Published: December, 2005 Bay Crossings threw a for-no-reason-whatsover bash at the peerless Boulette’s Larder at the Ferry Building. Here’s the tale of the tape.
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The Bay Area, Coffee Capital of the West
By Wes Starratt Published: December, 2005 Does the corner of Walnut & Vine streets in Berkeley mean anything to you? It didn’t to me, other than the fact that it is a block away from where I grew up. I do remember it as a quiet corner with a Friends (Quaker) Meeting House facing two […]
Cautionary Tale for Bay Shippers
Curse of the Narrows by Laura M. Mac Donald Illustrated. 356 pp. Walker & Company $26 By Patrick Burnson Published: December, 2005 San Franciscans are hardly strangers to natural catastrophes. Our quakes of ’06 and ’89 of the last century are well documented, and most of us are reconciled to the idea that another big […]
Corrections to BC’s October Issue
Published: December, 2005 The Big Game at San Francisco’s Waterfront story: • The Government Accounting Office is now called the Government Accountability Office. • Taylor Safford’s surname was spelled incorrectly. • Blue & Gold took the Alcatraz Service over from Red & White in 1997, not 1973. Bay Crossings strives to correct errors of […]
MERRY FERRY IS BACK ON GOLDEN GATE FERRY
Published: December, 2005 After a few year hiatus, due to budget cuts, Golden Gate Larkspur Ferry has partnered with the Water Transit Authority to bring back the popular "Merry Ferry." Starting Mon., Dec. 12 through Sat., Dec. 17, special events will take place Mon. through Fri. aboard the 9:40 a.m. ferry from Larkspur. On Sat., […]
The “Big Game” at San Francisco’s Waterfront
Bobby Winston Published: November, 2005 Bay Area college football fans will soon turn their attention to the Big Game rivalry between CAL and Stanford. But the CAL Bears won’t be the only team wearing blue and gold colors, determined to win. Also lining up is The Blue and Gold Fleet and its union crews, […]
Grassroots Vision of Public Access Puts Bay Water Trail on the Map
Michelle R. Moday Published: November, 2005 Over the river and through the woods, into the water you can go, from 86 access points all around the Bay. Water sport and other outdoor adventure enthusiasts are celebrating the passing of AB 1296, the first bill to support and protect public, region-wide access to the largest natural […]
Around the Bay
Published: November, 2005 The Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation Presents the 15th Annual Bowl Across the Bay Quite literally, it’s bowling for dollars. On the first two Saturdays in Nov., teams of volunteers, families and local businesses will bowl to raise money for kids fighting life-threatening illnesses. Nov. 5 at Seabowl Astrobowl, 4625 Coast […]
The Cirque Is Coming!
By Bill Picture Published: November, 2005 French-Canadian art-circus Cirque du Soleil’s latest production, Corteo, which opens in San Francisco on Nov. 11, reflects a growing movement in the ever-evolving world of circus arts. Cirque revolutionized the art form in the mid-1980s by bringing a strong theatrical sensibility to the circus and doing away with animal […]
Dinner and a Circus
San Francisco’s Sensory Supper Adventures By Bill Picture Published: November, 2005 From the misbehaving on and off stage at the saloons along San Francisco’s Pacific Street Corridor (heart of the Barbary Coast) in the years following the Gold Rush, to the bawdy one-liners and flirty peek-a-boo shows of the vaudeville and burlesque eras, to the […]