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In S.F., it's all about the lighting

Living in a beautiful city can be a problem, too, as any San Franciscan knows. It means ignoring crime, dirty streets, the homeless. Sometimes, looking in the mirror solves everything. The truth is the city is beautiful, and just now, just before the ...

From CARL NOLTE, San Francisco Chronicle,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bank of America,  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

British pair first to row across the Pacific

The voyage took 189 days - more than six months - on a boat made of Kevlar and propelled only by muscle power. The two men were stalked by whales, tossed by storms, ran low on food and sometimes despaired. They did not sight land until Thursday, when ...

From CARL NOLTE, San Francisco Chronicle,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chris Martin,  Dolly Parton,  Gavin Newsom

Pelosi, veterans dedicate Presidio overlook

The site, on the edge of a forest of eucalyptus, overlooks the Presidio National Cemetery, the bay, the Golden Gate and the Marin Headlands. "This beautiful place is a place to reflect, remember and honor the deeds of these soldiers," Pelosi said. ...

From CARL NOLTE, San Francisco Chronicle,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Robert Hass,  U.S. House of Representatives

S.F. trail dedication among Veterans Day events

Two events will take place in San Francisco, including the dedication of a scenic walking trail and overlook at the Presidio. The other event is an exhibit featuring photographs and interviews with Japanese American soldiers who performed top-secret ...

From CARL NOLTE, San Francisco Chronicle,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jim Barnes,  US Marine Corps,  National Guard

Writer Mary Ellen Jordan Haight dies

Mary Ellen Jordan Haight, a member of an old California family and a writer, died of heart failure at a San Francisco hospital Oct. 26 at the age of 82. Born in Los Angeles in 1927, Mrs. Haight attended the University of Utah and UCLA, but dropped out ...

From CARL NOLTE, San Francisco Chronicle,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of California, Los Angeles,  University of California,  University of California Berkeley,  Gertrude Stein,  Chanel

Up from the rubble, 20 years after Loma Prieta

The quake lasted only 15 seconds, but it killed 67 people, smashed downtown Santa Cruz, wrecked San Francisco's Marina district, broke the Bay Bridge - and changed much of the Bay Area. Loma Prieta was one of those watershed events; in some ways, the ...

From CARL NOLTE, San Francisco Chronicle,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Art Agnos,  Aaron Peskin

Raymond Haight Jr. - veteran teacher - dies

Raymond Leroy Haight Jr., a teacher and a descendant of an old California family, died Sept. 22 in a San Francisco hospital of congestive heart failure. He was 88. His great-grandfather was Henry Huntley Haight, who was governor of California from 1867 ...

From CARL NOLTE, San Francisco Chronicle,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: University of Southern California,  Ida B. Wells

Quake-battered Mission San Miguel restored

Friends of the old mission, which was badly damaged in an earthquake nearly six years ago, raised $15 million to save the 191-year-old adobe building. The money came from sources that included everything from big charitable foundations to community ...

From CARL NOLTE, San Francisco Chronicle,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: John Fowler,  John Adams

Paul Fay - ex-Navy official, JFK friend - dies

Paul Burgess Fay Jr. - who was always called Red, a nickname his father gave him as a child - was a man of many parts. He headed the Fay Improvement Co., the family-owned contracting business, ran an investment firm, organized and supported charities ...

From CARL NOLTE, San Francisco Chronicle,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: John Fitzgerald Kennedy,  Robert Fulton

S.F. postmaster Jefferson Wilson dies

Jefferson Wilson, the first African American postmaster in San Francisco, died of natural causes at his home in San Francisco on Sept. 11. Mr. Wilson, who served as San Francisco's postmaster from 1980 to 1985, was 82. Mr. Wilson worked his way up ...

From CARL NOLTE, San Francisco Chronicle,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  University of California Berkeley

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