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
Arts & Entertainment And Now, A Dizzying GIF Wall Of SF Landmarks Yeah, whoa. Back in 2012, filmmakers Kevin Parry and Andrea Nesbitt made this music video for a song by Kalle Mattson and a project they dubbed Hypno SF. They took footage of Sutro
SF News Rough Waters Force Alcatraz Shutdown And this is why we don't have jails in the middle of the water any more (except in movies, shout out to Face/Off and Escape Plan). Rough waters have forced the Golden
Arts & Entertainment Ai Weiwei Talks Alcatraz Exhibition After the October announcement that celebrated Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei would be bringing an exhibition to Alcatraz island, the New York Times has tracked the man down to spill some more details on
Arts & Entertainment Sergey Brin's Estranged Wife Throws 'Freedom' Party On Alcatraz Rich people. They're not like us. Take, for example, Anne Wojcicki, impending ex-wife of (dreamy) Google cofounder Sergey Brin. None too thrilled about seeing her husband leave her for a 26-year-old Google Glass
Arts & Entertainment Ai Weiwei Planning Major Art Exhibition On Alcatraz Celebrated Chinese artist, architect, and outspoken political dissident Ai Weiwei hopes to put his next major art exhibition on Alcatraz Island. Ai is currently working with National Park Service, the Golden Gate National
Arts & Entertainment 7 Reasons To Love San Francisco There are countless stories to tell in San Francisco, but sometimes a picture says so much more than mere words can. Each week we present to you 7 Reasons. (Our sister site LAist
Arts & Entertainment Can You Find The Misspellings On <em>Alcatraz</em>'s Bay Area Map? Oh dear. Can you find the misspellings on this map that aired on FOX's Alcatraz? For those not in the know, Alcatraz, which aired last night, is J.J. Abrams' latest show is
Arts & Entertainment C-List Celebrities Hang Out On Alcatraz For TV Premiere Last night was the private premiere party for J.J. Abrams' new San Francisco-based time-and-space-bending TV show Alcatraz. As far as we can tell, no one other than Entertainment Weekly and the show's
SF News American Indian Occupation Gets Permanent Exhibit At Alcatraz Some forty years after a group of protesters which swelled at one point to 800 people occupied the island of Alcatraz for 19 months to protest the unfair seizing of Native American lands,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Booze Folk Gather For Rather Awesome Party on Alcatraz Were you aware that Alcatraz could be rented out for events, for a price? Neither were we! Leave it to major liquor distributor William Grant & Sons, who came to the Bay Area
SF News Parks Service Could Put a Hostel on Alcatraz, Open Up Off-Limits Areas If you've ever wanted to spend a night on Alcatraz, the National Parks Service might be coming up with your next staycation destination. In a lengthy proposal (which the Examiner handily broke down
SF News 'Alcatraz' Gets a Teaser Trailer Alcatraz, the latest time-traveling island psychodrama from J.J. Abrams and company got picked up by Fox for the 2012 season. Wonderful, and now we have this teaser trailer. It looks very... mysterious?
SF News Fox Picks Up J.J. Abrams' 'Alcatraz' UGO Entertainment reports that J.J. Abrams' San Francisco-set (obviously) time-traveling (also kind of obvious) crime drama Alcatraz has been picked up by Fox. You'll remember crews were around town filming the pilot
