Bruce McGaw, one of the Bay Area's surliest, most celebrated artists and longtime college instructors, has died at 89.

Spring break has officially dawned for most high school students throughout the Yakima Valley, barely more than two weeks after the spring season itself officially broke on the calendar.

In 1959, after Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba, leaving the island to Fidel Castro, and after the recent launch of Sputnik and the publication of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” (“I saw the best minds of my ...

Ferlinghetti’s fledgling publishing venture, City Lights Pocket Books, became world-famous during the 1957 court battle that ensued when Allen Ginsberg’s first book, Howl, was impounded for obscenity.