Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/42

... that on Floodplain, San Francisco-based string quartet the Kronos Quartet (pictured) plays instruments built by Walter Kitundu, including the beguèna maridhia, which is based on an Ethiopian 10-string lyre?
... that "A Supermarket in California" is a poem by Allen Ginsberg published in 1956 and dedicated to Walt Whitman in the centennial year of the first edition of Leaves of Grass?
... that despite playing the position of wide receiver in American college football, LaShaun Ward was the third leading rusher for the University of California Golden Bears in 2001?
... that the organizers of San Francisco's Trans March rerouted the event through the city's Mission District to draw attention to violence against transgender people?
... that San Francisco Chronicle pop music critic Joel Selvin (pictured) was an early member of the rock and roll band Rock Bottom Remainders, made up of authors and journalists?

May/June 2009