Word: franciscos
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...We’re around for everyday needs,” says Craig Newmark, the list’s founder. Newmark’s original, San Francisco-based craigslist.org, which he started in 1995, gained such a strong following in the Bay Area that the need for spin-off sites in other cities became apparent. Boston was chosen as Craigslist’s first expansion city in 2000 because of its high concentration of Internet users. “Boston is a city with a lot of people on the web, and there’s probably a high correlation...
INDICTED. PRENTICE SANDERS, 65, San Francisco's first black police chief, who is scheduled to retire this year; for conspiring with six others to obstruct justice, for their roles in the cover-up of a bar fight involving off-duty police officers last year; in San Francisco...
...more egalitarian but still trendy guide is the sleek new Moon Metro series, which explores cities?so far, New York, Paris, Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, London and Amsterdam?by neighborhood, with highly individualized but not snarky descriptions written by local correspondents. The guides send travelers to traditional tourist spots as well as chic shops and clubs. The chapters include detailed foldout maps that are discreet enough that you can open them on the street without looking lost...
...same time, Woodruff was searching for a composer to write a work especially for the ART. He found Eckert, an award winning composer and lyricist who had already had several successes in New York and San Francisco and was already very well known in contemporary music circles. The two then worked on expanding Eckert’s original piece, adding a libretto as well as a plot. After reading George Lord’s work about The Odyssey’s impact on modern society, Woodruff noticed the parallels between his own story and Homer’s classic...
...frivolous summer months, symphony orchestras in major metropolitan cities put on a different face. The Boston and San Francisco Symphony’s Pops seasons present works of jazz, musicals and popular arrangements of all kinds. Not to be outdone, Harvard offers its own version in the Harvard Pops Orchestra. Last Saturday, in Lowell Lecture Hall, the orchestra performed music from the silent era, accompanied by movies starring the genre’s king: Charlie Chaplin...