BY JOEL WILLIAMS It was shortly after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake shook the Bay Area that the first sea lions began hauling out onto the piers in the Pier 39 marina. It was a few here and there at first, but by January 1990 their numbers had reached 500—at one point they topped out […]
BY PAUL DUCLOS Levi Strauss: A History of American Style, an exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, will run from February 13 to August 9. The exhibit will celebrate the birth of the blue jean, showcase the life of Levi Strauss, track the evolution of Levi’s from workwear into iconic fashion wear, and describe how […]
Call of the Baby Beluga Join the Ocean Film Festival organizers on Thursday, February 6 at the Bay Conference Center in Tiburon for a screening of Call of the Baby Beluga. It is the story of baby beluga whale washing up on a gravel beach along the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. Unexpectedly, she is […]
Each year, breweries, venues and event hosts of all types from across the Bay Area celebrate independent craft beer and its role within our communities of fostering friendships, encouraging collaboration, and as a source of creativity and self-expression. They do this in the form of a curated “week” (actually 10 days) of amazing, inspiring events […]
The Port of San Francisco sees in Piers 38 and 40 the opportunity to transform an underused stretch of the City’s waterfront into a vibrant extension of the bustling South Beach and South of Market neighborhoods that it borders. Last month, the port invited developers to suggest strategies to make the piers a destination for […]
Last month, high tides in San Francisco Bay washed up onto the shoreline of a large former pharmaceutical company in Richmond. A few hours later, the outgoing tide pulled contamination—including pesticides, toxic chemicals and radioactive waste—off the industrial land and into the Bay. Right now, this occurs a few times every year during the highest […]
Richmond Weekend Service to Resume: WETA has recommended that the pilot ferry program providing weekend service between the Port of San Francisco and Richmond, which launched last August, should continue. The pilot program ran for 12 weeks from August 2019 to October 2019, and according to a survey of about 200 riders, many enjoyed the […]
San Francisco Bay Tideline ferry Captain Glenn Williams and deckhand Lester Laboi received special recognition last Thursday from Senator Diane Feinstein for their heroics during a man overboard rescue in the cold waters of the San Francisco Bay the Friday before Christmas. Tideline Marine Group is a private, small-boat ferry service operating out of the […]
Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed Jim Wunderman as the chair of the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) Board of Directors. Mr. Wunderman has served as the WETA Board vice chair since 2015, when he was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown. Governor Newsom will appoint a new vice chair to serve on […]
BY BOBBY WINSTON Twenty years ago, and I was looking for something to do between jobs. I thought I’d spend just a few months volunteering as an advocate for more ferry service. God laughs at the plans of man. . . I fell under the spell of the hard-charging Ron Cowan, colorful Harbor Bay developer […]