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News Features
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Illustration by Audrey Fukuman. Twenty-eight miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge, a strange, two-faced figure patrolled the outermost scrap of land in San Francisco. Granted, this was a... More >>
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Photograph and direction by Mike Koozmin. Design by Audrey Fukuman. Billy Sell was not, by any means, a sympathetic character. He'd earned a double life sentence for attempted first-degree... More >>
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Illustration by Audrey Fukuman. Only a few hours ago, the strawberry was sitting on a vine at a family-owned farm in Watsonville, about 90 miles south of San Francisco. But, a day before, at... More >>
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Photo by JP Dobrin. Sri Louise Coles was determined to hold the picket line. She remembered seeing a picket outside the A&P; as a kid, so she understood what she had to do: walk a loop in front... More >>
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Jan. 22, 2003: The City of Oakland pays $10.9 million in the Allen v. City of Oakland (Riders case) settlement to 119 plaintiffs who alleged police misconduct. April 7, 2003: At an anti-war... More >>
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Photograph of backroads between Los Banos and Gustine, Calif. by Alexia Aubault. We could have called this "The Travel Issue," but mere travel is not what we were after. We wanted to go beyond... More >>
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At a deli in Bridgeport, I met a man named Mike who was selling meat and beef jerky for $15 a pound. I told him I was on my way to Bodie, the windswept ghost town 15 miles away in the Sierra... More >>
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The irrigator leans on his shovel in a Salinas field, his shoulders squared and his hand on his hip, as though he's taking a moment to assess his labor. The farmer crouches next to him, clad in a... More >>
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Deep in Amador County, two-and-a-half hours from the Bay Area, there aren't any cities — just tiny old Gold Rush towns. In Plymouth there's a 24-hour mini-mart and gas station, two banks,... More >>
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Sporting crowds cheer. Sporting crowds boo. On rarer occasions, thousands of spectators simultaneously gasp in disbelief. On rarer occasions still, screams of terror follow. And then there's the... More >>
From the Print Edition
Mustache Disguise Kit: Rideshare Vehicles Move Undetected Through the City
Last Thursday, a Lyft driver squired two women to a Mission District dive, violating at least three rules in the process. "You guys care if I keep this in the… More >>
America's Comp: The Latest Financials for the America’s Cup Portend Badly for the City
Onne van der Wal gyrates like a hula-hooper on the deck of a powerboat ripping through San Francisco Bay at a clip exceeding the speed limit on the Bay Bridge… More >>
Dante's Getaway: Sun Valley Gets a Little Closer to its Namesake, but its Tourism Board is Fireproof
There's nothing like a massive wildfire to put things in perspective. For San Franciscans, this is painfully evident; the monster "Rim Fire" immolating Yosemite was, as of press time, six… More >>
Anyone familiar with San Francisco's theater district also knows that it's a patchwork of derelict and abandoned spaces. There's the 285-seat Strand Theatre on Market Street, which was actually a… More >>
Mad Lib It: (Noun) Bites (Noun) Local humans appeared to be on a tear this week — literally. Police responded to two different incidents involving bitey humans. In San Jose, a… More >>
Hot Air It doesn't matter where the reduction happens, just as long as it does: I'm no great fan of cap-and-trade (I prefer a straight-up approach of carbon taxation at the… More >>
Wild Kingdom: At the Edge of San Francisco, the End of the World Looks a Lot Like the Beginning
Illustration by Audrey Fukuman. Twenty-eight miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge, a strange, two-faced figure patrolled the outermost scrap of land in San Francisco. Granted, this was a strange time,… More >>
Cremains of the Day: Good News: You Won. Bad News: You’re Still Alive
Many contests elicit entries by promising the chance of a lifetime. This one can truly deliver. Bay Area residents of a certain age have, for years, been receiving cards of a… More >>
Lust's Labors Lost: The Downfall of Progressive Strip Club the Lusty Lady
To an outsider, Scott "BIGRED" Farrell might seem an unlikely savior for the Lusty Lady strip club in North Beach. Yet the 41-year-old, erstwhile management consultant enjoys rattling off his… More >>
San Francisco talks a good game on greenhouse-gas reduction. But, alas, talking generates carbon dioxide. And carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. A draft report presented earlier this month to the… More >>
