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By Patrick Burnson Published: December, 2012 A promising new cargo enterprise was unveiled at the Port of San Francisco late last month when it welcomed the Rt. Hon. Paul E. Martin—a 71,900-deadweight-ton self-unloading bulk carrier. The vessel, operated by CSL International, made her maiden call at Pier 94, operated by Hanson Aggregates. Hanson imports over […]
Published: December, 2012 Tree Lighting Celebration at PIER 39 PIER 39 and special friends from the Disneyland® Resort kicked off the holidays at the annual PIER 39 Tree Lighting Celebration. Guests enjoyed a day of magic featuring holiday favorites sung by local youth choirs and a chance to meet-and-greet friends from Disneyland® Resort. The celebration […]
Published: December, 2012 Mad Hatter Holiday Festival Returns to Vallejo Meet the Mad Hatter, with Victorian fanfare, along with his teapot and a whimsical, fanciful group of companions in a city turned fairyland that will bring to life characters from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as part of the two-day Mad Hatter Holiday Festival […]
By John Platt Published: November, 2012 With all the ghoulish predictions of traffic armageddon, I thought I would challenge my 62-year-old body and see if I really could bike to the America’s Cup races from Alameda. Skipping out of work at 2 p.m. and biking from the middle of the island, I caught the 2:25 […]
Published: November, 2012 Marin County’s largest solar installation debuted in October at the San Rafael Airport. Muir Beach-based Synapse Electric installed the 972 kW AC project, which is now supplying locally-grown renewable energy to Marin Clean Energy (MCE) customers. MCE will purchase 100 percent of the power generated from more than 4,600 panels on 48 […]
By Paul Duclos Published: November, 2012 Crown Point Press—a fine art print publisher, gallery and independent bookstore founded in 1962 by master printer and writer Kathan Brown—is a hidden gem tucked away around the corner from SFMOMA at 20 Hawthorne Street. The artists who have worked at Crown Point Press making etchings are representative of […]
By Deb Self Published: November, 2012 Five years ago, on the morning of November 7, the 900-foot container ship Cosco Busan left Oakland in heavy fog with low visibility. It side-swiped a Bay Bridge tower, ripping open two fuel tanks and pouring more than 53,000 gallons of heavy bunker fuel into San Francisco Bay. Initially, […]
Published: November, 2012 ORACLE TEAM USA, the defender of the 34th America’s Cup, capsized its giant AC72 catamaran on San Francisco Bay during a training session in October. No one on the crew was injured. The capsize took place during the team’s eighth day on the water. Conditions were fresh, with building winds whipping up […]
Published: November, 2012 ORACLE TEAM USA SPITHILL rebounded from last place at the first turning mark of the "Super Sunday" fleet race finale to win the America’s Cup World Series San Francisco Championship. Spithill and crew—Dirk de Ridder, John Kostecki, Jono MacBeth and Joe Newton—were dead last off the start line, but fought their way […]
Published: November, 2012 Talk about a working waterfront! The new East Span of the Bay Bridge, the largest public works project in California history, reaches new milestones seemingly every week as workers race toward the September 2013 finish line. In the months since installation of the nearly mile-long main cable on the signature self-anchored suspension […]