Bernal Links



Links from around Bernal Heights
	Want to know even more about Bernal? Here is a smorgasbord of links that will take you to all kinds of information about the neighborhood! The link will bump you to the article, then just use the back button to return to this list.
Best of the Bay
	Everybody sure loves Bernal Heights, including the readers of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Our neighborhood got picked as the "Best of the Bay" in both 2004 and 1999.
Profiles of the Neighborhood
	A couple of very nice profiles focusing on the real-estate of the neighborhood have been published. Most recently our neighborhood was featured on the TV show Bay Area Backroads. See it here. Last year there was a big spread in the Weekend House and Home section of the London Financial Times entitled "The city's last secret". "Cachet in the real-estate market" was a great piece by SF Chronicle real-estate columnist Carol Lloyd. Bernal Hill Realty was interviewed and quoted for both of these.
Bernal Heights Films
	Film makers Melissa Peabody and Sara St. Martin Lynne have a site for their upcoming film Wild at Heart about the natural history of Bernal Hill starring the Coyote that took up residence on the hill in 2003.
Newspaper Articles
	Lots of articles on Bernal Heights have been published over the years including: growing olive trees in Bernal Heights, remembering David Ayoob, childless (for now) in Maternal Heights, businesses on Cortland, an unwanted earthquake shack, two women put together a neighborhood film festival, taking your toddler to breakfast with Enzo, spring wild flowers on Bernal Hill, the musical career of saw-playing Jackie Jones, the Bernal Library renovation, displacement and possible new home for the pre-school, the re-opening of Holly Park, the coyote on Bernal Hill, summer in Bernal from Sunset Magazine, several articles (7/25, 7/26, 7/29, 7/30, 10/26, 11/1, 11/09) on the neighborhood's fight against Home Depot, judge blocks Bernal cottage demolition, reopening of Bernal Dwellings, an interview with Tom Ammiano, Alemany farmers market, gay and lesbian couple make a home, hiking Bernal Hill, the Bernal Boxcar races also known as the illegal soapbox derby, the Bernal-Town movie, the Esmeralda slide, a Bay Guardian piece from 1997 about Bernal Heights gentrification, the paving of the east-slope dirt roads, those darned wires about under-grounding wires in Bernal Heights, and a cute one about our friends Josh and Juliana who are married and live in separate homes across the street from each other.
Most Recently in the News
	Bernal Heights has been in the news recently as well: The gourmet ghetto on Cortland adds another restaurant - TinderBox and a new meat market - Avedano's, fireworks viewing from the-top-of-the-Hill, Coyotes on Bernal Hill, Bernal hipster parents rockin' with their kids, and the opening of the Peruvian restaurant Piqueo's on Cortland Avenue.
Bernal Organizations
	The Cortland Merchants have an informative site www.bernalheightsonline.com with an impressive amount of data on all the businesses on Cortland Avenue. Other groups with websites include: Music on the Hill, Precita Eyes Mural Arts, Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema, Bernal Heights Preservation, The North West Bernal Alliance, Alemany Farm, No Home Depot activists, Fiesta on the Hill and the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center.
Bernal Artists
	There are lots of artists and photographers in the neighborhood. Artist sites: Joe Mack Branchcomb, Toby Judith Klayman, Kathryn St. Clair, Randy Antin Photographer sites: Jean Pedigo, Jonathan Ingersoll, Sharon Beals, Daniel Newman We know that there are many more, please email us with your additions.
Bernal Lists and Blogs
	Read the Bernal blog, sign up for the Bernal parents list on Yahoo.
Bernal Odds and Ends
	The 2000 and 2001 Soap Box Derby, photos of Kite Fight on Bernal Hill, a bit on the hilltop park, and the Bernal Hill Observatory. Do you know more sites with Bernal info, tidbits, gossip, news or photos? Email us.