Jimo Perini shows 63 years of photography at Canessa Gallery through January. Published more than once. A part of North Beach. A photographer's photographer. Canessa in the past.

ROOKE TIME 26: A Brief History of Graffiti Research/Staffan Jacobson via elastic space

The Cockettes -- uh, the Palace, the theater up the street that seems to be seriously boarded up. Also The Artist General via an official purveyor of information.

Elastico.net: USA, 1872-1991, USGS earthquake and dramatic landscape.

The Examiner has a perceptive article about why North Beach is such a great place, and trashes Civic Center, Union Square (a little) and the Embarcadero and its fancy farmer's market.