Three of the four known remaining survivors of San Francisco's Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906 will be honored Tuesday in a parade to commemorate the 106th anniversary of the disaster. Bill Del Monte and Winnie Hook — both 106 years old — and George Quilici, who was born in 1905, will take a short drive from the Westin St. Francis hotel in Union Square to John's Grill on Ellis ......

My latest column raises questions about historic buildings. Should they be preserved at all costs, even if the price is a threat to public safety and billions of taxpayer dollars? Few would argue that’s an appropriate tradeoff, but it’s what has happened in the building of the new Bay Bridge. The current span was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing a motorist, and could collapse again if a ......

As a young woman, Teri Buford O’Shea was an official of the Peoples Temple. She left Jonestown in Guyana in August 1978, three months before the mass suicide and murders that left 918 dead at the church’s remote South American outpost. O'Shea is interviewed in my column this week. She wrote this poem to commemorate the memorial to Jonestown victims that was erected and dedicated earlier this year at Oakland’s ......

California schools would be required to teach students about the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people under a bill passed Tuesday by the state Legislature. If the governor signs the bill, California will be the first state with such a mandate, the Associated Press reports. SB 48, introduced by Sen. Mark Leno, a Democrat whose district includes San Francisco, passed in the Senate in April, and was approved ......

Film lovers in San Francisco will be treated to new views of the city Tuesday night when a local film archivist screens his latest project. Rick Prelinger, a renowned collector of film ephemera, will be presenting a collection of stock footage, outtakes and home movies, all of which share one thing in common — San Francisco is the star. Prelinger has selected footage from the 1930s through the 1960s to ......