Senior Culture Editor

Astrid Kane

The coral specimens growing inside this San Rafael home can fetch as much as $10,000.

The images show how the city changed over 85 years.

San Francisco’s New Design Within Reach is inspired by Steve Jobs, Janis Joplin and Beat poets. 


A lower court’s ruling, said the trans woman, was a “miscarriage of justice that would have consigned me to eternal nominative mediocrity.”

A natural phenomenon means now is the best time to visit the city’s ‘sound garden,’ an acoustic sculpture built from tombstones. 