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San Francisco Airline Memorabilia Show
The 12th semiannual “San Francisco Airline Memorabilia Show and Sale” will be held at the Grosvenor Best Western. Aviation aficionados will be hoping to find advertising paraphernalia, posters, playing cards, timetables, pamphlets, postcards, pins, china, flatware, and glass. Grosvenor Best Western 380 S. Airport Blvd. South San Francisco. March 13, 2010 Hours: 9am to 3pm Admission: $5. Details: 650-281-4486. Elsie said that... »
San Francisco Airline Memorabilia Show
The 12th semiannual San Francisco Airline Memorabilia Show and Sale will be held at the Grosvenor Best Western. Aviation aficionados will be hoping to find advertising paraphernalia, posters, playing cards, timetables, pamphlets, postcards, pins, china, flatware, and glass. Grosvenor Best Western 380 S. Airport Blvd. South San Francisco. March 13, 2010 Hours: 9am to 3pm Admission: $5. Details: 650-281-4486. Elsie said that... »
Our Visit to Joe’s Cable Car Restaurant
We were on 280 north approaching Ocean Ave. when I remembered a show that I had seen on The Food Network. Guy Fieri (Diners Drive-ins and Dives) stopped in at “Joe’s Cable Car Restaurant“. Ten minutes later we were ordering burgers from our waitress, Savannah. Our freshly ground steak beef burgers were just as good... »
Babatunde Lea presents Umbo Weti: A Tribute to Leon Thomas
An all-star jazz event occurs March 18th @ SF's Yoshi's when Percussion virtuoso Babatunde Lea brings a quintet feat. Dwight Trible, Ernie Watts, Patrice Rushen and Gary Brown to town. They'll be in SF to celebrate their new CD release 'Umbo Weti: A Tribute to Leon Thomas'. »
Mission Graduates’ fundraiser: trip to Costa Rica
One of my favorite charities, Mission Graduates, helps reinforce basic skills for kids in the Mission District and prepare them for college. Now they’re having a fundraiser where the grand prize is a trip to a Costa Rica resort. Mmm, looks romantic. In other fundraising news, have you seen Kickstarter? People put their project proposals... »
Let’s (Vegan Food) Party!
Bay Area Vegetarians are having a party for vegans. It will be a community event, rather like a potluck. Where: Pacifica When: Sun. 2/28 @ 12noon Location: Sharp Park Library, 104 Hilton Way at Palmetto, Pacifica (15 minutes south of SF) Parking: Free Lot and Ample Free street parking. Cost: A vegan dish to share. (a real dish... »
East Bay protesters trash Telegraph Ave. — again
A “protest and party” against university student fee increases turned into a riot last night, as a mob trashed Telegraph Avenue businesses, breaking windows, overturning garbage cans, and indulging their incoherent rage against adults. The riot followed an invasion of of the university’s Durant Hall, which was closed for renovation. There protesters broke windows,... »
Catch Him If You Can: The Heartbreaking Jimmy Scott
85 year old balladeer Jimmy Scott refuses to quit, while most his age are long retired, he's playing Yoshi's this week Tues Feb 23rd & Weds Feb 24th, and he's recorded some 9 or so albums on a half dozen labels in the last 20 years and added a 5th wife in 2003 to... »
Hit the Road for a Free Jack
Jack sent me an email. He said that he likes the new Grilled Sandwiches so much he can’t decide which one he likes better. There’s the Grilled Turkey, Bacon & Cheddar and the Grilled Deli Trio. Both served on grilled artisan bread. He figures if he is perplexed we should be just as perplexed,... »
Torture maven John Yoo to appear on KQED Monday
UC Berkeley law professor and former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo will appear on San Francisco’s KQED radio Monday at 11:06 a.m. on Michael Krasny’s Forum program. Yoo was one of three lawyers responsible for drafting memoranda to the Bush administration suggesting legal justifications for “enhanced interrogation techniques” to be used on terror suspects. An... »
Senator Feinstein California Water Solution
I feel blessed that I was raised in the cornucopia of the Central Valley. I was a farm girl. With a seemingly never ending supply of water, my parents grew an abundance of fresh vegetables on a half acre of land. What they didn’t grow was available from a farm just up the road.... »
America’s Cup Makes a Stop at City Hall
“There is no more appropriate home for the Cup than the Golden Gate Yacht Club, with views of the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island,” said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. San Francisco City Hall will get to ogle it first at a public celebration Saturday at 11:30am. The Cup will be on... »
Benjamin Bratt: Maverick Spirt Award Recipient
Benjamin Bratt was born in San Francisco. He attended Lowell High School. He then spent some time at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, but he left to star in the television series Juarez. Bratt is best known for his work on Law & Order. Benjamin and his brother, Peter worked together on “La... »
Hope for Natalie: Laugh for Lives
Natalie is 8 years old. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is half-Chinese and half-Japanese, and a bit of Vietnamese. Natalie has leukemia, and needs a bone marrow transplant. Asians make up a small number of donors, so the The Asian American Donor Program (AADP) is reaching out to San Francisco.... »
San Francisco Home to America’s Cup
I remember the thrill when in 1977 the founder of CNN, Robert Edward “Ted” Turner II, took Courageous out for sail and defended the America’s Cup. (Today I’m not sure if I would trust Ted with a plastic toy boat in the bathtub.) Now founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, Larry Ellison, is living the... »