Frisco Vista

This photo of a view from Mt. Diablo in the East Bay comes from zevek’s photostream.

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More than one hundred examples of work by San Francisco artist Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch will be on sale at Tiny showcase at 7:30 EST, July 15. Via San Francisco Art & Design Lover.

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This week we’ve seen images of Market Street, Gough Street, Lombard Street, and Fell Street, all located in the same U.S. city. Which city? The answer is revealed after the jump

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Okay, over the past few posts we’ve seen Market Street, Lombard Street, Gough Street, and now Fell Street. What’s this city?

Here’s a bonus clue: The city we’ve been looking at features a Holocaust Memorial, located across from the U.S. Custom House on Gay Street.

Answer in next post.

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We’ve seen Market Street, Gough Street, and now Lombard Street. Where are we?

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Continuing the series started with the previous post. Where do we find this Gough Street?

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Okay, a lot of cities have Market Streets. Stay tuned for a better clue . . .

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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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What do these folks — Randy Newman, Dave Brubeck, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, and Arturo Sandoval — have in common? They are all part of the lineup for the 26th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival. The festival runs from October 3 through November 9, and tickets go on Sale July 13.

Okay, Miles Davis won’t be there (maybe in spirit; that’s one of my Illustrator artworks over at the right). But Miles from India will.

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We stopped in a Lukas taproom and lounge in Oakland on a recent weekend afternoon. It’s not a bad time to visit — it wasn’t too crowded. In the afternoon, you order from the bar. If you get the seafood platte (photo via Pieces & Bits) it comes on ice. But really the frites are all you need with a good Belgian beer.

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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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Taqueria Castillo is a little hole in the wall place near where I work in Civic Center. As you can see from the sign, this is Taqueria Castillo B — there is another branch on Golden Gate, and maybe more.

The decor isn’t much, I guess — and neither is the location, on McAllister near 7th, for that matter. I would say about 90 percent of the people who eat there or get food for take-out order burritos.

But a good value on the menu is the huevos con chorizo. For around six dollars you get beans of choice, rice, eggs with chorizo, salsa, a salad (with avocado), and jalapenos and other options, along with a basket of steaming hot corn tortillas.

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This photo of a guard tower on Alcatraz comes from vgm8383’s photostream.

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While we’re checking out the SF skyline, here’s a closer view, from Port View Park in Oakland.

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Here’s a view of the SF skyline as seen from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley (which despite its name is located in Kensington), where I attended a family wedding on Saturday.

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This exquisite image taken near Point Reyes comes from Miwok.’s photostream.

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when you could be enjoying outdoor activities? According to Forbes magazine, if you live in SF you ought to be outside right now.

You see, what Forbes did was, well, let them tell it:

Using research from the nonprofit organization Trust for Public Land, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, we gathered data on parks spending per resident, park land as a percentage of city land, recreation facilities, air quality, precipitation, sunshine and temperature extremes for 40 major cities.

No minor cities for Forbes! So what did this research tell them? Just guess!

Both Seattle and Jacksonville entered into the top 15, and even cities known for inclement weather, like Minneapolis and Boston, ranked high. Still, it was San Francisco, home to both Frisbee-tossing hippies and endurance-athlete venture capitalists, which ranked first.

So there you are. Now get out there and lets see some endurance-athlete Frisbee tossing.

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Travels in virtual NoCal

• Asia blooms at Quarryhill Botanical Garden
• An Alcatraz hotel?
• All-Bay Team selected
• San Francisco solar map
• Dennis Richmond signs off
• Photo Tour of a San Francisco Tugboat

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This view of Muir Woods in Marin County is from soupboy’s photostream.

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The oversight agency for the Presidio proposes to construct not just the massive Fisher Art Museum but a 125-room hotel and new movie theaters as well, right in the middle of the park. Traffic would be directed to a hundred-space underground parking garage beneath the museum.

According to the Chronicle, “The report acknowledges that the preferred scenario would create some parking and traffic problems and would significantly change the area, which is currently a historic landmark district.”

This whole business has been an inside job, of the kind the city specializes in, like the fake merger a decade or so ago between the Chronicle and the Examiner. That was supposed to give us an expanded morning paper and keep competition alive with an afternoon one (it actually gave a few months of an extra page of comics, followed by years of staff layoffs from the consistently diminishing Chronicle and the shredding of the Examiner leading to its transformation into a giveaway).

Fisher had this deal lined up from the beginning, and there was no way his buddies on the trust were going to cross him. That’s just the way things go in the city by the bay.

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Ditch that messy printed map. Now you can have a wrinkle-free map made up of pure recycled electrons, courtesy of Only in San Francisco. Yes, the official city map is available in pdf version, and if you don’t want to print it out you can just turn your laptop upside down to read the reverse (where you will find Larry Flynt’s Hustlers Club among the recommended attractions). San Francisco, open your golden gates!

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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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