Published: June, 2003 "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." Napoleon Bonaparte’s semi-famous, but increasingly forgotten line about celebrity status was never so true as for French traders at the end of the First Empire. French merchants and customs agents, who were doing quite well, merci, working the lucrative routes of the Indian Ocean from […]
Published: August, 2013 In a partnership with the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department, Another Planet Entertainment, Superfly Presents and Starr Hill Presents will bring the sixth annual Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival back to San Francisco’s historic Golden Gate Park on August 9-11. In its five years, Outside Lands has risen to become […]
Published: January, 2015 25th Years of Sea Lions at PIER 39 This January, celebrate the 25th anniversary of the sea lions’ arrival to PIER 39. The boisterous barking pinnipeds began arriving in droves shortly after the Loma Prieta earthquake hit San Francisco in October 1989. With a protected environment and plentiful supply of food from the Bay, the […]
