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Nancy Pelosi can be a polarizing figure, representing, for some, far-left politics and entrenched Democratic leadership. Her San Francisco district is upscale, urban and liberal. In short, it’s the epicenter of the California left coast. Yet every once in a while, the 82-year-old speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives,…

'We were away in America enjoying ourselves and there was a separation from the whole thing, and I came back incredibly hungry. I couldn’t wait to come back, there was no way I was going away and not coming back and going for five-in-a-row.'

SAN JOSE, Calif. — In the 1960s, as if directed by a single frequency, people began arriving at Emeryville’s tidal mudflats for an extremely strange project. Using driftwood, scrap metal, broken glass and moth-holed fabric, they erected structures resembling totem poles and spacecraft, a crooked windmill and a Trojan Horse…

The #49ers loss to the Falcons was sealed with these four mistakes.

The 19th-century philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said, “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

Thoughts and observations from a bad loss for the #49ers in Atlanta.

Matchups that will define today’s 49ers-Falcons game. By @nicholasmcgee24:

The future of America is the rise of population, experimentation, wealth and dynamism outside New York, San Francisco and D.C.

The chef on Stanley Tucci in a new BBC murder drama, the charms of San Francisco and meeting her ​musical ​hero