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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Adam Holm has been looking to sell his three-bedroom Victorian house in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood all year, but he needs one thing to happen first: gaming-company Zynga's initial public offering.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Adam Holm has been looking to sell his three-bedroom Victorian house in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood all year, but he needs one thing to happen first: gaming-company Zynga's initial public offering.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Adam Holm has been looking to sell his three-bedroom Victorian house in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood all year, but he needs one thing to happen first: gaming-company Zynga's initial public offering.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Adam Holm has been looking to sell his three-bedroom Victorian house in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood all year, but he needs one thing to happen first: gaming-company Zynga's initial public offering.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Adam Holm has been looking to sell his three-bedroom Victorian house in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood all year, but he needs one thing to happen first: gaming-company Zynga's initial public offering.

Pot activists parse reasons behind California defeat, vow to push legalization again in 2012. It seemed an easy sell in California: The state that gave us medical marijuana would allow pot for recreation.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal judge ruled on Thursday that gay marriages could resume next week in California while his landmark ruling last week that overturned a ban on same-sex matrimony is appealed.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal judge ruled on Thursday that gay marriages could resume next week in California while his landmark ruling last week that overturned a ban on same-sex matrimony is appealed.

Asian-Americans denounce recent attacks they say are racially motivated, call city to action. Mrs. Cheng feels like she's living under siege in her own home.

Organic food advocates protest San Francisco's giveaways of compost to community gardeners. San Francisco wears its environmental consciousness like a green badge of honor. A city department even gives away processed sewage sludge for use in community, backyard and school gardens.

Organic food advocates say San Francisco is giving community gardeners toxic sludge as compost. San Francisco wears its environmental consciousness like a green badge of honor. Residents separate and recycle their food scraps. Streets close to cars so people can walk and bike them. A city department even gives away "high-quality, nutrient-rich, organic bio-solids compost" to any and all takers.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Students and faculty at California's public universities rallied across the state on Thursday to protest steep fee hikes they say have damaged a system of higher education long the envy of the nation.

Freelance filmmaker John Ireland and co-producer John Ainsworth have released their first episode of the gay marriage trial on YouTube. Freelance filmmaker John Ireland and co-producer John Ainsworth have released their first episode of the gay marriage trial on YouTube. Ireland began filming video re-enactments of the federal trial to decide the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the gay marriage ban approved by California voters in 2008, after the Supreme Court blocked a broadcast plan that would have included daily YouTube postings. The trial entered its second week on Tuesday in a San Francisco courtroom. The first episode, available at MarriageTrial.com and YouTube.com, recreates the trial's emotional opening day which included testimony by the suit's four plaintiffs. Storytelling is based on the accounts of bloggers present at the trial. ?People want to see this drama unfold and there is a tremendous narrative that was propelled by that first day of testimony,? Ireland told 'On

Freelance filmmaker John Ireland to produce daily video re-enactments of gay marriage trial. After the Supreme Court blocked video broadcast of the federal trial to decide the constitutionality of a gay marriage ban last Wednesday, freelance journalist and filmmaker John Ireland decided he'd produce his own version and post it on YouTube. ?People want to see this drama unfold and there is a tremendous narrative that was propelled by that first day of testimony,? Ireland told On Top Magazine on Sunday. ?This is the first time that gay and lesbian people have talked about their lives in federal court. It's historic from that point of view.? Ireland said he's basing his storytelling on the accounts of bloggers present at the trial that started last Monday in a San Francisco courtroom. ?I don't think you have to be gay or lesbian to see that there is a tremendous human story being told but so few people are actually hearing it,? Ireland said. After casting the trial's main characters, film

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20 years after Calif. quake: Bay Bridge unfinished; schools, buildings unsafe, need retrofits. When an earthquake collapsed two 50-foot sections of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge during the 1989 World Series, the nightmares of hundreds of thousands of commuters who cross the Depression-era span each day were brought to life.

Demonstrators around the world call for release of Iranians detained in opposition protests. Protesters around the world called on Iran Saturday to end its clampdown on opposition activists, demanding the release of hundreds rounded up during demonstrations against the country's disputed election.

Gay marriage supporters faced off with police in San Francisco on Tuesday after the California Supreme Court upheld a voter-approved ban on same-sex weddings.

A bill that would declare May 22nd Harvey Milk Day in California has won a key state Senate committee vote. A bill that would declare May 22nd Harvey Milk Day in California and encourage public schools to commemorate and educate about the history of California's first openly gay politician has won a key state Senate committee vote. Members of the Governmental Organization Committee approved the bill with a 9 to 4 vote and sent it along to its next hearing in the Senate Education Committee. The bill is sponsored by Equality California and was introduced last month by openly gay Senator Mark Leno, a Democrat from San Francisco. Openly gay activist Milk won a hard-fought election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. But it was a short-lived victory. The next year Dan White, another supervisor, assassinated Milk along with Mayor George Moscone at San Francisco City Hall. Milk was also a prominent gay activist, who fought against anti-gay initiatives and dubbed himself the ?Ma