I have two great seats for tonight’s game in the right-center bleachers, Section 144, seats 20-21. $60 for the pair, or best offer.
I’m in North Oakland, very near freeway and Rockridge BART for the next four hours, or can meet you at stadium before gametime.
$5 discount if you’re wearing a Dodgers hat, and another $5 discount for blog readers.
Email me.
So tomorrow I’ll be covering the Apple Special Event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in downtown San Francisco — but this time for N P FREAKIN R !
That’s right, thanks to my radio instructor Rick Karr from Columbia, I got a call from National Public Radio to cover the event in the absence of Laura Sydell.
Fortunately on Thursday I bought myself a new Marantz PMD660 from Leo’s Audio here in Oakland, so I have my kit rockin’ and rearin’ to go.
So, I’ll probably be on All Things Considered tomorrow, or Morning Edition on Weds. Will keep you posted as the story develops.
Oh, and I just finished my first story for Foreign Policy today! w00t!
DUDE — NPR!
A New York friend is coming to San Francisco for a weekend to attend a wedding. She’s staying in Union Square and only has one full day to tour the city on her own, and this is what I recommended:
1) Get up whenever, stroll around Union Square/Market St.
2) Optionally check out Yerba Buena Gardens and the Museum of Modern Art, or the California Historical Society Museum, or the Cartoon Art Museum.
3) Around lunchtime, make your way to SoMa (South of Market St.), specifically, 2nd/Bryant St., which is where I work. Have lunch in South Park, at my fav French café, The Butler and the Chef.
4) After lunch, head toward the Embarcadero. Walk along it, stopping in at the Ferry Building to check out the shops and such.
5) Continue walking along the Embarcadero, or if you’re tired, hop on a street car, and get off at Pier 39. It’s tourist trap, yes, but do check out the Musée Méchanique — and Alcatraz if you really want to, as this is the place to get the ferries from. (Alternatively you could spend a couple hours catching a ferry from here to Marin County and back just to be out on the water and get some nice views of the Bay.)
6) Then, catch the Powell-Hyde Cable Car (at Beach and Hyde Sts.) back towards Market St. Optionally, stop off at Washington/Powell in North Beach and explore the cafés and particularly City Lights Bookstore and Vesuvio Café and Bar next door.
7) The Powell-Hyde line will drop you near your hotel.
My two favorite burrito places:
Taqueria San Francisco
2794 24th St.
cross street: York
ph. 415/641-1770
San Francisco
El Ojo de Agua
3132 E. 12th St.
Near the Fruitvale BART
Oakland
I got my passport back! I had to get extra pages added to my U.S. passport. The website says it can take up to six weeks, but I got mine back in under two. Sweet!
Today, I went to the Asian Art Museum and met Ala Ebtekar, a Berkeley-born Iranian hip-hop visual artist. We chatted a bit and he told me to Rose Market in Mountain View to get some real-deal koobideh as well as other staples like bastani (Persian ice cream). His art is sweet.
On the way home, I got library cards at the San Francisco Public Library and the Oakland Public Library, where I checked out Das Boot.
When I got home, I checked my mail and discovered that I randomly got sent a $42 check from AAA, thanking me for being a customer.
Wow, Condé Nast just bought Wired News (Disclaimer: I’ve written over 40 articles for Wired News, and two for Wired), merging it with Wired magazine, from which it had been divorced for eight years. I wonder how this will change WN’s character.
Coverage:
Wired News
ZDNet
GigaOm
Boing Boing
Paul Boutin
My second cousin, Karim Sadjadpour, an analyst on Iran, is giving a talk on Iran right here in San Francisco at the World Affairs Council of Northern California.
Thursday, July 13 2006
Registration 5:30 PM, Program 6:00 PM,
Members – FREE, Nonmembers – $15, Student nonmembers – $5
World Affairs Council Auditorium, 2nd floor, 312 Sutter St., San Francisco
The year was 1906, and the citizens of San Francisco must have found it a wildly incongruous sight–grown men at child’s play in the midst of tragedy. Less than three weeks before, the earth had shaken and the city had burned. The disaster began with an earthquake in the early morning of Wednesday, April 18, and when the fires were extinguished three days later, at least two hundred thousand San Francisco residents were homeless. Yet on the afternoon of May 5, a small group of men was flying kites near Folsom and Sixth streets.
The man in charge, George R. Lawrence, was anything but mad. As soon as news of the disaster had reached Chicago, he made plans to go to San Francisco with his Captive Airship and crew. With the Captive Airship he knew he could take aerial photographs of the prostrate city that no one else in the world could take. He was gambling by going to the devastated. city, but he took the chance knowing there would be an international market for his photographs if he succeeded. Lawrence was, first and foremost, a commercial photographer.
Part-Time Unpaid Internship – Wired News
San Francisco, Calif.
Hours: 15 hours/week. Weekday mornings.
Duties: Helping with the podcasts, helping post other stuff, dealing with the publishing tool, research. Also, you’d have prime access to pitch freelance pieces, which do pay.
Duration: 3 months, possibly longer.
Starting Date: ASAP
Interested? Email me before the end of next week, and I’ll put you in touch with the right people.
Here’s an awesome photo of my favorite bridge. The Chronicle published it today in conjunction with this piece saying that the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge won’t be done until 2013.
Most interesting part comes from the timeline:
November 1998: Residents of San Francisco, Oakland, Emeryville and Berkeley vote that passenger rail service should be “part of the redesign of the Bay Bridge” — an advisory measure initiated by Willie Brown.
Awesome!
