/two-headed-kingsnake-berkeley-east-bay-vivarium-angel-zeke-birthday\">two-headed kingsnake recently passed away,\u003c/a> there are plenty of other snakes and slithery animals to behold at the Berkeley reptile shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out in the wild, \u003ca href=\"https://lindsaywildlife.org/events/tarantula-scorpion-hike-2/\">hikers recommend Mt. Diablo\u003c/a> for tarantula, scorpion and reptile viewing. Mid-October is the peak of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984392/its-tarantula-mating-season-in-the-bay-area-heres-where-to-see-some-fuzzy-friends\">tarantula mating season\u003c/a>, so head to grassy oak woodlands like Del Valle, Sunol or \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=561\">Henry Coe State Park\u003c/a> to catch a glimpse of the creepy crawlies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11702084\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs-160x51.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs-800x253.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs-1020x323.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs-1180x374.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs-960x304.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs-240x76.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs-375x119.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs-520x165.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bats flying over Marin County. Novato is known for its annual Bat Night event in summer, but with eight types of bats living in the park you stand a good chance of seeing them there in the fall too. \u003ccite>(USGS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996099/best-bay-area-hikes-for-spotting-banana-slugs-newts-and-ladybugs-after-the-rain\">Looking for newts, slugs or ladybugs\u003c/a>? These creatures are more active in the spring, but can be seen after any rainstorm at nearby parks like \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/tilden\">Tilden Regional Park\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=546\">Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Spookyphotoshootopportunities\">\u003c/a>And finally… Get some good spooky photos\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just want to get an Instagram-worthy photo of the Bay Area in its prime during spooky season? Don’t worry, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049568/best-bay-area-hikes-for-cold-gloomy-weather\">we’ve got you covered\u003c/a>: We’ve got a roundup of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049568/best-bay-area-hikes-for-cold-gloomy-weather\">best-seen-in-the-gloom spots,\u003c/a> including the eerie abandoned boat rotting in Tomales Bay, the towering eucalyptus trees of Quarry Park in El Granada and the daring cliffsides of Devil’s Slide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not on the list, but still worth a visit for their atmospheric vibes: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/point-reyes-cypress-tree-tunnel.htm\">Cypress Tree Tunnel \u003c/a>in Point Reyes and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/sutro-baths.htm\">ruins at Sutro Baths\u003c/a> — both of which are Bay Area outdoor highlights, no matter the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With Halloween around the corner, and spooky season in full swing, now is the best time to explore the Bay Area’s darkest, eeriest and downright scariest spots outdoors that might make you squirm — or at least elicit some pleasing chills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From haunted-feeling hikes and tunnels to neighborhood ghost tours and creepy critters, keep reading for our pre-Halloween outdoor recommendations for making the most of the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to where to discover:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Localcemeteries\">Local cemeteries\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Batsinnature\">Bats in nature\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Tunnelsandcaves\">Tunnels and caves\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Bayareaghosts\">Bay Area ghosts\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Localcritters\">Local critters\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Spookyphotoshootopportunities\">Spooky photoshoot opportunities\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And while \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=465\">Olompali State Historic Park\u003c/a> in Novato is known for its annual “\u003ca href=\"https://visitnovato.com/event/olompali-bat-night/\">Bat Night\u003c/a>” event in summer, with eight types of bats living in the park, you stand a good chance of seeing them here in the fall too.\u003cbr>\nAnd don’t forget about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/quest/22006/science-on-the-spot-bats-beneath-us\">iconic bats of Yolo County\u003c/a> near Davis, where the animals take flight at sunset every evening from underneath the Yolo Causeway bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re willing to travel even further into true bat territory, consider making the trip to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/nature/bats.htm\">Pinnacles National Park\u003c/a> in the Central Valley. There, you can explore caves where bats hibernate and raise their young. Just be sure to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/planyourvisit/cavestatus.htm\">check on the status\u003c/a> of the caves before you go, as they close seasonally to protect the creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro tip: To maximize your chances of seeing bats, remember they’re nocturnal and love water (especially the insects that lakes attract). But don’t ever touch the animals: not only are they a \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcmvcd.org/bats\">protected species in California\u003c/a>, they’re more likely than other animals to \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/content/article/bats-really-do-harbor-more-dangerous-viruses-other-species\">carry diseases\u003c/a> that are dangerous to humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Localcemeteries\">\u003c/a>Visit a cemetery (respectfully)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is home to the city of Colma, known affectionately as the “City of Souls,” owing to the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10779164/why-are-so-many-dead-people-in-colma-and-so-few-in-san-francisco\">most of San Francisco’s graves were relocated there \u003c/a>in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. So if you’re looking to roam and reflect among the headstones, head to any one of the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.colma.ca.gov/cemetery-contacts-locations/\">16 cemeteries\u003c/a>: the oldest and largest of which is the \u003ca href=\"https://sfcathcems.org/holy-cross-colma/\">Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery\u003c/a>, spanning 300 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also a number of other atmospheric and unique cemeteries across the city and Bay Area. In the city proper, you can still visit the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/sanfrancisco.asp\">San Francisco National Cemetery\u003c/a> in the Presidio. Or, for a birds-eye view, head to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054079/best-hikes-san-francisco-presidio-views-trails-hiking\">Cemetery Overlook\u003c/a> for unobstructed views of the Golden Gate Bridge — a perfect hike on a foggy evening at dusk, even when the bridge itself is shrouded by mist. There’s also a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009656/the-presidio-pet-cemetery-a-resting-place-for-furry-friends\">pet cemetery in the Presidio\u003c/a>, where you can visit with companions of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-PRESIDIO-PET-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009678\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-PRESIDIO-PET-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Tombstones in a cemetery.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-PRESIDIO-PET-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-PRESIDIO-PET-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-PRESIDIO-PET-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-PRESIDIO-PET-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-PRESIDIO-PET-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-PRESIDIO-PET-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tombstones at the Presidio of San Francisco Pet Cemetery in San Francisco on Oct. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11914175/the-only-place-you-can-leave-your-heart-forever-in-san-francisco-the-inner-richmonds-palace-of-ashes\">The San Francisco Columbarium\u003c/a> in the Laurel Heights neighborhood is open to the public and adorned with stained glass, a soaring rotunda and several sculptures and fountains. More than 8,000 people are interned there, including gay rights leader and politician \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/harvey-milk\">Harvey Milk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more cemeteries with views, try the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainviewcemetery.org/\">Piedmont cemetery\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.skylawnmemorialpark.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_ven=ib&utm_kw=brand&campid=22372724787&agid=175776669583&adid=741873217167&term=kwd-2225399559821&network=g&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22372724787&gbraid=0AAAAACxqlIXDxxpsVl-S54TzMxp5sMZWT&gclid=CjwKCAjwu9fHBhAWEiwAzGRC_804iEaFlkxth5pB8aHaZsNpBmsawf4sH87kIv6tDzSrAbbp2xV0ARoCNP8QAvD_BwE\">Skylawn Memorial Park\u003c/a> on Skyline Drive near Half Moon Bay. Or, if you’re feeling more adventurous, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/nortonville-and-black-diamond-loop\">take an almost-6-mile hike\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/sites/default/files/black_diamond_rose_hill_brochure.pdf\">Rose Hill Cemetery\u003c/a> in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/black-diamond\">Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve\u003c/a> in Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just remember: If you’re planning on visiting any of these cemeteries, be sure to respect the sanctity of these spaces — these are the resting places of peoples’ loved ones, after all. In that vein, make sure you’re aware of other visitors who may be visiting to honor passed family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Tunnelsandcaves\">\u003c/a>Explore local tunnels — safely\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Eager to go underground? And no — we’re not talking about the BART or Muni tunnels (which you should obviously never venture into, except while riding transit).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Bay Area has fewer mysterious tunnels than \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/may/30/underground-cities-in-pictures\">other, older metropolitan areas\u003c/a>, what we \u003cem>do \u003c/em>have are coastlines — with cliff areas where tunnels open up seasonally, like those that tend to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041355/what-is-that-massive-tunnel-on-the-beach-south-of-fort-funston\">crop up around Fort Funston\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/obscuresf/article/historic-tunnel-at-SF-Sutro-Baths-16988820.php\">Sutro Baths\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10936320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/23992229385_6dd9eac96c_o-e1761074667713.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10936320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/23992229385_6dd9eac96c_o-e1761074667713.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once a thriving water park, the Sutro Baths are now just ruins. \u003ccite>(Derek Bruff )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for a longer hike, in the East Bay, check out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/sites/default/files/indian-joe-nature-trail-to-flag-hilltrail-sunol-regional-wilderness.pdf\">Indian Joe Cave Rocks\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/sunol\">Sunol Wilderness Regional Preserve,\u003c/a> popular with hikers and climbers for their basalt rocks that tower overhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or head to the Marin Headlands, where old bunkers like \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/battery-townsley.htm\">Battery Townsley\u003c/a> hid top-secret guns during World War I. The battery is open to the public for tours from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the first Sunday of every month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We cannot emphasize this enough — if you’re going to go tunnel exploring, be safe. If you’re on the coast, always research the tides beforehand, as you don’t want to ever get stuck in or near a tunnel. Always bring a light and don’t trespass — \u003cem>especially \u003c/em>into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782405/tunnels-under-san-francisco-inside-the-dark-dangerous-world-of-the-sewers\">San Francisco’s vast sewer network\u003c/a>, which can contain lethal levels of toxic gases.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Bayareaghosts\">\u003c/a>Find ghosts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936965/san-francisco-ghost-tours-true-crime-history-halloween\">Ghost tours in the Bay Area are aplenty,\u003c/a> but this one in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfghosthunt.com/\">San Francisco’s Pacific Heights\u003c/a> neighborhood is especially apt for those who want their ghosts with a hefty side of history.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>You won’t just learn about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700225/the-ghost-of-a-legend-how-a-san-francisco-civil-rights-icon-was-made-a-monster\">the supposed hauntings of the area \u003c/a>— you’ll also become immersed in the complex lives of the early San Franciscans who are rumored to still occupy the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could also opt to make contact with the spirit world all by yourself. The \u003ca href=\"https://uss-hornet.org/\">USS Hornet\u003c/a>, once a World War II Navy aircraft carrier that was also used to recover the Apollo 11 and 12 crafts, is now a museum docked in Alameda, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011685/the-uss-hornet-in-alameda-is-a-destination-for-paranormal-enthusiasts-and-you-can-spend-the-night-there\">which is also apparently quite haunted\u003c/a>. You can also stay inside it overnight … if you dare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13879301/5-haunted-bay-area-locations-to-scare-people-into-social-distancing\">Another possible haunted stay\u003c/a>? \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/21/berkeley-claremont-hotel-ghost-tour-halloween/\">The Claremont Hotel\u003c/a> in Berkeley, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.hauntedrooms.com/california/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/claremont-hotel-berkeley\">reports \u003c/a>of children crying, smells of smoke rumored to be from \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2011/11/04/claremont-hotel-is-a-towering-east-bay-landmark/\">the 1901 fire that burned down the original hotel structure\u003c/a> and ghostly apparitions have all been reported. The Claremont is now offering \u003ca href=\"https://claremontresortandclub.com/claremont_event/haunted-history-tours/\">haunted tours\u003c/a> during the month of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Localcritters\">\u003c/a>Hang out with spooky critters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Eager to spend the fall season with some uncanny creatures? The \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayvivarium.org/\">East Bay Vivarium\u003c/a> is your best bet for reptiles and other creepy crawlers. While their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13977949/two-headed-kingsnake-berkeley-east-bay-vivarium-angel-zeke-birthday\">two-headed kingsnake recently passed away,\u003c/a> there are plenty of other snakes and slithery animals to behold at the Berkeley reptile shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out in the wild, \u003ca href=\"https://lindsaywildlife.org/events/tarantula-scorpion-hike-2/\">hikers recommend Mt. Diablo\u003c/a> for tarantula, scorpion and reptile viewing. Mid-October is the peak of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984392/its-tarantula-mating-season-in-the-bay-area-heres-where-to-see-some-fuzzy-friends\">tarantula mating season\u003c/a>, so head to grassy oak woodlands like Del Valle, Sunol or \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=561\">Henry Coe State Park\u003c/a> to catch a glimpse of the creepy crawlies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11702084\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs-160x51.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs-800x253.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs-1020x323.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs-1180x374.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs-960x304.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs-240x76.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs-375x119.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33468_bat-wide-usgs-520x165.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bats flying over Marin County. Novato is known for its annual Bat Night event in summer, but with eight types of bats living in the park you stand a good chance of seeing them there in the fall too. \u003ccite>(USGS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996099/best-bay-area-hikes-for-spotting-banana-slugs-newts-and-ladybugs-after-the-rain\">Looking for newts, slugs or ladybugs\u003c/a>? These creatures are more active in the spring, but can be seen after any rainstorm at nearby parks like \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/tilden\">Tilden Regional Park\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=546\">Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Spookyphotoshootopportunities\">\u003c/a>And finally… Get some good spooky photos\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just want to get an Instagram-worthy photo of the Bay Area in its prime during spooky season? Don’t worry, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049568/best-bay-area-hikes-for-cold-gloomy-weather\">we’ve got you covered\u003c/a>: We’ve got a roundup of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049568/best-bay-area-hikes-for-cold-gloomy-weather\">best-seen-in-the-gloom spots,\u003c/a> including the eerie abandoned boat rotting in Tomales Bay, the towering eucalyptus trees of Quarry Park in El Granada and the daring cliffsides of Devil’s Slide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not on the list, but still worth a visit for their atmospheric vibes: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/point-reyes-cypress-tree-tunnel.htm\">Cypress Tree Tunnel \u003c/a>in Point Reyes and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/sutro-baths.htm\">ruins at Sutro Baths\u003c/a> — both of which are Bay Area outdoor highlights, no matter the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tequila has become the darling of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/category/california\">California’s\u003c/a> cocktail culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/issue/brand-champions-2024/\">According to industry data\u003c/a>, more than 50 million cases of tequila were sold in the United States in 2023, a 7.6% increase from the previous year. And California is \u003ca href=\"https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2023/04/tequila-sales-grew-by-17-in-california/\">the biggest market for the spirit\u003c/a> produced from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.academiapatron.com/making-tequila/agave-growth-and-harvesting/planting-selection-harvesting\">blue Weber agave\u003c/a> plant grown exclusively in a handful of states in Mexico — a demand \u003ca href=\"https://just-drinks.nridigital.com/just_drinks_magazine_nov22/tequila_us_market_forecast\">boosted by the state’s sizable Latino population\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handle of tequila can range up to $100 and beyond, depending on the brand, with many premium labels promoting that their liquor is made up of “100% agave.” This kind of tequila usually costs more because it “takes more agave to make,” said Mike Morales, Los Angeles-based executive editor and tasting director of the industry magazine \u003cem>Tequila Aficionado\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big status symbol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a series of legal battles has begun this summer that could shake up the entire industry — one of them in the very state that has embraced tequila the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Diageo-Class-Action-072025-1.pdf\">A San Francisco resident\u003c/a> has filed a class action suit in federal court against spirits giant Diageo — parent company of well-known tequila brands Don Julio and Casamigos — alleging the company intentionally misled consumers about the agave content in its tequila products labeled “100% agave” in order to profit from this deception.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘An earthquake in the industry’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The class action — filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California — claims to represent anyone “who purchased Diageo Premium Tequila Products” with the goal of recovering “financial losses sustained by consumers who were misled by [Diageo’s] false and misleading advertising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is actually the third lawsuit that Diageo faces from consumers regarding the agave content in their Don Julio and Casamigos brands, with one class action filed by consumers in New York in May and another in Florida shortly after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-9-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053055\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Moose” arranges bottles along the towering tequila wall inside San Francisco Tequila Shop in Bernal Heights on Aug. 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Out of all three states where Diageo is being sued, California has some of the strongest consumer protection laws — and the beverage company has recently requested that this particular lawsuit be moved to the same New York court overseeing the first case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs joining the San Francisco resident in the lawsuit are represented by Baron & Budd and Hagens Berman, two consumer rights firms with extensive records of \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Business/ny-man-sues-volkswagen-emissions-scandal-reason-bought/story?id=33951902\">wrestling with major corporations in court\u003c/a>. Neither firm returned KQED’s requests for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Diageo told KQED that “claims of adulteration are outrageous and categorically false,” and that the company will defend the quality and integrity of its tequilas in court “and against anyone who is spreading misinformation and lies about our products.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for both Diageo and the California plaintiffs will meet in San Francisco’s courthouse on Oct. 3. Regardless of what the courts decide, said David Suro Piñera, a Philadelphia-based tequila entrepreneur and historian, the lawsuits “are an earthquake in the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why \u003cem>is \u003c/em>the agave content inside a tequila bottle so crucial when it comes to selling this liquor that’s only becoming more popular? And what does this lawsuit say about how U.S. consumers shape an industry that started thousands of miles away in Mexico?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Evolution in the public eye\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Covered floor to ceiling with colorful and intricately decorated bottles, the San Francisco Tequila Shop on the steep streets of Bernal Heights is an oasis for lovers of spirits derived from the agave plant. It was here in the backroom one August afternoon that owner Moose Malhi hosted Suro Piñera for a tasting event featuring some blanco, some reposado and plenty of conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suro Piñera told the assembled tequila enthusiasts about how, back in 1986, he opened a restaurant called Tequilas in downtown Philadelphia with the goal of bringing high-end Mexican cuisine to that city. But other local restaurateurs were confused about the name, he said.[aside postID=news_11999014 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240628-Junk-Fees-Law-MD-02_qed-1020x680.jpg']“They would hear ‘tequila’ and imagine something else — not high quality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the following decades, the way American consumers think about this liquor has changed significantly, Suro Piñera said. “To see right now the passion, the commitment, the interest in tequila, is a dream come true,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families have been producing tequila primarily in the Mexican state of Jalisco for centuries, blending European distillation techniques with Indigenous agricultural knowledge. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.crt.org.mx/en/about-us/\">Tequila Regulatory Council\u003c/a> is the independent body that establishes the rules for the industry, which includes where tequila can be produced, who can sell it and \u003ca href=\"https://www.crt.org.mx/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/NOM-006-SCFI-2012%20-%20INGLES.pdf\">defining what goes into it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anything marked as “tequila” must include at least 51% alcohol derived from blue agave. The other 49% \u003cem>can \u003c/em>come from other sources, like caña (sugar cane) or grain alcohol, which are typically cheaper. This type of tequila, that’s a mixture of alcohols from different sources, is called “mixto.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Diageo lawsuit said that 100% agave “is a powerful marketing tool that shapes consumer expectations” and then accuses the company of tricking consumers into buying tequila that actually has “cheaper, non-agave alcohol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mislabeling their tequila products is a violation of consumer protection law, the lawsuit claims. “For dominant players like Diageo, this is not just deceptive — it is a calculated, strategic misuse of market power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A pleasant burn’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regulatory details aside, how does being 100% agave affect the way your tequila actually tastes? If you rarely drink tequila because of its strong flavor, don’t expect 100% agave tequila to be any easier on you, the San Francisco Tequila Shop’s Malhi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People drink tequila that’s been sweetened by additives, and they think it’s smooth,” he said. “If all you drink is tequila that’s been sweetened, and then you try something with no additives, that’s such a big jump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-13-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053056\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view inside San Francisco Tequila Shop in Bernal Heights on Aug. 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A good tequila is going to give you a pleasant burn,” said Marcos Higareda, a tequila entrepreneur based out of Riverside County. “This comes from the ground. The soil nurtured that agave for the last seven, eight years. Then it went through a process to convert it into tequila.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a lot of variation between the distilleries that provide tequila labels with their product. Some are run by the same families that first opened them decades ago, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5188663/author-ted-genoways-new-book-tequila-wars\">long-held distillation traditions becoming industry secrets\u003c/a>. And while some of these factors are dependent on humans, others — like rain and drought — are ultimately out of our control, Higareda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with 100% agave tequila, it’s normal for there to be slight variations in color, taste or aroma in the same batch. “Not all tequilas are going to be the same,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Agave under strain\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.crt.org.mx/en/2025/03/27/2025-begins-with-an-increase-in-tequila-exports/\">world’s thirst for tequila grows\u003c/a>, Higareda said that big brands are responding with a product that seeks to smell, taste and look the same regardless of where you go. One way to do that: adding sweeteners and colorants to achieve this uniformity, as permitted by the Tequila Regulatory Council’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.crt.org.mx/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/NOM-006-SCFI-2012%20-%20INGLES.pdf\">rulebook for tequila production, \u003c/a>also known as the “Normas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want to go to the shelf and you want to see that your product has the same consistent color every single time and the same flavor every single time,” a Jose Cuervo executive \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkell/2025/03/24/jose-cuervo-says-the-additive-free--movement-is-damaging-to-tequila/\">recently told Forbes Magazine\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12054153 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/BrownEggsGetty.jpg']And globalization is being felt all the way through the supply chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time that Morales of \u003cem>Tequila Aficionado\u003c/em> visited Jalisco, almost two decades ago, he remembers how bright the fields of agave were in the sunlight: “I had to look at them with my sunglasses on because they were so blue and bright against the red soil,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On recent trips, however, he’s seen: “it’s not like that anymore,” he said. “The plants aren’t big enough. They don’t let them grow long enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the tequila industry has followed \u003ca href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/be3f48a5-d5d7-40af-a9e7-3ebff98741b3\">a cycle of boom and bust\u003c/a>. When the price of tequila goes up, growers rush to grow and harvest agave as fast as possible, and when the price goes down, “everybody leaves their plants to rot,” Morales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry data shows that U.S. tequila sales \u003ca href=\"https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/issue/brand-champions-2024/\">are growing faster\u003c/a> than vodka, whisky and all other spirits combined — and the giants of the beverage industry have noticed this surge. In the past decade, multinational corporations have snatched up some of the most famous tequila brands: London-based Diageo bought Don Julio in 2015 and then Casamigos in 2017; Sauza was taken over by Suntory, a Japanese company, in 2014; and rum giant Bacardi purchased Patrón in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These brands are well-funded and want a return on their investment,” Morales said. That could mean depending more on non-agave sources for alcohol content, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any tequila that’s being mass-marketed and charging a lot of money is probably lawyering up,” Morales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What now for the industry — and in court?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back at the San Francisco Tequila Shop, after Suro Piñera’s tasting event, Malhi rang up his customers — and pointed to a photo behind the register of his grandfather, Nirmal Singh Malhi, standing next to family friend Ernie Sánchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1993, Malhi’s family opened a liquor store in Modesto, next to the Sánchez family. Over the years, they all developed a strong bond and learned about each other’s culture: the Sánchezes hailing from Jalisco, Mexico and the Malhi from Punjab, India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053054\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-5-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053054\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amandip Singh Malhi, known as “Moose,” proprietor of San Francisco Tequila Shop, stands in the back of his Bernal Heights store on Aug. 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Sánchez family would frequently travel to Jalisco and bring back tequila brands that weren’t available in the U.S. yet. It was the Sánchez family that taught him, Malhi said, “that in each bottle, there’s a lot of tears, sweat and hard work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you really understand all the work and tradition that goes into making a quality spirit … that’s when you will appreciate more of what you taste when you drink tequila,” Malhi said. And he — like so many who’ve made tequila their lives — will be paying close attention to the case against Diageo as it unfolds at San Francisco’s federal courthouse, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What most likely will decide the outcome of this legal battle is the evidence that each camp presents, said Deborah Hensler, professor of dispute resolution at Stanford Law School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The verdict could also hinge on emerging technology. The defendants include data from two types of chemical tests — nuclear magnetic resonance and isotope testing — designed to measure the composition of alcohol derived from tequila. According to several industry experts that KQED spoke to for this story, these tests are fairly new in the world of tequila and have not yet been universally adopted by tequila producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The defendant would have to bring in their \u003cem>own \u003c/em>experts that counter [this data],” Hensler said — so that the judge can adequately consider whether the plaintiff’s evidence is credible and scientifically valid.[aside postID=news_12047129 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/55950722_qed.jpg']If the case stays in California — and is not transferred to New York as Diageo has requested — the Golden State’s robust consumer protection laws could also come into play. The lawsuit claims the beverage company is in violation of the state’s Consumer Legal Remedies Act, which prohibits companies from misrepresenting the source of the goods they are selling, said Ted Mermin, consumer law professor at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t advertise something if you know — or should know — that what you are saying isn’t true,” he said. “You do not need a law that’s called ‘the tequila purity law.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And say the court finds that Diageo \u003cem>did \u003c/em>mislead consumers about the agave content in its products? It would be the smaller players in the supply chain that pay the consequences, Suro Piñera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, farmworkers and environmental activists \u003ca href=\"https://elpais.com/mexico/2023-07-13/la-sobreproduccion-de-agave-en-mexico-genera-una-alerta-climatica.html\">have warned that greater demand for agave\u003c/a> could have \u003ca href=\"https://daily.sevenfifty.com/americans-love-of-tequila-and-beer-is-deepening-mexicos-water-crisis/\">serious long-term consequences on the drinking water\u003c/a> and agricultural land used by the very families that make this liquor possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this [spirits] category collapses and the external corporate interests just go to the next country — the next trending liquor — they’ll be leaving us with a damaged ecosystem and greater inequality,” he said. “It’s a cultural and ecological expropriation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with that, Suro Piñera added, wiping away “the reputation and recognition that we have worked so hard to build.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a series of legal battles has begun this summer that could shake up the entire industry — one of them in the very state that has embraced tequila the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Diageo-Class-Action-072025-1.pdf\">A San Francisco resident\u003c/a> has filed a class action suit in federal court against spirits giant Diageo — parent company of well-known tequila brands Don Julio and Casamigos — alleging the company intentionally misled consumers about the agave content in its tequila products labeled “100% agave” in order to profit from this deception.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘An earthquake in the industry’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The class action — filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California — claims to represent anyone “who purchased Diageo Premium Tequila Products” with the goal of recovering “financial losses sustained by consumers who were misled by [Diageo’s] false and misleading advertising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is actually the third lawsuit that Diageo faces from consumers regarding the agave content in their Don Julio and Casamigos brands, with one class action filed by consumers in New York in May and another in Florida shortly after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-9-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053055\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Moose” arranges bottles along the towering tequila wall inside San Francisco Tequila Shop in Bernal Heights on Aug. 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Out of all three states where Diageo is being sued, California has some of the strongest consumer protection laws — and the beverage company has recently requested that this particular lawsuit be moved to the same New York court overseeing the first case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs joining the San Francisco resident in the lawsuit are represented by Baron & Budd and Hagens Berman, two consumer rights firms with extensive records of \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Business/ny-man-sues-volkswagen-emissions-scandal-reason-bought/story?id=33951902\">wrestling with major corporations in court\u003c/a>. Neither firm returned KQED’s requests for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Diageo told KQED that “claims of adulteration are outrageous and categorically false,” and that the company will defend the quality and integrity of its tequilas in court “and against anyone who is spreading misinformation and lies about our products.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for both Diageo and the California plaintiffs will meet in San Francisco’s courthouse on Oct. 3. Regardless of what the courts decide, said David Suro Piñera, a Philadelphia-based tequila entrepreneur and historian, the lawsuits “are an earthquake in the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why \u003cem>is \u003c/em>the agave content inside a tequila bottle so crucial when it comes to selling this liquor that’s only becoming more popular? And what does this lawsuit say about how U.S. consumers shape an industry that started thousands of miles away in Mexico?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Evolution in the public eye\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Covered floor to ceiling with colorful and intricately decorated bottles, the San Francisco Tequila Shop on the steep streets of Bernal Heights is an oasis for lovers of spirits derived from the agave plant. It was here in the backroom one August afternoon that owner Moose Malhi hosted Suro Piñera for a tasting event featuring some blanco, some reposado and plenty of conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suro Piñera told the assembled tequila enthusiasts about how, back in 1986, he opened a restaurant called Tequilas in downtown Philadelphia with the goal of bringing high-end Mexican cuisine to that city. But other local restaurateurs were confused about the name, he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“They would hear ‘tequila’ and imagine something else — not high quality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the following decades, the way American consumers think about this liquor has changed significantly, Suro Piñera said. “To see right now the passion, the commitment, the interest in tequila, is a dream come true,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families have been producing tequila primarily in the Mexican state of Jalisco for centuries, blending European distillation techniques with Indigenous agricultural knowledge. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.crt.org.mx/en/about-us/\">Tequila Regulatory Council\u003c/a> is the independent body that establishes the rules for the industry, which includes where tequila can be produced, who can sell it and \u003ca href=\"https://www.crt.org.mx/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/NOM-006-SCFI-2012%20-%20INGLES.pdf\">defining what goes into it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anything marked as “tequila” must include at least 51% alcohol derived from blue agave. The other 49% \u003cem>can \u003c/em>come from other sources, like caña (sugar cane) or grain alcohol, which are typically cheaper. 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If you rarely drink tequila because of its strong flavor, don’t expect 100% agave tequila to be any easier on you, the San Francisco Tequila Shop’s Malhi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People drink tequila that’s been sweetened by additives, and they think it’s smooth,” he said. “If all you drink is tequila that’s been sweetened, and then you try something with no additives, that’s such a big jump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-13-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053056\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250819_TEQUILA101_GH-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view inside San Francisco Tequila Shop in Bernal Heights on Aug. 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A good tequila is going to give you a pleasant burn,” said Marcos Higareda, a tequila entrepreneur based out of Riverside County. “This comes from the ground. The soil nurtured that agave for the last seven, eight years. Then it went through a process to convert it into tequila.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a lot of variation between the distilleries that provide tequila labels with their product. Some are run by the same families that first opened them decades ago, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5188663/author-ted-genoways-new-book-tequila-wars\">long-held distillation traditions becoming industry secrets\u003c/a>. And while some of these factors are dependent on humans, others — like rain and drought — are ultimately out of our control, Higareda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with 100% agave tequila, it’s normal for there to be slight variations in color, taste or aroma in the same batch. “Not all tequilas are going to be the same,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Agave under strain\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.crt.org.mx/en/2025/03/27/2025-begins-with-an-increase-in-tequila-exports/\">world’s thirst for tequila grows\u003c/a>, Higareda said that big brands are responding with a product that seeks to smell, taste and look the same regardless of where you go. 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When the price of tequila goes up, growers rush to grow and harvest agave as fast as possible, and when the price goes down, “everybody leaves their plants to rot,” Morales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry data shows that U.S. tequila sales \u003ca href=\"https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/issue/brand-champions-2024/\">are growing faster\u003c/a> than vodka, whisky and all other spirits combined — and the giants of the beverage industry have noticed this surge. In the past decade, multinational corporations have snatched up some of the most famous tequila brands: London-based Diageo bought Don Julio in 2015 and then Casamigos in 2017; Sauza was taken over by Suntory, a Japanese company, in 2014; and rum giant Bacardi purchased Patrón in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These brands are well-funded and want a return on their investment,” Morales said. That could mean depending more on non-agave sources for alcohol content, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any tequila that’s being mass-marketed and charging a lot of money is probably lawyering up,” Morales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What now for the industry — and in court?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back at the San Francisco Tequila Shop, after Suro Piñera’s tasting event, Malhi rang up his customers — and pointed to a photo behind the register of his grandfather, Nirmal Singh Malhi, standing next to family friend Ernie Sánchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1993, Malhi’s family opened a liquor store in Modesto, next to the Sánchez family. 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