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  • Museum of Californias natural science wing reopens

    The yellow-bellied marmot is poised in its diorama, backed by sweeping vistas of the high Sierra. Rustic twig chairs sit on the porch of a mock Curry Village cabin, ready for real-life rocking. A brand-new ancient redwood grove stretches to the ceiling just steps from a sea lion in full roar on a sandy shore, not far from replica Lake Merritt light poles, artfully dribbled with an epoxy-clay ...

  • Chez Panisse to reopen with $2500-per-person dinner

    BERKELEY -- One of the Bay Area's most famous restaurants is set to reopen June 21, nearly four months after a fire destroyed parts of the building.Chez Panisse, the renowned eatery founded by Alice Waters, an icon of the California cuisine movement, will open its kitchen once again with a celebration on the day of Summer Solstice. The event will double as a fundraiser for new education ...

  • NHL Los Angeles 3 San Jose 0

    Jonathan Quick made 24 saves in the Kings' 3-0 defeat of the San Jose Sharks Thursday, giving Los Angeles a 3-2 lead in the Western Conference semifinal series. Quick's seventh career playoff shutout brought the Kings their 13th consecutive home win. The Sharks had beaten the Kings in back-to-back games in San Jose. Los Angeles aims to finish the series with a Game 6 win in San Jose ...

  • GameDay Should The Strike Zone Be Automated

    SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — So I'm listening to the Giants game the other day and the broadcasters were remarking about the umpire's strike zone. "He likes the low strike," was the comment. The conversation evolved into the different strike zones of various umpires, some high, some low, some outside, some inside. Really? Is that what they refer to as the "human ...

  • Boy Scouts Lift Ban on Gay Members

    The Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to change 103-year-old policy that turned away and kicked out openly gay scouts. Stephanie Chuang ...


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A Generation (Pokolenie) [DVD]

A Generation (Pokolenie) [DVD]

A Generation (Pokolenie) was Andrzej Wajda's directorial debut, the first of an unintended trilogy of films made in the late 1950s (including 1957's Kanal and 1958's Ashes and Diamonds) about the Polish resistance against the German occupiers during World War II ... ...

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  • Delays Revealed In Rescuing Longshoreman At Port Of Oakland

    OAKLAND (KPIX 5) — Nearly a week after a longshoreman’s body was found inside his sunken pickup at the Port of Oakland, authorities reveal there were numerous delays in the efforts to rescue him. The longshoreman was in his truck when ...

  • Homeless in Silicon Valley

    Investigative journalist Bill Moyers takes a look at poverty and the homeless in Silicon Valley despite the area's tremendous wealth creation over the past decade from Google, Facebook, Oracle and ...

  • Bay Bridge bolt maker says report exonerates it from blame

    A broken anchor rod rises up next to still-tensioned rods on a shear key on the new Bay Bridge Friday afternoon May 3, 2013. Caltrans showed off the rods and some of the techniques they are using to monitor and test other installed anchor rods as they design a fix for the compromised hardware. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News ...

  • Clockwork Alchemy brings Steampunk and tea to San Jose

    Steampunk convention associated with FanimeCon, has returned to San Jose's DoubleTree Hotel for the second year. Featuring dance, art, crafts, writing, music, fashion and food within the Steampunk aesthetic, because the genre is tied to Victoriana, tea will always be available whenever convention attendees want ...

  • Group Discusses Restaurant Scores for Silicon Valley

    An advisory group of restaurant owners, health professionals, and consumers officially met for the first time today to discuss the positives and negatives of a restaurant scoring system in Santa Clara ...

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