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The Party, The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988, volume I: The Sixties, A Political Memoir By Barry Sheppard, Chippendale, Australia: Resistance Books, 2005, 354 pages including index, with a rich collection of photographs.

It rises from the western edge of the continent like a crown, the apex of an American dream begun 3,000 miles earlier at the Statue of Liberty.

A With the eclipse occuring near sundown, coastal viewing ought to be spectacular, experts say.

Traffic-snarled Interstate 80 passes about a mile from San Pablo Bay. The Union Pacific Railroad tracks hug the Bay coast, carrying Amtrak Capitol corridor trains.

Carl Wade, who murdered a fellow woodcutter in 1986, is now a wheelchair-bound inmate who, according to state doctors, is terminally ill and needs continuous infusions of oxygen to breathe.

Personal belongings of Harvey Milk on display at The GLBT History Museum, San Francsico.

It's never too early to start planning a celebration and theA 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge A on May 27th promises to be a big one.

BART has announced longer trains and an early open time for this weekend's Bay to Breakers event in San Francisco.

As Maverick in the Mission enters its sixth year, owners Scott Youkilis and Michael Pierce have named Emmanuel Eng executive chef.

Three women have been arrested and charged in connection with a scam targeting older Chinese women in San Francisco and other major cities around the U.S. in the past few months, police and prosecutors announced Thursday at a news conference.

Verdict deliberations in Oracle v. Google have been mixed up as the jury looks like it might be stuck on the question of infringement once again.

A partial solar eclipse is expected to darken the sun between 5:16 and 7:40 p.m. Sunday, but astronomers are advising you look ver-r-r-r-y carefully.

The political hubbub over Washington's decision to grant a visa to the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro has eclipsed the fact the State Department simultaneously denied nearly a dozen other prominent Cubans permits to attend an academic conference in California, among them some of the island's most independent and open-minded scholars.

Let's finish out the week with another find in San Francisco. Once those Facebookers get their hands on all that IPO money, lots and land there are going to be made out of unobtainium.

Two weeks after his record $15 million fundraising haul at George Clooney's Los Angeles home, President Obama returns to California next week for a two-day fundraising visit to the Bay Area.

Harvey Milk always had a flair for the dramatic that would have made him a natural for show business.

The Richmond City Council seems to have taken a cue from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in voting 5-2 to put a penny-an-ounce "soda tax" on the November ballot.

A 55-second video showing Eliana Lopez, the wife of suspended San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, crying over her rocky marriage and displaying a bruise Mirkarimi allegedly inflicted during an argument continues to drive a vigorous legal battle the couple have waged to keep it from public release.

Tens of thousands of old West Coast immigration records the government once sought to throw away will instead become publicly available Tuesday at a Bay Area archive.

The USS Iowa, which ferried the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the perilous Atlantic waters to a historic meeting with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin in the dark days of World War Two, will have to be towed to its final port call.