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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
If you pony up $25 right now, then you can look forward to feeling like Homer Simpson in the Land of Chocolate come Saturday, March 20th.
Yes, the massive TasteTV San Francisco International Chocolate Salon is back for 2010 up at Fort Mason’s Herbst Pavillion.
It’s going to be mega.
There’ll be samples a plenty so check the sked and map out your journey before you go cocoa-crazy. (It’ll tide you over ’til the 15th annual Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival up at the Wharf in late Summer 2010, anyway) See you there at Ft. Mason on the 20th.
All the deets, after the jump.
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
I’m not sure if it’s too late to get in on this, but check it out and see if there’s room for one or two more tonight at 6:00 PM, Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 at the Dream Team Mixer – it’s just especially for people wishing to get married in the bay area.
(Be warned – somebody might try to make the case on how you should spend your cash in order to make your Big Day special, but isn’t that what you want anyway?)
See you there!
Meet the Dream Team Mixer
We would like to invite anyone wishing to get married in the bay area to attend this fun and informative evening.
Music from Spintronix.
Flowers from Branch Out Floral and Event Design.
Movie Trailer featuring the Dream Team, from Studio MSV.
Hors d’ouevres from Spring Loaf Catering.
Wines from Franciscan Winery.
Lighting from North American Theatre Technology.
Fashion Show featuring Bella Mia Bride, Bliss Bridal Shoes, Natural Images Skincare, One World Designs, and Get Your DO Up!
Photo Booth from The Laugh Box.
Special Display from Nancy Liu Chin Designs.
Rentals from Williams Party Rentals.
Cupcakes from Freedom Bakery & Confections.
Photography from Lilia Photo.
Limo from Lone Star Limousine.
Featured Special Guests: Haute Horticulture, Balloons Equal Fun, Jon Casey Caricatures, and Blue Water Party Rentals.
Come meet the couples vying for the title of “San Francisco’s First Dreamy Couple”.
You’ll learn more about the vendors responsible for this community-driven project and how you can enter for a chance to win a $100,000.00 Dream Wedding!
We hope to find a hard-working and deserving couple who values the impact of giving back to the community around them.
Could it be YOU?
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
I wasn’t sure yesterday (take a gander here to get up to speed) but I am today – Oktoberfest By the Bay has got to be the biggest ripoff of any annual Bay Area event. In short, it’s not for me.
But you, you’re different, you’re special – you’re a high-functioning social butterfly who knows how to party with your upscale friends anytime, anywhere. So you should go, of course. But normal people just might feel ripped off after they pay $35 to go to O-fest Saturday afternoon only to get kicked out at 5:00PM to cool their heels for an hour waiting for the right to pay another $35 to start again at 6:00 PM.
Harry Potter meets the Jager girls in 2005:
via Augie Schwer
Let’s read the FAQ for some 411:
“1. Why two completely separate sessions on Saturday?”
“Happily, demand has outstripped supply and, for the time being, this is the best way to provide access and an all-around better experience (shorter lines, more seating, etc.). So, we’ll clear the building at 5pm and start over at 6pm with a whole new group of festival goers. Pick the session that works best for you! We anticipate selling out both Saturday sessions.”
Bring a date on Saturday and the whole affair will only cost you $140. Oh yes, bring some extra money for food and beer and Jager and whatnot, of course.
Here’s a malternative, instead of going to OBTB 2009. You’re cutting out the middleman and saving dough at the same time:
via YoHandy
All right, see you there! (Not really!)
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
I can’t tell you how many people I’ve spoken with who were not too pleased with Oktoberfest by the Bay back two years ago when it was $20 a head to get in at Fort Mason. Did the $20 get you anything? Not that I can recall. It gave you the right to get in line to get tokens to get in line to….
Anywho, O-Fest will be down in Pier 48 this year. And because the organizers realize that their Yelp ratings are pretty low and in view of the fact we’re in a recession, ticket prices have risen. Dramatically.
TICKET PRICES
$30 for Friday*
$35 for Saturday Day
$35 for Saturday Night [Are they going to kick people out at 5:00PM? So, $35 +$35 for all day Saturday?]
$30 for Sunday*
Make sure you get your coupons if you want to go.
Oh vell. Will the Jagermeister Girls make it back this year?
I’ll tell you, it seemed like some of the German-speakers in the crowd at Fort Mason were having a good time with their Oompah music, so there’s that. I paid $20 (German Day, 50% off) for me and mein Fräulein, just so you know.
But who’s going to tell you if $70-per-couple OktoberFest By the Bay in San Francisco sucks?
The newspapers? Really? Maybe, we’ll see.
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Can you see the photo illustration below? That’s the future of Doyle Drive, whether you like it or not!
Parts of it are going underground soon, courtesy of Barack Obama stimulus money and your San Francisco County Transportation Authority, and a few others. Get all the deets of this Big Dig tonight, July 23, 2009 at Fort Mason – 6:00 PM open house, 6:30 PM presentation.
Can you see Doyle Drive in the background? That’s the way it looks today, all concrete and clay, and general decay.
Supervisor Bevan Dufty speaking at the recent ceremony announcing the acceleration of the project.
Here’s the meeting:
When: July 23, 2009 – Thursday
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Where: Fort Mason Center (Marina Blvd. and Buchanan Street) San Francisco Landmark Building A Conference Center, Golden Gate Room, San Francisco
What: Discussion includes construction schedules, road closures and detours.
Lots more deets, after the jump.
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Saturday, July 4th, 2009
Tonight’s Fourth of July fireworks show had a fairly high fog ceiling, so it would have to rate as better than average. Better than last year anyway, but not as good as 2007.
Here’s an excellent eight-second exposure of the northern waterfront show from Lafayette Park in Specific Whites Pacific Heights. Click to expand:
via bendjsf
And here’s a real-time shot of the same show from Twin Peaks:
Everything is done double – that’s the way they do it. Here’s a double double:
But this is what happens when the fireworks get too high – you can only see the bottom halves sometimes due to the fog:
Let’s look across the Bay over at Sausalito. That’s USF in the foreground:
Now here are some illegal explosions in San Francisco. This was an impressive burst above the northern Mission district:
And here’s Mission Bay / Dogpatch with Alameda / Oakland in the background – very nice:
The Mission and points south all had lots of illegal fireworks booming:
Oh noes, it’s a flare, shooting high above Twin Peaks…
…and then landing somewhere in the Castro District:
And there you have it.
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
When they tell you “Fog could shroud S.F. fireworks“ up in Fishermans Wharf at 9:30 PM on the Fourth of July 2009, what they really mean is Fog WILL shroud S.F. fireworks, barring some Act of God, or Gaia, or Whomever.
Sometimes the weather is good, sometimes not. This year, not.
Check it out from 2008. Click to expand:
Eliya via Flickr
This is by no means the worst case scenario. So when they talk about special low-level fireworks and let’s cross our fingers, they’re spinning. And spinning is just the polite term for lying. So, what do you do? Head on over to the Mission District, where they’ll have oodles of Yelp-rated, illegal, illicit, MUY PRO HI BI DA DO (now I say that in Spanish because that’s how exotic and not allowed it is) fireworks, fog-free, for free. Just check out this screen saver album from 2007.
Of course, you can always go with the flow and follow the madding crowd northward into la niebla, le brouillard. And who knows, maybe it will be clear the way it was in 2007. Thusly:
This is the view you had from Crissy Field on 7-4-2007 – those lights at the bottom have something to do with Fishermans Wharf.
But dude, don’t drive up there. Even if they didn’t block off the streets and you already had a parking space waiting for you, you’d still have to drive out of there in a traffic jam when the show’s over at 10:00 PM. Of course, you could always hang out at all the places that will be open up in the Wharf after the show, but maybe you’d be better off driving into the City with your bikes in tow and parking South of the 101 near the Giants’ AT&T Park. Then you could ride up the flat, flat Embarcadero (on the sidewalk – it’s legal) back and forth.
Can you dig the colors, man?
But if that doesn’t pan out, you could follow the cable cars on Hyde (that’s the one north-south street they don’t block off, in my experience) and drop off the brood. Whatever you do, stay off of Van Ness. Or you could BART it to the Embarcadero Station and then hoof it up to Pier 39. But forget about MUNI, ’cause walking would be faster.
And most likely it will be foggy anyway, you’ve been warned.
Dress warm. Panthers out.
Fourth of July Waterfront Celebration
Saturday, July 4, 2009
1:00 PM to 9:30 PM
“PIER 39 invites you to enjoy a fun-filled Independence Day celebration. Rock out with ‘Take 2′ from 1-4pm followed by San Francisco’s favorite 80’s cover band, ‘Tainted Love’ from 6-9:30pm. Immediately after the entertainment look to the sky as the City of San Francisco lights up the night with it’s Firework’s Spectacular, accompanied by a musical simulcast from KISS FM 98.1. PIER 39 has the best viewing area on the bay! In addition, 39 of PIER 39’s businesses will remain open after the fireworks so that guests can miss the traffic, enjoy the PIER, have a drink, get a bite to eat, and shop. Click here for the list of locations open after the fireworks. Sponsored by Crystal Geyser ALPINE SPRING WATER, DeLoach Vineyards, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, The San Francisco Examiner, Tawain Tourism and Asus.”
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Publicity-shy San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Communications editor-at-large Phil Bronstein, The One responsible for our nation’s recent newspaper upheaval, is not one to blow his own horn. You see he’s too polite too mention it, but he will be the star at tomorrow’s “What Comes After Newspapers?” panel at Fort Mason tomorrow night.
This free event is being put on by Zócalo Public Square, the people who just brought you Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark (another purported Killer of Newspapers.)
Get the deets below:
The answer is out there, Phil, and it’s looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.
It appears there are a few seats left. You should get over there and try to ask them about Rupert Murdoch’s great idea.
Zócalo in San Francisco
What Comes After Newspapers?
A Zócalo/New America Foundation Event
Moderated by David Folkenflik, media correspondent, National Public Radio
Thursday, May 07, 2009, 7:30 pm
Fort Mason Center
Golden Gate Room at the Conference Center, Building A
San Francisco, CA 94123
From town tabloids to major metropolitan dailies, newspapers seem to be in their last throes. The availability of free and instant news online, the high profit margins demanded by media conglomerates, and the steep declines in advertising revenue have hit newspapers hard. They have been forced to lay off employees, trim their pages, close print operations or–as The Hearst Corp. has threatened to do to the San Francisco Chronicle–shut down completely. Will a new model or medium rise to do what newspapers have aimed to do for over a century–pursue accuracy and objectivity, doggedly investigate stories, act as a check on power, embody a community’s conversation with itself, and write a first draft of history? Or will the demise of newspapers mean a radical shift in what we know and how we know it? Zócalo hosts a panel–including former Washington Post managing editor Steve Coll, Slate founder Michael Kinsley, and former San Francisco Chronicle executive vice president and editor Phil Bronstein–to discuss the decline of print media and the future of journalism.
The New America Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute based in Washington, D.C. For more information, click www.newamerica.net.
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