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Published: April, 2006 Fetterly Gallery of the Vallejo Community Arts Foundation presents Shooting the Island: Photographers View Mare Island. This exhibition features nearly 50 evocative and atmospheric color and black and white photographs from eight contemporary artists, all of whom have photographed Mare Island over the past three years. These artists, each with their own […]
Published: March, 2006 Brig Lady Washington, a full-scale replica of the first American vessel to explore the Pacific Northwest coast, will be sailing into Oakland this month (Mar. 8-20) for the Tall Ships Tour. She is accompanied by the Hawaiian Chieftain, a replica of a typical European merchant trader at the turn of the 19th […]
By Alex KolovyanskyPublished: March, 2006 It’s cold, it’s foggy, there are sharks and the waves are unpredictable, but sunrise to sunset there are people out surfing along the Bay Area beaches. What is wrong with these people? Everyone has their own reason for taking the plunge into a set of ocean waves, but the most […]
By Scott HargisPublished: March, 2006 Peter Mel of Santa Cruz spent much of January and February on-call. He could spend his time doing whatever he wanted, but he knew that at any moment his cell phone could ring, and when it did, he would drop everything and respond. Being on-call isn’t exactly an unusual thing […]
Published: March, 2006 Mar. 4 9AM – 3PM – Kayak Cosumnes Preserve in the Sacramento Delta, Blue Waters Kayaking, 415-669-2600, www.bwkayak.com Step into the backwaters and enjoy a leisurely paddle on the Central Valley’s last free-flowing river. We launch our kayaks from the Nature Conservancy’s preserve and enter the riparian habitat of valley oaks, river […]
Published: March, 2006 Piers 1½, 3 & 5 San Francisco Waterfront Partners, LLC (SFWP) has announced that Aperture Group, LLC, a San Francisco-based investment firm, has signed a 10-year lease with SFWP’s historic rehabilitation development. Aperture, currently in the Ferry Building, is the first office lease to be signed on The Piers, which is not […]
By Ed & Pam McGrathPublished: March, 2006 This is a true story about a Bay Area treasure ship. It’s a story good for the soul about the proud vessel White Holly, and how she came full circle, from Bay Area and back again, over the course of her distinguished, service-oriented career. The 133-foot White Holly […]
Published: March, 2006 The Pacific Cup Yacht Club (PCYC) announced this year’s celebration of one million miles of fun racing to Hawaii. Race organizers will be providing a special set of awards to commemorate this milestone. The West Marine Pacific Cup, the Fun Race to Hawaii, originally ran from San Francisco Bay to Kauai. The […]
Oakland’s dot on the map, nothing made it bigger, quicker, than McLean’s boxes. By Bill PicturePublished: March, 2006 April marks two important anniversaries for the Bay Area. San Francisco is pulling out all the stops for the first one, the centennial anniversary of the 1906 Earthquake. The second anniversary, however, while equally important in terms […]
Published: March, 2006 As Bay Crossings was going to press, Wine.com and Orton Development were nearing finalization of an announcement: Plans for the Internet wine merchant to rent over 135,000 square feet of space in the historic, former Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant appear to be imminent. Wine.com is planning to make the historic auto […]