Stories By Joe Rosato Jr

Meet Dennis and Katherine Green, and learn about the Thanksgiving pie tradition in Sausalito.

A few years back, Laura Martinez Perez picked up a violin for the first time and joined a group of aspiring young musicians banded together at Santa Rosa’s Luther Burbank Center for the Arts learning to play mariachi music. 

Every time Denise Gonzales walks into her San Francisco shop Luz de Luna, there are thousands of eyes on her. From skeletons to saints, she is never alone in her 24th street store in the city’s Mission District.

San Jose’s six tiny homes sites provide a total of 500 individual dwellings for people transitioning off the streets, and the city’s most recent budget includes funds to build an additional 628 tiny homes by next July.

Far from the Pride parades that draw millions of visitors to San Francisco and other major U.S. cities, Gary Saperstein stood in the town square of rural Sonoma beneath a trio of Pride flags city hall recently hoisted for Pride month.   

Every time the San Francisco Giants take the field at Oracle Park during the month of June, an upper deck suite turns into the studio of artist Jeremy Fish, the team’s first-ever artist-in-residence. 

As Pride month rolls along, San Francisco’s Marsh Theater is featuring a pair of vastly different solo performances, both told from the perspective of the lesbian experience.

In the small wine country hamlet of Sonoma, the iconic Sebastiani Theater has now stood 90 years, a cultural hub anchoring the town’s quaint town square.

Five years after a pipe burst and flooded out San Francisco’s venerable Biscuits and Blues nightclub, its stage will come to life Thursday for the club’s grand reopening. 

San Francisco’s iconic 52-year-old Transamerica Pyramid is in the midst of a revival that’s resulting in new upgrades as well as the reopening of its beloved Redwood Park, which has been closed since the pandemic. 

For over three decades, when patrons slip into North Beach’s legendary Caffe Trieste to get their espresso fix or soak in a bit of San Francisco’s funky nostalgia, it’s been barista Paul Maedje serving up their coffee. 

As the National Park Service crafts its plans to revamp the hilly landscape of Montara on the San Mateo Coast to better accommodate bicyclists, hikers and camping — there is a rising fear among area’s ubiquitous horse lovers that they’ll be shoved out.

Fishing regulators are poised to potentially shut down California’s king salmon season for the second time in two years, and just the third time in history.