San Francisco Chronicle

Adrienne Rich: Writing as Social Practice

Michael Roth | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Scripps College, San Francisco Chronicle, Poetry, Adrienne Rich, Adrienne Rich Dies, Adrienne Rich Death, Writers, Writing, Books News
Michael Roth

The great American poet, Adrienne Rich, died this week at her home in Santa Cruz. She was a brave and ardent writer, a gifted teacher and a powerful voice of conscience. There is no one quite like her in American letters.

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C.W. Nevius Changes Course, Perpetuates Prejudice Against Bicyclists

Morgan Fitzgibbons | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Bicycling, The-Wiggle-San-Francisco-Ca, Craig Nevius, San Francisco Chronicle, Pedestrian Safety, San Francisco News
Morgan Fitzgibbons

Chronicle writer C.W. Nevius can't seem to make up his mind. In July, Nevius penned an ode to the Wiggle, the popular bike path. Unfortunately, Nevius' moment of clarity seems to have been particularly short-lived.

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Former Chronicle Editor Phil Bronstein Resigns From The Paper For Good

AP | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Phil Bronstein Center for Investigative Reporting, Phil Bronstein Resigning, Phil Bronstein Career, San Francisco Chronicle, Phil Bronstein Resigns Hearst, Phil Bronstein, Phil Bronstein Resigns, Sfgate, Phil Bronstein Hearst, Phil Bronstein New Job, Phil Bronstein Chronicle, Phil Bronstein San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco News

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Former San Francisco Chronicle Editor Phil Bronstein has announced his resignation from Hearst Newspapers, the San Francisco Chr...

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The Real Dirt on Gavin Newsom's Visit to Half Moon Bay: From Someone Who Was Actually There

Wendy Andary | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Half Moon Bay, Political Reporting, Gavin Newsom, Calfornia Coastside Democrats, San Francisco Chronicle, Gavin Newsom Booed, Gavin Newsom Lieutenant Governor, San Francisco News
Wendy Andary

The bottom line is this: the articles proclaiming "Gavin Newsom Draws Boos by Attacking Democrats" are flat out wrong and misleading.

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PHOTOS: Street Art Abstraction At Known Gallery

Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Known Galler, Video, Art in the Streets, San Francisco Chronicle, Street Art, Graphic Design, Graffiti, New York Times, Eric Haze, Los Angeles, Greg Lamarche, Arts News

Known Gallery in Los Angeles has been on a roll these past couple years. With its artist base and clientele, it has become an epicenter of graffiti cr...

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Review of Jay Feldman's 'Manufacturing Hysteria'

Michael Roth | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Jay Feldman, Surveillance, Patriot Act, Scapegoating, Joseph McCarthy, San Francisco Chronicle, Books News
Michael Roth

Manufacturing Hysteria is a political book, aimed at reminding those dedicated to civil liberties (especially the right to dissent) how fragile our freedoms are and how "close to a police state" we have come over the last century.

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Innovations In Space Technology Are Still Key

James M. Gentile | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Spectrawatt, Nasa, Scialog, Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos, Biosphere 2, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, The New York Times, Mars, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, Cornell, Evergreen Solar, Amazon.com, Solar Energy, San Francisco Chronicle, Fablevision, Peter H. Reynolds, Mars Rover Opportunity, Solyndra, Technology News
James M. Gentile

Innovation in space technology is still key to U.S. scientific and economic preeminence; space has been primarily America's frontier for 50 years and should remain so.

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Write Here in San Francisco

Sally Fay | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, Books, Poetry, Writing, T.S. Eliot, Culture, San Francisco News
Sally Fay

San Francisco is a writer's town. Songs, poetry and books have been written lustily and lyrically over the years by writers who feel the magnetism of this charismatic city's energy flowing through the tips of their fingers.

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Man Accused Of Picasso Theft To Plead Not Guilty

AP | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Picasso Theft, San Francisco Chronicle, Tete De Femme, Weinstein Gallery, Art Theft, Grand Theft, Picasso, Picasso Drawing Stolen, Art, Pablo Picasso, Napa, Drawing, San Francisco, Mark Lugo, Picasso Stolen, Douglas Horngrad, Arts News

SAN FRANCISCO -- The attorney for a New Jersey man accused of snatching a Picasso drawing off the wall of a San Francisco art gallery says his client ...

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WATCH: Fight On State Assembly Floor Over 'Sopranos'

Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Donald Wagner, Warren Furutani, Italian American, Tony Soprano, Assembly Floor, Mafia, Tony Soprano Comment, San Francisco Chronicle, Anthony Portantino, Video, Los Angeles News

Life imitated art on the Assembly floor Wednesday when Assemblyman Don Wagner (R-Irvine) compared line items in the Democrats' budget plan to somethin...

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Blue Shield of Calif. To Return $167 million To Policy Holders

AP | TOM MURPHY | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Blue Shield of California Ceo, Ceo Bruce Bodaken, Health Care Reform, Blue Shield, Blue Shield of California, Bruce Bodaken, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles News

One of California's biggest health insurers will cap its earnings and credit some policyholders if it exceeds the limit as part of an emphasis on poli...

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Kids' Art Mentor Charged For Child Porn

Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Anthony Josef Norris, Child Porn, Kid Serve, Crime, San Francisco Chronicle, Child Pornography, San Francisco Examiner, Nonprofit, Fbi, San Francisco, Art Education, Bay Area, Arts News

Anthony Josef Norris, director of a San Francisco art education nonprofit group, has been charged with possession of child pornography. The City subse...

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What to Make of Buster Posey's Injury

Danny Groner | Posted 07.29.2011

Read More: Scott-Cousins, NBC Bay Area, Star Tribune, Baseball, Nick Cafardo, Yahoo Sports, Mlb, La Velle E. Neal III, Bruce Jenkins, Jeff Passan, Will Brinson, Buster Posey, Boston Globe, Austin Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, Joe Mauer, Catcher, Minneapolis Star Tribune, San Francisco Giants, Dave Cameron, Injury, Elie Whiteside, Kent Sterling, Fangraphs, Sports News
Danny Groner

Posey was knocked out by a home-plate collision this week that resulted in a broken leg that will likely sideline him for the remainder of the season. Here's a roundup of what baseball bloggers and columnists have to say.

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If It Quacks Like a Doc

Linda Bergthold | Posted 07.29.2011

Read More: Quackery, Fda, Cure for Cancer, Herbal-Treatments, The-Medical-Board-of-California, Arsenic, San Francisco Chronicle, Bufotenine, Cancer, Edward Feng, Healthy Living News
Linda Bergthold

People seek alternative treatments with no evidence of effectiveness when they are desperate. But not only do these treatments not cure cancer, they can be seriously harmful.

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Newspapers as Souvenirs

Justin Cox | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Print Media, Newspapers, San Francisco Chronicle, Media, Journalism, Newspaper Sales, Old Newspapers, Historic Papers, The New York Times, Osama Bin Laden News, Print Newspapers, Media News
Justin Cox

I didn't buy a newspaper because I wanted to find out more about the operation in Pakistan. I bought it because it was tangible representation of massively important historic event, and I wanted to save it.

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Michael Calderone

White House Press Secretary: ‘No Reporters Have Been Banned’

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: White House Reporter Ban, White House, Jay Carney, San Francisco Chronicle, President Obama, White House Press Secretary, Reporter Ban, White House Press Corps, Jay Carney Reporter Ban, The Backstory, Media News

WASHINGTON – White House press secretary Jay Carney pushed back Friday against a San Francisco Chronicle report that claimed the White House "threa...

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San Francisco Chronicle Putting Up Paywall

The Bay Citizen | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Paywalls, Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, Newspaper Paywalls, San Francisco Chronicle Paywall, San Francisco Chronicle, Media News

The Hearst Corporation is considering a paywall for sfgate.com, the online portal of the San Francisco Chronicle, as part of a broad, new digital stra...

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San Francisco Goes to the Ballot Box for Electoral Reform

Afton Branche | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Voting Day, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Weekend Voting, Mayor Bloomberg, San Francisco Chronicle, Voter Turnout, Election Day, 2010 Election, California Propositions, 2011, San Francisco, New York City, Voting, San Francisco Election Reform, Proposition 1, Election Reform, Midterm Elections, Elections 2010, 2010 Midterm Elections, Politics News
Afton Branche

The Saturday Voting Act, a proposition that would require San Francisco to open all polling places on the Saturday before Election Day, is an innovation that could significantly boost voter turnout.

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Looking Back at Jon Stewart's First Daily Show Reviews

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rally to Restore Sanity, Daily Show, Midterm Elections, Jon Stewart, Comedy Central, 2010 Midterm Elections, Washington Post, Dan Zak, The Daily Show, Craig Kilborn, Lizz Winstead, David Bianculli, Paul Brownfield, New York Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Tom Goodman, Media News
Danny Groner

When Jon Stewart replaced Craig Kilborn on "The Daily Show" in 1999, the show was still a "startup cable show on a cheap set in a tiny studio," says T...

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Chronicle's Boxer 'Endorsement' Reasserts Its Irrelevance

Larry Womack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senate, Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina, 2010 Elections, San Francisco Chronicle, California Senate Race, San Francisco Chronicle Barbara Boxer, California Senate, Elections 2010, Media News
Larry Womack

Choosing not to endorse Boxer is a perfectly respectable statement -- or it would be, for a paper that actually disagreed with her in substantive ways. But the Chronicle's feeble rationalizations couldn't appear more desperate.

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In Defense of San Francisco Values

Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yosemite, Gop, City Property, San Francisco Values, Right Wing, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Fiscal Responsibility, Hetch Hetchy, Gavin Newsom, Pepsi, San Francisco Chronicle, Coke, Republican Convention, City Hall, Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado, Encironmental, San Francisco, Bottled Water, Los Angeles News
Geri Spieler

The Republicans are doing what they do best: Obfuscate the issues, blame, complain, point fingers and make up stuff up instead of offering real solutions about real problems.

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Open Web Platform for Gulf Oil Spill Beats Media Boom Ban

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Ferdinand Marcos, Gulf Coast Spill Coalition, Blackberry, Twitter, Boom Ban, Pensacola, Coast Guard, Facebook, Oil Sludge, Coast Guard Oil Response, Oil Catastrophe, San Francisco Chronicle, Hurricane Law Group, Atchafalaya, Citizen Journalism, Iphone, Grand Isle, Media Restrictions, Android, Tweeb, Edgecase, Yobie-Benjamin, Rachel Polish, Thoughtworks, Orange Beach, Engineyard, Intridea, Media News
Georgianne Nienaber

Yobie Benjamin with Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu "But at the end of the day, it's not about me. It's about the people of the Gulf," S...

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San Francisco May Ban The Sale Of Most Pets

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pets, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Commission of Animal Control and Welfare, Hampsters, Animals, San Francisco, Euthanized Pets, Dog and Cat Shelters, Impact News

San Francisco's Commission of Animal Control and Welfare announced today that buying what they call, "companion animals", could be anyone's ticket to ...

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The New York Times Gets It Wrong

Praveen Madan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michiko Kakutani, Yann Martel, Laura Fraser, Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Independent Bookstores, Beatrice and Virgil, New York Times, Booksmith, Independent Media, Amazon, Books News
Praveen Madan

Our view is that Beatrice and Virgil is a beautifully written, unconventional and intriguing book that should be read and discussed broadly. It would be a real shame for readers to summarily dismiss this book because it disappointed a few critics.

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Yes on Prop 15 -- One Small Step for Democracy

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meg Whitman, Secretary of State, Lobbyists, Jerry Brown, Steve Poizner, Fair Elections, Proposition 15, Public Financing, Greece, Jesse Unruh, Supreme Court, San Francisco Chronicle, Voter Information Cards, Democratic Party, California Primary, Republican, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Los Angeles News
Michael Sigman

A victory for Proposition 15, the California Fair Elections Act, will mean that the race for the Golden State's Secretary of State will be a "clean money election" in 2014 and 2018. A small step, but a necessary one.

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