At this California taco truck, avocado isn’t extra, it’s the headline, adding cool, rich balance to tacos people plan detours ...

Bay Area jazz fans have been watching the career of Julian Lage for, well, most of his life. And we mean that pretty much literally, given that he was a child prodigy and the focus of a documentary ...

Singer-songwriter-guitarist Bob Weir, a cornerstone of the Grateful Dead and the band’s many latter-day offshoots, has died ...

The following was overheard at Haas Automation Inc., Oxnard, Calif., recently: "Make machine tools in China? . . . And miss the bargain rates on all the empty cargo containers returning to China?" ...