I usually leave my television on and lower its volume to fall asleep to the murmur of Anderson Cooper discussing something serious. On a particular early August morning, I felt comfortable enough to turn my television off, roll over to one corner of my bed and put on my earphones. Read More…
California lawmakers today approved renaming the western span of the Bay Bridge after former Assembly speaker and San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, overcoming staunch opposition by Gov. Jerry Brown. Read More…
It may not be considered the most iconic or the most elegant bridge in the Bay, but it could make the case for most important. After a five day closure to complete construction, the Bay Bridge is reopening with a new, reportedly safer eastern span that has been in the works for about 15 years. Read More…
At first, the construction workers would reflexively pose as photojournalist Peter Stackpole would raise his camera to capture photographs of them at work. Eventually, Stackpole bonded with the crew, and he became just another one of the boys on The Bridge, at which point the workers wouldn’t even notice the Read More…
“The Bay Lights” is the light art installation on the 1.8 miles of the Bay Bridge that artist Leo Villareal debuted on Tuesday with the click of his laptop instead of the traditional — or as he describes it, old-school — way with a switch. Read More…
With the westbound Bay Bridge closed this weekend, Bay Area travelers packed on to BART, resulting in near-record ridership numbers. Unofficial numbers — from a BART press release sent out Monday morning — put Sunday’s ridership at approximately 178,000 people. This is tens of thousands higher than the previous Sunday Read More…