San Francisco Chronicle

Sometime after Honest Abe`s inauguration, the art of log construction slipped from the American heritage. Perhaps it was because of adverse publicity about how damp and dim Lincoln`s home was:...

I am at an Arthur Murray Dance Studio, ready to begin a lesson in the lambada, the hottest new dance to hit this country in, oh, weeks. An instructor, Terry...

The liberal arts, given a pretty good drubbing over the last couple decades as irrelevant in a bottom-line culture where narrow specialization takes the big payoffs, can take a bow...

A new system for viewing 3-D movies on home TV screens will be introduced by a San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneur next year. Michael Starks, of San Rafael, said he...

Developer Mark Wilton`s home, on a ridge with a spectacular view, is his castle, and for $5 million it could be yours. The two-home compound has more than 15,000 square...

Sometime last winter it was, wife and self were sitting around the house stuffing orphans into envelopes and mailing them to deserving families in Indiana, when we happened to notice...

An estimated 5,100 units of housing in San Francisco were destroyed in the Oct. 17 earthquake or damaged so severely that residents will be displaced during repairs. Those repairs are...

The bright chatter at the American Society of Interior Designers` yearly conference was not on the subjects of valances and damasks and demilune tables. The 4,000 members were focused on...

Up to 100 miles from San Francisco, house-hungry workers are rushing into the sweltering Central Valley, snapping up homes and changing distant farmland into the next booming bedroom community in...

It`s cool on this stone bench in the shade of the olive trees. I watch the pigeons inching cautiously about me. Their cooing is soothing. I`ve come here to panhandle....