Bon Appetit Wine & Spirits Focus to take place January 31 at Fort Masons’ Festival Pavilion Published: November, 2002 San Francisco will celebrate its indigenous crustacean, the Dungeness crab, with a month-long series of culinary and cultural events in February 2003. Main Culinary Events in Month-Long Celebration Include "Crab & Wine Marketplace," "Challenge of […]
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Wine, Art & Music in Alameda
Party from Noon to 5 pm! Published: November, 2002 Saturday Nov. 9th and Sunday Nov. 10th, Rosenblum Cellars winery, in Alameda, is having an open house from noon to 5pm each day. Enjoy a tasting of over 40 wines, including new releases, barrel samples and over a dozen different Zinfandels. Special art show by […]
Do this, Don’t do That…
By Guy Span, S.D. Published: November, 2002 With the new economy steaming right down the toilet and the old one looking a little down at the heels, we have to look elsewhere for signs of a recovery. And where else to look, but in San Francisco, where there are plenty of signs of life. For […]
Transportation Commission Honors Excellence In Motion At 25th Awards Ceremony
Published: November, 2002 The Metropolitan Transportation Commission honored a group of individuals and organizations from around the Bay Region on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at the Commission’s awards ceremony. From the Grand Award winner who steered a massive transit system with hundreds of thousands of riders back to health, to another honoree who helped a fledgling […]
They’re off to the races, again!
Published: November, 2002 Mid Winter Sailing Season Begins Recreation racing schedule Nov 2-9 – Bitter End Pro-Am Regatta (800)872-2392 Nov 2 – Golden Gate #1of 4 Fall- Winter 1st Sat of each mo. Nov 2 – Jack & Jill plus 1 Race Island YC, (510) 521-2980 Nov 2 – Midwinter series South Beach YC at […]
Waterfront Highways and What to Do With Them
By Neal Kronley and Carter Craft Published: November, 2002 As the baseball playoffs begin, we here at Waterwire recall that fateful World Series in October 1989 when an earthquake disrupted play and brought down the Embarcadero Expressway in San Francisco. One unlikely result of this tragedy was the formation of a new waterfront park and […]
Temple Israel Alameda Chamber Music Concerts Brotman & Horowitz
Published: November, 2002 Temple Israel Alameda Chamber music Concerts continues on November 13, 2002 with Stuart Brotman and Joshua Horowitz playing “The Klezmer Music of a Traditional Shtetl Wedding.” The concert begins at 8:00 p.m. and is the second in the Temple’s Wednesday Chamber Concert Series. The musical selections are derived from forgotten music of […]
How A Monthly Scoops the Dailies
Published: November, 2002 Last month, Bay Crossings carried a report about Blue & Gold Fleet filing a discontinuance of its Alameda Oakland Ferry Service. It seems that only Bay Crossings bothers to follow what’s up at the California Public Utilities Commission. The city of Alameda deserves some of the credit for the resulting feeding frenzy […]
Chandlery Wars?
Published: November, 2002 Two of the nations largest marine chandlery chains have moved up the stakes in the San Francisco Bay Area. A chandlery, for you landlubbers, is the maritime term for a boat supply store. West Marine opened two new stores in April, one in Alameda and one in Antioch. on June 1st. Boat […]
Captain Clark is Back on the Bridge
Retakes Helm after Heroic Four-Month Cancer Fight An interview by Wes Starratt Published: November, 2002 Yes, for four long months, the manager of the Ferry Division of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District was caught up in a personal medical catastrophe. Now back on his feet once more, and raring to go is […]