Month: January 2008

Viola “Etain”

viola

Cold and rainy as it’s been, January and February are the best time to prepare Bay Area gardens for spring and summer bloom. With its yellow flowers edged in purple, I think “Etain” is one of the prettiest violas, and it does really well in our area. Highly recommended. You can get it from Annie’s Annuals.

San Francisco home prices heat map

Thinking of buying a house or two in San Francisco? The Trulia real estate prices heat map might be just the thing to help you narrow your search….

San Francisco Chronicle endorses Obama

Here is what the Chronicle says about their choice: The American political system needs a period of reprieve and renewal. It needs a reprieve from a White House…

How to get French Laundry reservations

If you have several hundred dollars that are eating a hole in your pocket — slowly — and you want to make a reservation to eat at the…

Friday Roundup

Notes from a week of travel in virtual NoCal. Blue Bottle Cafe open for business 112 Bay Area languages New SF culture czar West Coast style Arts of…

San Francisco Ballet: pornography?

This year the San Francisco Ballet, celebrating its 75th year, will premiere ten ballets by ten choreographers, including Julia Adam, Val Caniparoli, Jorma Elo, Margaret Jenkins, James Kudelka,…

Hacked

This blog was hacked into, briefly, yesterday morning; little harm was done. It’s important to plug vulnerabilities, which can exist in themes or plugins, older versions of WordPress,…

Gardener’s summit in San Francisco

This weekend (Jan. 26-27), a gardening symposium will be held at the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum in Golden Gate Park. The main focus is sustainable…

Friday Roundup

Notes from a week of travel in virtual NoCal. Where’s the San Andreas Fault? More free wireless promises A new gourmet ghetto? 111 nude women on couches Pebble…

San Francisco skyline from Bay Bridge

Here’s a view of the San Francisco skyline that I took from a car crossing the bridge a while back. I’m posting it because, unlike the Golden Gate…

Library main branch remodel

The main branch of the San Francisco public library unveiled its new remodel today. Somehow they have created a great deal more space, so that the entire fiction…

Lee Friedlander retrospective at SFMOMA

  From February 23 through May 18, SFMOMA will presents an exhibition of photographic works by Lee Friedlander (the show was organized by organized by the Museum of…

The crookedest big wheel race

I don’t mean the race is fixed. Certainly not! But it’s down Lombard Street, which is renowned, hyperbolically but conventionally, as the crookedest street in the world. Apparently…

Friday Roundup

Notes from a week of travel in virtual NoCal. Group fighting art museum wants Presidio listed as “endangered” San Francisco punk posters Take the San Francisco vampire tour…

The Bay Area’s most livable suburbs

The Bay Area’s most livable suburbs, according to Forbes magazine, are all in the East Bay. They include Vallejo (“Vallejo can be considered a part of San Francisco’s…

Abstract rhythms

Abstract Rhythms: Paul Klee and Devendra Banhart is the title of an exhibition at SFMOMA that will feature a performance by Banhart. He will perform 8:00 p.m., January…

SF Bay Area Native Test

I generally resist taking tests at OkCupid, but I figured as the webmaster of Frisco Vista I was obliged to take the SF Bay Area Native Test. It…

Friday Roundup

Notes from a week of travel in virtual NoCal. Robbing restaurants in the East Bay Bringing rescued Afghan artifacts to San Francisco New 2008 laws The Chronicle’s top…

A San Francisco webcam

Don Strickler has a webcam with a nice view of the bay. It’s located about 900 feet above sea level in Sausalito. The images are captured by a…

1938 San Francisco map

By 1938 the essential outlines of the city were filled in and established. Some names have changed — I didn’t know that Fort Point was called Fort Winfield…