Frisco Vista

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

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 of the world today.” — Lawrence Halprin (designer of the landscape around the Lombard Gate) on the Fisher Museum proposal for the Presidio

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 route, according to Amtrak.” — Forbes

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.

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

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?

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

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 from Union Square, from $89?
• El Sobrante corridor plan discussion
• Spectacular Bay Area hikes