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Congress appears to have averted economic disaster for now, but only by punting it to early December.

A looming ‘self-inflicted’ financial crisis.

Restaurant wining and dining is back in the Bay Area. But please dont BYOB Restaurant wining and dining is back in the Bay Area. But please dont BYOB Why bringing your own wine bottle to a restaurant right now is just rude, in this weeks Drinking with Esther newsletter FacebookTwitterEmail A selection of Italian wines at Uva Enoteca in the Haight, seen in February 2020 before the pandemic.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle 2020 Lately, I’ve been returning to a ritual that I’d practiced o...

Bill Davies’ new wines Bill Davies, drawing on his family history as part of the Schramsberg winery, has launched a new line of wines. Davies, the son of Jack and Jamie Davies who founded Schramsberg in the mid-1960s, makes Billy D, and Ramble wines sourced from Northern California vineyards at a custom-crush facility. Billy D wines include Mountain Barbera, French Colombard and Daydreamer Rosé. The logo, a billy goat, invokes Davies’s dedication to bucking old trends while creatin...

February is Black History Month, it’s something that no American of any race, color, or creed should forget. African Americans, the decendants of slaves and slaves themselves fought for freedom that was only at best was in the promissory note of the Emancipation Proclamation. Those men, and women in the case of Harriett Tubman and Sojourner Truth, paved the way for freedom for African Americans and all others who benefited from what they fought for: women, Native Americans, Mexican America...

8 Steps That Paved the Way to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was landmark legislation that required decades of actions—and setbacks—to achieve. Author: Universal History Archive/Getty Images The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was landmark legislation that required decades of actions—and setbacks—to achieve. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. When it was signed into law by P...

The rewarding world of collecting whisky, whether for investment or sheer enjoyment… Last October the US$1.9 million sale of a bottle of The Macallan single malt Scotch distilled in 1926 — the highest price ever paid at auction for a bottle of spirit — made even those who never touch the stuff sit up and take notice. At 700ml, it contains about 45 pours, making each dram worth around US$42,000. Martin Green, Whisky Specialist for the storied Bonhams auction house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a...

New York Times editorial page as the newspaper’s publisher interviews candidates for the editorial-page editor job. In June, a Republican senator, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, wrote a  Times op-ed headlined “Send in the Troops,” calling for the deployment of the US military to quell what the article called an “orgy of violence” and “rioters and looters” in American cities following the death in police custody of George Floyd. More than 800  Times staff members signed a letter prot...