Internet culture, often portrayed as the vanguard of progress, is actually a jungle peopled by intellectual yahoos and digital thieves, according to a Silicon Valley…

Ernest Gallo, who parlayed 900 and a wine recipe from a public library into the world’s largest winemaking empire, died on March 6 at his home in Modesto. He was 97. ”He passed…

Hamza El Din, a musician and composer who helped popularise ancient traditional songs from North Africa, has died. He was 76. El Din died on Monday at Alta Bates hospital in…

Modernist poet Barbara Guest, the best-known woman in the influential New York School of avant-garde poets and a winner of the prestigious Robert Frost Medal, has died. She was…

Hal O Anger, a pioneer of nuclear medicine who is credited with inventing the gamma camera, has died. He was 85. Anger died at his Berkeley home on October 31. He developed his…