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The Professional Business Women of California's 24th Annual conference got underway Thursday in San Francisco.

In March of 2012 the chamber chorus San Francisco Choral Artists prepared a joint program with the Klezmer trio Veretski Pass, consisting of violinist Cookie Segelstein, Joshua Horowitz on tsimbl, accordion, and piano, and Stuart Brotman on basy, tilinca, and baraban.

After more than 12 months of planning, San Francisco's third Moishe House opened in Cow Hollow earlier this year.

Plenty of fresh details on the new restaurant - set in Rockridge's former Hudson space - are shared, but one notable insight is that the East Bay branch will not be a replica of the still-popular Marina original.

A San Francisco International Airport baggage handler suspected of pilfering items from dozens of travelers' bags was caught in a police sting and now faces felony theft charges, a prosecutor said.

And where is College Hill , you ask? Here's the answer: Drive down Mission Street.

Nearly a dozen angry investors tell the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit the prominent broker took their money, hid records, took secret commissions and has avoided any public accountability.

The city has been threatening to build a combination skate and dog park behind Zeitgeist for the better half of forever, and now it looks like it's finally happening.

San Francisco-based studio De Meza + Architecture completed the Pacific Heights Penthouse project in collaboration with interior designer Jennifer Kesteloot.

For our June issue, we asked fifteen of the Bay Area's best writers to do something a little different.

"Zero Yen" architect, Kyohei Sakaguchi, will host a workshop for attendees of his documentary, HOW TO BUILD A MOBILE HOUSE.

New homes in San Mateo are scarce enough. But it's even rarer to find homes that put everything together for you like Landsdowne: a fantastic location, an intelligently-designed master-plan community, a town square with shops and restaurants, public transportation, walkability and green living.

Terrell Jamar Rhodes, a 20-year-old San Francisco resident, was arrested in connection to a residential burglary in northeast Milpitas Monday afternoon, Milpitas Police Department reported.

A suspect who police say robbed a passenger on a BART train and tried to rob someone else at the West Oakland station was arrested Wednesday morning, and the activity delayed trains for about 15 minutes, police said.

Joseph Castro, vice chancellor at University of California, San Francisco and a native of Hanford, has been named the next president of Fresno State, the California State University Board of Trustees announced Wednesday morning.

Here's a mid-week round-up of recent Bay Area restaurant openings. As always, please send tips to insidescoopsf@sfgate.com if you spot a newcomer.

The White House has released the list of the 10 openly gay officials it plans to honor on May 22 as "Harvey Milk Champions of Change." The event coincides with Harvey Milk Day, a commemoration of the first openly gay elected official's birthday.

It seems as if servers are better trained in cities outside of the Bay Area. John Storey/Special to the San Francisco Chronicle 2011 My spouse and I just returned from a trip to the Southeast .

A Beatles fan said Tuesday he is asking fellow fans worldwide to flood San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee with letters to get the city to make a permanent tribute to Candlestick Park , the site of the Beatles' last scheduled concert.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, far right, speaks while flanked by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, center, and Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration reform and border security on April 22 in Washington, D.C. LGBT activists across the country are fuming over what appears to be the death-knell for hopes of ... (more)