SacBee -- Latest News:
Winning on the road has been a quandary the last year for the playoff-hopeful San Francisco 49ers. That's exactly where they'll be in three of the next five weeks, however, starting with Sunday's tough bout against the Green (Read More)
SacBee -- Latest News:
San Francisco safety Michael Lewis leaves the field after intercepting a pass in the end zone as time expired, preserving the 49ersÕ much-needed victory over Chicago.Join The Bee's Matt Barrows today for a live chat during (Read More)
SF Gate:
I was away for most of the week, but I did catch up with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom at a tree-lighting party on the Embarcadero Friday evening. He looked very relaxed and was having his picture taken with everyone. He s (Read More)
SFGate: Education:
Mark Sanchez is principal of one of the lowest-performing middle schools in the state: Horace Mann Middle School in the Mission District. The school is also one of the most under-enrolled schools in San Francisco with 235 stu (Read More)
SF Gate:
Landmark skyscrapers, signature hotels and upscale retailers glitter in the San Francisco skyline and enhance its cachet. But with commercial real estate slumping, they soon may subtract badly needed cash from the city's coff (Read More)
SFGate: Entertainment:
Here's a look at the past. Items have been culled from The Chronicle's archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. 1984 Nov. 26: A waterspout touched down on San Francisco Bay yesterday, whirling in a 1,000-foot high funnel and (Read More)
Silicon Valley Watcher:
Two great events coming up:I ran into the stylish Shaun Sanders, from Graffiti PR, at the recent TEDxSF event and he told me about Geek Chic, Thursday December 3. It's an event he's organized to collect Christmas toys and als (Read More)
SF Gate:
Four people were hurt when one of San Francisco's historic cable cars jarred to a sudden stop while traveling through downtown. Municipal Transportation Agency spokesman Judson True says two passengers, the cable car's gripma (Read More)
SF Gate:
Four people reporting injuries were taken to the hospital Saturday afternoon after the cable car they were riding stopped suddenly in downtown San Francisco, a Muni spokesman said. Two passengers and the cable car's gripman a (Read More)
Kotaku:
Some video game sports moments are so indelible we remember and narrate them the same way we do the ones from real life. I'm not saying we confuse the realities, necessarily, although anyone who's completed his third season o (Read More)
SF Gate:
The San Francisco police evidence lab failed to process DNA samples from the 2007 slaying of a transgender prostitute for two years, leaving the suspect free allegedly to rape and brutalize at least three other transgender wo (Read More)
SF Gate:
Company: Just Awesome Board Game Store, San Francisco Title: Owners Q: Your backgrounds had some influence in you going into the board game business. Erik served in the Air Force and Shane is a behavior analyst. Can you tell (Read More)
SF Gate:
Redrawing San Francisco's skyline could come down to sunlight and shadows. The proposal that city planners recently unveiled to allow seven new skyscrapers near a rebuilt Transbay Terminal, including one that would crown a ch (Read More)
SF Gate:
When visitors tell San Francisco people that the city is beautiful, the San Franciscans always agree. They take it as a personal compliment. They are a bit like Narcissus, the hero of Greek mythology who fell in love with his (Read More)
SF Gate:
It was a most unusual sight at the Powell Street cable car turnaround in downtown San Francisco Saturday: City street sweepers had to hunt for scraps of litter. On the third day of an intensive effort to spruce up the busy co (Read More)
LA Observed:
OK, at least one more Gavin Newsom item. A day or so after the San Francisco Chronicle editorialized about Newsom turning into "a mystery man," he finally sat down with a TV political reporter to answer some questions. He did (Read More)
SFGate: Crime Scene:
Rain fell, as forecast, over the Bay Area on Friday. But anyone expecting a drought-ending deluge, or even a nice, slow lawn-soaking, was undoubtedly disappointed. In San Francisco, it amounted to a brief burst of heavy rain (Read More)
SFGate: Books:
Cosmopolitans A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area By Fred Rosenbaum (UC Press; 462 pages; $39.95) Born in the volatile California Gold Rush, the Bay Area's Jewish community has thrived desp (Read More)
SF Gate:
A federal jury took only 20 minutes to reject claims by a graduate of UCSF Medical School who filed a $1 million civil rights suit accusing San Francisco police of roughing him up in 2006, city officials said Friday. Edward Y (Read More)