dangentile007.bsky.social
@dangentile007.bsky.social
Senior culture editor at @sfgate. DJ, music producer, video artist, coffee nerd, BBQ snob. Dan.Gentile@sfgate.com
DanceOWeen in full effect
November 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
DanceOWeen in full effect
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For those who’ve been looking for a new way to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, political nonprofit the Indivisible Project has some advice: Cancel your Spotify account.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM
For those who’ve been looking for a new way to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, political nonprofit the Indivisible Project has some advice: Cancel your Spotify account.
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🎥 @melissacho.space
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I have been threatening to write this essay for ~2 years
thank you to @supermarke.bsky.social @48hills.bsky.social and @litquake.org for hosting an event that finally made me write it
thank you to @supermarke.bsky.social @48hills.bsky.social and @litquake.org for hosting an event that finally made me write it
It is too on the nose for the most beloved bodega cat in the Mission to get killed by a Waymo. It’s a heartbreaking and deeply cliché entry in the annals of San Francisco gentrification commentary. Delete it, please, and try again.
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In Which We Deserve Options Other Than Rapists and Robots
I don’t want to be assaulted by a driver, nor surveilled by cat-killing robot cars. Is this really the best we can do?
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October 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I have been threatening to write this essay for ~2 years
thank you to @supermarke.bsky.social @48hills.bsky.social and @litquake.org for hosting an event that finally made me write it
thank you to @supermarke.bsky.social @48hills.bsky.social and @litquake.org for hosting an event that finally made me write it
It should go without saying, but please don't use Chat GPT to write pitch emails
October 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It should go without saying, but please don't use Chat GPT to write pitch emails
I'm getting a ton of pitches right now, which is great, but almost every one is about a big subject without a specific angle. For some pitching tips here's a real old thread I wrote x.com/dannosphere/...
Dan Gentile on X: "I know there's much more successful/talented writers than myself that've made threads like this, but a few tips for freelancers pitching stories to editors:" / X
I know there's much more successful/talented writers than myself that've made threads like this, but a few tips for freelancers pitching stories to editors:
x.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I'm getting a ton of pitches right now, which is great, but almost every one is about a big subject without a specific angle. For some pitching tips here's a real old thread I wrote x.com/dannosphere/...
Hey Bluesky got any book recs? Both fiction and non-fiction may apply
October 20, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Hey Bluesky got any book recs? Both fiction and non-fiction may apply
Here's a PITCH CALL for the #freelancewriters out there. I'm looking for Bay Area stories on venues, characters, trends and historical stories, TV/movies/music with SF ties. $250-$400+. Email me with an angle, not just a topic, and include a headline. cc @studyhall.bsky.social Here's examples... 🧵
October 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Here's a PITCH CALL for the #freelancewriters out there. I'm looking for Bay Area stories on venues, characters, trends and historical stories, TV/movies/music with SF ties. $250-$400+. Email me with an angle, not just a topic, and include a headline. cc @studyhall.bsky.social Here's examples... 🧵
Gushed about my favorite DJ, Theo Parrish www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
The best DJ alive comes to San Francisco
He kept going for six hours straight.
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October 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Gushed about my favorite DJ, Theo Parrish www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
The one and only Theo Parrish
October 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The one and only Theo Parrish
Super fun interview with the internet's most famous blinker www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
October 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Super fun interview with the internet's most famous blinker www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
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The Bay Area Maker Faire was this weekend at Vallejo's Mare Island. Makers showed off robots, drones and all sorts of unusual forms of locomotion. Presentations taught aspiring makers from 2 to 92 how to get started building their own wild inventions.
September 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The Bay Area Maker Faire was this weekend at Vallejo's Mare Island. Makers showed off robots, drones and all sorts of unusual forms of locomotion. Presentations taught aspiring makers from 2 to 92 how to get started building their own wild inventions.
Great feature from @amandabartlett.bsky.social on the making of One Battle After Another sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
Calif. hippie college town serves as backdrop for 'best movie of the year'
The film has been 20 years in the making.
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September 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Great feature from @amandabartlett.bsky.social on the making of One Battle After Another sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
Moodymann as translated by ASL interpreter Josh Navarro at Portola
September 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Moodymann as translated by ASL interpreter Josh Navarro at Portola
Our yearly report from Portola — great sets, but nowhere to sit www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
The best and worst of San Francisco's Portola Festival
SFGATE's staff have some compliments and complaints.
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September 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Our yearly report from Portola — great sets, but nowhere to sit www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
Despacio is happiness
September 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Despacio is happiness
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Few @sfgate.com stories have generated as much feedback as Charles Russo's discovery of a set of lost Ansel Adams photos that were never before seen by the general public and unknown to even his biographers and archivists.
We figured some of it might be worth sharing:
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We figured some of it might be worth sharing:
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Readers, academics, trustees overwhelmed by discovery of new Ansel Adams photos
Few stories have generated this much reader feedback.
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September 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Few @sfgate.com stories have generated as much feedback as Charles Russo's discovery of a set of lost Ansel Adams photos that were never before seen by the general public and unknown to even his biographers and archivists.
We figured some of it might be worth sharing:
www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
We figured some of it might be worth sharing:
www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
Shaboozey getting tipsy in Civic Center
September 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Shaboozey getting tipsy in Civic Center
Profiled John Law, a Merry Prankster who may very well be the most interesting man in San Francisco @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
He co-founded Burning Man. It was the least interesting thing he ever did.
After a tragedy in 1996, John Law disavowed the festival he helped launch.
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August 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Profiled John Law, a Merry Prankster who may very well be the most interesting man in San Francisco @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
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They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say
August 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say
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Who do we blame when an AI chatbot lures a confused retiree away from his family, and in his rush to visit "her," he falls and dies?
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Mark Zuckerberg has never been more dangerous
It's time for a reckoning.
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August 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Who do we blame when an AI chatbot lures a confused retiree away from his family, and in his rush to visit "her," he falls and dies?
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
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if you don't read this they'll break my thumbs
To the average Californian, pickleball is often associated with gentrification and noise complaints. But to those incarcerated in the state's prisons, the sport is a powerful support system based on rehabilitation for those who need it most. My latest: www.sfgate.com/sports/artic...
The unlikely Calif. place where pickleball doesn’t generate noise complaints
There's more to prison pickleball than the Scott Peterson incident.
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August 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
if you don't read this they'll break my thumbs
One of the biggest Outside Lands sing-alongs to Tyler, The Creator
August 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
One of the biggest Outside Lands sing-alongs to Tyler, The Creator
Nitrous oxide culture around Grateful Dead shows is very real, did a little reporting on it last week www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
SF cops seize the unlikely drug of choice of Grateful Dead fans
Deadheads clamored for "ice cold fatties" outside the festival gates.
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August 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Nitrous oxide culture around Grateful Dead shows is very real, did a little reporting on it last week www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
Sun Ra Arkestra works on the other side of time
August 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Sun Ra Arkestra works on the other side of time
Lots of footage in here I haven’t seen 👀👀
'Eno' is a 1973 documentary short directed by Alfons Sinniger - made shortly after Brian Eno left Roxy Music, it features the recording sessions for Here Come the Warm Jets #video #stream #download ubu.com/media/video/...
July 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Lots of footage in here I haven’t seen 👀👀