Profiles
He can’t really be that calm, can he? It’s hard to believe that a man could successfully manage a major-league baseball team the way that Bruce Bochy does the...More»
Ted Hope has a framed picture of himself on the floor of his new office. It’s a riff on Shepard Fairey’s famous Obama propaganda poster, the “Hope” in this case being the man’s actual surname. The...More»
FUSEPROJECT FOUNDER YVES BÉHAR STRIDES across the empty white box of his design firm’s new offices in Potrero Hill, the orange soles of his Undefeated sneakers echoing off polished concrete floors. In a few...More»
For her new book, Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom, Berkeley therapist Leslie C. Bell interviewed dozens of young Bay Area women about the secrets of their sex...More»
To all outward appearances, the fledgling San Francisco Newspaper Company is on a roll. After buying the San Francisco Examiner from Denver...More»
» He outraced a carload of gun-toting KKK types in Alabama after his track coach had the nerve to enter a store via the front door. » He was one of five students to desegregate...More»
Nathanael Johnson's new book, All Natural, is an account of the local journalist's quest to balance his all-natural upbringing with modern technology—...More»
On an overcast morning last October, Salvatore Cordileone took the altar in front of a handpicked crowd of cardinals, bishops, priests, and some 2,500 other invitees packed into St. Mary’s Cathedral. They had...More»
IN THE MOVIE VERSION OF SFPD CHIEF Greg Suhr’s improbable career, the lead would go to Bruce Willis—a square-jawed, middle-aged white guy who makes up in swagger for what he lacks in hair. The city...More»
IT'S 3 P.M. ON A FALL afternoon, and San Francisco's political class has descended on an ornate Chinatown banquet hall to toast the impending nuptials of...More»
[Note: a shorter version of this interview appears in the October issue] You started reporting on New Orleans in 2007, when you were a freelancer living in SF. How’d you get onto this huge story?...More»
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