Red and yellow were the colors for the Empire State Building to usher in the Year of the Ox.
Cherry Blossom Festivals! If you didn't get a chance to celebrate the cherry blossoms at a Cherry Blossom festival this year, enjoy the beautiful photos here!
May 5, 2010
If you didn't get a chance to view the cherry blossoms this year, enjoy beautiful botanical photos by Lia Chang, and a photo gallery featuring images from her most recent exhibition this month.
If you missed the 2010 Cherry Blossom festivals this year, click on this time-lapse created from more than 3,000 digital photos, one taken very three minutes during the 2008 Cherry Blossom festival. Or check out the Brooklyn Botanic Garden CherryWatch website at http://www.bbg.org/cherrywatch
2008 Cherry Blossom Time-lapse at Brooklyn Botanic Garden from Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Vimeo.
April 1, 2010
Its time for the Cherry Blossom Festivals!
In San Francisco, the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival will be held Saturday April 10 and Sunday April 11, 2010 and on the following weekend Saturday April 17 and Sunday April 18. The Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival is the second largest festival outside of Washington D. C. to celebrate the blooming of cherry blossoms. For more information go to the festival website at http://nccbf.org/index.php
In the New York area, I love the serenity of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's annual rite of Spring, Hanami, the Japanese cultural tradition of viewing and cherishing each moment of the cherry's flowering season from the first buds, to the luminous blossoms, to...
July 25, 2013
San Francisco
San Francisco blogger Rich Lieberman has reported in his "Rich Lieberman 415 Media" blog that KTVU-TV has fired three of its veteran producers over the gaffe involving the fake names of the Asiana airline pilots broadcast on its news program.
Leiberman provides a blow-by-blow account of his story of the firings. Click here for the full story
Meanwhile, San Francisco Chronicle columnists Andrew Ross and Phillip Matier, who is also a radio and TV broadcaster, credit Leiberman with breaking the news of the firings, and comment in their Ross & Matier SFGate.com blog on the reaction by colleagues.
Ross and Matier report that many colleagues were saddened but not completely surprised given the international attention the gaffe got, including a threat - later dropped - by Asiana to sue the station. "People are definitely down about it," one source said.
The columnists cite Randy Shandobil, a former KTVU political editor who left the station 2 1/2 years ago commenting on the gaffe as an example of a systemic problem with news reporters pressured and overtaxed everywhere. For the full story by Ross and Matier click here.
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Update July 17, 2013
Asiana Airlines drops plans to sue KTVU-TV
UPDATE July 15, 2013
Asian American Journalists Association Issues Statement on KTVU's Bogus Names of Pilots of SFO...