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A Novel Tracks the Fallout of Free Love, and the Girls Who ‘Went Away’

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Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., Civil Rights Icon Who Fought for Tech Diversity, Dies at 84

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What We Will Lose When California College of the Arts Closes

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How a Little-Known Escape From Alcatraz Almost Closed the Prison in 1939

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California’s First Mysterious Cult Scandal Happened in Santa Rosa

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Why Do We Make New Year’s Resolutions?

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What Was on Jane Austen’s Nightstand? ‘The White Lotus’ of Its Time

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‘The Sea Captain’s Wife’ Brings a 19th-Century San Francisco Legend to Life

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Tenderloin Museum Holds New Fundraiser to Continue Ambitious Expansion

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Ken Burns’ ‘American Revolution’ Will Make You Rethink U.S. History

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‘Nuremberg’ Is a Murky but Sobering Take on the 1945 Nazi Trials

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Why Do So Many People Think This East Bay Road Is Haunted?

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