Don and Doris Fisher’s private art collection took one step closer to becoming open to the public, after the Presidio Trust announced plans on Wednesday to move forward in development with the Gap Inc. founders on a contemporary art museum in the Presidio.
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North Bay residents need to pay a fair share of the costs of seismically upgrading Doyle Drive since they compose the majority of Golden Gate Bridge commuters, the head of a San Francisco transportation agency said Tuesday.Despite accounting for only 16 percent of automobiles on the state-owned road, the city and county of San Francisco has secured $640 million in local, state and federal sources for the restoration of Doyle Drive, said Jose Luis Moscovich, executive director of the San Francisco Transportation Authority.
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A 43-year-old Stanislaus county man has been identified as the worker killed Monday when a five-story building in the Bayview collapsed. Luis Gonzalez, of Ceres, was crushed when part of a 79-year-old former Pacific Gas & Electric power plant he was working to demolish came down unexpectedly.Two other workers were injured but survived; as of Monday night, one worker was in serious condition and the other in stable condition, according to a spokesperson for San Francisco General Hospital. On Tuesday, no updates on the condition of the men were provided.
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One man was killedand another two were critically injured Monday when a five-story metal structure collapsed during demolition preparations at the former Pacific Gas and Electric power plant in Bayview-Hunters Point. Emergency officials were investigating the cause of the collapse, which occurred at 1100 Evans Ave. just before noon Monday, San Francisco Fire Department spokeswoman Lt. Mindy Talmadge said. According to Talmadge, the top section of the structure dropped in a "pancake collapse," causing the rest of edifice to twist and crumble to the ground.
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The professor of legal and political communications at San Francisco State University is a frequent political analyst at CBS5 News and a former political speechwriter. The author of several essays that examine the relationship between politics and mass communication, Tuman recently finished his latest book, "Political Communications in American Campaigns," which he will speak about today at the Commonwealth Club.As a political analyst, this must be a busy time for you. If I were an accountant, this would be my tax season.
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An elderly woman was injured Friday morning when she was struck by a school bus while darting across Bayshore Boulevard, officials from the California Highway Patrol said.
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Two restaurants will make history this weekend when they open their doors.Epic Roasthouse and Waterbar are the first free-standing structures to be built solely for culinary purposes in The City in more than 100 years, said Pat Kuleto, the chief restaurateur behind both buildings."I think these will be two of the best restaurants of their kind in America," Kuleto said. "We’re at the best location in San Francisco and we have some of the very best chefs in the country."
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Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge could soon mean less green for drivers on the reddish span. A decision by the bridge’s board of directors gave the green light to a public-outreach process to investigate a proposed $1 fare increase.Commuters using the iconic span could face the higher toll as soon as July 1. "We know people aren’t going to like a toll increase, but we’ve got to balance the budget," bridge spokeswoman Mary Currie said.
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You could be a part of the next Olympics.San Francisco officials Thursday launched the search for a person to carry the Olympic torch through The City on April 9 as it makes its way to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Games.Anyone interested in becoming a part of the Olympic tradition is now eligible to write a 200-word essay, detailing their qualifications to hoist the flame through the streets of San Francisco.
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A new interpretation of a 120-year-old U.S. maritime law could result in The City losing up to $42 million in annual cruise ship revenue, San Francisco Port officials said.
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The Bay Area author and poet, a fixture in San Francisco literary circles for more than a decade, just released her latest book, an immersion-based account of the self-help industry, titled, "Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone." Lisick, who convenes monthly storytelling meetings at Café Du Nord, will be reading from her new book Thursday at Diesel, A Bookstore, in
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The show may go on for the How Weird Street Faire.After the event was nearly canceled last year, the fate of the How Weird Street Faire — at its new proposed location — will be decided today by The City’s festival planning department. The electronic-music-based festival has been a staple on Howard Street since 2000, but noise complaints by residents resulted in city planning officials deciding that last year’s event would be the last at its longtime location at 12th and Howard streets.
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The number of San Francisco bike riders rose by 15 percent from 2006 to 2007, according to a report by The City’s bicycle program.In the study, which will be presented today at the Bicycle Advisory Committee, observers from the Municipal Transportation Agency’s Bicycle Program counted 6,454 cyclists on the streets during sample days in August 2007, which is 800 more than noted in 2006, the first year of the bicycle counting program.
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As founder of Viz Media, one of the largest Japanese entertainment companies based in the United States, Seiji Horibuchi is obligated to keep close tabs on the two countries’ latest pop-culture movements.The constant immersion in consumer demographics and trends is a far cry from the nomadic routine Horibuchi embraced when he first moved to California.
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The warrant obtained by the San Francisco Police Department to search the car and cell phones of the San Jose brothers mauled by a tiger at the San
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