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Is Harris ready to shed ‘cautious’ label in Senate?
Because Kamala Harris' job requires her to tiptoe around many hot-button issues in which her office may have a conflict of interest, her reticence is frustrating to those who know how progressive she is.
Sanchez set to race again as underdog for Boxer’s seat
When Loretta Sanchez first mused about running for the U.S. Senate, “Democratic Party leaders tried to shoot me down, a lot,” she said.
Kaepernick wins off the field, despite blowout loss
ANN KILLION: Colin Kaepernick was surrounded as though he was the victor. A receiving line of Bills came to pay homage to him after the game. Bills receiver Marquise Goodwin asked to exchange jerseys.
50 years later, Black Lives Matter takes up Panthers’ fight
As it evolved, Black Lives Matter has come to resemble the Black Panther Party, established 50 years ago this month by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
Covered California insurance hikes starting to pinch
Next year’s health insurance rates for individual policyholders are starting to hit mailboxes, and that’s proving to be painful for some California consumers.
UC Berkeley chancellor’s personal trainer in ‘Kafkaesque’ tangle
MATIER & ROSS: The saga of the personal trainer who was put on paid administrative leave over questions about his relationship with Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and his wife gets stranger by the day.
Want to silence a Republican? Ask about Trump uproar
JOE GAROFOLI: These dying days of the campaign are turning out to be its darkest — and not because each passing day introduces another woman who contends that Donald Trump has sexually assaulted her.
When the Giants walked off to the World Series
CHRONICLE COVERS: In an era of so many orange-and-black October moments, this one remains magical. The Chronicle’s front page from Oct. 17, 2014, covers the home run that propelled the Giants to their ...
Brendan Steele wins soggy Safeway Open in Napa
The week began with Tiger Woods abruptly withdrawing and ended with PGA Tour officials scrambling to keep the golf course playable, amid a series of uncommon October downpours.
Buffalo tramples 49ers 45-16
Unfortunately for the 49ers, Colin Kaepernick can’t play nose guard, defensive tackle or linebacker.
Despite fans’ pleas, plans to flee
SCOTT OSTLER: The Raiders turned in another clunker in Oakland on Sunday. Maybe they need a change of scenery.
Raiders dominated in all aspects, lose to Chiefs
The previous Sunday, when the ball went through the Chargers’ holder’s hands, linebacker Bruce Irvin said “the football gods looked out for the Oakland Raiders today.”
With rains come benefits to forest that aren’t obvious
TOM STIENSTRA: The big weekend storm means an end to the official fire season and perhaps the start of long-term healing to California’s drought-devastated pine forests.
How Curry, a back-to-back MVP, trains to improve
Last year, in the wake of his inaugural Most Valuable Player season, Warriors guard Stephen Curry did something staggering: He became significantly, undeniably, startlingly better.
SF’s competing affordable-housing measures could reshape policy
Two competing propositions on the San Francisco ballot both claim to be good government measures that will increase the city’s affordable housing stock.
Competition for affordable housing would rise under SF’s...
Affordable-housing development is the baseball and apple pie of San Francisco politics.
Ad blitz begins for Gov. Jerry Brown’s parole initiative
The first radio ads are out promoting Proposition 57, Gov. Jerry Brown’s initiative to make some of the state’s less-violent felons eligible for parole.
SF voters get their say on clearing homeless camps
Steven “Highway” Green doesn’t know much about Proposition Q on San Francisco’s Nov. 8 ballot. He has no intention of voting.
3 acclaimed architects in running to design SF campus
JOHN KING: Three nationally renowned architects are in the running to design an enlarged and environmentally ambitious San Francisco campus for the California College of the Arts.
Big mix of ballot measures seeks answers to homelessness
HEATHER KNIGHT: We hear all the time from San Franciscans that they’re tired of the homeless problem, and they want to do something to help. But what can they actually do?
BART’s future on line: Can transit system gain voters’ trust?
As BART pleads with voters to raise their property taxes to bring in $3.5 billion in bonds to rebuild the Bay Area’s backbone rail transit system, its officials find themselves in an uncomfortable spot. ...
Ending charge rage: App lets drivers line up for charging
In the electric car-loving Bay Area, workplace charging stations have become a common corporate perk — and a source of tension.
Chronicle recommends Tim Grayson for Assembly
EDITORIAL: Experience isn’t everything, of course, but the difference in seasoning and knowledge was readily apparent in our interviews with Tim Grayson and Mae Cendaña Torlakson.
Nevada gets rolled on stadium
EDITORIAL: The $750 million stadium public subsidy approved by the Nevada Legislature last week brings to mind the expression “winning by losing.”
Mars must be more than a ‘back-up Earth’
OPINION: Mars’ tug on our curiosity and exploring spirit is perhaps irresistible — there are more than 200,000 applicants for two seats on the Mars One one-way “forever” flight scheduled for 2026.
Eureka Valley Contemporary fuses luxury and serenity
WALK-THROUGH: A reimagined Contemporary in Eureka Valley that has five levels of light, views and contemporary living. European white oak spans an interior with sleek finishes, floor-to-ceiling windows and ...
Sites of LGBT history move toward national landmark status
It’s difficult to picture a National Park Service ranger, in olive drab uniform and a campaign “Smokey Bear” hat, standing guard in front of a tapas restaurant on San Francisco’s Montgomery Street.
LGBT travel: Making places more welcoming by going there
Philip Sheldon remembers the backlash. His travel company was selling a Nile in Style Egypt tour in 2001, soon after the Queen Nile Boat incident, in which 52 gay Egyptian men were arrested and tortured by ...
East Bay twins show double the love for the Giants
THE REGULARS: The surface of the kitchen table was barely visible under an assortment of supplies. Two women sat hunched over the table, concentrated on their creations.
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From elation to dejection with the Giants, a special look at the history of the Black Panthers and rain finally falling in the Bay Area.
Psychedelic poster art comes to Golden Gate Park
The first time Chuck Sperry saw a psychedelic rock poster, he was 5 or 6 and had mustered the nerve to climb the attic stairs into his big brother’s bedroom.
Music fest’s last year on Treasure Island marred by storm
By the time the Treasure Island Music Festival opened its gates Saturday, Oct. 15, the wind had already kicked up and heavy storm clouds were moving in on the island from all directions.
Troye Sivan on his life-changing year
AIDIN VAZIRI: It’s not easy catching up with Troye Sivan, the South African-born Australian singer-songwriter, actor and YouTube star. Fortunately, the 21-year-old pop sensation was home in Perth last ...
Napa’s Copia to reopen as Culinary Institute of America campus
Just after Halloween, Copia will rise from the dead in downtown Napa.
Four Bay Area distilleries where you can taste
Most of the distilleries in San Francisco — and the Bay Area at large — aren’t open to the public, but that’s quickly changing.
Sunny San Anselmo cottage takes in N.Y. transplants
If you were a passerby on the street during a recent “Bad Moms” party that Brooklyn, N.Y., transplant Julia Lake hosted at her San Anselmo bungalow, you would have witnessed a party-planner’s power.
Impossible Burger debut: A non-meat patty for carnivores
JONATHAN KAUFFMAN: “Animals are just a technology for turning plants into meat and dairy foods,” Patrick Brown, founder and CEO of Impossible Foods says.
Pumpkin flan is steeped in memories of childhood
I have a tendency to save letters and emails from family and friends. It’s my connection to the past, to the memories and to the stories, lest I forget.
Quick-change artist Betabrand
As San Francisco’s Betabrand prepares to launch its ironic Silicon Valley Fashion Week? for the second year in a row — watch as robots, exoskeletons and a llama outdo last year’s drones ! — it’s ...
Cliff House has seen thrills, chills, maybe a curse
PORTALS OF THE PAST: The Cliff House, perched majestically above the ocean near San Francisco’s northwestern tip, has been one of the city’s most famous landmarks since it opened in 1863. An ...
Vietnam War protests take hold in Bay Area
CHRONICLE COVERS: “We say — damn the guns, let ’em rot, let ’em corrode! Pile ’em in a junk heap to commemorate all the soldiers who have died in that unjust war!” The Chronicle’s front page ...
Covered California insurance hikes starting to pinch
Next year’s health insurance rates for individual policyholders are starting to hit mailboxes, and that’s proving to be painful for some California consumers.
UC Berkeley chancellor’s personal trainer in ‘Kafkaesque’ tangle
MATIER & ROSS: The saga of the personal trainer who was put on paid administrative leave over questions about his relationship with Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and his wife gets stranger by the day.
Want to silence a Republican? Ask about Trump uproar
JOE GAROFOLI: These dying days of the campaign are turning out to be its darkest — and not because each passing day introduces another woman who contends that Donald Trump has sexually assaulted her.
When the Giants walked off to the World Series
CHRONICLE COVERS: In an era of so many orange-and-black October moments, this one remains magical. The Chronicle’s front page from Oct. 17, 2014, covers the home run that propelled the Giants to their ...
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Baking and breaking Arabic breads in Oakland
Reem Assil was kind enough to feed me, and I was rude enough to ask her a pointed question. Given the Bay Area’s shaky restaurant economy, I wondered, why in the world would you want to open a restaurant? “If I were opening a big, splashy restaurant right now, I’d agree with you,” ...
Drama in the streets: A pedestrian gets revenge
Sharp-eyed Lynka Adams witnessed the playlet unfold. Dramatis personae: driver of BMW, pedestrian with dog on leash (and witness Adams). Act 1: Pedestrian is crossing a street on Potrero Hill when a BMW driver barely stops at stop sign and blows through the intersection, ...
Dede Wilsey spreads the campaign cash around
Multimillionaire philanthropist and San Francisco culture queen Dede Wilsey can add a new crown to her collection: Princess of Politics. According to campaign reports, Wilsey has contributed $291,000 to local candidates, political action committees and ballot measures in 2016. Most of the ...
Readers get in their thoughts before I leave
Since I announced this week that I would be retiring on Dec. 2, people have been so kind and supportive that I have reached a conclusion: I should have quit years ago. I heard from a classmate from seventh grade and from people featured in columns I’ve written over the ...
Trump could drag the Republican Congress down with him
Donald Trump’s slide in the polls could be a boon for Democrats trying to take back the Senate and for Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s chances of winning back the House. All Trump needs to do is keep driving down the Republican turnout in states where seats are up for grabs. So ...
Regulator’s soft approach toward Wells Fargo backfires
Both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill have said they were shocked at the recent revelations that Wells Fargo employees fabricated millions of accounts under the names of real consumers. They shouldn’t be. Despite an intense public outcry over ...
Unwanted kiss ruins Trump’s date with destiny
Yes, it has come to this. The New York Times reported on its front page Thursday that Donald Trump fondled a woman on an airplane more than 30 years ago and kissed another woman on the mouth against her wishes in 2005. I don’t think I’ve ever been this ashamed of my profession. ...
Can GOP, and U.S. politics, rise again?
Sometimes a political party needs to hit bottom before recognizing, let alone correcting, its wayward course. Donald Trump’s collapsing candidacy appears to be sending Republicans toward that zone of desperation on Nov. 8. “Civil War” has become the term of the moment for a party watching ...
Wells Fargo’s board should take some blame for fiasco
John Stumpf has rightly, if belatedly, taken the fall for the fake-account scandal at Wells Fargo. Now it’s time for the board of directors to accept responsibility for doing too little, too late. The board’s job is to protect shareholders, which includes hiring and firing the chief ...
A bar star’s long road leads to Pacific Cocktail Haven
It’s about time Kevin Diedrich opened a bar of his own. The veteran bartender, a Chronicle Bar Star in 2011, has had an unlucky run in recent years. One after another, at the hotel bars Burritt Room, Jasper’s and BDK, Diedrich built programs that generated big buzz early ...
With rains come benefits to forest that aren’t always obvious
The big weekend storm means an end to the official fire season and perhaps the start of long-term healing to California’s drought-devastated pine forests. There are twists to both stories. Over the weekend near Tahoe, the snow line was roughly 8,500 feet, well above 7,056-foot Donner ...
50 years later, Black Lives Matter takes up Panthers’ fight
It wasn’t the first time that a group of revolutionaries had used raw theatrics for dramatic effect. But the provocative demonstration of May 2, 1967 — when members of the newly formed Black Panther Party marched into the California state Capitol armed with loaded rifles and wearing berets ...
Big mix of ballot measures seeks answers to homelessness
We hear all the time from San Franciscans that they’re tired of the city’s homeless problem, and they want to do something to help. But other than give a dollar to a panhandler or a donation to a local charity, what can they actually do? Jennine Jacob , ...
Ad blitz begins for Gov. Jerry Brown’s parole initiative
The first radio ads are out promoting Proposition 57, Gov. Jerry Brown ’s initiative to make some of the state’s less-violent felons eligible for parole. Not surprisingly, the messages portray the initiative as a money-saver that will protect the public. Prop. 57 ...
Riding the rails back to Kerouac’s grime-bedecked city
October is everybody’s favorite month around here. A touch of autumn in the air, a clarity of light, warm days giving way to the first rains of the season to remind us that winter is on the way. It was Jack Kerouac’s favorite month, too, and when he lived and wrote in San ...
Neighborhood restaurant Seven Hills is seeing stars
A major reason San Francisco has such a vibrant dining scene is the host of second-tier restaurants that in any other city would be the first tier. I’m talking about places such as Frances, Rich Table, Range and Petit Crenn, all restaurants that have a strong neighborhood ...
Bills’ LeSean McCoy runs over 49ers
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — When Chip Kelly came to the 49ers, some of the baggage he brought along from Philadelphia was his inability to connect with a few of the best players in the game. One of those was LeSean McCoy, whom Kelly traded to Buffalo for linebacker Kiko Alonso in March 2015, ...
Beauty is design, design beauty? Not by a long shot
The critic’s job is to explain why he or she feels a certain way about a work, not to tell you how to feel. That’s why most art critics — and curators — generally avoid talking about beauty. The word is, at best, a grossly imprecise measure of value. Nevertheless, a ...
‘Eyewitness’ a competent procedural on USA
Two teenage boys witness a multiple homicide in a remote cabin. They can’t tell anyone what they saw, however, because they were secretly hooking up in the cabin before the bad guys showed up. That’s the premise of USA Network’s competent but imitative new drama ...
‘Desierto’: An OK action film with patina of politics on top
“Desierto” is old-fashioned in the worst way and new-fashioned in the most obvious way. Its story is simple and reminiscent of Steven Spielberg’s “Duel” or Cornel Wilde’s “The Naked Prey,” with unarmed humanity finding itself hunted by a powerful and seemingly unconquerable ...
A good week for beneficence
A lot of zeroes were in play last week at the Cow Palace where some 45,000 lanyard-draped Dreamforce attendees, numerous VVVIPs and tech titans raised a monumental $10 million at the seventh Concert for the Kids starring an electric set by U2 . Hosted by philanthropist Lynne ...
SPECIAL REPORTS
Voter guide: Recommendations for the Nov. 8 election
Ready to vote? Here are The Chronicle Editorial Board's endorsements for local, state and federal races to consider before you fill out your ballot.
Rising reality
Chronicle Urban Design Critic John King explores the challenges posed by sea level rise in the Bay Area.
Michael Bauer: 30 years, 30 restaurants
On his 30th anniversary at The Chronicle, our critic reflects on the most important restaurants — not always the best or most prominent — but rather, the ones that moved the conversation forward.
Captive Lives: Children of inmates face long odds of success
JILL TUCKER: What's it like growing up with a parent who has been incarcerated? Studies show such children have had their needs largely ignored, but slowly, efforts to help them are growing.
Chasing Najee Harris: Life as the nation's No. 1 recruit
RON KROICHICK: Antioch High's star running back enters his senior year widely regarded as the nation’s top recruit, earning him a slice of celebrity in our football-obsessed culture.
The Ultimate NorCal Brewery Map
New breweries seem to pop up every day. How's a beer drinker supposed to keep up? Start with this interactive map.
The Chronicle's Top 100 Restaurants
MICHAEL BAUER: No other area of the country has a more dynamic scene, and it keeps getting better. The proof is in this 21st edition of the Top 100 Restaurants.
