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Death to the Death of Poetry - Some days, when you read the newspaper, it seems clear that the United States is a country devoted to poetry. You can...

Meet the Forward 125: American Jews who made headlines and history in each of the 125 years since the Forward was launched in 1897.

The Barbary Coast has long been the stomping ground of city creatives. With the 50th anniversary of the Transamerica Building and one third vacancy rate downtown, artists could find a place in an unlikely place.

The victim in an accidental house fire Friday morning was an elderly woman; the state investigates John Muir Health hospital after four children's deaths; and the OG Boba Guys location closes for good after a months-long backlash.

Materialism, and also the feeling that the culture itself didn't honor the human spirit and didn't honor creativity. >> in the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst a social movement called beat generation. and a novel titled "on the road" became a best seller. >> when kerouac's book comes out, it became a revolution, defined a new generation of what being beat means. and it defined it as a spiritual revolution, that if we're living in an age of conformity, if everybody's trying to work for the corporation, that you're losing a sense of self. >> i was traveling west one time at the j...