San Francisco Quote of the Day: the skyline

San Francisco Quote of the Day: the skyline

Words worth reading about San Francisco crop in the most interesting of places. Sure, there are typical spots that you’d expect good writing to be found like in literature and lyrics. But sometimes the good writers are out there in other places, like doing travel writing on the web. In this case, the quotes are from Fodor’s Travel Guide for San Francisco.
First, in describing the city’s “jaw-dropping views”, they aptly and beautifully write:
“In San Francisco, it’s almost impossible not to happen upon jaw-dropping views of the city and the bay beyond. You can see them from Fisherman’s Wharf, Coit Tower, …read more

San Francisco You Tube Pick of the Day

San Francisco You Tube Pick of the Day

San Fran Voice trolls the online world to find video clips from and about San Francisco. Check the archives to see the ones that you’ve missed.  Posted here every morning at 9.
Explanation: Today’s YouTube pick is “How the Rich Do Their Business”, a short clip showing us the extravagance of the men’s bathroom at the Four Seasons Hotel here in SF.

San Francisco Quote of the Day

San Francisco Quote of the Day

San Francisco is a city which leaves its impressions upon people.  In honor of that, writers and artists, comedians and actors, and visitors from across the globe have made mention of San Francisco in print and in voice.  Quotes about San Francisco vary as much as the people who make up this city.  Each day, San Fran Voice gives you one to think about as you wander through the city streets, letting it leave its mark on you.
Today’s San Francisco quote is … straight off of the web page for San Francisco Guide Magazine.  About sums it up around here!
“Always …read more

San Francisco YouTube Pick of the Day

San Francisco YouTube Pick of the Day

San Fran Voice is all about finding great things in this city from great venues for live music to lessons in love learned from the streets of San Francisco.  One of the daily finds in the Bay Area is entertainment.  There’s simply no shortage of art, oddities and experiences in San Francisco.  To reflect that, San Fran Voice has a daily YouTube pick which shows off someone or something related to San Francisco.
Today’s YouTube pick is … a tourist trip, but it’s one of the better trip collage videos for the area that I’ve seen on YouTube lately.  So much of …read more

San Francisco YouTube Pick of the Day

San Francisco YouTube Pick of the Day

San Fran Voice is all about finding great things in this city from great venues for live music to lessons in love learned from the streets of San Francisco.  One of the daily finds in the Bay Area is entertainment.  There’s simply no shortage of art, oddities and experiences in San Francisco.  To reflect that, San Fran Voice has a daily YouTube pick which shows off someone or something related to San Francisco.
Today’s YouTube pick is … Nelson, the skateboarding bulldog!

San Francisco YouTube Pick of the Day

San Francisco YouTube Pick of the Day

San Fran Voice is all about finding great things in this city from great venues for live music to lessons in love learned from the streets of San Francisco.  One of the daily finds in the Bay Area is entertainment.  There’s simply no shortage of art, oddities and experiences in San Francisco.  To reflect that, San Fran Voice has a daily YouTube pick which shows off someone or something related to San Francisco.
Today’s YouTube pick is … simple, peaceful … just a sunset on the beach.  Because sometimes, that’s all you actually need.

Top 5 Events Worth Traveling to San Francisco For

Top 5 Events Worth Traveling to San Francisco For

It’s that time of year again; every single weekend in San Francisco is going to have at least one event which draws both tourists and locals to one of our many diverse neighborhoods.  From the small street fairs to the specialty food tastings to the holiday activities, people who want something to do will not be lacking for events.  But, as a local, it can get kind of tiresome.  You want to check everything out, but you quickly tire of the constant activity, the crowds and the inflated prices on everything.
There’s something to suit everyone in this city, but these …read more

San Francisco Neighborhoods: Union Square

San Francisco Neighborhoods: Union Square

When I first moved here, a new friend was trying to give me directions to somewhere or other in San Francisco and I was completely baffled by his instructions, so finally he laughed and said, “Just meet me at Union Square and I’ll take you over there”.  When I said, “um, okay, where’s Union Square?” he just about dropped the phone because he thought that he had given me one of the most obvious landmarks in the city to make the plan easier for me.  We laugh about that now because the idea that I didn’t know Union Square is …read more

San Francisco Bands Playing At Coachella

San Francisco Bands Playing At Coachella

There are lineups all over the place for Coachella so you don’t need me to tell you who is playing at that Southern California music festival that’s drawing in the crowds this weekend.  But what you might not know or be able to find so easily online is that there are several San Francisco Bay Area bands that are representing us down there.  Yep, in a lineup filled with acts from more countries than I care to recount, the Bay Area has more than one voice.
Here’s a brief look at them:

DJ Shadow – Bringing the DJ arts to another level.
Kid …read more

San Francisco’s Market Street

San Francisco’s Market Street

If asked to name the main street in San Francisco, a number of people would offer the automatic reply that it’s Market Street.  This isn’t entirely true but that’s only because San Francisco is a city filled with such distinct neighborhoods that there are multiple “main streets” in different sections of town.  Insofar as there can be a street that everyone kind of ends up at on a regular basis, Market Street is that street.
That Market is a main street is due in large part to the fact that it is the hub of much of the city’s transportation.  The …read more

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