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ArchivesSeptember 2010 Around the bay in September 2010This Labor Day weekend, top-notch music and stars of the contemporary art scene will be showcased on the sparkling bay shores of Sausalito’s Mediterranean-like seaside village as Sausalito hosts the West Coast’s ultimate Art and Music Experience. More... 
A Bounty of Angling Is Threatened
The Delta has long been one of the nation’s premiere fishing grounds. If you enjoy bluegill, salmon, readear, largemouth, smallmouth, and striped Bass, bullhead catfish, channel catfish, shad, sturgeon, crappie, steelhead and the occasional crawdad, then you have found your Shangri-La. More... 
Salmon Make September Memorable
Pacific salmon are central to the culture, cuisine and ecology of the entire west coast—and the San Francisco Bay Area in particular. More... I Love When You Talk Sailor to Me!Can you believe that another year has come and gone? Aye matie, the 19th of September is officially ‘Talk Like a Pirate Day’! To help you participate more fully and to continue my tradition, I’d like to tell you about some common (and uncommon) phrases that come from the sea. More... 
Embarcadero Adds Rocketship to Its Transit Offerings
Last month, Mayor Gavin Newsom joined the Black Rock Arts Foundation (BRAF) and the Port of San Francisco to celebrate the unveiling of Raygun Gothic Rocketship, a 40-foot-tall sculpture created by a team of Bay Area artists lead by Sean Orlando, Nathaniel Taylor and David Shulman. More... 
Getting Hitched With a Green Twist
Bay Area wedding planner Ema Drouillard provides environmentally conscious intendeds with a unique opportunity to start their life together on a green foot, as well as to share their passion for sustainability with friends and family members. More... Sports and Performing Arts Fuse at AT&T Park and Golden Gate FieldsWhile Giants fans wait to see if their team will be playing postseason baseball in “the yard,” there will be another major cultural event taking place there this month. More... 
Farewell Album
San Francisco’s Transbay Terminal is going, going… gone. In the next few months, the gray concrete monolith that has dominated Mission Street between Fremont and First streets since 1939 will become a pile of rubble. More... 
Transbay Transit Center
Breaks New Ground
The long-awaited “Grand Central Station of the West” is under way at last — after years of planning and accumulating funds, an international design competition, unrelenting political will from the Bay Area, Sacramento and Washington, DC, and a final boost of federal “stimulus” funds. More... Port of Oakland Recycles Its Mammoth CranesThe Port of Oakland has added state-of-the-art super-post-Panamax cranes over the past decade to handle the larger container ships that now transit the globe. When the Alameda Naval Air Station was in service, however, Oakland used thousand-ton “low-profile” cranes to accommodate flight-path safety issues. More... WATERFRONT ACTIVITIES September 2010This two-hour skippered charter is a great way to break up a long week. We’ll be sailing from 6 to 8 pm and follow that with a chili and chowder social. More... 
Another ‘Ghost Ship’ Removed
From Suisun Bay for Scrapping
Bay Ship & Yacht, located in Alameda on San Francisco Bay, has completed hydro-blasting the hull and superstructure, and finished its seawirthiness inspection of, the decommissioned USS Florikan. More... 
ON OUR COVER September 2010
The $4.2 billion Transbay Transit Center, which promises to be the “Grand Central Station of the West,” broke ground in downtown San Francisco on August 14. When the new Center emerges on the site of the old Transbay Termimal in August 2017, it promises to launch a new era of urban transportation. It will link eight Bay Area counties with 11 bus and rail systems — in one modern, regional hub. See the article on the groundbreaking on Page 7, and a photo gallery bidding farewell to the old Transbay Terminal on Page 8. Image courtesy of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. Rendering courtesy of Transbay Joint Powers Authority. More... |
