Arts & Entertainment New Website Lets You Tour and Check Out the View From the Top of Sutro Tower You are not allowed to climb up to the top of Sutro Tower. But a new “immersive” feature on the tower’s official website lets you walk around the top of the tower and enjoy the view, though it is definitely not for people who have a fear of heights.
Arts & Entertainment Sutro Tower Will Have Red, White and Blue Lasers Shooting Through It This Week In honor of the Fourth of July, and commemorating the 50th birthday of San Francisco's Sutro Tower, there will be lasers shooting up through the radio tower for five nights this week.
SF News Sutro Tower Had Some Red and White Cladding Removed, But Nixes Proposal to Let Artists Reuse Them The operators of Sutro Tower removed some panels without proper approval in 2019. City Hall retroactively approved their removal Thursday, but shot down a plan to let artists paint the removed panels, and instead they’ll be producing a “virtual tour” of the tower.
SF News Shortened Sutro Tower Antenna Getting Replaced To Support 5G, KGO-TV You may have noticed recently — as I did walking toward the Castro — that one of the antenna towers on Sutro Tower looks like it broke off. But it's actually just getting replaced with a new one with higher-tech antennas inside.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: An Informative And Pretty Video About Sutro Tower Check out this swell video from the Exploratorium's Science in the City series which tells the story of Sutro Tower, which went "from eyesore to icon." Its years of use as the Bay
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 Tinfoil Hat Alert: Sutro Tower Adding New Antenna We received notification from Sutro Tower Inc. that they plan on adding new antenna, and they'll hold an open house on Saturday May 18th to get the public's permission. Ostensibly, the tower transmits
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Dizzying View From Sutro Tower This video shot from high atop Sutro Tower was uploaded to YouTube a couple months ago, but judging by it's lowly 450 plays not many of you have gotten to enjoy this acrophobia-inducing
Arts & Entertainment Adorable, Laser-Cut Wooden Sutro Tower Models Now Available For Purchase Here's an enjoyable thing: a 1/1000th scale model of San Francisco's most well-loved, peak-topping TV tower. This adorable wooden version of the once hated landmark is cut from 1/8th inch plywood
misc Photo: "Constellation Sutro" Over SF This photo comes to us via SF Citizen, along with the missive, "You know that Autumn has come to San Francisco when you see a crescent moon inside of the nine red stars
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Back in the News Thanks to a 5.6 earthquake and tonight's "Will there be a Halloween in the Castro or not?" question plaguing the minds of locals and bridge and tunnelers alike, San Francisco is back
Arts & Entertainment SoCal Fires Monopolize Local News Pay attention to us, pretty please? We promise we'll be good, and stay out of the Castro on Halloween. We'll even maybe pretend to care about mayoral elections. Well, if we try, will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: A San Francisco Shooting Star The photo at left shows Sutro Tower below a meteor that caused the crowd at Twin peaks to gasp just before midnight. We saw about ten meteors ourselves in the very favourable conditions.
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Tomorrow Dies Forever Today You'd think that for a city on a fault line, situated right next to the world's biggest proving ground for new technology, the Bay Area could come up with a better class of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Gets Its Hopes Up Again Too bad they weren't able to get it up, as it were, back when NBC was actually worth watching! Oh, but we kid. We're looking forward to "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart" as much
misc The Essefficist Surely you're just dying to know something, right? So what is it? Where to get glass cut? What to do about that ex who keeps stalking you? Why the Sutro Tower is red
