Views by the Bay

While you and I may consider a coffee splurge to be a $3 latte at Starbucks, the upper 1% are paying eighty simoleons for coffee brewed fr...

My Agatha Christie phase lasted 20 years Parting with books that we own is somewhat like parting with old friends. They were once import...

It has been called the greatest American speech of the 20th century. Yesterday marked its 50th anniversary. I first saw the newsfilm of ...

A college-admissions consultant advises authenticity : In my years handling applications to elite schools, from Harvard to Haverford, Davi...

Where the monitoring occurs At 8:30 we showed up at the sleep center . Over a dozen electrodes were taped to the head and chest. The tec...

Writer Kate Kershner begins to answer the question on everyone's mind: Are courtesy flushes useful -- or healthy? What is a courtesy...

How to update an old product through the use of marketing wordsmithing: use antigravity to imply that cutting-edge science is at work. ...

With only a moment's hesitation I clicked on an order for some $50 iTunes gift cards that are on sale for $35 each (4 maximum) on eBay...

The Hog Island picnic area. Inspired by our visit to the Drakes Bay Oyster Farm , we took a day trip to Tomales Bay, only a few miles fr...

August 20 " Goldman Sachs experienced a trading glitch Tuesday that resulted in a large number of erroneous single stock and ETF opti...

Charlene Chu (Bloomberg photo) Denver-born Charlene Chu, 42, is the "rock star" of Chinese debt analysis : When top official...

SVDP items to be sorted later The neighborhood must be getting more upscale--we used to have only one Peninsula charity that sent a tru...

Normally we donate our used furniture, but our worn leather sofa recliner had too many holes and broken frame sections to be usable. Our w...

Our young acolyte is off to Cambridge, MA The small Foster City Episcopal church has a cohort of Sunday School kids who grew up togeth...

An academic disparages the prevalence of "bull----" jobs [bold added]: rather than allowing a massive reduction of working hours ...