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A year ago, with the real estate market still in a deep slump, a San Francisco firm caught the attention of officials in California and elsewhere with its novel idea of using eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages in order to reduce the amount that borrowers owe.

Two Concerts Of Video Games Live! , Battleship Potemkin Film, And Classical Concerts Are Highlights Of Summer and The Symphony With San Francisco Symphony Orchestra performs free concerts at Stern Grove Festival and in Dolores Park and presents annual Fourth of July concert with fireworks at Shoreline Amphitheatre; Orchestra to perform at America's ... (more)

When we use the phrase "historically-informed performance," we are usually referring to the practice of music in different periods of the history of music, generally with a focus on Europe.

Dr. Edward Miranda, the affable young plastic surgeon in Civic Center/Hayes Valley of San Francisco, launched his skin care line Ravish by London Riley with a party at his office at 77 Van Ness last night with lots of young fashionable friends, female and male and various ethnicities.

Three events surround the ordination and installation of the Most Rev. Michael C. Barber SJ, as the fifth Bishop of Oakland.

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In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than $60,000 each.

The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra has released a new recording , nicely timed to coincide with the closing concert of its current season on Sunday, May 19, at Davies Symphony Hall.

They don't enjoy the task and they wish they didn't have to do it, but San Mateo County sheriff's deputies form a de-facto anti-suicide squad as they patrol the Caltrain commuter tracks - and on Thursday they saved another life.

Long confined to door-to-door delivery circuits, fresh-pressed juice is graduating to permanent retail locations across San Francisco.

Quick: Aside from the Mission, name some major commercial strips in San Francisco where La Boulange has not opened an outpost yet.

A bacon restaurant closes in San Francisco because the neighbors could not stand the smell.

Seven San Francisco activists from the squatted social center called the SF Commune, were brutally attacked by police and arrested Thursday evening after being invited into the SF State University dorms by students there.

Last month's international ranking of the best biking cities in the country didn't include a single United States city.

A disease is working its way through palm trees and it is leaving many for dead.

Up a shaft and onto a roof. Atop a train. Alongside a freeway. Over barbed wire.

Larkin Street Youth Services does great and important social work with homeless youth in San Francisco, for which it receives generous support from city taxpayers, as well as federal grants.

There's a certain euphoria that comes with Thursday morning. It's all about anticipation: with the bulk of the week lalready handled, the mind begins to wander towards the leisure potential of Friday and Saturday.

Locations include Center for Sex and Culture, 1349 Mission St, San Francisco; Faithful Fools, 234 Hyde St, San Francisco; Hospitality House, 290 Turk St., San Francisco; Cal PEP, 2811 Adeline St., Oakland, St.

It's no secret that cell phone thefts - especially robberies - are on the rise in San Francisco.