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So, like, Locanda is apparently a restaurant. I didn't realize that until I crossed the threshold.

After years of ranking below Kingman High School's marching and jazz bands, the school's concert band program is finally beginning to make a name for itself.

Sheriff's deputies in the Valencia area of Santa Clarita are looking for the vandals who spray painted anti-Semitic symbols and images in an upscale neighborhood.

Vandals spray paint racist slogans, swastikas in Valencia. Authorities are investigating a hate incident in Valencia, where the sidewalks, benches and buildings of a recreation center were covered with racist messages and swastikas, Santa Clarita valley officials said Tuesday.

The Valencia, Calif.-based company posted a loss of $41 million, or 15 cents per share, compared with a loss of $38.2 million, or 27 cents per share, in the same quarter of 2012.

Last night San Francisco Conservatory of Music composition student Danny Clay presented his Graduate Recital in the Osher Salon.

During a honeymoon trip to Los Angeles, Chris Hansen and his new wife, Shoni, decided not to skimp on their visit to Universal Studios Hollywood.

It's 7 a.m. and 54Ao, headed to 62Ao . It will be slightly warmer than yesterday but still cloudy and a little windy.

The Turntable Synthesizer, one of the projects on display at the CalArts Digital Arts and Technology Expo, turns a turntable into a light show.

The assignment totals more than 2,600 apartments in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

Marcy Edwards, above, enjoys "Olympus," a Eurasian eagle owl at the arena for animal actors on the Universal Studios Hollywood lot.

A plan to add more bike lanes on Polk Street is at the nexus of a typical San Francisco fight over transportation, population and anxiety over change.

It can be trippy to try to remember what San Francisco first looked like through your wide, virgin eyes.

Today is May Day, or International Workers' Day . The San Francisco nonprofit Community United Against Violence has organized a march for immigrant justice from the Mission to Civic Center, starting at the 24th and Mission Street BART plaza at 3 p.m. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is planning to stop by 826 Valencia during his visit in San ... (more)

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May 1 marks International Workers Day, so naturally Bay Area activists are gearing up for a host of marches, rallies, and celebrations.

With 80 percent of its business derived from TV and major motion picture clients, Dangling Carrot is in the enviable yet supremely demanding position of creating unquestionably real-looking sets under what may be the world's most demanding deadlines.

During a honeymoon trip to Los Angeles, Chris Hansen and his new wife, Shoni, decided not to skimp on their visit to Universal Studios Hollywood.

Editor's note: Mission Local is resuming its biweekly conversations with District 9 Supervisor David Campos, addressing issues and events in the Mission.

Regular readers with good memories may recognize the name of composer Danny Clay, who is currently doing graduate studies in composition with Dan Becker at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music .