Joan Ryan

The All-Mandel Team or How to Staff One Great San Francisco Newspaper

Diversity Scramble, Left. On Two. Break.

A 49ers diversity training video included crude racial jokes, steamy strippers, and not-so-hot lesbians. So what's the problem? Take quiz, find out.

Maid in San Francisco

Secretly, don't you hope the hospitality multinationals crush those loud, annoying, striking hotel workers? Find out. Take the quiz.

Puppy Love

Dogster hosts photos and profiles of almost 20,000 canines

Best Chron Columnist

Ray Ratto

Dog Bites

IKEA, Party of Five, heavenly coffee, and bumpin' Bernal Heights bus shelters

Dog Bites

Golden handshakes, cat scans and tree controversy

Fork-Beard, Vlad, and the Fat King of France

The last millennial retrospective you need to read

Dog Bites

Earthquake!

Letters

Earthquake!

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

Night+Day

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

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

Tim Lincecum Has a Coffee Table Book?

Deanne FitzmauriceTime Lincecum loves him some videogames​It might come as a surprise to folks that Giants ace Tim "The Freak" Lincecum is the subject of a coffee table book. It's much less surprising than, say, Lincecum's off-season pot bust. But perhaps equally as surprising as the revelation th ... More >>