Civic Center News

When much of the U.S. is experiencing hot and muggy summertime heat, San Francisco boasts comfortable daytime temperatures and surprisingly cool evenings.

Thousands of partygoers decked out in their finest formal attire are expected to attend the San Francisco Symphony's Black and White Ball on Saturday night, one of the city's biggest parties of the year and a key fundraiser for the symphony's music education programs.

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.

A celebration of all Asian and Pacific Islander cultures, the goal of the Asian Heritage Street Celebration is to promote and foster Asian Pacific American identity by bringing together community andA encouraging the sharing of differences and appreciation of diversity.

Personal belongings of Harvey Milk on display at The GLBT History Museum, San Francsico.

Cuisine infused with the pleasure of boogying to vinyl. Chef Gordon Drysdale makes notes of music hall food and fresh, elegant cuisine jive in a happenin' way.

In an unprecedented defiance of a church judicial commission, representatives of Northern California Presbyterian churches Tuesday refused to rebuke a retired pastor for marrying 16 same-sex couples when gay marriage was legal in California in 2008.

For the first time ever, the 8th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration is offering the public a chance to learn how to cook delicious Asian dishes at the festival's cooking demonstration booth located at Ellis and Larkin Streets.

Colin Murdoch, President of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music , today advised its Board of Trustees of his intention to step down from his position at the conclusion of the next academic year.

Fresh from releasing his theme song for Men In Black 3, "Back in Time," Pitbull has now announced a U.S. leg of his Planet Pit World Tour, which has already visited Mexico, Canada and Europe.

I was on the phone with my mother, discussing her upcoming trip to San Francisco, when she said, "I can't wait to see Fisherman's Wharf!" I immediately cringed.

On May 4 , community members gathered at the Santa Cruz Courthouse for a press conference and rally to demand District Attorney Bob Lee drop the charges against the Santa Cruz Eleven, who have all been charged with felonies arising from the occupation of a vacant bank building last fall.

A Turns out the Marin Civic Center is not the only building Frank Lloyd Wright designed in Marin County.