San Francisco Chronicle

`Yesterday, all my music seemed so far away. Now, it's only just a click away . . ." Now, with the click of your computer mouse, you can view, listen...

Unless you know exactly where to look, it is easy to miss the Western White House. Walking down El Cerrito Avenue and comparing every house you see with the back...

An ingenious steel highway bridge, cobbled together on the cheap from surplus railroad cars, is being duplicated and packaged in kit form by state engineers for emergency use whenever earthquakes,...

From all the bad press that "Showgirls" has gotten, you'd think the nation's critics had never witnessed high-gloss trash before. Granted, Paul Verhoeven's tale of a Las Vegas lap dancer...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, saying it was "ridiculous" to charge day-care centers a fee to show movie videos to toddlers, vowed Friday to introduce a bill against the practice unless the...

After gambling $1 to play the California lottery, would you shell out an extra $1.75 every two weeks for tips on how to win? LottoWorld is betting you would. The...

Four rock climbers were resting in Yosemite National Park after the experience of a lifetime when they were rescued from the sheer face of El Capitan during a strange June...

Fie on the '50s. The notion is being floated by a few critics around the country that television's Golden Age wasn't then, but now. My first thought is of a...

In another sign of eroding support for current immigration policies, the influential U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform is expected to recommend to Congress that it significantly reduce the number of...

Carl Jefferson, founder of California's Concord Jazz Festival and the Concord Jazz record label, for which he produced hundreds of albums, died of cancer Wednesday. He was 75. The feisty...