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A book about hipsters: The truth

San Francisco is a sea of hipsters. They are the ones that locals look to in order to decide what's worth doing, worth seeing, worth eating and...

The joy of gardening grows as you learn to appreciate artistic aspects of of plants: the colors of flowers, the shapes of leaves, the forms of...

Oakland's own Carnetta Jones Turek is featured in the book, My Mom Style Icon by Piper Weiss (Chronicle Books, 2011).My Mom Style Icon presents...

Holy Hotdog! Tomorrow is going to be a crazy fashion and art fest, because for some crazy cosmic-induced reason, a lot of San Francisco’s...

If you've still got a lot of people on your list but not a lot of money left in your budget, head over to the Chronicle Books Warehouse sale to...

In preparation for Earth Day this year, guess who has got Harriet Rohmer, author of “Heroes of the Environment” onsite this Saturday?...

Have your parents and teachers started to ask questions like, “What are you going to accomplish this year?” If you’re not sure,...

Remember, way back in the day (July 1st, to be exact), when this column announced that Lindsay Olives was sponsoring a pizza recipe contest? Well,...

Having reviewed The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, as well as its Jr. Edition, it is high-time we looked at what bridges these two stages...

Our last discussion centered on a great book for the younger spectrum of the YA crowd, The Worse-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Junior Edition....