Author & Journalist Gary Kamiya Cites Emperor Norton Trust in Correction on "Frisco"

October 04, 2020 / John Lumea

In the Trivia Time feature that accompanied his 19 September 2020 history column for the San Francisco Chronicle, historian Gary Kamiya stated that Emperor Norton imposed a $25 fine for using the word “Frisco.”

In the Trivia Time that ran with his next column, published on 3 October 2020, Kamiya issued a correction and cited Emperor Norton Trust founder John Lumea as the authority for saying that “no primary documents have been found to support this claim.”

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categories / Media coverage, Research
tags / Frisco, Gary Kamiya, Portals of the Past, San Francisco Chronicle

Mother Jones "Link-Checks" Campaign in History of "Frisco"

January 31, 2016 / John Lumea

It stands to reason that The Emperor’s Bridge Campaign* is one of the few organizations or individuals to be actively researching the question of whether Emperor Norton wrote the anti-"Frisco” proclamation so often attributed to him. So it was gratifying, a couple of days ago, to have our efforts acknowledged by the respected San Francisco-based magazine Mother Jones.

* In December 2019, The Emperor's Bridge Campaign adopted a new name: The Emperor Norton Trust.

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categories / Media coverage, Proclamations, Outside Observations, Research, News
tags / Frisco, Mother Jones, Dave Gilson

Wall Street Journal: Campaign Has "Boldest Efforts to Honor the Emperor"

August 13, 2015 / John Lumea

The Wall Street Journal is up today with a front-page article that looks at the coalescence, in recent years, of something approaching a Bay Area "movement" to celebrate Emperor Norton. The Journal features The Emperor's Bridge Campaign in its profile, and writes that the Campaign brings together "the boldest efforts to honor the emperor."

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categories / Media coverage, News
tags / Wall Street Journal, Alejandro Lazo, Daniel Huang, Joseph Amster, Emperor Norton's Fantastic San Francisco Time Machine, Emperor Norton's Boozeland, John Law, Raff Distillerie, Peter Moylan, Norton the First (documentary film), Emperor Norton of Paris

The Emperor Norton Moment

December 17, 2014 / John Lumea

According to Google Trends, an identifiable surge in Bay Area interest in Emperor Norton began in late 2011. The surge continues today.

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categories / Media coverage, Research, Commentary
tags / "Emperor Norton" search, Google Trends

Broke-Ass Stuart Recs Our Tannenbaum Toast: A "Rad Event" and a "New Tradition"

December 05, 2013 / John Lumea

Travel writer and urban explorer Stuart Schuffman, a.k.a. Broke-Ass Stuart — a longtime friend of The Emperor's Bridge Campaign — is up with a new post giving props to our holiday drinks party at The House of Shields this Sunday afternoon.

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categories / Events, Media coverage
tags / Tannenbaum Toast, House of Shields, Broke-Ass Stuart

7x7 Shortlists Our Tannenbaum Toast as One of "Five Places to Sip This Week"

December 05, 2013 / John Lumea

The San Francisco-focused magazine 7x7 featured us yesterday with a generous and well-placed dozen lines of original copy on its Web site.

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categories / Media coverage, Events
tags / Tannenbaum Toast, House of Shields, 7x7

The Bold Italic Features Our Upcoming Tannenbaum Toast

December 03, 2013 / John Lumea

The widely read San Francisco-focused Web site The Bold Italic is spotlighting our upcoming holiday drinks party in its curated events listings for this week. The site lists The First Annual Tannenbaum Toast as one of 40 things to do in San Francisco this week — and one of 24 to do in the city this coming weekend.

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categories / Events, Media coverage
tags / House of Shields, Tannenbaum Toast, Bold Italic

Campaign a Sign of Civic Health, Says Essayist

November 29, 2013 / John Lumea

Our friend, Julian Lozos, flags a recent at San Francisco-focused online magazine The Bold Italic, in which writer Sara Brody cites our movement, specifically, as one healthy indicator that — despite the doomsday predictions of some who are wringing their hands the hardest over San Francisco's latest gentrification wave — San Francisco is not on the verge of losing its soul.

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categories / Media coverage
tags / Bold Italic, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, essay

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