Suffer the Children

by Violet Blue, special to SF Gate

On the California Megan's Law Web site , which maintains a publicly accessible database on our state's...

Fun at the old ballyard

by Jon Carroll

I have said it before, but perhaps some of you were out of town, or failed to read me that day. Some of...

Who's on hook for failed clunker deals?

by Kathleen Pender

A battle is brewing among consumer groups, car dealers and the government over the use of contingency...

Scott Ostler

by Scott Ostler

For the Giants, Wednesday was the most exciting Opening Day in years. It's a bit unusual to have Opening...

Poet laureate Diane di Prima gets her laurel

by Leah Garchik

At a studio in the old Sears building at Mission and Cesar Chavez on Sunday, friends gathered to...

Snakes on a plane

by Debra J. Saunders

First, a confession: I've never flown on a private jet. I've never flown on a Gulfstream. Never flown on...

The Fishing Report

by Brian Hoffman

First of the morning, and maybe not even that, and the California Dawn was out of Berkeley marina and...

Giants leading off

by John Shea

Triple Crown? With a little luck, Tim Lincecum would have won his last two starts, giving him 14 wins...

Shopping for an office in Shanghai

by Andrew S. Ross

Bay Area business is about to get its own embassy in Shanghai. Could be as early as next month when the...

Matthew Accarrino says so long L.A., hello SPQR

by The Food & Wine Staff

San Francisco's SPQR has its new executive chef. It's Matthew Accarrino , who has left his position as...

Editorial Cartoon

by George Russell

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Surveillance Caricatures

by Michael Capozzola

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11 Things: Couples in bands

by Michelle Broder Van Dyke

As the adage goes, "write what you know," and for intraband couples that can mean sweet melodies of...

Bike-in movies: Drive-in gets enlightened update

by Rhonda Winter

The long, foggy nights of summer make me wistfully yearn for the drive-in movies of my youth. Bad movies...

Street Date

Lincoln Avenue, San Jose: Although part of San Jose since the 1930s, the independent character of Willow...

U.N. Plaza project gets stimulus money

by John King, Rachel Gordon, Marisa Lagos

Here's how stimulus money arrives: not in one big bag but a stream of (relatively) little checks. The...

Americano, S.F.

by Jane Tunks

Though the Hotel Vitale opened to much fanfare in 2005, its restaurant, Americano, didn't take off until...

Life is Good

by Sacha Eckes

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MILITARY HISTORY

by Tom Stienstra, Chronicle Outdoors Writer

An e-mail comes in nearly every month that asks the same question: "What is that structure on the west...

BARGAIN BITE: Pal's Take Away

by Amanda Gold

There's a dusty corner market in almost every San Francisco neighborhood, but only one has Pal's Take...

(Th)ink

by Keith Knight

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The Fishing Report

by Brian Hoffman

First of the morning, and maybe not even that, and the California Dawn was out of Berkeley marina and...

Trio Garufa: stepping into electro tango

by Michelle Broder Van Dyke

Trio Garufa was formed in 2001 when an organizer of an Argentine Tango group who threw milongas (dance...