Views by the Bay

Chicken chow fun with black beans Hawaiian Airlines Flight 11 (SFO-HNL) arrives around noon, and it's a perfect excuse to stop for...

Apple's 500,000-sq-ft data center in North Carolina. One of the big advantages to cloud computing is that the customer can cut back...

(Per Chronicle) There are clear signs that the Bay Area housing market has peaked.  While median prices have declined in only a few cou...

The Circumcision (Rubens) A question rarely posed: Is Jesus Good for the Jews? (It's not the same as asking if Christians are g...

In Time's film review of Skin , the tale of a neo-Nazi skinhead who "starts to think for himself [and] his better nature emerges...

Being green: I re-use them at home. Starbucks is often mocked for its responsiveness to the directional changes in progressive winds, bu...

Food court coffee : one size, one bean, nearly $10 for 3. My wife's sister and her husband were on one of their regular visits to Sa...

This e-mail touting an improvement to Citibank's online banking is not "good news" in my eyes: Hi, Stephen. Good news! We...

The U.S.-China "trade war" gets all the headlines, but there's budding conflict between two of the world's most important ...

(Chronicle table) San Mateo County has the lowest unemployment rate (2.2%) in the State of California. Eight of the ten counties in Cali...

Ordained in 2014 as an Episcopal priest, Rebecca began as a parishioner in our congregation decades ago, studied (endured?) seven years of...

WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan muses about two Democratic Party septuagenarians. Joe Biden is Caesar: (Nate Beeler cartoon ) The poli...

One of the reasons that a picture is worth a thousand words is because a verbal description often is confusing. Here are the words--with a ...

Seafood fried rice and chicken wings In the evenings there's at least a 30-minute wait for a table at the San Tung restaurant (on I...

Chronicle columnist Heather Knight asked travelers from San Francisco to compare other cities with their own. SF resident Terry Hemphill: ...