San Francisco Bay City Guide |
Northern California contains a bounty of the traveler's world class destinations, wine country, white water, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, Gold Country, Redwoods, Pacific Ocean and so much more. We got started on our best of the best of the web but expect this section to expand significantly for your benefit over the course of time.
This is our ninth and final Carnaval City of the new millennium and our home town as well. Our home town is defined by the 94110 zip code, it is an artist ethnic neighborhood called the Mission district which any traveler would not want to miss. Your best guide is here.
There can only be one City of San Francisco and while we are a bit neurotic these days, we promise you a good show while we figure out who we are.
- "What would you expect of a city named for a religious ecstatic who shed his clothes, talked to birds, and recreated himself on the far side of spiritual bliss?" San Francisco Where Magazine:
- Over a third (36%) of visitors are International and over half (54%) say they like "People/Diversity" the most SFCVB
SFGate.com Chronicle
|| News ||
Sports ||
Traffic ||
Search || Index Bay Area TRAVEL:
Visitors' Guide ||
SF
Neighborhoods || Maps || Transportation || Shopping || Entertainment || Old money Chronicle doesn't get much respect elsewhere but it has been the SF Bay's paper of record now for several generations. Famous for their Columnists especially the late Herb Caen. The rube does Sharon Stone
San Jose Mercury News
|| The San Jose
Mercury's parent, Knight-Rider
Newspapers relocated here in '98. After all, as San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzalez points
out, Silicon Valley is the engine around which the global info economy spins. The
Mercury was one of the first dailies on the web and has many new web initiatives inc.
SiliconValley.com San Jose
SF Station
Independent voice doing an excellent job covering arts, culture, entertainment,
food, and city happenings. We love their logo, featuring the Mt. Sutro Tower-- the
forgotten sacred center of the Bay Area and a meditation on threes up close. You will also
find this Carnaval.com guide organized around the Bay Area trinity of urban centers of SF,
SJ and Oakland.
San Francisco Sidewalk by MSN || ?404?sanfrancisco.sidewalk.com/music? Arts
& Music? || ?404?sanfrancisco.sidewalk.com/places? Travel
& Shopping? || ?404? sanfrancisco.sidewalk.com/silicon_valley? Silicon Valley? || ?404?http://sanjose.sidewalk.msn.com/?SanJose.sidewalk.msn.com?
Featuring lots of fresh data and strong well done content amidst rumors of cutbacks
as MSM converts to less local model with fewer resources for the covering the long
edge of the local happening scene
SFweekly.com || ?404?sanjose.sidewalk.msn.com/?Calendar ||
Naughty & Nice Sex || Archive || Best of
'99 || '98
|| 1997
Featuring very cool web animation done using Flash by Macromedia, one of many local high-tech companies. Young smart-ass edge on the prey for any moving targets. Star investigative reporter Peter Byrne anchors their Best City in the Worst Shape focus. Owned by NewTimes.com of LA & more
news || Guides || extra || Bars & Clubs'99 || 98 || Best of the Bay'98 || Nude Beaches
|| masthead
|| arts & entertainment
|| searchitThe locally owned Bay Guardian is proud of not abandoning its progressive (more liberal than thou ) hell raising principles. Publisher Bruce Brugman . is solemnly unapologetic about emphasizing advocacy journalism but few believe all they read anymore anyway. Search from 1995!
CitySearch7 || sanjose.citysearch.comGreat database of resources and events and partnered w\ ABC-TV7. Expect change as new part of Barry Diller's conglomerate of media properties. San Jose, Sacramento & Las Vegas are currently targeted for expansion for citysearch
San Francisco eXaminer.com || News
|| Sports || Style || Last 7 days || Archives || Search || Weather The Examiner is half of SFGate under 30+ year old joint operating equipment that splits everything but editorial... Randolph Hearst's grandson Will, tried to resurrect several years back but this website is a better bet than an afternoon paper Best columnists end up at the Chronicle because circulation is 500% more. the woman most admired by Princess Diana Movie Star Sharon Stone is their first lady ||
Metropolitan by Boulevards || Best of the Bay Area || San Francisco.com || Palo Alto || Oakland.com || Santa Cruz publishes 10 local papers and emphasizes 4 of the 12 Metro Area Counties at MetroActive.com || SFmetro Silicon Valley (a.k.a. Santa Clara/SJ) Santa Cruz (a hotbed of Carnival culture) and Sonoma
The Rest
Official Information: SFvisitor.org San
Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau /SFvisitor.org || Visitor Stats ||
Convention
Calendar || Conv.Cal.II
201 Third St., Ste. 900, San Francisco, CA 94103 415-391-2000 | Fax: 415-974-1992
Stop by the visitor center (415/974-6900) at Hallidie Plaza, at Powell and Market BART
Station for free maps and advise.
?404?http://www.sfchamber.com/visitor/visitor.htm">Visitor's Guide by sfchamber.com
from the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.
Rough Guide: San Francisco
A thin look at San Francisco waiting for up-to-date content.
Foreign
Language
SanFranciscoOnline.com
|| Deutsche/Français/Español/Italiano
|| Japanese
Their on-line directory is matched by their guide in most hotels
San Francisco Chaperon || French,
German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese detailed maps, walks, excursions and practical
information.
?404? http://www.inx.de/~cschulz/sf_tg.html San Francisco Reiseführer
tourist guide for the city in German only
TraXXX - German Guide to SF
regelmäßig aktualisierte infos über szene und kultur, hotels und restaurants.
Yahoo's
list of San Francisco City Guides || SF
Bay Area ||
Over 75 for the city, 287 for Bay Area as of March 1999
Zpub.com San Francisco
Richard Petersen's much celebrated web guide. Carnaval.com is still waiting for
Richard to return our '93 Burning Man video with the place crash
?404?http://www.sfhispanicchamber.com">www.sfhispanicchamber.com
|| ?404?http://www.sfhispanicchamber.com/sfgovernmentpages.htm">City of San
Francisco Links || ?404?http://www.sfhispanicchamber.com/calendar.htm">Calendar || 
?404?amazon.org/amzonline/dykevnt.html?Events? || ?404?www.amazon.org/amzonline/dykclub.html?Clubs and Bars? || ?404?amazon.org/amzonline/dykllw.html?Dyke Links? 
