Sam Whiting

In the climactic moment of the 1991 world premiere of "Angels in America" in San Francisco, the Angel came down through the ceiling at the Eureka Theatre in a flowing white robe, to evoke a descent from heaven.

Staff Writer Then-Mayor Art Agnos uses an excavator in a downpour to knock loose a symbolic first chunk of the Embarcadero Freeway during a demolition ceremony in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 1991.

Staff Writer Michaela Texidor helps clean up Sunday at the Howard Langton Community Garden off Howard and Seventh streets in San Francisco.

For years, South of Market residents Jeronimo Coelho and Thomas Stevens have walked by an ominous and overgrown wall of shrubbery and trees along

Staff Writer Peter Botto, then general manager of the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, stands outside the theater in 1999.

The mountain lion that climbed into a tree in San Francisco's Panhandle wandered away peacefully overnight, city officials said, after its appearance

Staff Writer Los Lupeños de San José, a professional Mexican folklórico dance company, performs Sunday during the World Arts West Dance Festival at Presidio Tunnel Tops in San Francisco.

The mountain lion that climbed a tree in San Francisco's Panhandle on Saturday night was said to have been seen on Sunday around 3 p.m. on the northwest edge of Golden Gate Park, near 44th Avenue and Fulton Street.

Megan Read and Zack Katz always travel with a blanket on their Sunday bike rides "because you can always find something going on," as Read explained it.

Staff Writer Chuck and Jeanie Poling perform together in 2023. The husband-and-wife duo played old-time country and bluegrass around San Francisco for more than four decades.