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20 December 2014

20 December 2014, 11:01

Lazy Bear review: A rarefied feast if you can get in the door

Chef-owner David Barzelay started his concept in 2009 as an underground venue; this year it became a brick-and-mortar business, taking over the Hi Lo BBQ space in the Mission. Guests sit on couches...

20 December 2014, 06:54

Port of Oakland delays: 'Absolute madness’ threatens business

“The problems we’re seeing now are greater than any we have seen in the past 20 years,” said Cory Peters, vice president of drayage operations at Manteca’s Gardner Trucking, one of the dozens of trucking companies transporting containers in and out of the port daily.

20 December 2014, 05:19

Apple’s 2 moves highlight ho-hum tech year

With no new product categories and no breakthroughs in wireless communications, we found ourselves squaring off against a market trying to push existing technology into places where it doesn’t really fit.

19 December 2014, 21:19

UC Berkeley effigies: It’s not art if it’s anonymous

Hours before a black student union-led protest against police brutality was scheduled to begin at the UC Berkeley last weekend, effigies of black lynching victims were found hanging on campus. Lynching is an act of domestic terrorism...

19 December 2014, 02:38

Wells Fargo exec takes helm at state’s China office

“The hiring of Ken Petrilla, one of the most experienced international banking executives in California, shows how serious California is about its trade relationship with China,” said Mike Rossi, Brown’s senior jobs adviser, in a statement.

18 December 2014, 17:33

Truth and Journalism

[PREFACE TO MY NEW BOOK]

The problem of journalism in American proceeds from a simple but inescapable bind: journalists and editors are rarely, if ever, in a position to establish the truth about a story for themselves...

18 December 2014, 08:44

Departures: Life of a railroad timetable

Sometimes it arrives at 6 p.m. Sometimes it arrives at 8 p.m. The last time I rode it, the California Zephyr arrived in Emeryville around Inconvenience” is what Amtrak says instead of “We’re sitting on this siding, waiting for another freight train to go by.

18 December 2014, 03:12

OnDeck, another online lender, goes public with a bang

Shares of OnDeck, an online lender like San Francisco’s Lending Club, soared on its first day as a public company Wednesday, one week after Lending Club set the pace with its monster IPO. Unlike Lending Club...

18 December 2014, 02:40

Cartoonist finds his voice again in new graphic novel

CARTOONIST DYLAN Horrocks has found his voice again in a new graphic novel, Sam Zabel And The Magic Pen. Horrocks’ new book is based on his own experience, feeling like he lost his voice while he was working for DC Comics in the US.

18 December 2014, 01:24

San Leandro’s Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline built on landfill

Dedicated a park in 1980, today Oyster Bay has been reborn as a 157-acre recreational area that billows out into the bay with a salt marsh, meadows, panoramic views, native plants and landscaped picnic areas.

18 December 2014, 01:24

6 places to visit on 24th Street, S.F.

A neighborhood of neatly kept Victorians and cottages backdropped by Twin Peaks, Noe Valley appeals to families and those seeking a village within the city. In the charming business district, moms carry their babies and people walk their dogs amid hanging baskets filled with pink geraniums...

18 December 2014, 01:15

New college football playoff raises betting interest

New college football playoff raises betting interest Howls of protest greeted the selections for the inaugural College Football Playoff that starts Jan. 1, when Ohio State routed Wisconsin and moved ahead of TCU into the final four, along with Alabama, Oregon and Florida State.

17 December 2014, 22:54

Active, Organic Chemistry on Mars a Sign of Life?

NASA

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected...

16 December 2014, 20:20

Religious Liberties for Corporations? Hobby Lobby, the Affordable Care Act, and the Constitution

In an engaging new book, David Gans and Ilya Shapiro provide a comprehensive analysis of the issues in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the blockbuster legal challenge to the Obamacare regulation that required employer-sponsored health plans to provide “free” contraceptive coverage.

16 December 2014, 14:05

In pictures: Tears, loss and despair for our children

This article was originally published in December 2014.

PESHAWAR: Taliban militants entered an army-run school on Warsak road early morning Tuesday, taking students and teachers hostage. Shah Farman, the KP Minister of Information says there are approximately 80-100 unconfirmed dead.