Month: June 2008

Lukas in the afternoon

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…

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 .

Taqueria Castillo

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…

Photo Wednesday: Alcatraz guard tower

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

San Francisco skyline from Port View Park, Oakland

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

San Francisco skyline from Kensington hills

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…

Photo Wednesday: Point Reyes

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

Why are you on the computer

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…

Friday Roundup

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…

Photo Wednesday: Muir Woods

muir woods

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

Presidio Trust changing the nature of the Presidio

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…

Official city map

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…

Alton Kelley, 1940-2008

Alton Kelley, one of the pioneers of the SF psychedelic graphic arts movement, has died. Kelley and his longtime collaborator Stanley Mouse helped to fashion a style that…

Back

I was siderailed by a medical issue, but now I’m back and blogging. .