Arts & Entertainment Video: Seagull Swipes Camera From Tourist, Films Beautiful Sunset [Updated] While tourist Nathalie Rollandin was shooting the honey-kissed sunset at the Golden Gate Bridge last week, a nearby rogue seagull wasn't having any of it. The crafty bird snatched her GoPro camera and
Arts & Entertainment Video: San Francisco From a Plane ca. 1941 Check out this recently surfaced color film, a home movie from the Prelinger Archive, shot from a United Airlines plane circling and landing at SFO in 1941. It has some lovely shots of
SF News Ceremony Remembers 75 Years Of Golden Gate Bridge Suicides While the Golden Gate Bridge may have celebrated her 75th birthday on Memorial Day, a more somber remembrance was held yesterday evening to mark 75 years since the first suicide on the Bay
SF News Some Guy Spent The Night On The Golden Gate Bridge Using Nothing But Fog As His Blanket Some guy, whose name and description is not being released as he is thought to be suicidal, camped out on south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge last night. He was apparently spotted
Arts & Entertainment 7 Spectacular Photos Of Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary Fireworks We just can't get enough of the glorious fireworks display that took place at the culmination of yesterday's Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary festival. In addition to our collection of great videos documenting
Arts & Entertainment Video: Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary Fireworks Show!! We're neither very interested nor typically emotional over firework displays, but last night's Golden Gate Bridge 75th anniversary fiery finale changed everything. It was pretty damn spectacular. Starting out with a shower of
SF News Controversial Bridge Celebrates 75 Years Today the Golden Gate Bridge celebrates 75 years as beacon of engineering precision, aesthetics, and yes, suicide. On average, one person jumps to their death from the bridge every two weeks, "more than
SF News New Golden Gate Bridge Visitor's Center Kinda Sucks, Says John King The big celebration this weekend also marks the unveiling of the new Golden Gate Bridge entry plaza and Bridge Pavilion, a red-painted visitor's center that's part of $6 million in improvements completed in
Arts & Entertainment Fireworks To Close Golden Gate Bridge For An Hour Sunday Night As if the Long Shutdown weren't enough, don't expect to make it across the Golden Gate Bridge between 9 and 10 p.m. on Sunday night. The bridge will be closed during that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <s>Eat</s> Drink Here Tonight: Golden Gate's 75th Celebrated With Booze Food is dead. Yes huh. Why? Because food in San Francisco has become so self-consciously and painstakingly humorless as of late — one would think that, what with dressed-down loftiness plaguing the foodie scene,
Arts & Entertainment There Have Always Been A**Holes In S.F. Who Don't Want Anything Pretty to Be Built Architecture critic John King brings us a delightful look back at the vocal opposition to the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge a class of people who should be grouped amongst the greatest
SF News Behold The New Presidio Parkway And Tunnel Doyle Drive, or whatever they're going to call it going forward, reopened this morning right on schedule, just before 5 a.m. The new roadway to the Golden Gate Bridge is very pretty
SF News Occupy's Plan To Shut Down Golden Gate Bridge Cancelled Er, never mind. Occupy's plan to shut down the Golden Gate Bridge on May 1st has been cancelled. Occupy will instead focus on ferry service. Why? Well, part of it could be that
SF News Reminder: Don't Try To Get To The North Bay Tonight After 8 As we told you the other day, and as every other news outlet has hopefully told you, Doyle Drive comes down this weekend starting at 8 p.m. tonight. That means getting to
SF News Don't Try To Get To The Golden Gate Bridge Via The Marina This Weekend You know all that construction that's been happening along Doyle Drive on the approach to the Golden Gate Bridge? Well, it's called the Presidio Parkway, and it's all coming to a head this
SF News Occupy To Shut Down Golden Gate Bridge Occupy just stopped being polite, and started getting real: Tuesday, May 1st a general strike has been called for the Golden Gate Bridge in an effort to "show the Golden Gate Bridge Highway
SF News Extremely Large Shipping Vessel Slips Under The Golden Gate Bridge, Becomes Huge Media Event The MSC Fabiola, which is about one-third larger than a normal cargo ship, became the largest vessel to enter the San Francisco Bay when it slipped under the Golden Gate bridge yesterday. At
SF News Bicycle Speedometer Signs Appear On The Golden Gate Bridge After efforts to impose a speed limit for bicycles on the Golden Gate Bridge were stifled by outspoken cyclists last year, the bridge district has struck a friendly compromise: digital speedometer signs. The
SF News Commemorative Bricks From Golden Gate Bridge's 50th Anniversary Ripped Up A brick walkway behind the Golden Gate Bridge visitors' center, laid in 1987 to mark the bridge's 50th anniversary and paid for by donors some of whom had the names of dead loved
Arts & Entertainment Mickey Hart To Turn Golden Gate Bridge Into Giant 'Wind Harp' In honor of the 75th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge, being celebrated this May, artist and former Grateful Dead member Mickey Hart will turn the iconic bridge into a giant musical instrument
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Cyclists Forced To Share Again Barely a month after cyclists on the Golden Gate Bridge reclaimed their exclusive speedway lane on the West side sidewalk, the bridge transit district has announced they will be closing off the bikes-only
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Cyclists Get Their Own Lane Back Cyclists forced to share the slow-plodding eastern sidewalk of the Golden Gate Bridge with gaggles of tourists and other slow-moving foot traffic over the past five months, finally got their old speedway back
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Reopening Separate Bike Lane Ahead of Schedule Good news for bicyclists navigating the bevy of Golden Gate pedestrians: the Bridge will reopen the west side bicycle throughway sometime in early to mid-September. Closed since May for retrofitting, the east side
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, Near Fort Point... Surfers take advantage of the swells for some midweek action under the bridge. Should be just as beautiful for the duration of the three-day (!) weekend ahead. Enjoy the sun while we have it,
