Anne Schrager May 3, 2021
Singer/songwriter Diana Gameros will be featured in the Exploratorium’s online bilingual Mother’s Day celebration. Photo: Claudio Nalerio, courtesy of the artist
Mother’s Day arrives Sunday, May 9, and there is no shortage of ways to spend quality time with family in honor of the occasion.
Local venues in San Francisco and beyond are preparing parklets and newly constructed performance areas to celebrate the season, as vaccination rates spark a slight relaxation of public health guidelines. Examples include District Six, a SOMA StrEat Food Park-curated outdoor food truck and entertainment area in the city, and Out Front at the UC Theatre in Berkeley, which features a street bar, casual outdoor dining and live music from 6:30-10 p.m., Thursdays-Saturdays. The Blue Note Napa is also set for a pivot to outdoor entertainment, with a robust live music series hosted at the Charles Krug Winery in St. Helena starting up later this month; and th
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The best Bay Area lookouts to spot migrating gray whales and their newborns
By Nora Mishanec | April 23, 2021 | Updated: April 23, 2021 2:40 PM
Gray whales are on the move with their calves in tow.
The majestic marine mammals have begun their springtime migration north along the California coastline, escorting their 1,000-pound newborns from Baja’s shallow lagoons to Alaska’s arctic waters.
The whales’ northbound voyage takes them closer to shore than their southern sojourn, meaning Bay Area residents may catch a glimpse of the mottled giants with or without binoculars (though binoculars are recommended). The parade of migrating pairs will pick up this month, peaking in early to mid-May.
I couldn t live out there in all that fog.
This comment, so often offered when someone found I was a resident of the Avenues used to puzzle me. I thought it wasn t foggy enough.
Sure it s often overcast in the Richmond and Sunset, but that isn t real fog. As opposed to the dull slate of overcast skies, fog is a sensual banquet. You can taste fog, feel the wet mist on your skin, see how its cottony skein erases the world halfway down the block. And fog, so silent, is always accompanied here by the doleful bellowing of foghorns.
As kids we knew the foghorn variations. We mimicked the cadences and dropped pitches to salute each other. When we got separated in our games in Mountain Lake Park, we found each other in the thickets using foghorn calls.
The best free things to do in California
Lonely Planet Editors
15 March 2021
Sprawling California may be that state that gave us the Gold Rush and home to some of the most expensive cities in the United States, but you don t have to blow your vacation budget to visit. Some of the best sites in California are free to experience, from the towering redwoods of NorCal to the surf breaks of SoCal and dozens of wineries, museums, gardens, and cultural touchstones in between.
Whether you re looking for stunning state parks or museums that cover subjects from the avant garde to cryptozoology, Italian grapes or California cuisine, marine wildlife or towering man-made infrastructure, there s a lot to see in the Golden State. We narrowed your list down to the top 32 free attractions in California you don t want to miss, organized from north to south.
Search for 12-year-old boy swept into turbulent surf at Half Moon Bay beach suspended
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Rescue crews searched for a child who was swept to sea at Cowell Ranch State Beach on Monday.CalFire CZU
The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday the search for a 12-year-old boy swept into the turbulent waters at Cowell Ranch State Beach just south of San Francisco was suspended.
Civilian search and rescue controller Travis Addison said a body hasn t been found.
The boy was with his father and 8-year-old brother at the Half Moon Bay beach when a sneaker wave swept them into the ocean, according to the Cal Fire San Mateo-Santa Cruz unit.