San Francisco

Three boxes, a concert, and a bowl of soup

I am on the bus. The couple standing next to me appear to be tourists. American tourists. They don't understand why they got 10 centavos back. You would think it was one of the great mysteries of life. It is...

Latino film festival brings back 'El Norte'

Back in 1983, when Gregory Nava co-wrote and directed the epic immigration film "El Norte," the idea of a Latino film festival was the furthest thing from his mind. The mere concept of Latino film as its own genre had never...

Sikh Parade to mark the 300th Guruship of Guru Granth Sahib

Over 70,000 Sikhs converged from across the United States of America, Canada, England and India to participate in the 29h Annual Sikh Parade taken out on the streets of the Yuba City, about 125 miles from San Francisco Bay Area...

October set a slew of trading records, mostly bad

By Laura Mandaro & Nick Godt, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Anyone who stomached 900-point swings on the Dow Jones Industrial Averge this month got quite a taste of the volatility that marked October trading -- by...

Frankfurt to San Francisco

I just returned from speaking about User Generated Content at the gamehotel conference in Zürich. It exists simply to extol the virtues of the direct United Airlines flight 0901 from Frankfurt airport (FRA) to San Francisco...