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The Economy

The Bay Area is booming — and bracing for a slowdown

The Bay Area’s juggernaut economy continues apace. But some tech companies are cutting back as Wall Street teeters and trade tensions soar.

Employees look forward to one of the requisite perks of Silicon Valley tech life�free gourmet meals and drinks served throughout the day Monday through Thursday in the TreeTops CafŽ. The Bay Meadows development recently opened TinPot Creamery, Blue Bottle Coffee and Fieldwork Brewing Company in the adjacent town square.

JOE GAROFOLI: The president of Emily’s List says Democrats are allowing President Trump to psyche them out and get into their heads before the 2020 presidential race.

A car is seen burnt and charred after the Tubbs fire tore through dozens of homes off of Bicentennial Way in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 9, 2017.

Trends

Facial recognition

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Silicon Valley Comic Con

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Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party

Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, San Rafael

The end of Cabernet in Napa Valley?
Cabernet Sauvignon is the lifeblood of Napa Valley. But climate change threatens the grape variety’s survival here. Now, a small contingent of vintners is taking matters into their own hands.

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Jay-Z will be a superstar NFL (talent-search) quarterback
SCOTT OSTLER: The NFL signed rapper Jay-Z to a contract, which pleases some people and angers others.

Sports Columnists

San Francisco Giants
Bochy's quest for 2000
Bruce Bochy is on track to become the 11th manager to reach 2,000 career wins. Will he make it?

Judge orders suspect in attack caught on video to wear ankle monitor
“When I saw the video, I was frankly alarmed at the level of violence,” the judge said Friday.

Newsroom Voices

Visual Essay

The Chronicle's best Bay Area photos of July 2019

Kamala Harris’ thread-the-needle message put to test
The California senator is deploying a strategy that seeks to straddle the line between the progressive Democratic presidential candidates who advocate sweeping structural change and moderates with a more incremental message. She’s pegging the strategy to Iowa, which votes first and where the candidate is investing heavily.

Political Columnist

Joe Garofoli
‘White men have no electability advantage at all’
Political pundits often use the term “electability” to dismiss the chances of a non-white male candidate, but a new study says that’s a...

Earthquake kits selling fast in Bay Area after recent tremors
After a string of earthquakes, people are shopping for survival kits to prepare for the next one.

Business Columnists

Chez Panisse alumni open casual lunch counter in Berkeley
Fava serves a mostly vegetarian menu of salads, wraps, soups and drinks in a tiny, takeout-only space.

Silicon Valley Comic Con 2019: An insider's guide
Silicon Valley Comic Con returns this weekend, Friday-Sunday Aug. 16-18, boasting a lineup that includes Arnold Schwarzenegger and other actors from “The Terminator” movie series, “Aquaman” star Jason Momoa, plus many other celebrities.

Food & Wine Critics

Guides

Top 100 Restaurants: Best Mexican food in Bay Area

Interactive Map
Mapping cinematic wrath, from 'Godzilla' to 'San Andreas'
Nearly a movie per year in the 21st century has featured S.F. under attack. We mapped out all the damage —see if your house would survive.

Datebook Columnists

See, do, eat
Bay Area summer fun guide
If you’re bored this summer, you’re doing it wrong. Check out The Chronicle’s recommendations for the best ways to enjoy your time.

Six road trips you need to take to rediscover California
California is made for road trips — a quilt of coastline, Sierra, desert and valley stitched together with asphalt. Forget about fighting the crowds on Highway 1, and make for roads less traveled that will ferry you from dramatic river canyons to Hollywood-worthy pinnacles, deserted black-sand beaches to goat cheese fresh from the surprisingly friendly goat.

Outdoors

Tom Stienstra
Lassen national park is finally open
Spring finally has emerged at Lassen Volcanic National Park, nearly two months later than last year. Lassen can be your safety net to camp, hike...

Guides

Tom Stienstra
The Ultimate Bay Area Hikes and Outdoors Guide

How Fort Point, protector of SF, was saved at foot of Golden Gate Bridge
A search through The Chronicle’s archive turned up a collection of unpublished photos of Rep. Phillip Burton touring Fort Point in 1969 to drum up support for turning the abandoned base into a national historic site — and even older negatives.

Chronicle Covers
Explore the stories behind classic front pages
The San Francisco Chronicle came into existence more than 150 years ago. See classic newspaper pages from our archive for every day of the year.

Give Rose Pak her due, but keep Chinatown label on new subway station
Rose Pak deserves a memorial that should go inside a Chinatown station.

Opinion Columnists