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Your choices in San Francisco hotels are overwhelming. The prices can be too. So during our staff visit to the City by the Bay, we looked for reasonably priced hotels that had charm, location or both. We came back with 14 ideas on places to bed down. It's not a complete list, but it is eclectic, like the city itself. Mystic Hotel. This property, which opened in April, stands on a tunnel-adjacent block of Stockton Street that you'll never see on a picture postcard, yet it has style, as do the Burritt Tavern bar and restaurant downstairs.

Laurene Powell Jobs is giving her first public interview on Friday since the death of her husband, Steve Jobs.  Jobs will appear on NBC's  Rock Center with Brian Williams  to promote a new documentary called "The Dream is Now"  that will air this weekend on sister channel MSNBC. The documentary examines her crusade to get Congress to pass the Dream Act, a bill that creates a path toward citizenship for younger immigrants who have lived in the country a long time. "We need all of these brains," she says in a clip from the interview with Williams.

In response to the article (May 29) regarding the long prison terms urged for Sgt. Stacey Koon and Officer Lawrence Powell,, the Los Angeles police officers convicted in April of violating Rodney King's civil rights: I have a suggestion for the federal prosecutors: Go visit Koon and his family and Powell and his family on a Sunday afternoon; sit down with them and ask them how their lives have been for the past two years. Haven't these men and their families suffered enough? Seven to 10 years!

This post has been corrected. See the note below for details. Lake Powell Resorts & Marinas in Tuweep, Ariz., offers a weekend course about the ins and outs of piloting a houseboat and learning some of the basics of boating. The weekend class and stay starts at $299, which includes practice sessions and some meals. The deal: Houseboating 101 is offered on six weekends between April and October. It's a great instructional opportunity for first-timers who might be intimidated about how to handle houseboats and powerboats on the massive reservoir that straddles Arizona and Utah.

The Emir of Kuwait awarded a medal to Gen. Colin L. Powell, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Monday for his role in freeing his country from Iraqi occupation. The official Kuwait News Agency said that Powell, on his first visit to the emirate, received the Medal of Excellence from Sheik Jabbar al Ahmed al Sabah. Powell, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, is the most prominent American to come to Kuwait since a triumphal visit by former President George Bush in April.

Gen. Colin L. Powell, the first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that the military offers minorities opportunities denied them elsewhere in American society. "I ain't done bad," he said. Powell, testifying before the House Armed Services Committee, was asked about the role of minorities in the all-volunteer military and the impact of proposed troop cuts in coming years.

In his first public comments since he was convicted two months ago of violating Rodney G. King's civil rights, Officer Laurence M. Powell said Tuesday that he is spending his time answering mail from around the country and nervously dreading the possibility of going to prison. "That's all I have been thinking about since the day of the verdict," Powell said in a brief interview after a hearing in federal court. "All I can do is keep on fighting."

Retired Gen. Colin L. Powell has amassed a fortune of at least $27.3 million since he left military service seven years ago, due largely to speaking fees that last year alone brought in $6.7 million from a variety of corporations, trade associations and universities, according to his financial disclosure forms.

Lawyers for Sgt. Stacey C. Koon and Officer Laurence M. Powell have completed motions asking a federal appellate court to allow the two men to remain free on bail while they appeal their convictions for violating Rodney G. King's civil rights. Joel Levine, who represents Koon, said he sent his appeal to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeal in San Francisco late Thursday, arguing that Koon should remain free because he did not commit a crime of violence. U.S. District Judge John G.

Gregory Powell's crime, and its complex aftermath, were chronicled a generation ago in Joseph Wambaugh's bestselling book "The Onion Field." Now, as the public's recollection of the incident begins to fade, the union that represents nearly 10,000 Los Angeles police officers says it is determined to remind people of the March 1963 kidnapping and execution of Los Angeles Police Officer Ian Campbell. Powell, who was convicted of the crime along with an accomplice, is scheduled for a parole hearing Wednesday.

Norman Powell watches from the bench, taking mental notes. UCLA has other players who can fill up the basket. Powell, a guard, stops opponents from doing the same. "I watch the intensity, how we're playing," he says. "I enter and do the high-energy things. " Forward David Wear is another reserve who knows his role. It's the same as that of Travis, his twin brother who starts. "I'm watching the pace, the way the refs are calling the game," says Wear, a junior. "I figure out how I'll guard guys.

In the latest chapter of an almost operatic family tragedy, the brother of murder-suicide suspect Josh Powell has died in Minneapolis after apparently throwing himself from a seven-story parking structure. A spokesman at the University of Minnesota, where Michael Powell was a graduate student, confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that the death occurred off campus and said the Minneapolis Police Department was investigating. Powell, 30, had been engaged in a legal battle with the parents of his missing sister-in-law, Susan Cox Powell, over the proceeds of as much as $3.5 million in life insurance paid out after Josh Powell killed himself and the couple's two young boys in February 2012.

USC finally got some good news as linebacker Wednesday. Quinton Powell announced he would attend USC. Powell, 6-foot-2 and 195 pounds, is from Mainland High School in Daytona Beach, Fla., the same school that produced Trojans defensive lineman Leonard Williams, a freshman All-American last season. GRAPHIC: USC recruits Powell said he was not affected by the wave of recruits who withdrew their commitments to USC. "Every time I heard about it, I really just shook it off," Powell told ESPN in a television interview.

Veteran character actor Richard Erdman has come full circle. Discovered seven decades ago starring in a frivolous school play, "Ever Since Eve," at Hollywood High, Erdman was personally signed to a contract at Warner Bros. by Michael Curtiz, the Oscar-winning director of "Casablanca. " And 70 years later, Erdman's back in school - so to speak. He plays the recurring role of the irascible college student Leonard on NBC's acclaimed sitcom "Community," which returns for its fourth season on Thursday evening.

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 27 - Feb. 2, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     CBS This Morning David Frei. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Melissa McCarthy; Emeli Sande. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC Live With Kelly and Michael Melissa McCarthy; Stephen Amell. (N) 9 a.m. KABC The View Melissa Joan Hart; Billy Gardell; Max Greenfield. (N) 10 a.m. KABC The Talk Pat Monahan; Craig Ferguson; Train.

WASHINGTON -- Retired Gen. Colin Powell offered a vigorous defense of Chuck Hagel's nomination as the next Defense secretary, even as the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee added questions about Hagel's temperament to lawmakers' other concerns about the nominee, particularly his position on Israel. Powell, former secretary of State to President George W. Bush and a widely respected member of the GOP, had voiced strong support for Hagel shortly after President Obama named the former Nebraska senator as his choice to replace Leon E. Panetta.

Lt. Gen. Colin L. Powell, who shortly will become White House national security adviser, played a bit part in the Iran-Contra story. He is mentioned less than half a dozen times in the 427-page majority report and was not explicitly criticized for his role. The committees recommend that future heads of the National Security Council should not be active-duty military officers.

There are poets who show us the exterior world and poets who ferry news of their inner turmoil. Yet very few possess the double vision required to do both. Sylvia Plath surveyed and stoked the fires within her; Gary Snyder is far happier scouting for forest blazes in the Sierras. Until he began publishing the wickedly well-tuned work collected in "Chronic," D.A. Powell seemed of the Plath school: fierce, inward and wrapped in tongues of camp. To read his poems was to watch a man blow on the embers of erotic memory.

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 13 - 19, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     SATURDAY Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC Chris Matthews Howard Fineman; Liz Marlantes; John Harris; Kasie Hunt. (N) 5 p.m. KNBC; Sunday 5:30 a.m. KNBC McLaughlin Group 6:30 p.m. KCET SUNDAY Today The Golden Globe Awards. (N) 6 a.m. KNBC Good Morning America (N) 6 a.m. KABC State of the Union Gun control: David Keene, NRA. Gun control; Newtown shootings: Gov. Daniel P. Malloy (D-Conn.)

Michael Powell, a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and now the cable industry's top lobbyist, warned that if the cost of sports programming continues to rise it could lead to government intervention. "We all ought to wake up and be careful ... so we don't blow this into smithereens at some point and invite the government to do it for you, which I think nobody would be a winner in," Powell said in an interview this week on C-SPAN's "The Communicators. " Powell, who chaired the FCC from 2001 to 2005, is now the head of the National Cable & Telecommunications Assn., the lobbying arm of the cable industry.