Arts & Entertainment Undiscovered Mark Twain Story Found In UC Berkeley Archive Published This Week As this week sees the much awaited publication of a brand new, previously undiscovered Mark Twain children's story, one scholar at UC Berkeley is talking about the day he found evidence linking it
misc Today in San Francisco History - the First Cliff House Burns Timecapsule: December 25, 1894 On Christmas Day, 1894, the first San Francisco Cliff House burned to the ground. As the Chronicle poetically reported the next morning, San Francisco's most historic landmark has gone
misc Today in San Francisco History - Unknown San Francisco author takes New York Timecapsule: November 18, 1865 Mark Twain's improbable wild west tale about an inveterate gambler and a jumping frog becomes the talk of New York City. Mark Twain -- or, let's use the name
misc This week in SF History - the First Cliff House opens Timecapsule: October 15, 1863 The first Cliff House opened its doors on this date 145 years ago. The brainchild of a real estate speculator and a State Senator, this first of umpteen incarnations
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Hal Holbrook in "Mark Twain Tonight": Julia Sugarbaker's husband and Oscar nominee for this year's Into the Wild, Broadway veteran Hal Holbrook won a Tony Award in 1966 for playing satirical American writer
Arts & Entertainment nugget o' history: Mark Twain torched Lake Tahoe? The wildfire raging up near Lake Tahoe reminded us of our dear old cousin Mark. Mark Twain, that is, and what we remembered was his own brush with accidental arson up Tahoe way.
SF News Hotness Up Ahead It's going to be hot, and we hate it. We hate it when it's hot in San Francisco!! We did not move to this city for 75 degree weather!! Temps are expected to
Arts & Entertainment Howl Turns Fifty It's almost exactly fifty years later, and it still smacks you upside your beret-wearing cool-cat bongo-beating head, man -- Allan Ginsberg debuted his classic poem "Howl" on Friday, October 7, 1955, at a
SF News Last Call... We were a little slow to pick up on this sad note. Seems that Betsy Culp has decided to turn out the lights over the San Francisco Call. The call has existed in
