Ric Mixter, who has explored the Edmund Fitzgerald wreckage, brings his "Howling Winds" presentation about canine survivors ...

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How much of Ms. Jane Austen's personal life, wishes and dreams was brought into her work? But what about her Irish lover?

Since A Thousand Blows hit our screens, Mary Carr, the beautiful Victorian female gang boss, is in all the newspapers again.

Any city that doesn’t have a Tenderloin isn’t a city at all” – Herb Caen, longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist. Few San ...

Local author David McGrath pays tribute to his late older sister, who he describes as going toe-to-toe with her brothers — ...

I went in search of a Greek island so pretty and uncrowded that even the locals holiday there. Places like Santorini and ...

Jones’s roaring debut novel, first published in 1983, is a tour of the bad ol’ days of New York City and Detroit, with a ...