Roland Li April 29, 2021Updated: April 30, 2021, 7:11 am
Fans at a Fan Expo event in Canada before the pandemic. Fan Expo San Francisco has booked Moscone Center in the fall of 2022. Photo: Fan Expo HQ
San Francisco is expected to get a new comic convention in 2022, the first such event since 2017 and a sign of recovery for the city’s battered tourism industry.
Fan Expo HQ, the biggest comic convention organizer in North America, has committed to hosting the event for five years at Moscone Center. The first edition of Fan Expo San Francisco, which doesn’t have a finalized date, is scheduled for three days at Moscone West in the fall of 2022. It will have capacity for up to 50,000 attendees, assuming public health restrictions have been lifted.
One photo from a place you can hear NCPR. But do you know where it is? Photo: Mitch Teich
Apr 24, 2021
If I haven’t mentioned it before, this is actually the second time I’ve lived in the North Country and worked at NCPR. I was a reporter here from 1996-1998. And when friends and colleagues I’ve collected in the years since ask why I came back here, I can point to the interactions I have with people in the community who tell me they remember me from those days in the mid-‘90s, including, yes, that famous Ice Storm of 1998. (You know it’s a famous storm when you can use capital letters.)
Your correspondent, visiting one of NCPR s unique transmitter sites in 1998. Photo: Bob Sauter
Apr 17, 2021
Only here.
You’re going to hear that phrase a lot over the next couple of weeks at NCPR. It’s the theme around which we’re building our Spring Fundraiser, and well, that means we’re going to say it a lot. When it comes to fundraising time, we try to find a theme that a) is true, and b) is short, to the point, and easy to say on the radio. It’s why we’ve never built a fundraising campaign that goes “NCPR: Because you enjoy the news, and interviews, and sometimes the Rolling Stones or Afro-Caribbean hip-hop, and also Brahms while you are sleeping.” It would take a