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,
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Better View Of That Shark Feasting On A Seal By Alcatraz After seeing a fairly fuzzy view of the bloody aftermath of a shark preying on a seal next to Alcatraz Island last weekend, via a tourist's cell phone camera, we now get a
SF News Bloody Video: Great White Shark Spotted Off Alcatraz Eating A Seal Part of the Alcatraz myth was that the supposedly shark infested Bay waters ensured no escapees made it to the mainland. Well now here's video proof of that. On Saturday, tourists on Alcatraz
SF News Clothing Company To Help Spur Preservation Of Historic Alcatraz Lighthouse "Most people only know of Alcatraz because of the prison," executive director of the United States Lighthouse Society Jeff Gales tells the Mercury News, "but it has a rich maritime and lighthouse service
Arts & Entertainment The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend: Black Mass, Reviewed Black Mass tells the true story of James "Whitey" Bulger (Johnny Depp), who lead a crime ring in Boston in the 1970s and 80s; his brother Billy Bulger (Benedict Cumberbatch), a Massachusetts state
SF News Medical Examiner Confirms Via DNA That Body Found In Bay Was Of Missing Tech Worker It was over two months ago that the family of Dan Ha, a software engineer who disappeared in San Francisco on Halloween, announced that his body had been found floating in the waters
SF News Dutch Scientists' Escape From Alcatraz Simulator Shows How Escapees May Have Survived As dramatized in Escape From Alcatraz with Clint Eastwood, three prisoners famously fled the "inescapable" island prison by raft in 1962, never to be seen again. The film draws on evidence of debris
SF News Week-Old Body Recovered From Waters Near Alcatraz A ferry captain made a gruesome discovery during Tuesday morning's commute: a dead body, floating in the waters near Alcatraz island. According to the Merc, the captain of a ferry headed from Sausalito
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Artist Ai Weiwei's @Large Installation Inside Alcatraz Chinese dissident artist and architect Ai Weiwei's major installation @Large opens this weekend inside the former prison building of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, and we just got a sneak preview. The
Arts & Entertainment British Tourists Claim Their iPhone Captured An Alcatraz Ghost Finally! After years of wondering if ghosts are real, today you receive your answer. Yes they are, and one of them "lives" (if you can call it that, because, ghost) at San Francisco's
Arts & Entertainment Ai Weiwei's Alcatraz Exhibition '@Large' Opens September 27th Celebrated Chinese dissident, architect and artist Ai Weiwei's highly anticipated exhibition "@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz" will open this fall on September 27th and run through the end of April 2015. The exhibition
