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By Jah MackeyPublished: September, 2010 The Delta has long been one of the nation’s premiere fishing grounds. If you enjoy bluegill, salmon, readear, largemouth, smallmouth, and striped Bass, bullhead catfish, channel catfish, shad, sturgeon, crappie, steelhead and the occasional crawdad, then you have found your Shangri-La. The famed striped bass migrate through the Delta […]
By Kati SchmidtPublished: September, 2010 Pacific salmon are central to the culture, cuisine and ecology of the entire west coast—and the San Francisco Bay Area in particular. Two species of salmon, the giant Chinook (or King) salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and their close cousins, steelhead trout (Oncorynchus mykiss), migrate through our Bay. With The Bay […]
By Captain RayPublished: September, 2010 Can you believe that another year has come and gone? Aye matie, the 19th of September is officially ‘Talk Like a Pirate Day’! To help you participate more fully and to continue my tradition, I’d like to tell you about some common (and uncommon) phrases that come from the […]
Published: September, 2010 Last month, Mayor Gavin Newsom joined the Black Rock Arts Foundation (BRAF) and the Port of San Francisco to celebrate the unveiling of Raygun Gothic Rocketship, a 40-foot-tall sculpture created by a team of Bay Area artists lead by Sean Orlando, Nathaniel Taylor and David Shulman. The Rocketship, poised as if […]
By Bill PicturePublished: September, 2010 Bay Area wedding planner Ema Drouillard provides environmentally conscious intendeds with a unique opportunity to start their life together on a green foot, as well as to share their passion for sustainability with friends and family members. Drouillard is encouraging couples to take a less-is-more, anti-Bridezilla approach to planning […]
By Paul DuclosPublished: September, 2010 While Giants fans wait to see if their team will be playing postseason baseball in “the yard,” there will be another major cultural event taking place there this month. San Francisco Opera partners with the San Francisco Giants and Webcor Builders once again to bring grand opera to AT&T […]
Turning Out the Lights at the Old Transbay Terminal By Marjorie BlackwellPublished: September, 2010 San Francisco’s Transbay Terminal is going, going… gone. In the next few months, the gray concrete monolith that has dominated Mission Street between Fremont and First streets since 1939 will become a pile of rubble. The lights went out […]
By Marjorie BlackwellPublished: September, 2010 The long-awaited “Grand Central Station of the West” is under way at last — after years of planning and accumulating funds, an international design competition, unrelenting political will from the Bay Area, Sacramento and Washington, DC, and a final boost of federal “stimulus” funds. The $4.2 billion Transbay Transit […]
By Deb SelfPublished: August, 2010 Summertime is here and if you’re like me, you’re spending more time on the water with longer, warmer days. As Bay Area residents flock to recreational hotspots along our shorelines, they may be unaware that their boating plans can have an impact on the Bay’s environment. Whether you’re in […]
Published: August, 2010 The Giants will pay tribute to music legend Jerry Garcia on Monday, August 9, when they face the Chicago Cubs at 7:15 p.m. Garcia and the Grateful Dead are synonymous with San Francisco, and each year the City celebrates “The Days Between”—the days within Garcia’s birthday (August 1) and the day […]