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Pianist Philip Aaberg of Windham Hill Records Dead at 77. Pianist Philip Aaberg lived in San Francisco for the better part of three decades of his adult life. But he was born and raised in Montana. That’s the landscape that shaped his music, and that’s where he returned in the last decades of his life. Aaberg struck th

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Darwin has passed a preliminary injunction to allow blackjack games while a legal challenge continues. US.- San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Darwin has passed a preliminary injunction allowing California cardrooms to continue to operate blackjack after the California

Peelander-Z’s Memorial Dayshow at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco has been canceled after a serious New Mexico crash sent all three band members to the hospital.

DANVILLE, CALIFORNIA – Downtown Danville has a new sushi restaurant, and this one is small, focused, and more serious than your average neighborhood roll spot. Sushi Tamahime has opened at 301 Hartz Ave., Suite 106, inside The Clocktower in downtown Danville. The restaurant’s website lists a March 31 grand opening and

(KRON) — A vigil is planned Monday for an Oakland coffee shop owner who has been missing for more than two months. Amy Hillyard, 52, disappeared virtually without a trace back on March 25. According to her husband, she had a therapy appointment the day she disappeared. Sometime after she returned home, she vanished wit

A dark sedan bolted from an attempted felony stop in Menlo Park yesterday, turning a quiet evening into a brief cross-bay pursuit. Menlo Park police used a GPS tagging device to follow the fleeing car into Berkeley, where officers arrested the occupants. Investigators later said they believed the sedan was stolen and t

Then 15-year-old Pearl Pinson was on her way to school when she disappeared, just blocks from her home in Vallejo. To mark the anniversary, supporters decorated the site and handed out pearl necklaces as a symbol of remembrance.

BARGAIN hunters have rushed to snap up Bay Area land for just a few hundred dollars in a wild real estate gamble. The rock-bottom prices came with a twist that made the so-called land deal far stranger than a normal auction. The cheap San Francisco parcels sit underwater near the...

SAN JOSE — State health authorities are investigating an E. coli outbreak linked to The Kebab Shop restaurant chain, which operates several dining establishments in the Bay Area. This E. coli strain can produce a Shiga toxin. Those who are infected can suffer symptoms that include diarrhea that is...

Facing new restrictions that limit its ability to host raves and other large events, the nonprofit foundation that has operated the USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum on Alameda Point since 1998 is taking a long, hard look at moving the 82-year-old aircraft carrier to San Francisco or another Bay Area location.