Have your kids ever seen a cranberry bean?
There aren't many cutting-edge urban architecture firms in Carmel Valley, Calif., a placid expanse of gnarled oak trees and steep, grassy hills about 120 miles south of San Francisco. But this is where you'll find Rana Creek, a 14-year-old, $6.5 million company that converts city buildings into countryscapes.
Kay Pratt's rental car gets a ticket when she stays in a San Francisco hotel. Problem is, the car was under the care of the property's valet services. Now she wants the $85 ticket refunded, but the hotel is stringing her along. Is she stuck with the ticket.?
Until recently, only soldiers could take full advantage of this place. They got to wander the bluffs above the Pacific, with unforgettable views of rugged cliffs, hidden beaches and a sea-green bay rimmed by mountains.
There's a new way to fly the friendly skies over San Francisco: the Airship Ventures Zeppelin NT.
Gay couples from around California and the nation are feverishly tying the knot ahead of Election Day to avoid missing out if voters approve a ballot initiative aimed at banning same-sex marriage
Adults and kids are hunched over mounds of multicolored clay, fashioning little clay people and assorted creatures that will star in kid-produced animated shorts.
In a crucial win for the free software movement, a federal appeals court has ruled that even software developers who give away the programming code for their works can sue for copyright infringement if someone misappropriates that material
Last week, I wrote about what appears to be a ghastly hate crime in the small town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, where teenagers allegedly beat to death a 25-year-old illegal immigrant named Luis Ramirez after spewing racial slurs and telling him to go back to Mexico.
In the wake of a horrific triple homicide, a debate over whether a city law is sheltering violent criminals from deportation
Have your kids ever seen a cranberry bean?
There aren't many cutting-edge urban architecture firms in Carmel Valley, Calif., a placid expanse of gnarled oak trees and steep, grassy hills about 120 miles south of San Francisco. But this is where you'll find Rana Creek, a 14-year-old, $6.5 million company that converts city buildings into countryscapes.
Kay Pratt's rental car gets a ticket when she stays in a San Francisco hotel. Problem is, the car was under the care of the property's valet services. Now she wants the $85 ticket refunded, but the hotel is stringing her along. Is she stuck with the ticket.?
Until recently, only soldiers could take full advantage of this place. They got to wander the bluffs above the Pacific, with unforgettable views of rugged cliffs, hidden beaches and a sea-green bay rimmed by mountains.
There's a new way to fly the friendly skies over San Francisco: the Airship Ventures Zeppelin NT.
Gay couples from around California and the nation are feverishly tying the knot ahead of Election Day to avoid missing out if voters approve a ballot initiative aimed at banning same-sex marriage
Adults and kids are hunched over mounds of multicolored clay, fashioning little clay people and assorted creatures that will star in kid-produced animated shorts.
In a crucial win for the free software movement, a federal appeals court has ruled that even software developers who give away the programming code for their works can sue for copyright infringement if someone misappropriates that material
Last week, I wrote about what appears to be a ghastly hate crime in the small town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, where teenagers allegedly beat to death a 25-year-old illegal immigrant named Luis Ramirez after spewing racial slurs and telling him to go back to Mexico.
In the wake of a horrific triple homicide, a debate over whether a city law is sheltering violent criminals from deportation
The California Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage Thursday, saying sexual orientation, like race or gender, "does not constitute a legitimate basis upon which to deny or withhold legal rights."
Hundreds of gay and lesbian couples are securing marriage licenses on Tuesday, the first full day same-sex nuptials will be legal throughout California
The California Supreme Court has overturned a ban on gay marriage, paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry
Relationships are tricky enough with just two people involved so imagine how delicate the balancing act becomes when your ex is still in the mix.
Thousands of protesters demonstrated against China's human rights record and its crackdown in Tibet after the Olympic flame arrived in San Francisco Tuesday.
Washington, D.C., is moving forward with a bill that would make it the second city in the U.S. to require all businesses, including those with fewer than 10 employees, to provide paid sick leave for their staff.
An oil spill fouled miles of coastline Thursday, sending environmentalists scrambling to save tarred marine life
What if you could embed newspapers - and their ads - right into the tables where people sip their lattes? That's the idea behind TableTouch, a San Francisco startup that sells a coffee table with a built-in, Wi-Fi-enabled touchscreen and software that lets you browse the latest news stories with your fingers.
San Francisco is so environmentally minded that even its Moscone convention center - where a major wireless show (wirelessit.com) convenes this month - is partially solar-powered. Some of the city's indie hot spots also embrace sustainability and local resources.
Even the closing of the Bay Bridge could not keep thousands of nostalgic flower children away from San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love.
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake shook the San Francisco area Friday at 4:42 a.m. PT (7:42 a.m. ET), the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
An increasingly trendy theory holds that the ticket to attracting and retaining the educated and upwardly mobile is a big dose of urban cool: Think open-air cafés where well-heeled retired boomers and twentysomething professionals gather after the theater to sip Pinot Grigio while looking out at a skyline defined by the latest creation of a world-renowned starchitect.
Even before it opens at 8 a.m., a devoted group of epicurean pilgrims is already arriving, wheeling knee-high cooler bags toward the produce stands that assemble every Saturday in downtown San Francisco's Ferry Plaza.
The highest-volume product brought to most municipal waste collection centers during spring cleanup is paint.
Paper or plastic?
A highly contagious form of stomach flu sickened hundreds of passengers during a worldwide voyage on the famed Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship in what health officials called an unusually large outbreak.
Wal-Mart and the city of San Francisco do not have much in common, but there is this -- both are working to achieve zero waste.
Growing up in a struggling family where he was shuttled among relatives for years, Ted Smith, now 24, says he spent much of his teens and early 20s abusing drugs and alcohol. Then, in December 2003...
A national movement to mandate paid sick leave for all workers has gotten a lift from a proposition passed by San Francisco voters this month.
About the last place a prospective homebuyer might want to peruse MLS listings these days is in one of the country's most expensive markets, like San Francisco, where the median cost of a single-family dwelling has jumped 37 percent since 2003. (It's now more than triple the national figure.)
The cherry blossoms are out, and lush green hills are beckoning from coast to coast. So now's the time to stop hibernating in musty hotel gyms and get outside. Whether your next business trip takes...
Scientists and residents alike are focusing on the devastating San Francisco earthquake 100 years ago. But some researchers also want to bring public attention to seismic events in a region where strong earthquakes just don't make a lot of scientific sense.
Marcus Shelby knows how to stand out in a crowd. Perhaps it's the natty straw fedora he wears to catch a Sunday-night gig at a Mission District dive bar. Or the dapper silhouette he cuts in the corner booth at a swank supper club in North Beach. Whatever the occasion, he's bound to be the most stylish guy in the room.
Gina Pell is easily San Francisco's most glamorous Internet executive. As CEO and founder of Splendora -- an online shopping and lifestyle guide to San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles -- she's the ultimate resource for finding a perfect hostess gift or distinctive home accessory.
The news is out: San Francisco is having a rebirth. This isn't the same town you knew even five years ago. Ever since the famed dot-com boom and bust, a sense of creative rediscovery has taken over the scene; the crop of baby millionaires has been replaced by a talented, diverse new crew of insiders intent on reclaiming the city as their own.
In order to afford to rent a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco, you should be earning nearly $30 an hour in wages, 40 hours a week.
Are home values in America's biggest cities out of whack with the rest of the country? Chris Mayer, a finance and economics professor who heads the Milstein Center for Real Estate at Columbia Unive...
Are home values in America's biggest cities out of whack with the rest of the country?
Hedge funds that follow the much-beleaguered convertible bond arbitrage strategy finally got a break in June, posting positive monthly returns for the first time this year, according to new research.
The way I remember it, I had just finished an early-afternoon meeting when something--everything--changed. I returned to my office and sat down in my chair, and suddenly, inexplicably, began to sha...
My wife had business in San Francisco, so we decided to cash in frequent flyer miles and make a family weekend out of it.
It may come as no surprise that where you live affects your salary.
I'm not the typical minority," says Jose de Lasa in a thick Caribbean accent. De Lasa thinks that because he was born and raised in a privileged family in Cuba that came to Miami when he was 20 yea...
One of the few good things about the sluggish economy has been the ability to rent prime office space on the cheap. But with the recovery gathering steam, your chance to cash in on the weakest mark...
The California Supreme Court ordered a halt Thursday to same-sex marriages in San Francisco.
The Massachusetts Legislature advanced a constitutional amendment Thursday that would define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
The tech recession hit all over the country, but nowhere more profoundly than in Business 2.0's hometown, San Francisco. Vacancy rates in the startup-heavy South of Market neighborhood soared to 50...
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom shut off the same-sex marriage license pipeline this weekend, but will reopen the city clerk's office Monday for business as usual -- with marriage licenses issued by appointment only.
A San Francisco county judge has combined three cases concerning whether the city's issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples is legal.
The city of San Francisco Thursday filed a lawsuit against the state of California, challenging the state law that defines marriage as being between one man and one woman only, the city attorney's office said.
Why San Francisco? We'll leave it to Tony Bennett to explain.
Like many people, I frequently travel to San Francisco and Los Angeles, either for business or to visit friends. But until recently, I had not driven between the two cities, a stretch renowned for ...
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Rudyard Kipling once pointed out San Francisco's one drawback: 'Tis hard to leave. That's still true today, even after the Internet bust that hit the Northern California economy so hard.
In a darkened room on the 18th floor of a downtown San Francisco high-rise, Wilson Cheng scans his e-mail. "Cheapest Viagra Guaranteed." "Affordable Mortgages NOW!!!" "Toilet Cams JUQYZJIV." He get...
It sounds almost like something out of an Amy Tan novel, but with a Vietnamese flavor. For decades the An family was part of Saigon royalty, but in 1975, when the city fell to communists, the Ans w...
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BOUTIQUE HOTELS Boutiques' slick design and model-pretty staffs defined urban cool in the 1990s, but they've been hard hit by the travel slowdown. While "sale" is a dirty word in the boutique busin...
Several weeks ago MONEY hosted an off-the-record dinner in San Francisco for a few dozen of our readers, as a kind of focus group. They told us what they liked (and disliked) about the magazine, an...
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If you're building a Yahoo wannabe, getting wired is a no-brainer. But if you're a not-com that's doing just fine without fancy computers and an ultrafast Internet connection, investing in technolo...
Jim Sanfillippo found himself facing increasingly bold questions. "What is your burn rate?" "When do you expect to break even?" "What is your acquisition fee per user?" Certainly every cash-hungry ...
It's 5 a.m. in San Francisco. Maurice Werdegar is at his computer screen, can of V-8 in hand. He leans over, exposing his balding pate to a digital camera and what, for all he knows, could be thous...
It might make life easier if we all agreed about what's most important in a hometown--if we could somehow forge an ironclad rule about what makes a city, big or small, the best place to live. Of co...
One of the ironies of modern travel is that, although we typically spend thousands of dollars on a vacation, it's often the first $15 or so that we lay out--for a guidebook--that ends up determinin...
Xerox executive Bill Skinner camped out at a construction site one night in July 1996 to get a shot at buying a three-bedroom townhouse in Sunnyvale, Calif., the heart of Silicon Valley, for $215,0...
If you happen to be a fan of the fireplace, you'll be pleased to learn that one of the latest restaurant trends is the wood-fired oven, in which log-fed flames flavor everything from pizzas to pan ...
When Joe Kandra, 36, needs a break from work, he takes his dog Kali and heads for the woods. The fragrant eucalyptus trees of Stern Grove Park, Calif. are more than an hour's drive from Cisco Syste...
The colder the water, the better the oysters, so now's the time to taste these raw, briny filter feeders. A couple of the restaurants below put on an air or two, but they're all still the sort of j...
After a banner year for U.S. housing in '96, when home prices rose by an estimated 5.3%--roughly twice the inflation rate--and sales hit a near-record-high 5.2 million, 1997 will return to normal....
First impressions are crucial to setting the tone for a great restaurant meal, so in addition to having a warm and gracious host, it also helps to have a warm and fragrant bread basket. Ten years a...
THE COMMERCIAL ON-LINE SERVICES HAVE long offered tax advice at this time of year (see the box above), but this year they're getting strong competition from the Internet's World Wide Web. Here are ...
| A new hot spot for high-tech startups is San Francisco's so-called Multimedia Gulch, a warehouse district hard by the ramps to the Bay Bridge. Here's where an urban breed of computer programmer -...
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For those travelers who want to follow their palates around the U.S. this summer, the most delectable roads lead to New York City. Says who? None less than the country's leading restaurant critics ...
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Richard B. Stolley CORPORATE EDITOR Gilbert Rogin DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA John Papanek
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Richard B. Stolley CORPORATE EDITOR Gilbert Rogin DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA John Papanek
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Richard B. Stolley CORPORATE EDITOR Gilbert Rogin DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA John Papanek
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Richard B. Stolley CORPORATE EDITOR Gilbert Rogin DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA John Papanek
Recently, Examiner advertisers have used the Sunday paper to distribute samples such as shampoo. An advertiser has asked to distribute a condom sample. | Should the Examiner distribute condoms with...
SAN FRANCISCO -- ((The)) Board of Supervisors voted to stand by its offer of sanctuary to war resisters . . . Despite a plea by Mayor Art Agnos to repeal the offer of sanctuary, the board endorsed ...
San Francisco, already a ''city of refuge'' for undocumented immigrants from Central America and conscientious objectors to the war, will now consider providing official sanctuary to ''oppressed se...
SAN FRANCISCO -- A group of Hispanic firefighters wants to establish ((a)) . . . panel to certify who is -- and who is not -- Hispanic . . . The Hispanic firefighters' request, which has been prese...
These consolidators are among the oldest and most reliable. All do business nationwide, and all sell seats on major carriers: -- Council Charter (800-223-7402), based in New York City, handles popu...
Here we go again, ranking America's hometowns and rankling just about everyone in the process. After you scour our list of the 300 largest U.S. metropolitan areas on pages 82 and 83, you may react ...
When a recent MONEY/ABC Consumer Comfort poll asked 500 people to choose among 12 different ways to invest $1,000, stocks tied savings accounts as the second most frequent selection. First place we...
Try Roti, a sleek newcomer to the restaurant scene in San Francisco, the No. 3 city in MONEY's ranking of the top 15 eating-out towns. Page 133
Looking for a Grand Canyon hiking map? A Padua-to-Pisa train schedule? Call one of these travel bookstores (shipping costs about $3):
Not long ago the U.S. food map was a variation on the celebrated New Yorker magazine cover: a huge, deliciously detailed Manhattan filled the foreground, set off by a hinterland of boring plains. T...
-- When it happens, as the recent earthquake and hurricane headlines remind us, it can be sudden and brutal: a property you own is destroyed by an act of nature or in an accident. And then, to make...
Even if you live thousands of miles from South Carolina or San Francisco, you must be wondering how Hurricane Hugo and the San Francisco earthquake will affect your homeowners insurance policy. The...
-- CLAUDE ROSENBERG JR., 60, president of RCM Capital Management in San Francisco, on the degree of strictness needed to correct sometimes irresponsible and dishonest presentations by money manager...
An insurance provider accused of ''red-lining'' San Francisco applicants because of the city's high incidence of AIDS has settled out of court for $250,000, District Attorney Arlo Smith said Wednes...
SAN FRANCISCO -- This most visual of American cities . . . has become the plastic-surgery capital of the world . . . ((It)) has acquired . . . the critical mass of lawyers, bankers, accountants, an...
Despite the public's spreading fear of flying, more people than ever before are traveling that way, and the airlines are taking full advantage of the demand by raising prices about 15%, on average,...
WHILE the women's movement has altered American business life forever, it appears to have mightily reinforced one atavistic tradition: male managers going off into the rugged countryside to commune...
There are innumerable . . . ''women with inherited wealth'' who feel isolated and ''powerless'': having money, lots of money, becomes a threat to their personal happiness . . . Marian, a 36-year-ol...
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