Sam Whiting

The Japantown Peace Plaza will close for two years of renovation after Sunday’s parade to include new tile, seating and trees.

Noon Mass ends in stabbing at Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood

Cecil Williams, longtime champion of the poor and founder of Glide Memorial Church in S.F.'s Tenderloin, dies

Shutterstock Sam Whiting Lecturer - Creative Industries, University of South Australia Catherine Strong

A rare woman in the male-dominated world of comic book authors, SF’s Trina Robbins published scores of comics, designed clothes, and inspired Joni Mitchell.

The proposed Marina rent hike is needed after a harbor expansion plan failed, San Francisco officials say. But boaters call the plan drastic and unfair.

A rock climbing wall and a family band enhanced the rural mood of the urban celebration of the city-owned summer camp.

Raised on the rodeo circuit, the writer lampooned 1970s Marin County in “The Serial” and recounted an itinerant upbringing in Pulitzer-nominated “Rain or Shine”

A two-year, $34 million renovation of the Japantown Peace Plaza is underway — the first step in a rethinking of the Geary corridor.

German Gonzalez, who wanted the job since he was a child, finally makes it to the stage to conduct the band founded in 1882.