Lawrence Ferlinghetti is one of those names which is known for having shaped San Francisco history. Founder of one of the most famous of North Beach landmarks, City Lights Bookstore, Ferlinghetti was right at the heart of the Beat Poet movement which helped make the area famous. This one minute artsy clip is a Ferlinghetti tribute.
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San Francisco is a city which is very neighborhood-oriented. People identify with the neighborhoods in which they live and work, selecting from a range of quite different choices to find a locale which suits their personal styles. From the Mission to the Marina, from North Beach to the Tenderloin, from the Castro to the Haight, from the Financial District to the SoMa … people in San Francisco hear the names of certain neighborhoods and either smile or cringe with recognition.
San Fran Voice is working to bring you inside information on the different neighborhoods of San Francisco and what you will find there. …read more
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This magic carpet ride shows off the highlights of tourist San Francisco to the tune of the song of the same name. Gotta love it!
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Venue: GIORDANO BROS.
Address: 303 Columbus Ave. @ Broadway
Neighborhood: North Beach
Types of bands that play here: Jam Bands, check out JamBase for schedule
How often there’s live music: 5 nights / week
Points given for: Great neighborhood bar feel in a terrific neighborhood, no cover, good for discovering local music
Points taken away because: can get jam packed; JamBase isn’t kept up-to-date about who is playing
Overall: The “most kissed music journalist” would be happy to get kissed here
Giordano Bros. is a San Francisco venue which doesn’t always make the list of those venues that you should visit if you’re looking for live music in …read more
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Today’s YouTube clip is a short one, in which a San Francisco wave knocks over a girl at the ocean. The best part is the teasing narrator who says, “I got it, I got you”.
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Have you been staying on top of the lessons in love which I have derived from rock climbing ever since I discovered the Mission Cliffs indoor climbing gym here in San Francisco? (If not, you can catch up here.) If so, you might have started to get the hint that I really haven’t been going climbing as much as I’d like to because there have been other things getting in the way of my ability to take the time to do the climb. That brings us today’s lesson:
Make time for what you love. Make time for who you love. Make …read more
Described in the video as “a soldier of little fortune whose real wealth is measured in spirit”, The Bike Messenger weaves in and out of San Francisco traffic. To give props where they’re due, the clip first aired on kron tv in 1992 and is apparently on YouTube courtesy of our own Exploratorium.
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The Music Lovers are a San Francisco band with an English voice, a history of recent releases and a connection with the Margaret Cho “Sensuous Woman” performance … so if you don’t know these guys, you ought to. At their full strength, The Music Lovers are a six-piece band with an indie pop rock sound that blends the dreaminess of music from the 1960’s with the edge of 1990’s alternative and propels it forward into 21st century California sound.
The most recent album release, The Music Lovers Guide For Young People from 2006 is about to be surpassed by an impending …read more
Ha, this is great. A man goes in to Best Buy and is basically being an obnoxious customer, including that he is filming the store manager during their interaction. The San Francisco police come in to arrest him. And this is the YouTube footage of it all.
You can’t miss San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood because it’s topped by the famous Coit Tower which you can see from most points around the city. But when you start walking in the direction of Coit Tower, you might find that you get a bit lost because the streets of this San Francisco neighborhood are a bit curvy, with a number of dead ends and a lot of confusion. This is a mostly residential area, which is interesting because the famous landmarks also makes it a tourist destination, so the traffic here is crowded and there’s not much thing as …read more
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