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Ron Thompson has been a staple on the Bay Area blues scene for decades, impressing generations of fans with a cutting guitar style that has drawn praise not only from critics but fellow artists such as John Lee Hooker, Mick Fleetwood, Angela Strehli and the equally busy local talent Tommy Castro.

City College of San Francisco may be forced to close or combine some campuses - it has 12 of them - to help stave off a financial crisis and retain full accreditation, The Chronicle has learned.

Frameline, the world's largest LGBT media arts nonprofit organization, is proud to announce Frameline36: the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival .A This year's internationally renowned showcase for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender cinema runs June 14th - 24th, with San Francisco screenings at the historic Castro Theatre , Roxie ... (more)

Jeannene Przyblyski's office at the San Francisco Art Institute looks down into the windows of residential North Beach.

I'm a 43-year-old gay San Franciscan, born and raised. For the last year, I've been dating a great 30-something guy who, it happens, is also a porn star.

" "California Dreamers" is the sixth installment of Mark Abramson's self-named beach reading series.

Author David Talbot gives a tremendously engaging, accessible, informative look at the life and times of the northern California peninsula in "Season of the Witch," focusing on the period beginning with the "Summer of Love" and culminating with the surprise success of the football 49ers in the 1982 Super Bowl.

One of the ads San Francisco Travel has developed hopes to bring LGBT visitors from along the West Coast to the city.

Several generations of fire trucks were on display during Sunday's 16th annual Redlands Firefighters Car Show But firefighters from throughout Southern California were on hand for the 16th annual Redlands Professional Firefighters Car Show and they made themselves at home.

"If I were a U.S. citizen I'd vote for Obama for president," said Mariela Castro during her San Francisco conference this week.

The U.S. State Department wasn't terribly smart when it rejected a demand by Latin American populist leaders that Cuba be invited to an April 14 summit of President Barack Obama with 33 hemispheric leaders in Colombia.

Musiker and Wiegand scout the Bay Area for things to do this coming weekend and turn up a son of a Beetle, a birthday girl, a birthday bridge, and much more! This duo from Cincinnati, Ohio isn't a big fan of conventional music-making. Lead singer Benjamin Davis sings into megaphones and telephones, and records backtracking music on a reel-to-reel ... (more)

The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro brought her fight for gay rights to a U.S. forum Wednesday, stressing the need to secure social equality for all, regardless of sexual orientation.

A U.S.-born drug cartel lieutenant who was arrested in Mexico was successfully extradited to the United States on Wednesday to face federal racketeering and drug charges, according to federal prosecutors.

A coalition of 10 media companies that includes the Associated Press has filed a joint motion with a federal court in Greensboro seeking the release of information about jurors at the conclusion of the John Edwards trial.

For nine days beginning Friday night, Muni's busiest line - the N-Judah - will shut down while a well-worn stretch of rail is replaced.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the nation's top military leaders pleaded Wednesday for Senate approval of a long-spurned high seas treaty, arguing that the pact will boost U.S. national security and create much-needed American jobs.

Florida’s top Congressional Democrats broke with President Barack Obama on Tuesday over his administration’s decision to issue Fidel Castro’s niece a visa to attend a conference this week in San Francisco.

The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro is in San Francisco to meet with gay rights activists and to chair a panel at a prestigious academic conference.

The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro is in San Francisco to meet with gay rights activists and to chair a panel at a prestigious academic conference.Mariela Castro is an outspoken gay rights advocate in Cuba, where she has pressed her father's government to legalize same-sex marriages and campaigned to have sex reassignment surgery covered ... (more)