Herb Caen

"Season of the Witch": The Turbulent Growth of S.F. Values

Willie Brown Not Returning Chronicle's Calls

Hello, operator? ​During Herb Caen's heyday, he shared lunch with Willie Brown every week. When the Chronicle tabbed the latter to fill the former's long-empty shoes three years ago, the paper was desperately hoping it could, once again, win readers with an eccentric man about town. Brown, of cour ... More >>

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Pieces of the Action

What's worse? A venture capitalist or a guy who smokes crack with underage hookers?

Beat Back

An extraordinary collection of San Francisco avant-garde art is hanging in a Norwegian school. Why not here?

Making the Rent

A study says San Francisco is the most expensive city in the United States for apartment dwellers. Are you paying too much for that one-bedroom?

Let's Go to Print

And find the answer as to why San Francisco is so resistant to change

Myth Interpretation

Two thieves, six actors, and one enduring Mission District legend

Reeferzilla Meets NIMBY-Ra

And unfortunately it's not science fiction. It's San Francisco politics, and the winner used some interesting jujitsu.

Sign of the Cult-Buster

Anti-cult crusader Ford Greene and the town of San Anselmo are staging a nasty public fight over Greene's strident anti-Bush political signs. But is that an old religious enemy we see behind the curtain?

Brugmann's Brain Vomit

Cleaning up the latest drivel from San Francisco's leading bull-goose loony

Kees to the City

The mysterious obsession with Weldon Kees, poet, polymath, and icon of San Francisco bohemianism

Puppy Love

Dogster hosts photos and profiles of almost 20,000 canines

Terminal Condition

With the Examiner near death, an insider says the Fangs had 10 million reasons to run it on the cheap

We Catch Up With Laurel Wellman, So You Won't Have To

She always wanted to be a Red Hot Single. And now – finally – she is.

Most Sparkman invective is resereved for the Chron's touchy-feely columnists.

Waffling With Authority; Will the Chron Get Us All Killed?

City of Lost Children

Ghosts of magazines past

Dog Bites

Fangxaminer rollout; Anarchy in the U.S.A.

Artjournalism

Bruce Conner, the greatest artist you don't know, uses our Peter Byrne for image-honing purposes. We use Conner to get you to pick up the paper.

Dog Bites

A Little Crazy

The Last Party

The members of San Francisco's Donner Party have moved on to other projects, but they couldn't resist the pull of one last hurrah

Chronicle of a Theft Foretold

It's shoplifting season, and book dealers know what thieves are after

A Chance for Respect?

How to tell whether the San Francisco Chronicle is becoming a great newspaper, or another nondescript Hearst money-machine

Riff Raff

Piano Woman

Postscript

Cothran

Ship of Fools

Men keep falling in love with the aging steam schooner Wapama. She always exacts her price.

Night Crawler

Night Crawler

The Kerouac Obsession

Gerald Nicosia has spent a decade challenging the disposition of Jack Kerouac's $20 million literary estate. Along the way, he's annoyed most of what remains of the beat generation.

Has the Church of Satan Gone to Hell?

Jack Boulware meditates on the devilish infighting over Anton LaVey's legacy

Beat the Press

Snatching Saroyan

How Stanford University aced out UC Berkeley and acquired the million-dollar archives of San Francisco's most prolific author, William Saroyan -- without paying a dime

Night+Day

Final Deadline

David Burgin is legendary as a rough-and-tumble newspaper editor. But the legend is full of astonishing contradictions, and its last chapter may include the outcome of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of his proteges at the Oakland Tribune.

Mercury Falling

For 11 years, Markus Cook was synonymous with Bay Area bike messengers. But he didn't live to see his dream come true -- the Cycle Messenger World Championships held here in San Francisco.

Masters of Disaster

The San Francisco Office of Emergency Services unveils its new post-apocalypse playbook

Hinkle, Hinkle, Little Star (Part II)

There are two joys in life - making things and breaking things - and pirate journalist Warren Hinkle has excelled at both

Booked Up

A tower of tomes on Mission Street

Slap Shots

Dollars Without Sense

For 25 years, Harvey Ross has rooted out the waste and lies of politicians and bureaucrats. But some say he's too lost in the line items to see the big picture

War Junkie

Jacques Leslie revisits Vietnam,land of obsessions

The Case For One Daily

The Joint Operating Agreement deprives the Chronicle of the resources it needs to produce a great newspaper; it also prevents the afternoon Examiner from connecting with the readers it needs to survive. Since the JOA makes it inevitable that only one wil