This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

In 1998 a Lake Tahoe art dealer killed his wife by staging an elaborate car crash on a scenic mountain road. He still says it was an accident. I sat down with the detective who helped solve one of the most unusual homicide cases in Nevada history. sfgate.com/renotahoe/arti…

Why Americans Are Buying Underground Bunkers Superb reporting here from andrew reports for New Lines Magazine on how Silicon Valley billionaires and middle-class families are buying into the trend, with some already living below the soil today. newlinesmag.com/reportage/why-…

I took an elevator down to a Cold War-era underground mansion, furnished with a playboy grotto and cryogenic body tank, 30 feet below Las Vegas, to investigate the rising trend of bunker living in America for New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/reportage/why-…

Chris Owens went from indie hero to homelessness, and came out the other side with a song so good it will break your heart. Go listen to Do You Need A Friend, the epic finale to his gorgeous new album. My interview with Christopher David Owens here: sfgate.com/sf-culture/art…

I missed the Girls moment in San Francisco, but andrew's lovely profile of Christopher Owens takes me there sfgate.com/sf-culture/art…

it's going to be weird when he puts gimme shelter over all the montages

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Strange new details emerge about the Bay Area Zizian 'death cult' trib.al/HT48Dxv

More amazing details on the rationalist EA death cult running amok in California - which I suppose we should call “The Mansard Family” sfgate.com/bayarea/articl…

Bay Area Zizian 'death cult' leader arrested after months on the run trib.al/K5HrXJH

SFGATE: 'Show her the body': Alleged kill orders, cult behavior inside the Bay Area Zizians cultnews101.com/2025/02/show-h…

Growing up on the farm in England I heard stories about the mysterious shotgun deaths of three siblings a few miles down the valley. I went to the old farmhouse where the bodies were found to investigate the tragedy, and my childhood, for Longreads longreads.com/2025/03/06/mad…

"Robbie’s anguish, I suppose, made him cut his own face with an old kitchen knife. Maybe they fought, maybe they made a pact, maybe they prayed." In our latest #longreads essay, andrew returns to his childhood farmland to investigate the violent deaths of the Luxton

been waiting to read this story from andrew for many many months and it is everything i'd hoped it would be and more:

"Another suggested a three-way suicide pact after Alan lost his mind on learning Frances and Robert were locked in an incestuous relationship. Their ghosts walk the fields and cobblestone farmyard to this day—or so the tale goes." #longreads Read Andrew Chamings's unique

In 1959 a bloodied and beaten woman approached the front steps of one of the most famous homes in San Francisco. The person who saved her vanished a few years later. The identification of the ‘Marin County Jane Doe’ has unraveled a decades long mystery sfgate.com/bayarea/articl…

This is a real life horror story. Two sisters searched in drains and ditches for their missing sister, until her body was found in a warehouse. They weren’t the only ones. Dignity Health has been accused of losing bodies and worse. Investigation here: sfgate.com/bayarea/articl…

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

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