SFGate.com A judge ordered the CSU Stanislaus Foundation to release the contract for Sarah Palin's recent speaking engagement. Take a look at a copy of the contract and find out what she got. http://ow.ly/2vRsG
The contract authorizing a $75,000 payment to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for a speaking engagement at Cal State Stanislaus was made public Thursday after a judge ordered the college to produce the document. The...
SFGate.com There are only a couple days left to get ready for the Burning Man festival. If you're looking for last-minute additions to your costume, here are some helpful tips. http://ow.ly/2vQba
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SFGate.com The winners of this year's Emmys wont be announced until Sunday night, but you can see who The Bastard Machine thinks should and will win right now. Do you agree with him?
The time for bemoaning the Emmy nominations is long over. The time is now to pick who will win and, more important from a critical standpoint, who should win. After the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmys air on Sunday (5 p.m.,...
SFGate.com Ex-Bush aide comes out of the closet and supports gay marriage. Do you think the disclosure by the prominent Republican will make a difference in the same-sex marriage battle?
The same-sex marriage debate is producing some interesting consequences - Ken Melhman, former chair of the Republican National Committee and leader of the 2004 Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, has come out as gay and as a supporter of same-sex marriage in an interview with the Atlantic.
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SFGate.com Oakland's restaurant renaissance includes a design sense very different from S.F. http://sfg.ly/b7ffYZ What are your favorite Oakland dining spots?
A fair amount has been written lately about the restaurant renaissance in Oakland. A new breed of chefs has garnered attention as much for their menus as their decision to open their doors in a city long overshadowed by...
SFGate.com Thinking of taking a late summer break? Tom Stienstra shares his 10 favorite coastal excursions from the beach to kayaking and more http://sfg.ly/alxJ8G
That large yellow object seen this week in the sky above San Francisco was not a UFO, but is called the sun. That strange color in the sky is called "blue." If you climbed Montara Mountain or Tamalpais, those pointy...
SFGate.com Rolling Stone's 'True Blood' cover is full of nasty hotness, inspiring our style writers to reminisce about some of the best naked magazine covers of all time. Are they forgetting any? http://sfg.ly/9baFRH
Forget the fancy and fashionable September issue magazine covers that are gracing newsstands -- the new cover of Rolling Stone is probably the best cover out there. It's full of nasty hotness
SFGate.com As Burning Man nears, we pulled together a photo gallery of the best of years past. Have your own pics? Share 'em & get more event info in our Burning Man section http://sfgate.com/burningman
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The Dreamer rises from the Black Rock desert during a dust storm at Burning Man 2005. Chronicle photo by Chris Stewart. More <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/burningman">Burning Man</a>
Chester Smith I'm all for the new law. I think it will promote healthier eating habits and promote better health in young people. I think this law should also apply to breaskfast foods.
SFGate.com With the Eat Real Fest coming up this weekend, City Bright blogger Elanor Starmer does the math on "local foods" http://sfg.ly/b5nXEV What are the reasons you buy local, or choose not to?
Like many of us in the Bay Area, I've been reveling in the amazing local fruits of summer -- peaches from Brentwood, blackberries from Marin, and apples from Sebastopol just to name a few. I've also been delighting in a series of high-attendance, high-flavor events profiling local and sustainable..
SFGate.com Mother Nature, apparently, has an app... err... microbe for tackling oil spills. Berkeley scientists have discovered a voracious species of primitive oil-eating bacteria that have largely consumed the huge deep-sea plume of dispersed oil in the Gulf. http://ow.ly/2uMie
Berkeley scientists have discovered a voracious species of primitive oil-eating bacteria that have largely consumed the huge deep-sea plume of dispersed oil fouling the Gulf of Mexico since the deadly BP Deepwater...
SFGate.com Mark Morford heard about the combat troops pulling out of Iraq via a polite e-mail from President Obama, no parades or major fanfare from the deck of an aircraft carrier. Do you think the milestone was handled well by the Obama administration?
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Calmly, quietly, with little fanfare or outsized media attention, after more than seven years and thousands of soldiers dead, hundreds of billions of dollars wasted in one of the ugliest and most unnecessary military...
SFGate.com Frontier Village, an Old West-themed amusement park closed nearly 30 years ago, lives on. Do you have fond memories from the park? http://ow.ly/2unpB
"I've always been kind of a nostalgic person," says Shaughnessy McGehee, as he walks into his tree-filled backyard. It's an almost comical understatement. The 46-year-old Campbell resident has in his garage a 1957 Chevy...
SFGate.com The question from a friend on my personal Facebook page today: "Was it really 90 in San Francisco?" The answer... http://ow.ly/2uzTc How are you coping with or enjoying the heat wave?
The sun came out with a vengeance Tuesday, pushing the thermometer into triple digits and setting records for this date at every weather station in the Bay Area. Fires, power failures, transit delays and more than a few...