Published: July, 2008 It gleams like a bright and inviting oasis in the underground maze of the Embarcadero BART/Muni station in downtown San Francisco. Billed as a Traveler’s aid for the video age, the project turned an underutilized newspaper stand at one of the region’s busiest transit crossroads into a multiuse, high-tech transit information kiosk. […]
Published: February, 2008 Two Flippers Up for San Francisco Ocean Film Festival The annual festival at the Cowell Theater in Fort Mason Center provides the public with a rare opportunity to see beneath the surface of the waves, to realize the importance of preserving ocean biodiversity, to become better ocean stewards, and to celebrate the […]
Two long-time restaurateurs talk past, present and future — and why this neighborhood is the Rodney Dangerfield of San Francisco By GraceAnn WaldenPublished: September, 2006 A recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle lauded the attractions of Fisherman’s Wharf. That has to be historic. The media have always given a nod to the history of […]
Published: April, 2005 Hundreds braved the threat of storm to gather atop a 1948 Army Artillery Barge in the center of Sausalito’s waterfront Saturday night, March 21, and the clouds parted. The first annual Shipwright’s Ball, a benefit for a comrade in need, was attended by 250 people and raised enough money to help off-set […]
Published: May, 2004 Carrie Doyle-Karasyov and Jill Kargman talk about The Right Address. The story sears through the upper crust of New York’s glittering Park Avenue scene to dish the dirt on the ladies who lunch, the gents who club, and the desperate climbers who will stop at nothing to join the back-stabbing, champagne-sipping, socialite-eat-socialite […]
Published: October, 2003 Call it your home-based business that makes good. What started out of the house of entrepreneur Bobby Winston — and then moved aboard the good sailboat Belle Chere — has now morphed into Bay Crossings’ Ferry Tickets Shop. Now one of the many new businesses at San Francisco’s Ferry Building, the store […]
Published: October, 2003 Call it your home-based business that makes good. What started out of the house of entrepreneur Bobby Winston — and then moved aboard the good sailboat Belle Chere — has now morphed into Bay Crossings’ Ferry Tickets Shop. Now one of the many new businesses at San Francisco’s Ferry Building, the store […]
For Whom The Bridge Tolls Tracking the Transit Taliban By David Fear Published: July, 2002 I’m slowly creeping across the Golden Gate Bridge towards Marin County, cursing myself for somehow forgetting about the bridge’s legendary rush hour crawl. The steady pace of 5.5 mph seems too much for some of my fellow drivers, who begin […]
Unconventional Alcatraz:by Day and by Night By Jim Mallory Published: March, 2002 You are entitled to food, clothing, shelter, and medical attention. Anything else you get is a privilege.” That was just one of the rules prisoners lived by if they were sent to Alcatraz in 1934. Today visitors who take the “Alcatraz After Dark” […]
By Nancy Salcedo Published: September, 2001 From the waves at Fort Point to the winds that blast through the Golden Gate in the summertime, the northern waterfront is as challenging as it is beautiful – no beginners here. As you walk north from the Ferry Building the elements account for more and more of your […]