House Hunting: Is This Price Right?

In parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, sellers deliberately underprice homes to spur bidding wars, leading to sales prices that can be double the list price.

Michael Morgan, Adventurous Oakland Maestro, Dies at 63

As music director of the Oakland Symphony, he sought diversity in his audiences as well as in his programming.

Hung Liu, Artist Who Blended East and West, Is Dead at 73

An immigrant from China, she once said her goal was “to invent a way of allowing myself to practice as a Chinese artist outside of a Chinese culture.”

$1.5 Million Homes in Illinois, Michigan and California

A brick Colonial Revival house in Highland Park, a 1935 vacation cottage in Grand Haven and a contemporary home in Oakland.

Zoo Animals Are Getting Experimental Coronavirus Vaccines

Big cats, ferrets, apes and bears are benefiting from a gift of 11,000 doses, but vaccines for pets are not recommended.

$730,000 Homes in California

A 1914 cottage in Sonoma, a bungalow in Oakland and a one-bedroom condominium in Santa Monica.

DanceAfrica Turns Its (Virtual) Gaze to Haiti

The festival features a film that shows the light and empowerment of vodou, a tradition of danced communication and communion with ancestors and spirits.