Craft Shows

T hree mayors have sought to remake Ward 8, home to many of Washington’s poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods. One, Marion Barry , got nowhere but is widely beloved, hailed on the street as a champion of the needy. The next, Anthony Williams Read more here

Chronicle News Service See it up close: A crowd watches the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw enter the harbor last year from Lake Michigan at Grand Haven. The cutter will be open for tours during the Coast Guard Festival. GRAND HAVEN Paul Wronski Read more here

Willie K helped Roosevelt High School raise more than $40,000 for the school’s music, art and athletic department. Willie K is a powerhouse in show at Roosevelt High Willie K let it all hang out Friday and Saturday nights to win standing ovations for Read more here

Product placement and overstaffing of digital divisions are hurdles for television producers and creators as they craft extensions of their shows, said Tim Kring. The executive producer and showrunner of NBC s Heroes took part in a panel Read more here

Summertime in the Valley brings so many parades, breakfasts, BBQs, plays, films, lectures, concerts, craft shows, air shows, art shows, rock shows, antique car shows, stampede days, feast days, pioneer days, and other days, that a person could spend Read more here

Astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in Space 47 years ago. He flew aboard his Mercury-Redstone 3, named Freedom 7 , to make a historic 15-minute suborbital journey May 5, 1961. This image shows Shepard in the craft before launch. After Read more here

MOJAVE, Calif. The space tourism race marked a milestone Monday as British mogul Sir Richard Branson and American aerospace designer Burt Rutan waved to a crowd from inside the cabin of an exotic jet that will carry a passenger spaceship to launch Read more here