Reporter's Notebook
Contributing writer Jaimal Yogis, who most recently hunted down animal rights terrorists and plunged into the...More»
THIS IS THE STORY OF PETER KUPERMAN, a handsome, slightly crazy, oddly endearing 37-year-old who wants nothing more than to marry a girl who went to Penn. The romantic obsession of his life began in a crowded Chinese...More»
Pascal Rigo is in a very good mood, and who could blame him? We’re sitting on the deck of his Pine Street headquarters above La Boulange, the bakery that made him rich and famous—though perhaps not as...More»
The first man Jeanne Woodford executed was Manuel Babbitt. He’d been convicted of murdering a 78-year-old grandmother named Leah Schendel, who died of a heart attack after he broke into her...More»
ON A RECENT AFTERNOON, A THIN, BROWN-HAIRED MAN WALKS SLOWLY OUT THE DOOR OF THE AMBASSADOR Hotel in the Tenderloin and around the corner to the stop for the outbound Number 9 bus. His...More»
ALL DAY LONG THE FATHER HAD BEEN ASKING FOR reassurance. He didn't want the body embalmed before he saw it. He was a tall man, lean, a laborer with huge hands and an Island accent...More»
ROSS MIRKARIMI STOOD OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM IN the Hall of Justice on the morning of March 12, surrounded by reporters, as he had been almost constantly over the previous two months. He was grayer...More»
You were always known as a skilled orator who would readily, and loudly, share his opinion on any topic. Yet you made a major miscalculation in choosing to describe the alleged domestic violence incident with your wife,...More»
One winter night in 2010, four New York University students went to a lecture about the growing threats to personal privacy in the Facebook-Google era. They emerged from the auditorium determined to save the world. Their...More»
The streets of Oakland’s Rockridge and Montclair districts are lined with nice homes that tempt burglars. “We are a target-rich environment,” says Frank Castro, chair of the Greater Rockridge Neighborhood Crime...More»
In case you live under a rock, Facebook has officially filed an initial public offering to the SEC for $5 billion. Although Zuckerberg’s letter to potential investors might seem hefty at more than 2,000 words,...More»
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