Arts & Entertainment Kid Supervisors Hold Mock Hearing at City Hall on the Future of Alcatraz The Board of Supervisors hosted a mock hearing Wednesday, where seven student legislators from local elementary schools reviewed proposals from four of their peers for alternative uses of Alcatraz Island, challenging the federal government’s laughable plan to reopen it as a prison.
Arts & Entertainment Alcatraz Island’s Indigenous Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering Has Its 50th Anniversary Thursday It was 50 years ago this Thursday that San Francisco’s own annual ‘Unthanksgiving’ started on Alcatraz Island, and as always, this year’s sunrise ceremony will be streaming online if you can’t make it to Alcatraz at 6 am.
SF News Sunday Links: East Bay Cop Ordered to Pay Bills, Lost Wages to Teacher She Hit in Crosswalk There have been a lot of shootings locally and nationally this weekend; the entrepreneurs who purchased Radio Shack and Pier 1 have been accused of running a Ponzi scheme; and a Concord cop must pay the medical bills and lost wages of a woman she hit in a crosswalk.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Feds End Special 988 Crisis Services for LGBTQ+ Youth, Trevor Project Line Open 24/7 Ten detained Americans were released by Venezuela while 250 Venezuelans were released by El Salvador in a deal; John Waters takes the stage this weekend as host of Mosswood Meltdown festival; and specialized support for LGBTQ+ youth through the 988 crisis hotline has ended.
SF Politics In Distraction From Epstein Files Uproar, AG Pam Bondi Comes to SF to Tour Alcatraz The clown show continues today with the Trump administration waving its hands in the direction of Alcatraz in an attempt to distract the more distractable members of the public from all the terrible shit they're doing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Officials Making Visit to Alcatraz Nancy Pelosi says Trump's vision of reopening Alcatraz is the administration's "stupidest" idea yet; an eerie photo has been released of three teens who were in that Cybertruck crash in Piedmont; and an Oakland group struggled with having an invite to the Kennedy Center.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Valkyries Podcast, Audium’s 50th Anniversary, Hidden Alcatraz, and Bandaloop In this week's Field Notes: a Golden State Valkyries momcast, Audium’s 50th anniversary 176-speaker revival, Bandaloop in Oakland, Tamera Avery’s surreal art, the best swimming holes, Victorian towns, zany dioramas, and more.
SF News Trump Still Barreling Forward With Certifiably Insane Plan to Reopen Alcatraz as a Prison President Trump’s Federal Bureau of Prisons officials insist they are moving forward with their out-to-lunch scheme to reopen the tourist site Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison, despite that this is all galactically unrealistic.
SF News Trump Was Very Clearly Watching 'Escape From Alcatraz' on TV When He Wrote His Dumb Tweet And just like that, we have confirmation of the likely source of President Trump's Sunday whim to reopen Alcatraz — which will never happen — and it's the Clint Eastwood classic 'Escape From Alcatraz' from 1979.
SF News Wiener: Trump's Alcatraz Idea 'Absurd,' Would Be 'Domestic Gulag In the Middle of San Francisco Bay' Yet again, after all these years, the media is compelled to jump and respond to Trump's every mis-capitalized tweet from the toilet, and this time it was a ridiculous idea floated on Sunday to turn Alcatraz back into a federal prison.
Arts & Entertainment Annual Alcatraz ‘Unthanksgiving’ Sunrise Ceremony Is On for Thursday Morning, Will be Streaming Online SF’s most untraditional Thanksgiving tradition continues early Thursday morning, as the Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island returns, and will be streamed online.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: Yet Another Brood of Baby Falcon Chicks Has a Nest Cam, This One on Alcatraz Island It’s a baby falcon bonanza this spring for those who love fluffy little raptors, as a second peregrine falcon livestream is now up and running from a nest on Alcatraz, and the mama falcon there was actually born to Berkeley falcon Annie in 2018.
SF News Annual Alcatraz Sunrise ‘Unthanksgiving’ Happening Thursday, Colin Kaepernick Springing for Breakfast There will once again be a few thousand Indigenous people and allies on Alcatraz for the Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Thursday, and while Colin Kaepernick may or may not be attending, he’s providing food from a renowned Native American chef.
SF News Bay Area Gears Up for Potential Government Shutdown Amid Funding Impasse As the Saturday night deadline to make a deal to fund the federal government quickly approaches, some of the best spots in the Bay Area could face indefinite closures.
Arts & Entertainment Alcatraz Reopens For Tours After Three-Month Closure Alcatraz Island reopened Monday morning for limited tours by reservation, after being closed since the statewide lockdown began in December, and after only being open for about three months in total since the pandemic began.
Arts & Entertainment Better Falcon News: Nesting Pair Has Two Chicks on Alcatraz, Famed Berkeley Pair Has Three Fledglings Out of the Nest Hopes were dashed for the falcon nest atop the PG&E building in downtown San Francisco, but other Bay Area falcon pairs are faring better.
SF News Alcatraz Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering to Be Simulcast Online A few early morning boat tickets will be released at 3 a.m, and they’ll go quick, but KPFA will have an online simulcast of the ceremony.
SF News On Its 50 Year Anniversary, A Look Back On the Occupation Of Alcatraz On this day 50 years ago, some seventy American Indians landed at Alcatraz Island in the dead of night, starting what many believe to be the new dawn of modern-day Native American civil rights activism.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alcatraz-Themed BYOB Speakeasy Opens In London Can you successfully smuggle alcohol into Alcotraz? Try for yourself https://t.co/u2WxnDYROG pic.twitter.com/ymksptoX4v— Alcotraz London (@AlcotrazLondon) August 24, 2017 Alcotraz, a speakeasy pop-up bar themed after San Francisco's
SF News Video: Alcatraz Ferry Captain Rescues 10 Aboard Sinking Boat Around 8:45 p.m. Thursday night, just as one of the last ferries was leaving Alcratraz with 438 passengers on board, a distress call went out about a 31-foot recreational boat with
Arts & Entertainment Video: Vintage Footage Shows Alcatraz When It Was Still A Prison YouTuber Meghann Cuniff has done a digital transfer of some amateur Super 8 film footage from 1950 showing a trip to San Francisco, including a ride over the Bay Bridge, views of Nob
SF News 'Unthanksgiving': Scenes From The Annual Native American Ceremony On Alcatraz A photo posted by 🌍 Artist 🌎 Educator 🌏 Student (@dregs_one) on Nov 24, 2016 at 9:21am PST "Indians Welcome," reads graffiti still visible from the first annual Indigenous Peoples Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz
Arts & Entertainment An 'Escape Alcatraz' Ride Just Opened At Fisherman's Wharf There *might* be a new reason for locals and native San Franciscans to go to Fisherman's Wharf, and it's an "Escape Alcatraz" amusement ride that does not have anything to do with the
Arts & Entertainment Johnny Depp Visits Alcatraz And Meanwhile His Ex Amber Heard Hangs With Elon Musk Inside the lighthouse on #Alcatraz, the city of #SanFrancisco in the background. It was so windy up here that you could feel the lighthouse shifting and swaying. Yikes!! But what a view! _______________________________________________________ #tourism
Arts & Entertainment Drone Video Distraction: Fly From Pier 45 To Alcatraz In 2015, the Bird Man of Alcatraz wouldn't mess around with flighty pigeons. He'd have drones. Helping us imagine what that might look like is the above video. Yep, it's over a mile,
