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After the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, many Christians said they wanted to do something about systemic racism. In Kensington, California, a church formed [...]

is on the wane THE garage in which Hewlett-Packard was started in 1939 is now a private museum--a modest monument to the cut-price creativity and bare-knuckle entrepreneurship that made Silicon [...]

From innovative restaurants on every corner to foodies clamoring for the next trend, the Bay Area has one of the nation's hottest culinary scenes. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, [...]

In the Bay Area, where technology reigns, libraries are rebranding themselves as 21st-century centers of information while staying true to their roots as community centers that provide people with access [...]

With the seven-square-mile city of San Francisco as its focal point, the Bay Area is a vibrant literary environment that has long nurtured independent bookstores. Yet Bay Area independent bookstores [...]

With numerous small presses, the Bay Area is an innovative playground for adults who devote their lives to publishing the best in children's literature. Ginee Seo, children's publishing director of [...]

Research on Latino gay men drug use is limited. This study explores the narratives of 16 Latino drug-using gay men living in the San Francisco Bay Area by exploring the role social settings play in their drug use, as well as by identifying the reasons and motivations for drug-use. Using a thematic content analysis, 16 interviews with LGM living in the San Francisco Bay Area were analyzed. Results suggest LGM have different reasons for drug use across multiple settings. Participants use drugs to cope with their sexual identity, to feel like part of the mainstream gay community, and to reduce sexual inhibitions. Understanding how Latino gay men (LGM) perceive their drug use within their social, political, and economic environment would aid in the development of culturally adequate interventions, doi: 10.1300/J233v06n01_07 KEYWORDS. Substance use, drugs, Latino, Hispanic, homosexual, gay

BLOCK PARTY AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH BY NOAH WEBB In Pacific Heights, old money and Silicon Valley billionaires are now neighbors, and everyone is 'killing it' GORDON AND ANN GETTY Estimated $19 [...]

EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Several credit unions, including nearby Stanford FCU, have joined with a charitable organization and local businesses in an attempt to establish a community development credit [...]

For most Americans, the U.S. Peace Corps, a 7,000-member volunteer group working in developing nations around the world, conjures up images of long-haired youngsters leaving suburban homes for a tour […]

A couple of months ago, the San Francisco Chronicle printed a big headline on page 1: 'Feinstein Endorses Southern Crossing.' Many years before, arguments had erupted over whether or not […]

In the business world, the children may represent the future, but a buck represents, well, a buck. In the midst of the Bay Area's buoyant economy, child-care centers are finding [...]

When Jason Ward returned to northern California in 1997 after college, he hated how his home-town of Portola Valley had changed. The redwood foot-hills of his childhood had become a [...]

The problems that threaten sustained economic prosperity in the Bay Area -- transportation, housing, environmental quality, education, poverty -- require a new brand of regionalism. This new approach to regional [...]

What do Bay Area residents consider to be the region's top concerns? Transportation and housing, of course. 'These two issues are interrelated and have emerged as key long-term threats to [...]

There's rich, there's filthy rich--and then there's Woodside. In Silicon Valley, there are dozens of affluent towns where the overlords of tech build their megalo-mansions and try to prove that [...]

One reason for the strong publishing presence in the Bay Area is the long history of leadership and vision provided by men and women who rose to become prominent publishing [...]

Solar panels are being stolen from different companies in the San Francisco Bay Area that installers are forced to add anti-theft measures. These solar installer companies are worried for bad publicity and although the panels are insured, the installation or power used in the mean are additional costs. The investigation of these robberies are also mentioned.