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This past week, conservators from the Oakland Museum of California came to take the model and its display case back to the museum.

Opulent riverboats have been a part of our history for two centuries. Outfitted in her best Victorian era regalia, the American Queen is the largest steamboat ever built.

Yesterday Terry Teachout conducted a " purely personal inventory " of the ten American novels he "most wished" he had written, and this morning Patrick Kurp countered with his own list of ten.

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While San Bernardino workers swung iron and steel at the Santa Fe rail yards throughout much of the 20th century, building a solid blue-collar culture, Riverside had its orange industry, with the big Victorian houses tucked back into deep green foliage.

There's a hidden corner of the City by the Bay where rusted cranes used to build WWII battleships loom over dilapidated artist studios, where working-class fishermen bob up against first-class ocean liners docked for repair.

"Hearts and Lace" will be the theme of the American Association of University Women meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb.

Folsom's popular Trinity Thrift Shop debuts a new, remodeled look in this new year.

Giovanni Guerisoli, who owns Ristorante Barolo with his partner Cristina Locke, stands in front of his restaurant, located inside the historic Bayview Hotel building built in 1878.

Chico State University's Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology is hosting an exhibit in honor of Ishi, the last living member of the Yahi Indians.

The city of Sacramento, my adopted hometown, has always been at war with downtown blight.

A Driving over the Bay Bridge in the 1950s, before downtown was taken over by high-rises, my dad used to say that San Francisco was "The City of Light."A Hill after hill covered in bright buildings and roofs, created a visual quilt of colored squares on the ridge tops, a Cubist cityscape.A He'd been an art major at Cal after the War in the 1940s ... (more)

"Antiques Roadshow," the most-watched prime-time series on PBS, has announced its 2012 summer tour.

Most condos in San Francisco are in smaller buildings of six units or less, or even two or three-flat buildings.

It seems like the last few months, every time I open a magazine, I have found an article on terrariums.

Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District will hold a Victorian dance from 7:30 to 10 p.m. tonight at the Sycamore Drive Community Center, 1692 Sycamore Drive.

Mexican Gov. Andres Pico, left, portrayed by Gerard Reyes, reads the Capitulation of Cahuenga to American Lt.