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And it’s not even built yet. Remember these transbay terminal designs? It turns out, according to “state transportation officials,” the terminal would be inadequate to serve projected travelers,…
Story at Right Reading. .
A display of Ellen Christensen’s ink drawings will be on view at the 504 Cafe, 504 Wesley Avenue, on the northeast side of Lake Merritt in Oakland, through…
Here’s a belated valentine for back-to-work day following Valentine’s Day and the Presidents Day holiday. For Valentine’s Day Namastenancy linked to Robert Indiana’s Love painting — though a…
The pool garden — the garden that used to be a swimming pool — turned out so well that we are expanding it. We hired a guy to…
How bad has our drought been here in the San Francisco Bay Area? It’s been so dry that we were able to let our Thai hot chili peppers dry out on the vine. I harvested them just the other day, in January!
Some pranksters civic-minded individuals replaced street signs for Bush Street in the city with Obama signs. . Image from Dawn Endico’s photostream .
Recently Willie Brown offered his take on the Blagojevich scandal. He writes: Take Caroline Kennedy, who looks like she’s in line to get Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate seat…
The Bay Area has a long history of independent book publishing. Over at Right Reading I’ve listed ten Bay Area presses that would make good destinations for holiday…
This photo of a protestor at an anti-Prop 8 rally comes from Raquella’s photostream. .
I suppose there is some comfort in knowing that some things never change. More than thirty years ago, in the movie All the President’s Men, Jason Robards as…
Last month I spent a week in the Sierra near the town of Pioneer. There was some nice fall color. This photo is from a set taken at…
Can anyone recommend a good host? I have had too much down time on my sites lately — which wouldn’t be the end of the world except the…
Back in the 1990s I ran a publishing company called Mercury House. One of the free-lance copy editors and proofreaders who worked on many of our books was…
This photo shows visitors exiting the Planetarium at the recently opened Academy of Science building in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The building was designed by Renzo Piano….
This newsreel footage documents 1967 antiwar in San Francisco and elsewhere. .
If you have ever biked in San Francisco and hit a streetcar track you will appreciate this t-shirt. .
In April we filled in our swimming pool and turned it into a garden. This is what the garden looks like at the beginning of August.
This photo was taken in 1949 by San Francisco Chronicle photographer Barney Peterson. It was discovered by the Sparkletack blogger Richard Miller’s aunt among his grandfather’s archives. The…
Two hoopsters with Bay Area ties — Baron Davis and Steve Nash — appear in this spoof of the movie Step Brothers. Nash outshines Diddy in this one.
It’s all too easy sometimes to get down on the Bay Area. But then you come upon information like this. San Francisco recycles 69 percent of its total…
This photo of a view from Mt. Diablo in the East Bay comes from zevek’s photostream. .
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…