Sanfrancisco Sightseeing Shuttle Tours

How Weird Street Faire Hits SF

2008-05-04T22:23:00.000-07:00

The How Weird Street Faire is an electronic outdoor street music festival held in every month of May in San Francisco. The fest will be held on several blocks of Howard Street and in the SoMa neighborhood. The festival bills itself as a "peace event" that will be featuring art, vendors and multiple stages of music. This is a fundraiser for the World Peace through Technology Organization.

Olympic Torch Reaches San Francisco

2008-04-04T00:14:00.001-07:00

The Olympic torch will make its only North American stop in the city of San Francisco on Wednesday. This torch relay will follow a six mile route, beginning at 1 p.m. at McCovey Cove at AT&T Park, following the Embarcadero, past Fisherman's Wharf, and ending at Justin Herman Plaza. Tibetans and their supporters will be holding a rally on Tuesday at the United Nations Plaza, at Market Street

San Francisco Will Soon Show Off the Greenest Buildings

2008-04-01T07:24:00.000-07:00

The City of San Francisco will soon boast the greenest buildings in USA. Last week, the local government took a critical step towards agreeing what are probably the toughest environmental construction standards in the country. Companies and families planning to build homes and offices might be required to earn green points by introducing water and energy saving measures or they will risk losing

San Francisco Show Donates Merchandise Worth $22,000

2008-03-11T23:52:00.000-07:00

A collaboration between the San Francisco International Gift Fair, Moscone Center's recycling program and Bay Area non-profit 'Under One Roof'; has resulted in 15 pallet loads of donated goodies, valued at $22,000, which is being donated in support of Under One Roof's HIV/AIDS initiatives. 'Under One Roof' staff members and volunteers, supported by the San Francisco International Gift Fair,

The San Francisco Flower & Garden Show

2008-03-04T00:03:00.000-08:00

Now celebrating its 23rd year of inspiring gardeners, the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show is known as the most cutting-edge of the top six garden shows in the world for its stunning garden displays, educational offerings and highest quality gardening products. Fun activities, inspiring beauty, innovative ideas and products, industry experts and helpful tips for do-it-yourselfers await

Chinese new year in San Francisco this weekend

2008-02-24T21:41:00.000-08:00

Come and celebrate the Year of the Rat here at the Garden. The Canadian Chinese Artist's Federation is pleased to present their most beautiful collection of Chinese paintings that celebrate the traditions of Chinese New Year. Chinatown community street fair in San Francisco: 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. This fair features lantern and kite making, calligraphy, folk

San Francisco Is For Lovers

2008-02-15T00:14:00.000-08:00

The City of San Francisco was one of the best places for lovers to celebrate their Valentine's Day. The city is a great place to kiss and propose. San Francisco is a wonderful place to spend your romantic time to share a drink and chocolates. Places like Fort Point and Cliff House are the best place for the first kiss. So are you planning to propose? Then you should move over to the traditional

A Visual Art Show in San Francisco

2008-02-13T23:52:00.001-08:00

The visual art show represents some amazing arts in San Francisco and this the correct time to move on to San Francisco. "Fluid" features works by artists dealing with H2O in all its facets in universal art form." Jamie Spinello creates imaginary systems of transformation, where shapes are allowed to grow and assume new manifestations. She extracts forms with razors, searching for them in both

San Francisco Tribal and Textile arts returns

2008-02-06T21:27:00.000-08:00

This is the right time to move on to the tour of San Francisco. The most celebrated show of tribal & textile arts returns with remarkable collections of antiques, garnishes and sculptures for both passionate collectors and the arts and culture interested. This is the twenty second year; show has full-fledged to become extensively predictable event. The opening night

Blue Bottle Cafe at San Francisco

2008-01-23T18:22:00.000-08:00

The much awaited coffee pub Blue Bottle Cafe has opened this week at San Francisco city which will be serving amazing coffees, full breakfasts and dinner. Apart from this, the cafe centre will also provide nibbles for lunches. The menu will include dishes like egg and potato torte with bread ($5.50), morel poached eggs ($8), pancetta souffle ($9.50) and porcini flan ($11). The Blue Bottle Cafe

San Francisco's Fifth Ocean Film Festival

2008-01-16T23:16:00.000-08:00

Calling all the brave swimmers, sea birds and eco-savvy fishermen! The San Francisco Ocean Film Festival 2008 will be held at the Cowell Theatre at Fort Mason Center and Aquarium of the Bay from January 31st to February 3rd, 2008. Being the fifth year, this will be the largest film festival of its kind which will feature amazing animated films and documentaries around the world, which will also

Double Decker Buses to Rock San Francisco

2007-12-31T02:22:00.001-08:00

Double Decker buses just like in Hong Kong and London designed by Alexander Dennis Ltd. will soon run in San Francisco's Hilly streets. These Double Decker buses have many advantages; it has more seats than the buses which are run by San Francisco's Muni. It has a pleasant environment inside; with larger windows, cloth seats and well lighted interiors. The buses have both heating and air

Underskatement: San Francisco's Skateboard Film Festival

2007-11-29T21:13:00.000-08:00

This Saturday, Victoria Theatre will screen about 24 short films which is a two hour program, followed by afterparty. Underskatement Vol.4 is San Francisco's only skateboard film festival. But this film festival is not necessarily about skateboarding, the emphasis of this Underskatement festival is on the fact that the film maker is a skateboarder. The organizers, Andreas Trolf and David Franklin

Escape to Bay Area's Angel Island!

2007-11-13T01:59:00.000-08:00

Amazing springtime outing is just 40 minutes ferry ride from San Francisco. Angel Island is one of the best eleven Islands in Bay Area, where you can admire and enjoy the 360° view of Bay Area. It seems that this is the right place to have a great overnight sack or a pleasant family picnic lunch or just roam the 12 miles of mission bells and buttercup lined trails. One can find nearly 60 mule

Earthquake Rattles San Francisco Bay Area

2007-11-01T02:32:00.000-07:00

On a magnitude of 5.6, a moderate earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay area Tuesday night at 8pm, about nine miles northeast of San Jose. Residents said that the earthquake was felt as far as east Sacramento and as far as north Sonoma. The epicenter of this quake was close to Alum Rock. The U.S. Geological Survey said that there have been a minimum of 10 aftershocks, the biggest with a

San Francisco Music at Mezzanine

2007-10-24T05:22:00.000-07:00

At Mezzanine in San Francisco, hip-hop acts like Mos Def and Snoop Dogg rest happily beside rock bands like Whitey, every month, a assortment of rock, dance, hip hop, soul, jazz, salsa and other world beat artists take the stage, with scattered multimedia art events, fashion displays and video and film installations. The club says it caters to acts of all kinds, from hot shows with the latest

Google opens office in San Francisco

2007-10-07T23:49:00.000-07:00

Google has lastly opened an office San Francisco. The office was opened this past week Monday and is situated on Spear Street in the tech-heavy South of Market area. San Francisco is important to Google as Google has many users, employees, advertisers and other publishers here, and it is as well a significant base for recruiting. Google people are happy to have an attendance in the city that

San Francisco sees flow in tourism

2007-09-03T00:50:00.000-07:00

Right on the heels of ground-breaking tourism numbers, San Francisco is floating to have its leading convention season in at least five years, keeping city hotels filled to the edge. Next year promises to be by far the healthiest for business and holiday tours and travel in San Francisco since the dot-com boom. Convention business would now reach more than 900,000 hotel room nights in 2008, well

San Francisco International Children's Games with GeoSpot

2007-08-22T04:20:00.000-07:00

GeoSpot has been chosen by the San Francisco International Children's Games (ICG) 2008 to organize the upcoming generation interactive map browser on the web to help Games contributors, event visitors and tourists can discover well-off information, services, and other activities related with hundreds of destinations and businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area. A mobile version of the location

EarthLink gets delayed answer to supervisors

2007-08-02T03:08:00.000-07:00

EarthLink, the Internet service giver, which is rising a plan to blanket San Francisco with free Wi-Fi, has again delayed answer with city headers, and a new statement by the company's fresh leader has some at City Hall wondering if the deal is dead.At the demand of EarthLink, a Board of Supervisors committee agreed last week to wait for a month the hearing on the proposed deal among the city and

San Francisco talks Global Warming

2007-07-27T23:06:00.000-07:00

SAN FRANCISCO United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in California last weel to meet with government headers and know about the state's aggressive efforts to combat global warming. Ban, a former foreign minister of South Korean the U.N. chief in January, lunched with Mayor Gavin Newsom at the historic downtown Ferry Building. His San Francisco plan as well included a visit to the

Bottled Water bans in San Francisco

2007-06-25T04:05:00.000-07:00

Newsom has issued a decision-making order banning city departments from purchasing bottled water, even for water coolers. The ban goes into result from July 1, and would extend to water coolers by December 1. The move was owed as a way to assist stem universal warming and save taxpayer money. "We're expecting to set the example for the private sector and other cities in getting off the bottle,"

Bald Eagle Soon No Longer Endangered

2007-06-19T02:04:00.000-07:00

Jun. 18 - KGO - Mission completed -- that's what San Francisco Zoo officials are conforming about the California Bald Eagle Recovery Program. The once endangered bird might soon be moved off the list of threatened species, and last week the zoo was shipping out the last nine adult bald eagles completing their effort to breed and release birds into the wild. These California bald eagles are

Teen shot at San Francisco during attempt to robbery

2007-06-14T00:29:00.000-07:00

Police are on going to examine a Monday night shooting, which left a teenager in serious condition in a home hospital, a San Francisco police dispatcher said today. The shooting took place after a tried robbery in the Forest Hill neighborhood, according to a correspondent. The injured party and other teenagers were sitting on some steps near the junction of Dewey Boulevard and Pacheco Street

Toxic Toys Banned in San Francisco

2007-06-03T22:31:00.001-07:00

The city of San Francisco would start enforcing a ban on the sale, sharing and production of baby products, which have any level of the toxic chemical bisphenol A, or certain levels of phthalates. Both chemicals - which are used to solidify or make softer plastic products - could leach out of the plastic in toys and products every time any baby puts it in its mouth, possibly causing serious