The original '49ers came armed with pickaxes, but it's possible to mine the pleasures of the City by the Bay without striking gold. Jump aboard a ferry or streetcar for a cheap tour of San Francisco's scenic splendor, grab a burrito from a Mission District ...

Take a few spins on an ice rink within view of San Francisco Bay as part of your holiday celebrations this year, then warm up by shopping for presents, sampling restaurants, riding the cable cars and soaking up the scenery. Take your skates out of your luggage ...

How invisible should a major public building be? How invisible can a major public building be? These thoughts must have crossed Renzo Piano's mind when he made his first sketch for the newly opened California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. That drawing revealed nothing more than an energetic and undulating, pencil-thin roof, yet this was to be the ...