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mario cortez
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San Diego born. Tijuana raised.
Food reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle
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mario cortez @macortez.bsky.social · Nov 23
Las comidas corridas son el tasting menú del proletariado 🇲🇽
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Breaking: The last remaining restaurant inside San Francisco's largest mall is now closed. The closing comes as retailers have been asked to leave.
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The last restaurant at SF’s largest mall has closed
San Francisco Centre is now a restaurant-free zone.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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dsparis.bsky.social
Yo: Voy a dar un paseo para olvidarme del deadline.
La ciudad:
January 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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New Asian grocery stores are opening across the Bay Area and are positioned as retail 'saviors'.

Immigrant culture gets celebrated when it’s profitable — and villainized when it’s not. I wrote an essay about it, and about the mall that raised me: Pacific East Mall ❤️
What the ‘Asian Market Boom’ Is Missing: An Ode to Pacific East Mall
As shiny, new Asian grocery stores are hailed as retail "saviors," the decades-old Pacific East Mall in Richmond shows how immigrant cultural spaces matter beyond their economic benefits.
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January 10, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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No more "Millionaire Bacon" in the Mission. Here's when San Francisco brunch hotspot Kitchen Story is closing: www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
S.F. brunch restaurant touting trademarked bacon is closing after 12 years
The days of Millionaire’s Bacon are coming to an end at this Mission District restaurant.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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There's a clear fusion trend among San Francisco's 2025 class of new Italian restaurants. What dishes can one expect to find? 🤌🏽
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There’s a new trend in San Francisco’s Italian restaurant boom: fusion
Tucked inside the surge of new Italian restaurants in San Francisco is another mini-trend: Italian fusion.
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December 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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A small but thriving community of Asian American farmers across the Bay Area grow organic Asian vegetables that you cannot easily find in grocery stores.
These Asian American farmers are saving seeds as an ‘act of resistance’
A small but thriving community of Asian American farmers across the Bay Area grow organic Asian vegetables that you cannot easily find in grocery stores.
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December 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
macortez.bsky.social
Tantos corridos chingones y luego ponen una rola whitexican. Make it make sense
December 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Someone had to say it
fidel.bsky.social Fidel Martinez @fidel.bsky.social · 19d
My last hater take of the morning: pochos y pochas, for the love of god find another song other than “hasta la raiz” to express your flimsy sense of ethnic identity
December 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband
The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband
Once again, the Streisand effect is Streisanding
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December 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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This was a fascinating, tragic and heartwarming story to work on. What a brilliantly creative mind - now trapped inside itself by aphasia.

Will he finish his masterpiece?

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
December 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot
An excerpt from The Washington Post's interview with photographer Christopher Anderson: Question: "Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor?" Anderson: "I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, 'Should I smile or not smile?' and I said, 'How would you want to be portrayed?' We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, 'You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.' And I looked at him and I said, 'You know, you do, too.'"
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Mariscos Aguachiles el 8, a top-tier pick for Mexican seafood, has landed a permanent location. Here's where 🦐⤵️
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The Bay Area’s most outrageously spicy Mexican seafood has a permanent home
A Mexican seafood specialist known for his spicy dishes has landed his first brick-and-mortar location in the Bay Area after years of drawing crowds to his backyard and food truck.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Ese wey y su colonialismo qué se vayan a chspm
December 16, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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It took me all these years to realize that Alexis Vega has had Cuauhtémoc Blanco's aura all along
cesarhfutbol.bsky.social Cesar Hernandez @cesarhfutbol.bsky.social · Dec 15
Absolute scenes, Alexis Vega scores his penalty and Toluca are now back-to-back Liga MX champions! Los Diablos Rojos are now tied with Chivas for the second-most titles in Mexican soccer.
December 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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The journey from coast to coast has forced this Bay Area skateboarder to confront mountains, deserts, winter weather and the memories of his own life.
A year ago he wanted to die. Now he’s skating across America to heal
The journey from coast to coast has forced this Bay Area skateboarder to confront mountains, deserts, winter weather and the memories of his own life.
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December 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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She was the ‘mad genius’ behind a S.F. restaurant empire — then it fell apart. Can she make a comeback?

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She was the ‘mad genius’ behind a S.F. restaurant empire — then it fell apart. Can she make a comeback?
The owner of Tosca and Leo’s Oyster Bar wants to breathe new life into her San Francisco restaurants while she fights a former business partner in court.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Workers are suing the operators of La Tapatia Market in Vallejo, alleging they allowed dangerously high concentrations of carbon monoxide to persist in the store, resulting in two employees’ deaths.
Employees sue Vallejo store where two co-workers died
Workers are suing the operators of La Tapatia Market in Vallejo, alleging they allowed dangerously high concentrations of carbon monoxide to persist in the store, resulting in two employees’...
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December 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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The maker of Budweiser is pulling out of the Bay Area after 50 years
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The world’s largest beer company is shuttering its last Bay Area facility
The maker of Budweiser and other major brands is closing its nearly 50-year-old brewery in Fairfield.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Chris Joslin tre flipped El Toro
December 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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New from me: The internet promised the democratization of information, power, and expression. Now there are vanishingly few ways to be online that don't involve being a billboard.

I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced*
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Confessions of the influenced
Behind every influencer is an army of the people mired in debt and mass-produced clutter.
www.theverge.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
macortez.bsky.social
Incredible how FIFA always finds new ways to stoop even lower. In the end they need fútbol more than we need them
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Dec 5
this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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fidel.bsky.social
Very happy to have published this oral history of Latin indie label Nacional Records, which has had an outsized influence on Latin music the last two decades www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
An oral history of Nacional Records, the indie label that has shaped Latin alternative for 20 years
Over the course of 20 years, Nacional became a boutique imprint with a finger on the pulse of the Latin music zeitgeist.
www.latimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM