Carolyn Fong

Jun 30, 2024 | sfstandard.com | Jesse Rogala |Carolyn Fong

The city's "Gay Beach," as it's called, was thrumming Saturday afternoon with revelers-their outfits daring and dazzling-who picnicked on colorful blankets under oversized umbrellas. Here are just some of the portraits The Standard took of participants who caught our photographer's eye.

Apr 12, 2024 | chronicle.com | Len Gutkin |Carolyn Fong

“I’’m not gonna argue with you. This is a party.” That was Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California at Berkeley’s law school, remonstrating on Tuesday night with activists who had launched a protest at a backyard dinner that he and his wife, the Berkeley law professor Catherine Fisk, were hosting at their house for third-year law students.

Apr 4, 2024 | wsj.com | Craig Karmin |Carolyn Fong

Mark Harpin, a San Diego-based Google executive, visits the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters a dozen times a year. He always stays at the nearby Shashi Hotel, where he preprograms his guest room to feel more at home. From the hotel’s app, he books the same third-floor room that gets just the right amount of morning sunlight. When he arrives, a goofy photo of his wife and seven-year old daughter making faces is displayed on the flat screen TV.

Dec 13, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Carolyn Fong

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Researchers Victor Lee and Denise Pope, at the Stanford Graduate School of Education in Palo Alto, Calif. on Dec. 7, 2023. Their research found that the recent popularization of AI chatbots has not boosted overall cheating rates in high schools.

Sep 13, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Carolyn Fong

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save FILE — Plaques for the star Michelin ranking at a gala for California recipients in Oakland, Calif., July 18, 2023. The French arbiter of fine dining gave a single star to each of five restaurants, fewer than what other regions have won, after tourism officials lobbied for a guide in Colorado.