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Facial Profiling

Will face-recognition technology get an accused killer off the hook?

Interview with Spoon Fed Author Kim Severson

​Kim Severson's byline is well known in the San Francisco food world. Before moving on to the New York Times, where she covers national food stories, she was at the San Francisco Chronicle, her reportage graduating from the food section to the front page. This April, Severson published Spoon Fed: ... More >>

Matt Smith: S.F.'s universal health care program creates long lines

​Kim Severson's byline is well known in the San Francisco food world. Before moving on to the New York Times, where she covers national food stories, she was at the San Francisco Chronicle, her reportage graduating from the food section to the front page. This April, Severson published Spoon Fed: ... More >>

Time Bomb

Weather Underground leaders claimed their bombings were devised to avoid bloodshed. But FBI agents suspect the radical '70s group killed an S.F. cop in the name of revolution.

Gritty in Pink

In a quest for fame and fortune, a unicycling superhero battles the stigma of a troubled past.

Bioscience Warfare

UC professor Tyrone Hayes found that a highly profitable weed killer causes sexual abnormalities in frogs. Then he found out how nasty a biotech multinational can be.

Sails Pitch

Born to sell, would-be America's Cup skipper Dawn Riley puts her birthright to work

Dish

Born to sell, would-be America's Cup skipper Dawn Riley puts her birthright to work

Hinckle, Hinckle, Little Star (Part I)

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

Mal on the Street

Verbal Prankster Mal Sharpe and his partner, Jim Coyle, bushwacked San Francisco in the early '60s, posing absurd man-in-the street questions to the unsuspecting. Taping the encounters, the dup invented a shtick that was part comedy, part performance art