By Dianne Boate & Robert MeyerPublished: March, 2007 It looks like 9,000 other people feel the same way, for that is the estimated number of guests who attended the ZAP (Zinfandel Advocates and Producers) tasting at Fort Mason last month, the final event of a four-day, first class festival in San Francisco. It is thought […]
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Thaddeus’ Ruminations
A case of auction fever By Thaddeus BarsottiPublished: March, 2007 There just are not many people who need a tractor, disk, fuel wagon or aluminum sprinkler pipe to get their job done. And, while there are many things that are different about farming conventionally and organically, the common ground between the two is the need […]
Raising the Curtain Once Again at Vallejo’s Empress Theatre
Bay Crossings Staff ReportPublished: March, 2007 Simply, attending the fabulous theatre – a work of art in and of itself – created a very special experience not soon to be forgotten. When the curtain went up at The Empress, community members from Vallejo, Benicia, Fairfield and beyond connected to each other and to the world […]
Richmond’s Waterfront: A Place to Be for Industry
Published: March, 2007 Richmond Kaiser Shipyards became the largest shipbuilding operation in the United States, producing an astounding 747 war ships with a workforce that swelled to 90,000. The shipyards are long gone now. In their place are almost 2,000 homes – built, proposed or under construction – around the waterfront. However, two functioning ports: […]
Around the Bay in March 2007
SpringPublished: March, 2007 Spring Training Training season has begun for professional baseball. Oakland & San Francisco go to bat against each other on Mar. 11, 13, 30, 31. See full schedules online: https://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com https://oakland.athletics.mlb.com Save the Daylight! Spring forward to the clock and set it one hour ahead. Lose an hour you might have spent […]
Jack London Square Begins New Tradition with a “Crab Crawl”
Published: March, 2007 Get to Oakland to grab some crab, catch live sounds, play all day All day activities include: • Crab cooking demonstrations from Chef John Silva from the Pacific Coast Farmers’ Market • Fresh crabs for sale • Fresh cooked crab by the plate • Crab and seafood vendors • Crab and other […]
New Bay Bridge East Span:
Published: March, 2007 An enormous component of the new East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge — equivalent in size to a basketball court — recently crossed through the Panama Canal en route to its final destination in the San Francisco Bay. Fabricated in Corpus Christi, Texas, by Kiewit Offshore Services, the steel footing […]
Extracting Money While on the Road
By Mary E. ShacklettPublished: March, 2007 It also gives us flexibility and full reign over our purchasing power on the road with credit, debit and ATM cards. Unfortunately, hackers and technology crooks know this, too. Credit, debit and ATM card users are fair game to hackers and thieves who no longer have to steal your […]
The Future of Traffic Congestion at Your Fingertips
By John GoodwinPublished: March, 2007 Dubbed Predict-a-TripSM,the new feature builds on the popular 511 Driving TimesSM service by using historical information on freeway traffic speeds and driving times to provide point-to-point forecasts for about 90 percent of the BayArea freeway network. Predict-a-TripSM is available free of charge on the 511 Traffic page at 511.org, but […]
Working Waterfront
Bay Crossings Staff ReportPublished: March, 2007 Tiburon Ferry Fares to Rise All single trip tickets would go up $0.50, while the 20-ride book would increase to $40. The rate increase would be used to pay for an overhaul of the Zelinksky, an aging ferry dedicated to the run. Considering New Berkley and Albany […]