Frisco Vista

Travels in virtual NoCal

• Critiquing the Asian : The museum provides a forum for discussion
• Autumn exhibits bring the bling : What’s up next
• Top 7 hikes in Marin County : Happy trails to you
• Cyclists get a new path : Across the Benicia Bridge
• Burrito Justice : Cool SF site, good photos
• Eating for the farmers : Event Sept. 1
• Farm fresh to you : On that subject, how about some fresh produce?
• California Wine Month : I’ll drink to that

Travels in virtual NoCal

• Eating near the Asian Art Museum : Good Vietnamese options near Civic Center
• 250 things to do in San Francisco (pdf) : At what point to lists get so big as to be useless?
• Using SF to rally opposition to stimulus spending : We’re a reliable target
• San Francisco 1941 : A Flickr photo set
• Pasquale Iannetti indicted : For selling fake Miró prints
• Eater SF demotes Oliveto : From 3.5 to  2 stars

Travels in virtual NoCal

• “Gap founder’s amazing art collection may leave San Francisco” : Plus, death panels will execute seniors (the Fisher press campaign rolls out)
• Max Klinger at the Legion : “The exhibit is small but beautifully planned”
• Burning Man says all your photos are ours : But only for the next 70 years
• Visualizing the Hayward Fault : From Sheffeld Village
• Hawks reign of terror continues : Now Ocean Beach feels their wrath

Virtual NoCal

• At the Shipyard : A history of Burning Man
• SFMOMApreparing for celebration of its 75th year : “a pioneering force in art worldwide and an unparalleled destination for the people of the San Francisco Bay Area” might be a little strong, but still …
• San Francisco’s graffiti : More “character-driven” than elsewhere?
• Using SF to rally opposition to stimulus spending : We’re a reliable target for the right (and proud of it)
• Culture on a budget : Free museum admissions by the bay
• Tenderloin : The movie

Virtual NoCal

• Google mapper busted : In the Presidio
• Create your own SF map : Via SFist
• Memorial to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade : It’s near the Villancourt Fountain
• The old old Academy of Sciences building : It was on Market Street before the fire
• Chronicle “exposé” was aimed at protecting Newsom : According to Randy Shaw of Beyond Chron
• Why are injuries increasing on SF trains? : The Feds want to know
• My God It’s Cold!!!!!!!! : A tourist gets introduced to sunny San Francisco

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Virtual NoCal

• Art of the African savanna at the de Young : 60 sculptures by artists of the Luba, Songye, Chokwe, and Luluwa cultures
• Namastenancy not impressed by de Young preview : An overbearing “stench of class and power”
• Frisco Psychedelia : Vintage posters exhibited in Denver
• East Bay unemployment at all-time high : “This is the deepest we’ve been”
• Amygdules at Sibley Volcanic Reserve : “Fossil bubbles”
• An award to be proud of? : The Chronicle’s editors “should be asking themselves if . . . they went too far in slanting . . . stories against immigrants”
• Edible Expeditions : At the Conservatory of Flowers

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Virtual NoCal

• A review of SFMOMA’s new website : It’s not all bad
• SF phoenix : Alamo Square has arisen
• Which areas of S.F. voted for Prop. 8? : There were several
• San Francisco dope-buying guide : Courtesy the Office of National Drug Control Policy
• Another effort at city-wide WiFi : Will it work?

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Virtual travels in NoCal

• SFWATER.ORG : GoSolarSF Program Description : City residents are eligble for $3000-6000 credits for installing solar panels
• Why San Francisco is no. 1 : For young professionals, according to Forbes
• Mexican Museum plan resurrected : Si, se puede
• SF’s New Museum of Performance & Design : Seriously?
• San Francisco Views from Golden Gate Heights : A flickr set
• Kenneth Baker responds to critics : Chez NamasteNancy

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Linking fourth . . .

“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 be beat
• San Francisco webcams : We like to watch
• Interactive map of California fires and California air quality conditions and forecasts : Enough already
• Polk Street restaurants heat check : Where’s the action?
• SF tops for honeymoons : Or so this person says
• 10 Most Literate Cities in America : Are we really less literate than Pittsburgh?

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photo from tinou bao’s photostream

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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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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?
• FV incoming links

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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

FV incoming links

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
• FV incoming links

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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

FV incoming links

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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

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

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?

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

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 linkage

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

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

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