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The United States is a nation of tinkerers. We build, we modify, and we extend. We like to make devices do things that they are not designed to do, just to know that we've done it. This spirit was alive and well over the weekend at the San Mateo County Expo at the Maker Faire Bay Area. The Maker Faire was an absolute blast. I heartily recommend it to geeks of all kinds.

Today, I received my first delivery from Farm Fresh To You (FFTY). FFTY is a local organic family farm delivering fruits and vegetables direct to your door. For $29 (which includes delivery), I signed up for the 'regular' box which contains mostly vegetables with a bit of fruit. They provide many options and are flexible in customizing what shows up in your box (i.e. I never want peas, but

Crosby will be in the bay area all of next week, from 4/26 - 5/3. If anyone is interested in meeting up for coffee, boutique shopping, cupcakes, etc. Drop a line at crosby[at]prcouture.com Looking forward to it! xx

Lenders took back 6,579 homes in the nine-county Bay Area during the first quarter, up from 1,493 a year ago and 4,573 in the fourth quarter, according to a report released by DataQuick on Tuesday. Throughout California, 47,171 homes were foreclosed on, up from 11,032 a year ago. The regional and state figures are now at their highest level in more than 15 years. It's just the newest benchmark in a housing crisis that has set one after another. The national real estate downturn reached critical levels last summer as resetting subprime loans and falling home values precipitated growing numbers of defaults and eventually an international liquidity crisis. The big jump in foreclosures will place additional pressure on home prices, which could lead to further foreclosures, economists say.

Numa altura em que a Full Melt Recordings já anuncia para breve a edição do segundo volume da Série Bay Area Dubstep, arranjei, finalmente, tempo para apreciar o primeiro volume, editado oficialmente no início deste ano de 2008. 14 temas de produtores californianos que exploram diferentes caminhos para esta sonoridade urbana, desde aproximações ao dub-techno até à utilização de elementos étnicos em abordagens diversas que atestam a vitalidade deste som e a sua escusa em ceder ao "mais do mesmo" mantendo a sua aura puramente undergound.MySpace Full Melt Recordings

Reminder: Design Challenge in Bay Area to Win Tenori-On - Enter Now - We’re still accepting entrants to the Futuristic Music Design Challenge at Yuri’s Night Bay Area. It’s a chance to showcase your personal musical hardware and/or software creation in a live performance competition. You’ll definitely take home some swag and get a free pass to the event. If you’ve got what it takes, you’ll come home [...] More: continued here Other Review: Bodies and Souls (Audio CD)

The Bay Area Green Business Program verifies that businesses meet higher standards of environmental performance. Their partnerships, comprised of government agencies and utilities, help local businesses comply with all environmental regulations and take actions to conserve resources, prevent pollution, and...

This past week, James Beard Foundation announced their nominees for the 2008 James Beard Foundation Awards. Like last year, the Bay Area food community is well-represented. Boulevard and The Slanted Door, two perennial San Francisco favorites, are up for the Outstanding Restaurant Award. While not a clean sweep like last year, four of the five nominees in the Best Chef in the Pacific Region (California and Hawaii) are from the Bay Area: Douglas Keane of Cyrus, Craig Stoll of Delfina, and Michael Tusk of Quince are repeat nominees from last year, with David Kinch of Manresa joining them on the list of nominees.Nate Appleman of A16 and SPQR is a repeat nominee in the Rising Star Chef of the year. Nicole Plue of Yountville's Redd and Elisabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson of Tartine Bakery

When Paula and Arnie Celick moved into their Auburn, CA home with a new phone number, they didn't know a previous user of the number was being pursued by collection agencies. The collection agencies refused to honor the Celick's requests to stop calling. The phone company and others were powerless to restrain the insistent bill collectors who kept calling the wrong people. Finally, the Celick's

Yeah, well not really breaking news if you live in San Francisco.  This happens all the damn time around here. I just heard on the news that “peace activists” plan demonstrations across the nation today to mark the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.  More than 600 events are planned nationwide and [...]

The Bay Area's rich are still snapping up high-end properties for record sums. On Friday, a mystery shopper agreed to buy the unfinished penthouse at the Millennium Tower for $11 million. That's $2,288.81 for each of the San Francisco property's 4,800 square feet, a range rarely exceeded even when the space is built out - that is to say, when it actually includes walls and finishes.The buyer, who wasn't identified per the building owner's policy, put down $1 million to begin the escrow process.

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Said to be an 833 billion dollar industry in 2006 and is planned to be the next big job boom since the dot com era, Clean-tech industries is coming to the East Bay to what’s named the “Green Corridor”.  Future job numbers are estimated to reach 40 million jobs and a 4.5 Trillion dollar industry by 2030. Oakland, Richmond, Emeryville and Berkeley Mayors gathered with the Chancellor of U.C. Berkeley, Robert Brigeneau, at his private residence to help inspire a collective approach for the wave of Green Construction, Green Conservation and Green Programs in the East Bay. Hide Sites

One of the most sought-after tourist destinations in USA has to be the city of San Francisco, which, like New York, is termed as the city that never sleeps. A beautifully designed city on the Bay at the western coast of US, this place has something interesting, exciting and fulfilling to offer to every individual; whether you are a nature-lover, a water-sports person, love architecture and history, are an avid shopper, an adventurer or a foodie like me, you will never be disappointed in SFO, and will always come back for more too! But 2 days is a very short time to capture the essence of the city; ideally, you at least need a week to revel and appreciate what SFO has to offer. But not many of us have the luxury to spend more than a weekend for short getaways. So as a resident of this area who loves travelling and blogging, I am honored to play a guide to your San Francisco Bay trip, guiding you through the must-see places and tourist attractions in and around the city, and making sure

Do you want to give a special client the red carpet treatment at a NHL Tampa Bay Lightning Home Hockey game? Do you live in the Tampa Bay area?  These tickets come with ALL, and I mean ALL, the amenities?  I have pairs of season tickets (2 tickets to each game) to all their home games, which includes FREE parking right next to the stadium, first class service in the AFS Club (formerly the XO Club two years ago) which includes all you food, beer, wine, soda, and deserts.  If you smoke, there is a cigar lounge in there which has full visibility of the ice and action.  (BTW, no misprint - ALL, the beer, wine, etc included - within legal reason of course - IE- they cannot serve you if you are visibly intoxicated)  How would you like to treat your client to this very special red carpet treatment of a night out?  Just feel free to email or call me!  Here is the rest of this months, November, and December's schedul

Do you live in the Tampa Bay area?  Would you like to go to a NHL Tampa Bay Lightning home game, with ALL, and I mean ALLthe amenities?  I have pairs of season tickets (2 tickets to all games) to all their home games, which includes FREE parking right next to the stadium, first class service in the AFS Club (formerly the XO Club two years ago) which includes all you food, beer, wine, soda, and deserts.  If you smoke, there is a cigar lounge in there which has full visibility of the ice and action.  (BTW, no misprint - ALLthe beer, wine, etc included - within legal reason of course - IE- they cannot serve you if you are visiblyintoxicated)  How would you like to treat your client to this very special night out?  Just feel free to email or call me!  Here is the rest of this months schedule, and I will post more in a few weeks, but as I said, I have the ENTIRE season of these awesome great seats!Day Date Visitor Home Time October Thr Sat W

On Friday 28th September Sekhar Kammula’s Happy Days created a new record with the biggest ever attendance for a telugu movie in USA. Dallas telugu movie market is typically about 50% of the NJ and about 40% of Bay area markets. On Friday 500 watched Happy Days in bay area and about 700 in NJ. 1157 people watched it in Dallas, which means almost the number which is equal to NJ and Bay area put together( 500+700=1200). It is just unprecedented and happened on the same day the hyped ‘Chirutha’ got released.

While sitting in front of my computer during college, connected to the Internet doing whatever, I often thought, How the heck did people survive college before the Internet?  I still don’t know; maybe they socialized in-person or did other weird things like that, but it seems like such an undesirable situation. (more…)

These guys are located right across from our mattress store. I’ve talked to the owners and they are kinda cool. Anyways, you gotta check out buildasofa.com for your next custom sofa you are going to build if you live in the SF Bay Area. They used to have this 2 story sofa outside their building. (I think someone bought it) BED News, build a sofa, Couch, kinda cool, mattress store, mattress store, sf bay area, sofa, sofa bed, sofas and futons

On Friday We went to the De Young. I like the building. I even like the mesh now. There was one flaw, the top viewing deck is “elevator only”, ridiculous. We met a friend of Amy’s Joe Mangrum. Does ephemeral art. I liked the Hiroshimo Sugimoto exhibit, the suble siplicity of the seascapes and the art about art idea is present in his long warrior photo. The best for me was learning from Amy about the Bay area Figurative school. (Good summary, More NYT) I liked the Richard Diebenkorn I saw.

DQNews.com has an interesting list of residential resale values for each zip code in the Bay Area.  The table compares June 2007 to the prior year and shows absolute and percentage changes in sales volume and median price.  I'm glad to see this data, since it confirms my earlier hunch about the flight to quality in a downward trending market.  In Contra Costa county (my neck of the hood), the better school district zip codes of Lafayette, Moraga, and Orinda are worlds apart, and are faring much better, compared to the eastern part of the county (Antioch, Pittsburg, Oakley, etc.).  This is not to say that the 'good zips' won't get hit later -- and I think they will -- but it shows the importance of buying in the right areas to decrease market volatility risk exposure.  There is still money to be made in these market conditions, but it is critical to stick to the fundamentals and make sure you are making money on the purchase of the property rather than hopin

Anyone who's spent even one day in India knows what "chaat" means....The first drops of rain would send people flocking to the chaat places, and now the craze has reached such a crescendo that be it any season or any time of the day, chaat-mania never dies!!! The mouth-watering taste of the "chutneys" (tamarind and green chilly sauces) and the mind-boggling smell of the entire concoction is sure to leave its mark on anyone, not just an indian!!So here's an ode to one such eating joint called Chaat Paradise, located in a small corner of a huge complex in mountainview. The restaurant is hardly noticeable from outside, yet it draws huge crowds during lunch and weekends simply based on the word-of-mouth of its delighted and satisfied patrons like me. Its menu is pretty extensive with a large variety of appetizers and chaat dishes, and you'd be happy to pick out any one of them from the list. but my favourites are the "Hara-Bhara Sprout Bhel" and the "Dahi batata sev puri". The paneer pa

This weekend, many people will be going here and then heading towards the gulf for some R&R. For those that are from up North or in the Mid-West or from any part of the country without beach access, this is what you are missing. My wife and I will just have a simple walk at the beach.  Perhaps visit Hurricane restaurant & bar to catch the sunset.  By the way, they have the best calamari around (believe me, we have ordered calamari from all the restaurants we’ve visited in the Tampa Bay area.  Enjoy your weekend.

This weekend, many people will be going here and then heading towards the gulf for some R&R. For those that are from up North or in the Mid-West or from any part of the country without beach access, this is what you are missing. My wife and I will just have a simple walk at the beach.  Perhaps visit Hurricane restaurant & bar to catch the sunset.  By the way, they have the best calamari around (believe me, we have ordered calamari from all the restaurants we’ve visited in the Tampa Bay area.  Enjoy your weekend. * Picture shown is around Land’s End Marina in Apollo Beach.

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Berkeley (CA) Police are seeking a man and woman in connection with thefts from Open Houses across the Bay Area. Police allege that 30 yr old Paul McCLung (pictured below) and an as yet unidentified caucasian woman thought to be about 50 yrs old visit open houses and realty offices posing as potential buyers. Whilst the woman distracts the realtor McClung steals items like wallets, credit cards and cash. In one such incident a Santa Barbara Police Dept badge was stolen and McClung is now believed to be posing as the former police officer from whom the badge was stolen.  Police said McClung drives a dark blue four-door late model Jaguar with a light-colored interior. Police urge anyone who spots McClung not to approach him but to call 9-1-1 or 981-5911 from a cell phone. Oakland police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering up to $2,500 in reward for information leading to McClung’s arrest. Anyone with information about McClung is asked to call Oakland police at 238

1. Wineries are all over the place. You can drive to the north, south, or east, and within 2 hours, explore Napa, Sonoma, Russian River Valley, Santa Cruz Mountains, Livermore, Monterey, and those are just a few. Plus, the vineyards make for great scenery, as you drive along highways and backroads alike, charting the progress of the grapes. 2. Tastings are always going on somewhere. The big ones like ZAP, Rhone Rangers, and the SF Chronicle Wine Competition gather hundreds of wines under one roof, all for the spitter to enjoy at a vigorous pace of tasting. On a smaller scale, many wine shops and restaurants conduct tastings on a regular basis. Stores such as BevMo and K & L allow the shopper to sample certain wines prior to making purchases, thereby taking some of the uncertainty out of the equation. 3. Wine-focused restaurants abound. Whether it’s wine bars (check out 750 ml in San Mateo or Vino Locale in Palo Alto) or restaurants with impressive wine lists (favorites f

San Francisco Bay Area fans of The Police finally got their wish - the world famous rock band added the second new date this week for their Reunion Tour 2007 - a June 13th performance at the Coliseum... Check the website for more links, updates, photos and more!

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What? The Bay area market is crashing? Seems so. "You have just got to price it right.....great time for buyers...market slowing to its lowest level in ten years....housing market is changing......"

San Francisco, California - Allied Cash Advance has relocated its corporate headquarters from the Bay Area to Miami, citing the high cost of doing business in California, the company said Wednesday. The fast-growing company was founded in 1999 with a single location in Northern California.

There must be a few PatternReviewers here in the Bay Area. Let's chat and share resources.  I'm so jealous of those who live in the Boston area.  They even got together for a potluck!Calling all Left Coast sewing enthusiasts and fabric collectors.Last post by fiberfanatic at Tue 24 Jul 2007 09:57:00 PM Total posts: 1019 Visit PatternReview.com to read this entire topic.Research Bernina Sewing Machines at PatternReview.com.