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Top California Gardening Blog

Thank you to Feedspot Blogs for selecting Tom’s Garden as one of their Top California Gardening Blogs.

San Franciscans who are influential on Twitter

For them as cares, Twitalyzer offers a list of “the 100 Most Influential people in Twitter who say they live in San Francisco.” Gavin Newsome is number three….

Hazel White wants you to end racism

Back in the 1990s I ran a publishing company called Mercury House. One of the free-lance copy editors and proofreaders who worked on many of our books was…

Mural house poll

I used to work at the foot of the Filbert Steps, at Filbert and Sansome. It’s not a an area that’s famous for controversy. Should we feed the…

Thirteenth annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair

Frisco Vista received the following e-mail from Ken Knabb of the Bureau of Public Secrets. The 13th annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair is happening this coming weekend at…

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…

Laufer/KPFA recap

Several days ago I posted some information about Peter Laufer’s dismissal as replacement host of Larry Bensky’s Sunday morning show on KPFA. The comments to that post reflect…

America’s most literate cities

Dr. John W. Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, is the author of a study that attempts to rank the nation’s most literate cities. According to the…

KPFA fires talk show host Peter Laufer

Frisco Vista received the following e-mail, reproduced here verbatim: LEGENDARY BERKELEY RADIO STATION FIRES LEGENDARY TALK SHOW HOST BACK STORY: Berkeley, California’s KPFA/Pacifica radio station, the only radio…

Oil spills, volunteers, and the San Francisco Bay Area

Today beaches near the Golden Gate are closed as a noxious oil spill is washing up against the shore. A large South Korean-based Hanjin container ship struck one…

The Noe Valley Voice

The Noe Valley Voice, in publication since 1977, seems to be a good example of a neighborhood publication. I would do some things differently from a design point…

Sites we like: Laughing Squid

Laughing Squid — devoted to “art, culture and technology from San Francisco and beyond” — is one of the best regional sites, because they have got blogging down:…

San Francisco geeks are “best in breed”

The Wikimedia foundation — all six employees — is packing up its bags and moving from St. Petersburg to San Francisco, supposedly to “create a larger brand.” But…

Litquake

Litquake is starting to roll out details of this year’s festival. “Authors appearing this year include Dave Eggers, Ishmael Reed, Vikram Chandra, Gail Tsukiyama, Noah Levine, Ann Patchett,…

P. Joseph Potocki

What has become of P. Joseph Potocki, I wonder. He produced a most peculiar Frisco (Phrisco?) blog called San Francisco Phax & Phikshun. The last post on the…

City of riches

Early Chinese immigrants to San Francisco referred to northern California as “Gold Mountain.” The name, an echo of the 49ers gold rush, expressed the promise of a land…

“The Cancer of the San Francisco Chronicle”

Edward Champion blasts Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius as “a hack who defames journalism” and “a heartless and complacent yuppie writing very much in the thoughtless and vacant manner…

The Josh Kornbluth Show

Josh Kornbluth’s show on KQED television is up for a possible renewal for a third year. A show of community support could tip the balance in the show’s…

Cleaning the Bay

This photo is from a set posted to Flickr entitled “San Francisco Bay Debris – KQED QUEST.” The photos document voluntary Bay cleanup by a group of San…

San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Directory

I just discovered this on-line resource.

Is SF gayer than NYC?

Boinkology weighs in with an opinion.

Unexpected

My software shows, or tries to show, incoming blog links. I did a doubletake when I saw this one. (I’m linked as “quadrant 8” in Golden Gate Park.)

Local Church Urges Spanking

Bethel Baptist Church in my home town of El Sobrante in the East Bay tells parents that failing to spank their children amounts to “opposing God’s will.” The…