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It's Tuesday.Introducing the California issue of The New York Times Magazine.Plus, reparations proposals put Democrats in a quandary.Image Birds reflected in the Salton Sea in Desert Shores.Credit...Mette Lampcov for The New York Times The New York Times Magazine is doing something this week that it has never done before: dedicate an entire issue to California, where many of its readers live.

The walls have been stripped of the jerseys of the greats - Otto, Sistrunk, Plunkett, Blanda, Chester - and the historic sideline photo of Madden and Stabler.Also gone are the display cases filled with helmets, pennants, programs, "Reserved for Al Davis" and "Commitment to Excellence" signs, a "JST WIN BBY" license plate and other Oakland Raiders memorabilia.

Work has been quietly underway behind the scenes for some time.Now it's official: Bear Republic and Drake's Brewing are merging.Rich and Tami Norgrove, owners of Cloverdale's Bear Republic Brewing, are joining forces with John Martin and Roy Kirkorian of Drake's Brewing.They will be jointly announcing the sale and purchase of certain assets of Bear Republic to Artisan Brewers LLC - Drake's business name - later today.

The Michelin Guide doesn't just bestow stars on restaurants with exquisite $300 menus.The inspectors eat like real people between those swanky meals and recommend Bib Gourmand awards for restaurants that deliver "great food at a great value" - 141 of them in California this year.How do they determine affordability?

Along with announcing the new array of coveted stars for fine dining, the Michelin Guide on Monday released its 2022 list of Bib Gourmands, recognition for restaurants that offer "great food at a great value."The Bib Gourmands are awarded by Michelin inspectors who dine anonymously around the world.

Nationwide, laws to ban natural gas in cities have sparked an ongoing debate over the last year or so, and now those bans seem to be affecting an incoming Palo Alto restaurant from renowned chef and founder of nonprofit World Central Kitchen José Andrés.Palo Alto Online reports the owner of Stanford Shopping Center is threatening to sue the city of Palo Alto over the city council's refusal to approve the use of natural gas in a building being constructed to house the star chef's upcoming restaurant and first in the Bay Area, Zaytinya.

There are lots of beers being thrown back during San Francisco Beer Week, and now there's a bit of major news for beer lovers to swallow: the Mercury News made the early announcement that Bear Republic Brewing and Drake's Brewing will be merging.As part of the sale, Drake's is set to receive Bear Republic's "recipes, formulas and intellectual property" and will take on producing Bear Republic's beers, according to the newspaper.

Stumbling upon flavors you grew up with while living in a foreign place is like getting a warm hug.You're instantly transported back to cherished moments: munching on an after-school snack of guava sprinkled with salt and chili powder; devouring Mysore pak, a crumbly ghee fudge, that your grandmother made; gobbling up laddoos made with sesame seeds and jaggery during festivals in winter months.

Fans of fried eggs with corn tortillas and sauteed mushrooms and slow-cooked carnitas tacos, rejoice.Chef Maria Elena Esquivel and her husband Ignacio Perez are opening Xica, a Mexican restaurant, in Levi's Plaza, the 9.4-acre and 930,000-square-foot office campus and community park on San Francisco's Embaradero.

The new year will bring some big changes to what's arguably San Francisco's best brewery.According to an Instagram post on Thursday, Cellarmaker Brewing Co. will close its original Howard Street location at the end of the year and move its production to the East Bay.The brewery has acquired Berkeley's the Rare Barrel, which opened in 2013 as a sour-beer lover's paradise.

Things are looking more and more bizarre for San Francisco tea drink chain Boba Guys since the late October news that the business was allegedly union-busting at its Mission District location.Now, SFGATE reports the business could be recording audio of both Boba Guys employees and customers at its store.

After all the strangeness of the last three years, February brings the return of San Francisco Beer Week in all its pre-pandemic glory, with the addition of at least one great idea that surfaced last year.The festival, which runs Feb. 10-19 at venues across the Bay Area, kicks off once again with five regional galas, rather than one giant party.

SAN LEANDRO A driver crashed a car into a house Thursday morning in San Leandro, authorities said.The collision was reported around 10:35 a.m. in the 15100 block of Edgemore Street.San Leandro police officers and Alameda County firefighters arrived to find the driver still inside the car.A driver crashed a car into a house in the 15100 block of Edgemore Street in San Leandro around 10:35 a.m.

SAN LEANDRO A 23-year-old man was in custody after his arrest in connection with the fatal beating of a woman this week, authorities said.Police said officers responded to an apartment in the 2700 block of Marina Boulevard around 9:30 a.m.Sunday.While en route, officers learned that a woman had been assaulted and was not responsive.

Oakland Unified finds itself at a dangerous crossroads.Since moving into state receivership in 2003, the school district has improved fiscal responsibility while serving the needs of our diverse student population.But that progress is threatened by the rigid stance from some vocal advocates that we should not close any schools, even when they are too small to adequately support their students.

BASEBALL
Baldwin Park 3, Gladstone 0
Barstow 13, Granite Hills 6
Carpinteria 4, Hueneme 3
Castaic 11, Santa Clara 0
Compton 4, Compton Early College 1
Cornerstone Christian 14, Sherman Indian 0
Corona del Mar 8, Newport Harbor 4
Crespi 4, Chaminade 3
de Toledo 6, Foothill Tech 0
Diamond Bar 8, California 2
Duarte 3, Mountain View 2
Dunn 13, Coastal Christian 1
Edgewood 17, Bassett 0
El Camino Real 8, Los Angeles Roosevelt 4
Faith Baptist 14, Lancaster Baptist 0
Fontana 11, Norte Vista 1
Foothill 8, Esperanza 3
Fountain Valley 11, Segerstrom 0
Garden Grove 11, Lawndale 3
Granada Hills 6, Palisades 4
Hawthorne Math/Science 6, WISH 5
Hemet 5, Canyon Springs 0
Indio 21, Calipatria 0
Irvine University 2, Laguna Hills 1
JSerra 7, Cypress 4
Kaiser 2, Arlington 1
Katella 1, Anaheim 0
La Mirada 7, Warren 0
Lakeside 13, Vista del Lago 0
Lancaster 6, Hesperia 4
Lancaster Desert Christian 7, Knight 2
Los Alamitos 3, Capistrano Valley 0
Milken 9, Santa Monica Pacifica Christian 0
Millikan 4, Marina 0
Mission Viejo 8, Aliso Niguel 1
Newbury Park Adventist 5, Gorman 1
Newport Beach Pacifica Christian 4, Tarbut V'Torah 2
Northwood 18, Sage Hill 0
Orange Vista 5, Rancho Verde 3
Paloma Valley 3, Temescal Canyon 2
Portola 8, Irvine 0
Riverside Poly 6, Heritage 3
Shalhevet 9, Vistamar 3
Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 7, Alemany 0
Silver Valley 6, Edwards AFB Desert 5
South Pasadena 12, Pasadena Poly 2
Trona 13, Lucerne Valley 2
Valley View 2, Elsinore 0
Woodbridge 3, Beckman 1
Yeshiva 8, Oakwood 3
SOFTBALL
Adelanto 11, Academy of Academic Excellence 4
Aquinas 13, Williams (Ariz.)

The Bay Area is home to a rich tapestry of restaurants and other food-based enterprises owned by Black chefs and entrepreneurs.Here's a list by geographic area of many in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.Know of others?Let us know via the comment field at the end of the article and we'll add them to the list.

State regulators have signed off on Oakland's plan to add at least 26,000 new homes over the next decade meaning the Bay Area's third-largest city is no longer at risk of missing out on crucial funding or losing control over local development rules.Under state law, cities must come up with plans dubbed housing elements explaining how and where they aim to accommodate significantly more housing for residents of all income levels between 2023 and 2031.

OAKLAND Office vacancy levels are rising in the Oakland area, but rents are also on the uptick as the real estate market confronts uncertainties over a wobbly economy, high prices and rising interest rates.The Oakland-area office vacancy rate was 18.6% during the October-through-December fourth quarter of 2022, according to a new report from CBRE, a commercial real estate firm.

The Platinum Division quarterfinals of the Classic at Damien on Wednesday featured big-time high school basketball.A college coach could have sat courtside and come up with his own dream team of participating players, seal the list in a bottle, put it away on a shelf and in a couple of years probably look like a genius with selections of future college standouts.