Just as it dominated headlines in late 1978, the murders and mass suicide at Jonestown have provided rich emotional veins for writers in the Bay Area and beyond ever since, from Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series to Leigh Fondakowski's play The

For those who have ever lived in San Francisco or just wished they lived there, the books of Armistead Maupin have long been well known as a guilty pleasure, such fun to read it almost hurts. Turning for the first time to one of the books between covers,

A FIVE-and-a-half legged cane toad was discovered by 11-year-old Dylan Wells. The toad, nicknamed "Hands", had a fifth leg attached under the toad's chin. The toad was the most recent example of mutated toads found in the Territory. THE best man at a wed

I utterly adore this series and have for years. I think it’s the mixture of such familiar characters (who you really get to know and love) living together in such an unfamiliar city and decade; though of course the last two are much more current. These a

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