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Sierra LaMar’s killer gets life in prison without chance of parole
Sierra LaMar’s killer gets life in prison without chance of parole
A jury on Monday spared the life of the man it convicted of kidnapping and killing 15-year-old Sierra LaMar, leaving the victim’s parents disappointed but relieved the murderer will spend the rest of his ... -
Previously: outh Bay jury convicts man in 2012 murder
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Defense points to ‘shame evidence’ in LaMar case
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Prosecutor: Evidence points to defendant as LaMar’s killer
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LaMar's family marks the 5th year of her disappearance
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Ghost Ship: authorities arrest 2 in fire that killed 36
Two proprietors of the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland where 36 people died in a fire in December were arrested Monday and charged with felony involuntary manslaughter related to the inferno.
How Trump’s tweets may hurt his travel ban case
Even as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to decide the constitutionality of the revised travel ban, President Trump went out of his way Monday to criticize the courts.
Body-cam study: Police less respectful to black people
Oakland police officers tend to speak less respectfully to black people than white people during traffic stops, using language in everyday interactions that can erode community faith in police, according ...
Stephen Curry just being his fun-loving self
SCOTT OSTLER: Stephen Curry’s stubborn refusal to treat the NBA Finals with the seriousness this event demands is killing the Cavaliers.
SF goes after Uber, Lyft for data on city trips, driver bonuses
It’s a San Francisco truism: Every other car on the streets these days seems to sport a logo for Uber or Lyft — and many double park or block traffic as passengers climb in or out.
Apple’s HomePod battles Google, Amazon for voice in living room
Apple on Monday showcased its ambitions in machine learning and augmented reality, unveiling updates to its software and hardware in an effort to compete with Google.
Oakland coalition fears Uber will displace working class
OTIS R. TAYLOR Jr.: When Uber announced in March that it had scaled back its expansion plans for Oakland, Orson Aguilar didn’t allow himself to breathe a sigh of relief.
‘Berniecrat’ clout helped single-payer health care bill
There was good reason why so many state Senate Democrats flipped at the last minute to advance a $400 billion single-payer health care bill without a clue of how to pay for it — the wrath of ...
Durant making defensive impact in Finals
Kevin Durant was puzzled when hip-hop music began to thump through the loudspeakers during his first Warriors practice in September.
With Steve Kerr back, Warriors keep rolling
BRUCE JENKINS: A special moment was at hand before Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night, adding texture to the usual Oracle Arena madness.
NBA pushes basketball beyond borders
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver stepped up to the podium at Oracle Arena, one hour before the Warriors and Cavaliers tipped-off in Game 1 of the league Finals.
In California battles over product labels, industry usually wins
CALmatters: Nail polish and hair dye. Cleaning products. California lawmakers have been considering new labels for all of them, triggering a common conflict in the state Capitol over how much to tell ...
Student’s perfect attendance streak began in kindergarten
Mareiya Gonzales has a thing about showing up. “You’re supposed to go to school,” said the Pittsburg High School senior, as she proceeded to attend her 2,335th consecutive day of it.
Ed Lee’s political rehab plan: Deal with homeless drug users
MATIER & ROSS: S.F. Mayor Ed Lee’s call to spend a whopping $30 million extra on homeless and mental health services in the coming year is based on both policy and politics.
Starcity turning commercial buildings into group housing
A new way for San Francisco to create entry-level housing is taking shape in an old building on a forgotten block — an old bathhouse on the edge of the Tenderloin.
The simple, streaming answer to threats in the outdoors
TOM STIENSTRA: Sooner or later, it seems everybody faces a moment of fear in the outdoors.
Giants, A’s at opposite ends of homers spectrum
JOHN SHEA: This home run craze is not going away despite the Giants’ best efforts to keep baseballs in the park.
Civil Maps gives brains to self-driving cars
SPOTLIGHT: If self-driving cars are really the future of transportation, they need to mimic humans’ basic mental skills: knowing to stop at a stop sign, or turn left in a left-only lane.
SF mines co-working space data for business registrations
The San Francisco treasurer’s office is casting a wider net to find folks who should get the city’s business license.
How a single-payer health plan would look in California
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California’s economy will grow, with caveats
EDITORIAL: Despite global economic turbulence, California’s high-flying economy should maintain its cruising altitude, according to economic projections.
Right fix for California’s housing crisis
EDITORIAL: Legislation passed by the state Senate last week promises to ease California’s housing crisis by the only means likely to succeed over the long run.
Once more, we fight for California coast
LYNN WOOLSEY: On a recent Saturday afternoon, I sat alone in the Sonoma State University Library sifting through an archive representing the two decades I served in Congress.
Clean energy too big to be shut down by Trump
President Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris Accord will slow the battle against climate change in the U.S., but there’s too much momentum in the nation’s clean-energy economy to shut it down, ...
T.J. Miller multitasking way to Hollywood, stardom
T.J. Miller wasn’t trying to be ill-mannered, but he was also very, very hungry.
Bad Reporter takes on Clusterfest
Couldn't make this weekend's laugh fest? Let Bad Reporter show you what you missed.
Inaugural Clusterfest jabs at SF but runs smoothly
The first Colossal Clusterfest built a city-within-a-city in the shadow of San Francisco City Hall over the weekend, providing a buffet of food, music and laughter, and a steady skewering of S.F. values.
The Chronicle's Photos of the Week
From Foo Fighters to Stephen Curry, this week’s photos of the week show the most electric moments from this week’s happenings in the Bay Area.
Trudie Styler brings ‘Freak Show’ to Frameline
Trudie Styler — whose darkly comic “Freak Show” will be Frameline’s special presentation for Pink Saturday — had no trouble relating to her film’s main character.
Lena Hall makes the move to movies in ‘Becks’
For actress and singer Lena Hall, it’s never been a conscious choice to seek out LGBTQ-themed material: Queer characters have just frequently been the ones to resonate the most strongly with her.
Oakland zoo unveils $13 million restaurant and gondolas
Oakland’s newest restaurant features 190 seats and totes a $13 million price tag.
The story Napa's new blockbuster winery
ESTHER MOBLEY: Unique geography and feral grandeur have prompted many wine pundits to declare Promontory Bill Harlan’s crowning achievement.
Japanese beef and beer pair up at Hitachino in SF
MICHAEL BAUER: At least 10 Japanese restaurants serving fixed-price menus have opened in the last two years, but Hitachino Beer and Wagyu is markedly different.
Legend of Chef Smelly and Oakland’s most popular pop-up
At Smelly’s Creole and Soul Food in Oakland, the chef and his crew have crafted arguably the city’s most unique blend of Creole fare bisected by Southern sensibilities.
Contemporary family living in Noe Valley
After designing many houses in the Bay Area over the last decade, architects Robert Edmonds and Vivian Lee were excited to construct a home for themselves.
Couples share their extra-special day at City Hall
For the 43 couples who wed at San Francisco’s City Hall on May 12, the day started with perfectly accommodating weather: sunshine, warmth and clear blue skies. Inside the vaulted atrium, the diffused ...
Something new: Bay Area shops for brides of all stripes
The question has been popped and eternal love declared. Now it’s wedding-dress time. Bay Area brides will find several new bridal shops on the scene — each with a personality and dress collection all ...
Experiential tourism gaining momentum
Baker Beach was a postcard scene of San Francisco: bare-foot couples strolling, the sun setting, a fog-free view of the Golden Gate Bridge. And 40 people in yoga pants dancing in the sand.
An ode to Run TMC and more from 1980s, ’90s
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Warriors fans, let’s take a trip back to the days of Don Nelson, Sleepy Floyd and Run TMC.
First BART car in 1965 was a sleek, futuristic magic trick
OUR S.F.: The first BART car was carefully covered in a gigantic sheet before it was wheeled into view, then unveiled to the public with a magician’s flourish.
Victorian flat has period grandeur, modern flair
WALK-THROUGH: Period details commingle with contemporary conveniences in this three-bedroom Haight-Ashbury flat offering views of Sutro Tower, Mount Parnassus and neighboring architectural gems.
SF goes after Uber, Lyft for data on city trips, driver bonuses
It’s a San Francisco truism: Every other car on the streets these days seems to sport a logo for Uber or Lyft — and many double park or block traffic as passengers climb in or out.
Apple’s HomePod battles Google, Amazon for voice in living room
Apple on Monday showcased its ambitions in machine learning and augmented reality, unveiling updates to its software and hardware in an effort to compete with Google.
Oakland coalition fears Uber will displace working class
OTIS R. TAYLOR Jr.: When Uber announced in March that it had scaled back its expansion plans for Oakland, Orson Aguilar didn’t allow himself to breathe a sigh of relief.
‘Berniecrat’ clout helped single-payer health care bill
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Strains in the 49ers-Santa Clara partnership
It isn’t every day that someone in politics opens a meeting with our editorial board by acknowledging to being “a little bit nervous.” “I remember your editorial when the stadium was being built,” Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor said Wednesday. “I thought ...
Mourning the disappearing shopping mall
Since I grew up in a sprawling, suburban-style city, I have little nostalgia about the lifestyle I left behind when I moved to San Francisco. I don’t miss the driving, the disconnected sense of community or the single-family home. What I do miss is the mall. Yes, the mall ...
Looking at Andy Goldsworthy work through another lens
After addressing the crowd at Susie Buell ’s “Joyful Persistence” on Thursday, For-Site Foundation creator Cheryl Haines hurried back to her Geary Street gallery to host a reception for the opening of artist Andy Goldsworthy ’s show, “Drawing Water Standing Still.” ...
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Ingleside church a portrait of SF’s black heritage
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Monsieur Benjamin: Is it worth the price?
When a diner pays $18 for a slice of country pâté and $36 for a cassoulet with beans, duck confit and sausage, expectations rise proportionately. Monsieur Benjamin has always pushed the price/value envelope but since it opened three years ago the tab has continued to rise ...
Oakland coalition fears Uber will displace working class
When Uber announced in March that it had scaled back its expansion plans for Oakland, Orson Aguilar didn’t allow himself to breathe a sigh of relief. Instead of moving 2,000 to 3,000 workers into the former Sears building on Broadway, Uber said it would move in only a few hundred workers ...
Good Walk Scores have SF buyers, renters running to homes
When Anu Sharma and her husband Vishwa Chandra were house hunting in San Francisco this spring, they would only consider neighborhoods with a Walk Score of 90 or above. Walk Score is a company and scoring system that rates cities, neighborhoods and individual addresses on a 100-point scale ...
Trump yields the world stage to Jerry Brown
For all his denunciations of President Trump over pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord, Gov. Jerry Brown is in political heaven right now. Brown is front and center on the global stage as he pushes the world’s sixth-largest economy away from the federal government’s new ...
SF installing syringe kiosks as disposal of dirty needles grows
With San Francisco politicians and police mostly looking the other way as injection drug users shoot up in broad daylight, the official effort seems to have moved from preventing the drug use to cleaning up all those dirty needles left behind. Remember when cigarette butts littered the city? ...
If bitter Swiftian irony is in bad taste, so is evicting the old
If you see an otherwise distinguished-looking gentleman being ridden out of town on a rail, covered head to toe with a steaming coat of tar, that would probably be yours truly. My last column proposed, with a nod to the great 18th century Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, that San Francisco’s ...
The simple, streaming answer to threats in the outdoors
Sooner or later, it seems everybody faces a moment of fear in the outdoors. A bump in the night outside your tent. An itinerant on the trail. For women, the man who won’t take no for an answer. I have received dozens of letters asking, “Do you carry a gun?” There are ...
Tasting notes: The wines of Promontory
Currently, winemaker Cory Empting makes just one wine from the Promontory estate. It’s Cabernet Sauvignon, but as with the Harlan Estate and Bond wines, no grape variety or appellation is identified in the label — Napa Valley Red Wine, they’re all called. (All three of Bill Harlan’s ...
Could this San Francisco tech CEO’s show pull Fox to the...
On Sunday, a new show will debut on Fox News hosted by San Francisco tech CEO Steve Hilton. Whaaaaat? Yes, Fox, the network that has spent the last decade mocking “San Francisco values .” Somewhere, Roger Ailes must be spinning in his grave. “You should assume that ...
With Steve Kerr back, Warriors are complete again
Going undefeated thus far in the postseason is exhilarating for the Warriors. Being that much closer to a championship ring is fulfilling. But despite the wins and the extravagant success, this postseason run has had a sad subplot. A frustrating undercurrent. A missing piece. ...
Stephen Curry just being his fun-loving self as Warriors rout...
Stephen Curry’s stubborn refusal to treat the NBA Finals with the seriousness this event demands is killing the Cavaliers. He’s a menace, that young man, but who’s going to stop him from such indisciplined fun-having? Not his head coach, Steve Kerr, who demands that his ...
‘Wonder Woman’ gives different perspective to an action movie
“Wonder Woman” is a different kind of action movie, and it’s all the better for it. It has humor, and it’s grounded in history. It’s the story of a woman’s coming of age, and it’s a critique not only of a world run by men, but also of other action movies that glorify war. ...
Experiential tourism gaining momentum
The evening at Baker Beach was a postcard scene of San Francisco: bare-foot couples strolling on the beach, the golden-orange sun setting over the Pacific, a fog-free view of ships passing under the Golden Gate Bridge. And 40 people in yoga pants dancing in the sand. ...
Showtime series captures ’70s comedy scene on the edge
The 1970s are often considered one big cultural letdown, a decade of Day-Glo and disco that played cleanup after the upheaval of the 1960s. Truth is, culture was readjusting in the years after the end of the Vietnam War, and for every “Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour,” there ...
North Beach atelier teaches couples to craft their own bespoke...
As the Bay Area continues to embrace the do-it-yourself movement, betrothed couples are fabricating their own, one-of-a-kind rings in the heart of North Beach at Macchiarini Creative Designs. “We’ve noticed people have a real hunger to handcraft 3-D objects on their ...
Room with a view: Writing residency brings French authors to S.F.
Martin Winckler is a celebrated author in his home country of France, but the 62-year-old doctor and writer is a very special tourist in San Francisco. Winckler is here for about five weeks, and he needs to make the most of his time. As the first laureate of the new Room With a View ...
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Fostering Failure: How shelters criminalize hundreds of children
CHRONICLE INVESTIGATION: California’s foster care shelters are supposed to serve as a refuge for vulnerable children. Instead, they have funneled hundreds of kids into the criminal justice system.
Michael Bauer's Top 100 Restaurants 2017
INTERACTIVE DATABASE: The Bay Area dining scene just keeps getting better, with 22 new additions this year. Explore the best, from brunch to the classics.
The Ultimate Guide to San Francisco Farmers' Markets
San Francisco is full of farmers' markets, offering all kinds of fresh produce and prepared foods throughout the year. Check out our handy map and recipes for seasonal inspiration.
Summer of Love: Celebrating a radical era
Be sure to wear flowers in your hair in San Francisco as the city celebrates the 50th anniversary of Summer of Love. The counterculture movement changed rock ‘n’ roll, Haight-Ashbury and more.
The Ultimate NorCal Brewery Map
Wondering where to grab a good beer? Let us help. Search more than 220 breweries in Northern California or check out our list of recommended beer trails