Spreckels News

Planners say the Transbay Transit Center, which is scheduled to be completed in 2015, will serve 45 million passengers a year.

Hot rocks: That metallic snap heard 'round town Wednesday was hundreds of safes clicking open before the patrons' dinner celebrating the Fine Arts Museums' "Cartier and America" exhibition at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.

The Western Stage annual SpringFEST offers a smorgasbord of performance opportunities and classes to local actors to expand personal horizons and prepare for the 2010 season by working alongside resident directors and actors.

When much of the former Fort Baker in Sausalito was transformed into Cavallo Point Lodge last year, a large room in its artillery barracks became a 1,200-square-foot light-filled kitchen for one of the hotel's amenities, a cooking school directed by the former Chez Panisse and Cafe Rouge chef Kelsie Kerr.

With their red buckets and ringing bells out among the shoppers, the Salvation Army reminds people of other worthy uses for their money.

What would the holiday season be without classical music concerts? Bay Area residents who normally wouldna t set foot in a concert hall find themselves irresistibly drawn at this time of year to places like Grace Cathedral and Davies Symphony Hall to get their seasonal music fixes.

On 34th Avenue and El Camino Del Mar in the Outer Richmond and in the nearby Sea Cliff neighborhood, an array of diversions awaits you.

Vincent Padilla rehearses with other students at the Academy of Ballet for the "Nutcracker." MIXED - NUTS' "Nutcracker" performances by professional companies and youth companies with professional guest artists: - California Ballet - Dec.

Chloe Veltman, our Bay Area culture correspondent, took this photo on Market Street in San Francisco.

Michael G. Hawkins is Scrooge, Cynthia Ferrer the Ghost of Christmas Past in the Welk Resort Theatre's "A Christmas Carol." - Marc Northover VISIONS OF SUGARPLUMS Besides the flood of holiday plays hitting local theaters, this is also the season when "The Nutcracker" pirouettes into town.

Ubiquitous DJ Gabe Vega has been tearing up Monday nights, but not at U-31 or Voyeur.

The last prescribed burn of the year at the former Fort Ord came without a hitch, but lingering smoke around Highway 68 reached "unhealthy levels" Monday, officials said.

Need to dispose of an old mattress or e-waste? HOPE Services will be more than happy to accept these items at their locations in Salinas and Seaside.

I love fall. Growing up back east, you knew big changes lay ahead when the leaves fell like clothing at a nude beach.

Larry Petersen's Tuesday letter regarding sewer rate increases in Toro Hills points out a problem that encompasses far more than the 120 percent increase in sewer rates.

Four kids and a barfing dog. What was I thinking?" If those aren't famous last words, I sure don't know what are.

Monterey County may soon join an historical preservation program that could dole out property tax breaks for most of Spreckels and the home folk singer Joan Baez built in Carmel Valley.

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Winter in San Diego offers a bounty of fun and free things to do ranging from traditional holiday parades and festivals to migrataing California gray whales along the Pacific coast---along with brilliant sunshine and easy-to-take temperatures.

Spreckels Union Educational Foundation is offering another family night fundraiser at Ariel Theatrical's Wilson Childrens' Theatre with the production of "The Phantom Tollbooth". SUEF will receive 20 percent of all ticket sales from the 7 p.m. performance Oct.