There were others from the SF bay area, like me, but even people from as far afield as Wisconsin, New York and even Sweden!

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As a former resident of the SF Bay Area (where the BART is), frequent business traveller to WA DC (where MARTA is) and now living in Orlando, it is clear to me that Central Florida is missing out on the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be a future US MegaCity.

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But our music is an offering from the city by the Bay: San Francisco's SF Jazz Collective.

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We're hoping our SF readers are as stoked about our first Bay Area Reader Meetup as we are which goes down later today, incidentally.

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Though the urban winery trend blossomed in East Bay cities such as Oakland, Alameda and Emeryville, in the mid 1990s, the emergence of San Francisco wineries has happened mostly over the last decade, explained Bryan Kane, co-founder and winemaker at Winery SF on Treasure Island, which is connected to downtown San Francisco via the Bay Bridge.

BBC: San Francisco��s urban wine renewal

The First District Court of Appeals in San Francisco ratified a jury finding that the VVMH units, New Times Media LLC and SF Weekly LLC, wildly overstepped when the SF Weekly was acquired in 1995 and then below-cost advertising sold to compete against the more established Bay Guardian.

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