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Friday Fireworks

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“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” — Benjamin Franklin

San Francisco Mission district murals : Ay candela!
Portuguese influence on San Leandro : Bem-vindo
China tourism to the city could double : ??
Free San Francisco walking tours : Can’t [...]

Friday Roundup

Virtual NoCal

Photo Tour of a San Francisco Tugboat
Concrete Art
Berkeley International Food Festival
California fires map
Guerrilla gardening in San Francisco
BART likes Europeans

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Friday Roundup

Virtual NoCal . . .

Visionaries thinking hotel on Alcatraz
Contemporary Jewish Museum preview
Playland-Not-at-the-Beach
Yet another SF neighborhood map (but a good one)
San Francisco Brewers Guild
Top 5 SF restaurants?
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Friday Roundup

Virtual NoCal

An extensive San Francisco blogroll
Mount Flushmore : an enduring legacy
The Privatization of Golden Gate Park
LA Times on California gay marriage
Mona Brooks’ photo bBlog
One Heart Press: letterpress printing
Just in time for the heat wave: Frisco al fresco
San Francisco on a budget (about.com guide for tourists)
Maintaining bohemia in a gentrifying San Francisco

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Friday Roundup

Noted about the bay.

The star girl
Manolo Valdés bronzes
The Politics of homelessness
“Country Elegance” comes to Woodside
The return of roller derby?
Giants stadium a fan favorite
The lost art of mass transiting
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Friday Roundup

Virtual NoCal

Gray whales in San Francisco Bay drawing a crowd
Oakland overtaken by green glass trend
Berskeley’s trend-setting history
Wanting to work for Oakland
Transbay plan would sprout new S.F. skyline
Lung Assn. rates Bay Area’s air quality

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Friday Roundup

Touring virtual NoCal

Junker on SF Art Institute and violence against animals
Art and history clash in SF (NYT on Fisher Museum)
San Francisco steam coffee?
Life in the Bay Area (UCSF)
49-mile scenic drive
San Francisco Bay currents
Hidden Bay Area Beaches

Friday Roundup

Links of the week

Ten tips for San Francisco tourists
Hiking on Pleasanton Ridge
Taqueria La Cumbre
Prisoners Literature Project
Planning director on hook for boyfriend’s mansion meltdown
Californians Sitting on Toxic Couches
Too-Much-Coffee Man

Friday Roundup | Link Love

I go Frisco!

Local Tibetan Buddhists find a new home
Presidio museum a done deal?
Bay Area newspaper publisher cutting workers
Newcomer’s Handbook for Moving to and Living in the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco’s Best Restaurants at Epicurious.com
Looking for a Taste of S.F.

Link Love
Recently linking in

Which of these city trees is which?

Friday Roundup | Link Love

A week of travel in virtual NoCal

Bourbon & Branch
10th Annual Balloon Twisters Convention
Coyotes on the Prowl in San Francisco Again
Patty Hearst wins best bitch award
Bayflicks.net

Link Love
Recently linking in

The city in six minutes
Kids, smurfs await Chinese mini-landscapes

Friday Roundup | Link Love

Notes from a week of travel in virtual NoCal.

Fisher Presidio Museum moves ahead
Lunar New Year Events
Little-known S.F. gem may be lost
Jan Haag on San Francisco in excelsis in extremis
Duarte’s Tavern, Pescadero
San Francisco Antiquarian
San Francisco Antiquarian Book, Print, & Paper Fair

Link Love
Who’s linking here

French Laundry swoon song
Comparing your pad with the mean price
Curbed SF: Monday pm [...]

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 Pacific Asia show

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 Beach Trail Rides

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
KRON for sale
Uncle Donald’s Castro Street
SF Station’s top ten restaurants of 2007

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 20 stories of 2007
California State Senate President pro tempore Don Perata carjacked
Kenneth Baker’s top 10 art exhibitions of 2007

Friday Roundup / Duly Quoted

Notes from a week of travel in virtual NoCal.

Thrifting in

TheMission
The Haight
The Castro

Beer in the Haight
The Ess Eff Tango
High-speed rail to take the sourthern route
Saving Mark Twain’s frogs

Duly Quoted
“The proposed design … is absurdly inappropriate. It would ruin the unique architectural character of the Presidio by introducing a generic style that is used throughout much [...]

Friday Roundup

Notes from a week of travel in virtual NoCal.

San Francisco fog
More dim sum recommendations
Bay Area mycologists
Angel Island Association
No love for MUNI

Duly quoted

“The California Zephyr line, which runs from Chicago to San Francisco via Denver, is on time only 4.6% of the time, with an average 10.5 hours of delay for a trip along the entire [...]

Friday Roundup

Notes from a week of travel in virtual NoCal.

Five hot hotels in San Francisco
No longer the fairy tale Esseph
Bay Bridge bumber bits lost
Native birds threatened
BART adds Peet’s
5 hot hotels in San Francisco
20 San Francisco favorites

Duly quoted:

Ray Ratto: Why doesn’t L.A. have a professional football team? Because then the Bay Area would want one too.

Friday Roundup

Notes from a week of travel in virtual NoCal.

Mission restaurant crafted by stone and steel artists
Beaches reopening
Museums supersized
A history of local shipwrecks
Double-decker buses for San Francisco?
Dangerous surf forecast

Friday Roundup

Notes from a week of travel in virtual NoCal.

Throwing the book at a mountain biker
Living cheaply in the Bay Area
Colibri’s margaritas
Mutanabbit Street posters at the Center for the Book
Visiting the Musée Méchanique
Failure to communicate?
Freaks at Dolores Park
High-speed rail: via Pacheco Pass or Altamont Pass?

Friday Roundup

Notes from a week of travel in virtual NoCal.

The controversial beauty of Albany Bulb
The spill: Coast Guard asking for help
Honeymoon in San Francisco
Green Festival, November 9 - 11, at the Concourse Exhibition Center
SF as the least caffeinated U.S. city???
The living roof at the Academy of Sciences

Friday Roundup

Notes from a week of travel in virtual NoCal

Don’t miss these great photos of the 2007 Bernal Heights Soapbox Derby
Can citywide broadband be saved?
Getting lost in the Dixon corn maze
San Francisco to Dublin nonstop
Civilians policing Oakland
More praise for French Laundry
Beneath bridge penthouse prototype?
AAA-approved hotel, two blocks [...]