SAN FRANCISCO, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Cafe Babar (named after the storybook elephant) is a little cafe on 22nd & Guerrero behind Mission District in San Francisco.

By Jon Bream Star, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz. Jun. 25--Cyndi Lauper wanted to talk about serious things like photorealism, beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the consequences of the presidential election. Wait a minute, Cyndi.

By Philipp Gollner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Beat Museum, a tribute to the literary generation that helped inspire the 1960s counterculture, has opened in the San Francisco neighborhood where the movement took off 50 years ago.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Joan Didion won the National Book Award for nonfiction on Wednesday for her memoir on the death of her husband and the life they spent together.