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submitted by Lisa for team Batboy's revenge! 134 weeks 1 day 22 hours 10 minutes ago
The Bay Area is a great place to live in on Halloween. What other major metropolitan area has so many decrepit mansions, Wonka-size candy factories and neighborhoods that take the trick-or-treater haunted-house thing to insane degrees - plus an entire city that seems to be filled...(more)
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submitted by Elizabeth 197 weeks 2 days 21 hours 26 minutes ago
Your town got you down? We’ve got your escape plan. These 20 stars of America’s 21st-century Renaissance are riding a wave of civic reinvention and fresh ideas.
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submitted by Lisa 239 weeks 5 days 21 hours 1 minute ago
It's almost Halloween. Here's a video to teach you how to make vampire fangs!
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Batboy's revenge! 190 weeks 1 day 9 hours 58 minutes ago
Not every parade has a man dressed in a hospital gown running down the street raving about how hot Sarah Palin is. Then again, not every place is like Berkeley.
Thousands of people attended the "How Berkeley Can You Be?" Parade and Festival, which showcased how...(more)
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submitted by Grace 126 weeks 3 days 10 hours 31 minutes ago
Haight-Ashbury may be its own worst enemy. The neighborhood that hosted the Summer of Love 40 years ago has developed a nasty edge. Sleepy stoner panhandlers have given way to aggressive street punks who stand in the path of pedestrians and demand payment. Park Station police...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Batboy's revenge! 122 weeks 2 days 6 hours 58 minutes ago
Since we wrote about the box office records set by “Avatar” during the post-Christmas holiday weekend, it has earned more than $1 billion around the globe during its spectacular run so far. Did we mention that the run has been less than three weeks?
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submitted by Lisa for team Obama Watch 122 weeks 2 days 7 hours 6 minutes ago
President Obama told a black church in the nation’s capital today that the promise inherent in his election as the nation’s first African-American president has yet to be fully realized, acknowledging that partisan Washington politics continued to play a big role in governance.
But Mr. Obama promised...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh 246 weeks 6 days 20 hours 49 minutes ago
The blind, haggard harbor seal washed up on Cape May's shore in March.
Sent to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, it has spent the past few months in its own tank, getting healthy and putting on weight.
The center, which doesn't have the space or money...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh 181 weeks 3 days 6 hours 23 minutes ago
Bob Coomber cannot walk, but he sure can hike.
The disabled Livermore outdoorsman is preparing for the hike of his life - an ascent of 19,000-foot Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa or 22,841-foot Cerro Aconcagua in South America.
If he pulls it off, he will be the first person...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh 192 weeks 6 days 19 hours 33 minutes ago
Far more California high school students failed the state Exit Exam and did not graduate this year than last year, a decline that state educators blamed largely on the fact that test results of disabled students were counted for the first time.
Nearly 10 percent of the...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright for team Bicyclism 218 weeks 1 day 20 hours 26 minutes ago
They are the deadliest stretches for Bay Area bicyclists - the chaotic city thoroughfares, the narrow, winding roads and the speed-demon highways.
A Chronicle analysis of accident reports has identified the most perilous roads and highways for Bay Area cyclists, including San Francisco's Market Street and Sonoma...(more)
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submitted by Lisa 93 weeks 6 days 21 hours 13 minutes ago
Four Union Pacific freight train cars derailed in Oakland Tuesday afternoon, closing the tracks in both directions and cutting off Amtrak service between Oakland and Emeryville well into the evening.
The cars skipped off the tracks just under the MacArthur Maze at about 4 p.m. sending...(more)
