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Video: San Francisco sky over a year
Dec 15th, 2011 at 2:00PM:
The San Francisco sky is one that I particularly enjoy. There's something about the ratio of gray clouds to blue skies that works for me in regard to the Bay Area (and that's why, perhaps, I'll be spending more time in that area over the next year). This time-lapse video says what I'm trying to say better, though... because it shows you. Take a look at this video, which was shot over the ...
Photo of the day - Flying Mariachi band
Dec 8th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
Last week, Virgin America launched new flights from San Francisco to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. What better way to get into the espíritu than with a Mariachi band? Frommers editor and Flickr user DavityDave was on board to get this shot and taste some Mexican goodies. We wonder if the band had to purchase an additional seat for their guitars or if they could just fit them in the overhead ...January is California Restaurant Month
Dec 2nd, 2011 at 12:00PM: As a native Californian and longtime former Bay Area resident, I have to confess there's no place like home when it comes to the American food/dining/wine scene (New Yorkers, feel free to sharpen your knives...).
California's always been progressive when it comes to food and drink, from the early days of the vaqueros and Gold Rush-era San Francisco, right up to today's never-ending parade of ...Zimride announces new route to Lake Tahoe
Nov 17th, 2011 at 8:00AM: Just in time for the start of the ski season, ride sharing website Zimride has announced the opening of a new route between San Francisco and Lake Tahoe. To celebrate this new option, they're also giving away free gas and partnering with local resorts as well.
Launched back in 2008, Zimride is an interesting mash-up of carpooling meets social media. The site allows drivers to sell the empty ...Five Halloween treats for grown-ups
Oct 29th, 2011 at 11:00AM: Like many former kids, I used to live for Halloween. Sure, the dressing up part was fun, but so was TP'ing the neighbor's tree. What All Hallow's Eve was really about were Pixy Stix, Fun Dip, mini Milky Way bars, and REESE'S Peanut Butter Cups (in my world, the latter still reigns supreme).
Still, things change. We grow up; most of us lose our appetite for eating the equivalent of eight cups of ...Host and experience budget-friendly local tours all over the United States
Oct 20th, 2011 at 12:00PM: HipHost, a new "peer-to-peer marketplace for socially-hosted local tours", not only gives travelers a way to experience new cities from a local's point of view, but also gives people an opportunity to make extra cash.
Anyone who wants to share their local knowledge can be a HipHost and design a tour based on anything they find interesting. Some tour topics include art, culture, fitness, ...Serial public art around the world
Oct 17th, 2011 at 4:30PM:
Public art exhibitions featuring a common sculpture that is multiplied and then embellished by various artists have been popping up in cities worldwide since 1998. Artistic director Walter Knapp first came up with the idea and convinced artists to dot Zurich, Switzerland with a collection of artfully-decorated lions. Within a year, Chicago businessman Peter Hanig had taken the idea and ran ...Green Living Project to feature global/local short films at San Francisco Film Premiere
Oct 16th, 2011 at 2:00PM: The Green Living Project will be showcasing a new lineup of local and global short films at the 2nd annual San Francisco Film Premiere. The event will take place on October 22, 2011, from 6PM-9PM at Hub SoMa.
The Green Living Project has created over 60 films from 17 countries across Latin America, North America, and Africa. This event will feature their most popular projects dealing with ...Photo of the day - BART station
Oct 14th, 2011 at 6:30PM:
Homesickness drives today's Photo of the Day, which contrasts the blur of a BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) train in a San Francisco station with a passenger's shiny jacket. I'm a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, see, and though I've lived away from the region for about half of my adult life, the Bay Area will always feel like home.
BART's once-futuristic carriages may not be at the ...Got goat? A cultural exploration of the other red meat
Oct 10th, 2011 at 11:00AM: There are goat people, and then there...aren't. We're like dog people, except we can't carry the objects of our obsession in our purse. There aren't city parks dedicated to goats.
I grew up with goats because my brother and I raised them for 4-H. When we got our first dairy goat in the mid-'70's, my mom tapped her inner hippie, experimenting with making yogurt from the prodigious amounts of ...A video tour of SFO's T2
Oct 1st, 2011 at 2:00PM:
Do you know those drawings that architectural firms create to illustrate what a building will look like after it's finished? The ones with all of the two dimensional people and the rendered trees, benches, concrete and shadows? That's what San Francisco airport's Terminal 2 looks like in this video -- only it's actually real. T2, which I just passed through last week, has this crisp, almost ...
Fall festivals: five delicious ways to celebrate
Sep 21st, 2011 at 10:00AM: There's something really depressing about seeing the last of the tomatoes, corn, and stonefruit at the farmers market, the withering vines in my neighbor's gardens. But fall is also an exciting time for produce geeks, what with all the peppers and squash, pomegranates and persimmons.
If you love yourself some good food and drink, here are five reasons to welcome fall. No matter where you live ...Video: Muse at Outside Lands
Aug 25th, 2011 at 3:00PM:
In case you didn't catch wind of it, Outside Lands went down successfully a couple of weeks ago. Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival is held every year in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. If you haven't ever heard of the festival, that's probably because it's still pretty new. The first edition of Outside Lands was in 2008 and brought in 40,000-60,000 attendees per day. With clear support ...
America's 25 most expensive restaurants
Aug 11th, 2011 at 5:30PM:
What recession? Bundle just released a list of the 25 most expensive restaurants in America, and you'd never know the economy was still faltering. Your average diner would definitely require a stimulus package to pay the check.
Topping the list is The French Laundry, located in Yountville, in the Napa Valley. Chef/owner Thomas Keller's three-star Michelin restaurant is ranked among ...Barbary Coast Sex: Satisfaction Guaranteed
Aug 11th, 2011 at 10:00AM:
It's not very often when a madam guarantees you'll have the best sex of your life. Or at least so satisfying you'll walk out of there thinking your twenty-five cents was very well spent. Such was the case in Barbary Coast-era San Francisco. Having walked from the Old Mint, the beginnings of the Barbary Coast trail, across wide Market Street (the city's answer to the Champs Elysées), past ...Ghostscrapers - Top ten post-apocalyptic abandoned skyscrapers
Aug 9th, 2011 at 12:00PM:
When city plans exceed reality, or the money dries up, or people simply leave in a mass exodus, skyscrapers vacate and slowly decay. High winds thrash through broken windows. Rats live undisturbed amongst decades old rubble. Stairways lead to doors that may never open again. The ghost of ambition's past arrives in the present like a howling specter, creating eyesores, dangerous conditions, ...The Hoodlums of San Francisco
Aug 4th, 2011 at 4:00PM:
How many miscreants does it take to coin a new word? Apparently, many. Dig, if you will, the picture: Gamblers, saloon keepers, thieves, pickpockets, conmen, murderers, pimps and prostitutes, shyster politicians and lawyers. These were the people who made up the Barbary Coast in San Francisco, people who didn't mine for gold, but who set up shop to strip the newly rich or the ...Welcome to San Francisco: The Wildest City in America
Aug 1st, 2011 at 2:00PM:
...Or so it was in the last half of the 19th Century. This was a different kind of San Francisco. Well, okay, city by the bay is still wild, but not in the same detrimental way. This wasn't the San Francisco of pot-smoking, orgy-attending crystal-rubbing hippies on Haight. There were no bears getting frisky in Castro bars; no party-till-dawn clubbers in Soma. San Francisco of 150 years ago was ...A pilgrim at Stinson Beach
Jul 25th, 2011 at 10:00AM:
July 20, 11:30 am -- I'm sitting at the southern tip of Stinson Beach, a glorious mile-long stretch of sand that borders the unincorporated, population 650 hamlet of the same name in Marin County, Northern California.
Stinson Beach is a ragged, flip-flops, bikinis, and board shorts kind of town, and whether you're a Bay Area visitor or resident, it's a terrific place to stop. A couple of ...Heat "dome" descends on mid atlantic region: what are the coolest places to visit this summer?
Jul 21st, 2011 at 11:00AM:
What's hot for summer? Well, everywhere. The predicted heat index for Friday in Washington, D.C. is a miserable 116 degrees. According to ABC News, 22 people have already died as a result of this natural phenomenon and this temperature spike could last weeks.
Sitting in the air conditioning all summer just won't do.
Thankfully for us, the folks over at MyWeather.com have come up ...
