Developers, energized by the high-octane real estate market, are circling over SoMa and looking to pounce on the remaining empty lots, shuttered gas stations, and underutilized aging warehouses that once dominated the blocks of this former industrial neighborhood. The pickings are becoming … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2015
B-Boys and B-Girls Bring the House Down At Hip Hop DanceFest 2015
Get lost in it. Feel the music. Move with the breakbeats. Get down with the b-boys and b-girls. Dancers brought down the house last weekend at the Palace of Fine Arts for the 17th annual San Francisco International Hip Hop DanceFest. The festival was truly a global affair with troupes from … [Read more...]
In Pictures – Colors Of France At City Hall
Painting City Hall in tricolor and flying the French flag at its entrance, San Francisco proudly declares its solidarity with France as the nation grips with the latest string of terror attacks that cost lives of at least 129 people. French Tricolor, French Flag, City Hall, Colors, Blue, Red, … [Read more...]
SF Open Studios – Artist Spotlight
A contemporary international city could not exist without human engineering. The concrete bones of a skyscraper, electrons flowing through power lines, and the software that guides public transportation all rely on the prowess of human engineering. But what about engineering's antithetic brother, … [Read more...]
250 Howard: Another Site Joins SoMa’s Building Boom
Urban transformation is well underway on the northeast streets of San Francisco's South of Market District. An emerald city of glassy blue-green towers is crystallizing in SoMa's sub-neighborhood Rincon Hill and inviting the question as to which nearby road will be repaved in yellow bricks. A shy … [Read more...]