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