Arts & Entertainment Thursday: Annual Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island The Annual Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving: Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island will take place bright and early on Thursday morning. Boats depart Pier 33 every fifteen minutes starting at 4:45 a.m. through
Arts & Entertainment SF Attends: 'Hamlet' on Alcatraz Get thee to Alcatraz. We Players artistic director Ava Roy brings the Prince of Denmark to The Rock, with chilling results. by Naomi Kirsten There were shades of drama as we waited to
SF News Protesters Accuse Alcatraz Cruises of Being Anti-Gay and Anti-Union Protesters gathered at Pier 33 yesterday to draw attention to the firing of longtime Alcatraz Cruises employee Vincent Atos, who was suspended last year over a sexual harassment complaint for being "too gay.
misc Photo du Jour 614 A tool shed originally built by prisoners and recently restored sits above the gardens on Alcatraz Island. "Scoured by wind and steeped in criminal history, Alcatraz has a forbidding face. But look a
SF News Sharkfest Results by Amy Crocker While most city folk were enjoying the newly warm weather, about 800 people from around the state (and a few non-Californians) converged on Aquatic Park to freeze their goggles off
misc Today in San Francisco History - Escape from Alcatraz, maybe Timecapsule: December 16, 1937 Braving armed guards, bone-chilling water, and a mythical one-finned shark named Bruce, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe take advantage of the heaviest fog on record to escape from the
misc Give the Peace Center a Chance Proposition C is a call to "convert" Alcatraz into a "Global Peace Center." The idea being that Alcatraz gives off negative vibes and so should be replaced by an "International Conference Center For
Arts & Entertainment nugget o' history: Island for Sale... Who knew that one of the five islands in San Francisco Bay was privately owned? Even stranger, "Red Rock Island" is now up for sale, for a paltry $10 million. The last time
