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MyFox Los AngelesThe weather system moved down from Northern California, bringing up to an inch of rain in drought-stricken coastal and valley areas of Los Angeles County, and more in the mountains. About an inch of rain fell earlier around the San Francisco Bay Area.First of two storms hits Los Angeles, residents prepare for soaking […]
CBS LocalPLEASANT HILL (CBS SF) – BART officials are saying that repairs to a damaged train, track and third rail following a derailment at the Concord BART station Friday evening are likely to continue through Saturday night. Train service past Pleasant Hill …San Francisco Bay Area commuter train derailsSacramento BeeBART train derails near Concord StationSan […]
San Francisco radio station cuts off USA-Russia overtime for golf showCBSSports.comFans in the San Francisco Bay Area that couldn’t get to a TV had KNBR-AM to rely on to follow the action of Saturday’s thrilling win for the U.S. hockey team over Russia at the 2014 Olympics. That was until overtime caused the game to […]
Is Tech Money Good For San Francisco’s Middle-Class? An Economist’s …TechCrunchThe liberal wonderland of the San Francisco Bay Area has one of the highest concentration of wealth in the country. Twitter’s IPO, alone, created an estimated 1,600 millionaires. But, are local residents catching any of the dollar bills being shaken … …read more Source: San […]
Gracie Gold and Ashley Wagner are the USA Olympics Figure Skaters who have taken America (and the World outside Russia) by storm. So much so, that this blogger had to ask how they would look in Glo-Blades! What are Glo-Blades? Glo-Blades are an amazing invention and skating product by Ralph Haney and his son Steven […]
Ars TechnicaOAKLAND, CALIFORNIA—For the last month, 40 mysterious billboards have popped up in seemingly random locations around the San Francisco Bay Area. “The revolution has started… Where do you stand?” they read. They’re accompanied by a Bitcoin … …read more Source: San Francisco News By Google
Nicki Minaj Not Hotter Than Megan Avalon Nicki Minaj Not Hotter Than Megan Avalon Nicki Minaj Not Hotter Than Megan Avalon http://ift.tt/1aFQ5CM Look, Nicki Minaj is hot, but not hotter than Megan Avalon. Megan Avalon is my friend who’s a personal trainer and female bodybuilder based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s the perfect […]
Pinewood Studios Atlanta Fayetteville, Georgia – the near-300-acre movie studio complex slated to open this month as production of MARVEL’s Ant-Man with Michael Douglas and Paul Rudd gets underway – has already got off on the wrong political foot with the Fayetteville and Peachtree City community. And considering the excitement as reflected by the comments […]
USA TODAYSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit officials and labor union leaders announced a new deal early Saturday, saying the final issue in their ongoing dispute has been resolved. The transit system and its two largest unions have …San Francisco Bay Area transit system and labor unions reach deal, resolve …Washington […]
Minneapolis Star TribuneFour homeless people have died of hypothermia in the San Francisco Bay Area since last week, authorities said, highlighting the danger to people without shelter as the region is gripped by freezing temperatures. Santa Clara County sheriff’s Lt. Dave …Bitter cold kills at least 4 in South BaySan Francisco Chronicle4 Homeless People Die […]
Nelson Mandela When Nelson Mandela was freed from prison in South Africa in 1990, he went on a United States “Thank You” Tour that included Oakland, California. You have to understand that, at that time I was just about three years out of grad school at UC Berkeley. And when I was there, protests against […]
Who had Google Glass, or looked like they had it, in 2012? The question comes because Sarah Price, of the Google Glass team was kind enough to respond back to my blog post ranting on the firm for basically fumbling the football when it came to distribution to African Americans (note, I’m specifically referring to […]
Ron Conway, the famed tech investor and co-founder of Y-Combinator, started SF CiTi with the original objective of marshalling the San Francisco and San Francisco Bay Area Tech Community to move the political needle on legislation of interest to it. At first, membership was free, with events being paid for by sponsors. But now, Ron’s […]
Van Jones beats Ted Cruz on Crossfire? True. Van Jones, who’s a well-known name in Oakland, having co-founded three Oakland and San Francisco Bay Area non-profits the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Color of Change and Green For All and wrote The Green Collar Economy (which I talked to him about in this video) […]
The Drake’s Bay issue is one I’ve largely ignored, but after meeting Kevin Lunny on my own, as I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and then trying to look at the situation from both sides, it’s hard not to side with Kevin’s little company. It’s the perfect David versus Goliath story, and it’s […]
The BART Strike that has impacted the travel and commute patterns throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, and especially from the East Bay to the West Bay, is over. BART released the following statement from General Manager Grace Crunican: “I am happy to announce the BART system will be open and fully operational at 3pm […]
UPDATE: More Godzilla San Francisco Set Information Revealed! UPDATE VIDEO: Godzilla is still being filmed in Surrey, BC, and while that outdoor work is going on, there’s a photo from an indoor set that’s getting a lot of buzz, and another that was virtually ignored by the media, but gives the biggest clue yet to […]
The San Francisco Super Bowl L Bid was successful. It, really, if you think about it, surprisingly, beat back a formidable Miami and South Florida Super Bowl Bid, where Miami has hosted the game a record ten times. After the press conference, where San Francisco 49ers Owner John York, his son Jed York, and bid […]
The NFL Owners meet Tuesday at the Hyatt Harborside in Boston to conduct league business, including voting to determine which city hosts the 50th and 51st Super Bowl, or Super Bowl L and LI. (Follow Zennie62 on Twitter to keep track of what’s happening as I will be there.) The San Francisco Bay Area Super […]
The San Francisco 49ers and team President and CEO Jed York have scored a $220 million naming rights deal that’s the first one in the San Francisco Bay Area to actually reflect the true value of such partnerships in the region. According to The San Francisco 49ers, Levi Strauss & Co. plans to present to […]
Jason Collins came out as gay in a well-presented column released in Sports Illustrated today. This blogger’s initial reaction was “so what?” Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area makes one take what is an earth-shaking revelation to others, with a “Right on,” and “That’s cool,” reaction. But what went through my mind and […]
Heyo’s a young Blacksburgh, VA company that makes a platform that allows you make a Facebook page, and also a Facebook page-related mobile app. Trouble is, they ask you to pay for the service. But considering that their clients are companies like NBC, that’s both a good thing, and a bad thing. Heyo, formerly known […]
Fitness SF, which was once called Gold’s Gym of the San Francisco Bay Area, and of which this vlogger has been a long-time member of it’s Oakland facility, has suffered from the actions of an irate web developer by the name of Frank Jonen. Claiming unpaid invoices, Mr. Jonen has taken to altering the FitnessSF […]
All 70-year-old Paula Uccelli wants to do is get out of the business of running a harbor her late husband established and called Pete’s Harbor. She and Pete Uccelli ran the harbor for 60 years until his passing; since then she’s been largely on her own. Month’s ago, Ms. Uccelli made the decision to sell […]
The Pete’s Harbor controversy’s heating up. Here’s the latest news on the dispute between the legendary harbor, its tenants, and the State of California. More commentary will come, but these are the latest press releases: Pete’s Harbor Overpays Rent to Comply with Unreasonable State Demand Paula Uccelli, 70, forced by state to pay hundreds of […]
After some years in this business and two companies Sports Business Simulations and Zennie62Media (as well as involvement in another tech startup called Bartabber and another called MyPartnerInCrime.com), I realized I have more than a little advice to share. Those who may not know me would ask “Why should I pay attention to you?” Well, […]
WonderCon, the large comic book convention that started in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has been in Oakland at the Oakland Convention Center since 1987 to 2002, then at the Moscone Center to 2011. In 2012 WonderCon was forced to seek a temporary home due to expansion-related construction at Moscone Center. Anaheim came forward […]
It’s Wednesday, October 31st, which means it’s Halloween 2012. It also happens to be the day of the parade for the 2012 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants, too. Of course, that means something only to the San Francisco Bay Area for the most part, and SF Giants fans in general, but it’s still a […]
U.S. President Barack Obama’s visiting the San Francisco Bay Area October 8th for a reception and concert at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at 5:30 PM. Here’s the link for tickets and the video:
Keywords: Zazzle, Bay To Breakers, San Francisco, Charity, Angela Fang, SF, Zennie62, Zennie Abraham The 101th running of the Zazzle Bay to Breakers was declared a success by race organizers as it entered its second century in the San Francisco Bay Area. After its inaugural year the newly launched Bay to Breakers charity program served […]
Over the past five years, Oakland, California, this blogger’s home, has developed (and this is strictly by observation) a new populations of people, the majority of which are white, that has started to transform Oakland such that we’re seeing a new and unprecedented wave of restaurants and shops, and a kind of political view that’s […]
Yesterday, an explosion of some kind rocked the Chevron Richmond Refinery, sending giant plumes of smoke miles into the air, and that could be seen from almost all parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. NBC News Bay Area ran a video hangout live stream on Monday that featured an overhead view of the fire […]
A Wednesday 4th Of July is just plain weird, mostly because the entire day caught me totally by surprise. Yes, this happens once every seven years, but that’s just long enough to recall the last time, in 2005, my life was complicated by both of my fathers, real and step, and my Mom, all battling […]