By Paul DuclosPublished: June, 2009 When Bay Crossings caught up with David Gockley, San Francisco Opera’s sixth general director, he was busy preparing for the company’s summer season, which features three major productions: La Traviata, Tosca and Porgy & Bess. Following in the footsteps of General Directors Gaetano Merola (1923-1953), Kurt Herbert Adler (1953-1981), Terence […]
Published: February, 2006 Oakland Hot Spot Jack London Square, set along a natural estuary on the site where the city of Oakland first began in 1852, is poised to become the next hot spot for urban waterfront living. Located at the foot of Broadway at Embarcadero, Jack London Square is easy to get to by […]
Two LEED certified hotels open within weeks of each other By Dan SankeyPublished: January, 2007 Gaia was not alone in the race to be the first all-green hotel in California with this certification. In the City of San Francisco, near Union Square, the Orchard Garden Hotel was designed with the same goal in mind. Only […]
