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Craig Lindsey February 24, 2021Updated: February 26, 2021, 7:52 am Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer and director Ryan Coogler during the filming of “Fruitvale Station” in Oakland. Photo: RON KOEBERER, Associated Press When it comes to choosing which Bay Area films made by Black filmmakers are worth checking out, it’s unfortunately a very small list. In fact, many of the Bay Area films that you think would be directed by Black filmmakers aren’t. “They Call Me Mister Tibb...

This radiantly pink, exuberantly fruity California sparkling wine is great for day drinking or cocktails This radiantly pink, exuberantly fruity California sparkling wine is great for day drinking or cocktails In this edition of Wine of the Week, critic Esther Mobley recommends an affordable, easy-drinking bottle of bubbly FacebookTwitterEmail Welcome to Wine of the Week, a new series in which Chronicle wine critic Esther Mobley recommends a delicious bottle that you should be drinking right n...

The Courts Beat Nate Gartrell flipped through a fat stack of pages. “I’m basically just looking for homicides,” he said. Every week, Gartrell, a thirty-one-year-old reporter for the East Bay Times, visits the records office of the Contra Costa County criminal courthouse in Northern California, where a young clerk greets him with a smile and two sets of documents. One lists all the defendants scheduled to appear in the coming days; the other contains police reports detailing recent arrest...

From Michael Lewis, a ‘Superhero Story’ About the Pandemic The author of “The Big Short” and “Moneyball” takes on a frightening subject in his new book “The Premonition”: how to prevent a viral outbreak even worse than Covid-19. “It’s a superhero story where the superheroes seem to lose the war,” Michael Lewis said of his next book, “The Premonition,” “but all they’ve lost is a battle.”Credit...Peter Prato for The New York Times Jan. 28, 2...