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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 [...]

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 : [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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? .

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 .

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 .

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 [...]

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 .

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 .

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 [...]

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 [...]

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