An orderly yet jubilant crowd filled San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza Tuesday morning to cheer for Barack Obama and watch on a large projection screen as he was sworn in as the 44th president of the U.S.NextArts, the cultural organization that sponsored the free event, predicted crowds of up to 8,000...
Watch the Inauguration live at the San Francisco Civic Center! Admission is new socks and/or underwear, with the tag still attached, which will be distributed to the homeless....
President Obama spoke of the need for sacrifice by all Americans. That message was heard and understood by many watching the inauguration together in San Francisco on Tuesday. ....
Witkin may be 89, but she takes youthful delight, and deep joy, in quietly giving away the small fortune that continues to flow from the life work of her late husband, renowned legal author Bernard Witkin.
Can't score tickets to President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration bash Jan. 20 in Washington, D.C.? No problem. Book a BART train or Muni to San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza instead.
Big Brother and the Holding Company - with the same lineup the psychedelic pioneers had in 1966 - has found an excellent Janis Joplin substitute in Cathy Richardson, who played Joplin in the off-Broadway show "Love, Janis," which played in San Francisco last year.
It's embarrassing to even have to say it, but funding being what it is in Proposition 13 California, schools can't always afford to pay for basic classroom supplies.
City officials confirmed this week that they are pursuing plans to move the annual Halloween celebration out of the Castro to several piers along the waterfront.
