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After a Late Rutting Season, Sutro Tower Starts to Lose its Antenna Antlers
TweetWell here’s this scene this morning up on Mount Sutro (former home to the SF-89C Mount Sutro Nike Missile Control Station, don’t you know.) Can you see what’s missing? Sutro Tower is losing...
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Sutro Tower Has Regrown Its Antenna Antlers – Now Ready for a Digital Future
TweetSan Francisco’s famous Sutro Tower (owned by Sutro Tower, Inc., the buyer-offer and $hutter-upperof San Francisco’s mid-town NIMBYs) has a new look for Fall. Here’s Before (a way back in August...
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Our New and Improved Sutro Tower Now Has New and Improved Digital Broadcasts
TweetNot that you’d really be able to tell, though. Sutro Tower Inc. has just finished a project that had some of the digital TV broadcast antennas (not “antennae” – that plural term is only used for...
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Oh My: See the TasteTV “TASTY AWARDS” at the Sundance Kabuki in January, 2010
TweetLet’s see here, the TasteTV Network is going to put on the “TASTY Awards Show” at the Sundance Kabuki in Japantown on Thursday, January 14th, 2010. It will be: “…the most exciting and prestigious...
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Never Walk the Stairs to the Top of Sutro Tower – Just Take the Elevator
TweetLike these guys. It would take forever to make it up the stairs to the top of controversial landmark Sutro Tower, so a swaying elevator car is the preferred method. Click to expand to get a...
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PBS to Air “Presumed Guilty” July 27th – Two UC Berkeley Students Explore...
TweetThis is what’s coming up on KQED-TV tomorrow at 10:30 PM: a documentary from UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy doctoral candidates Roberto Hernández and Layda Negrete. Tune into Channel...
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Prison Realignment Starts Tomorrow, October 1, 2011
TweetRina Palta of KALW News has a bit on prison realignment this morning. (That’s just the kind of thing you can find at THE INFORMANT: Cops, Courts, and Communities in the Bay Area.) And here’s some...
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ZOMG, See “Pearl Jam Twenty” at the Castro Theatre for Free on Tuesday,...
TweetThanks, KQED! Click to expand All the deets: “KQED is proud to sponsor a FREE screening of the American Master’s film: Pearl Jam Twenty at San Francisco’s Historic Castro Theatre Pearl Jam Twenty...
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Why The Hell is “Commercial-Free” KQED-FM Running Commercials for “The...
TweetI don’t know, KQED-FM. You can’t be talking about how you have a “commercial-free” radio broadcast if you’re simultaneously running ads promoting “the Sexiest Night* in Television,” right? My...
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Top Five Food Trends Spotted at Our Recent Fancy Food Show: Pickling! Nutty...
TweetThe recent Winter Fancy Food Show at Moscone Center revealed a bunch of food trends. Check them out, below. This thing was big, baby. You’d have need about four hours to check everything out:...
View ArticleOh, It’s On! PBS vs. Pro Football –“League of Denial: NFL Concussion Crisis”–...
TweetJust released – get your free tickets (or RSVP or whatever) now: “The National Football League, a multibillion-dollar commercial juggernaut, presides over America’s indisputable national pastime....
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San Francisco’s Best (If Scariest) Commute: Riding the Elevator Basket Up...
TweetAs seen a few days back – that square, that’s your elevator car. Haven’t seen it in a while: And here’s the close-up color version, from all the way back in 2004: (I remember thinking how the...
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Frisco’s Highest Elevator Car
TweetHere it is: I don’t think it ever gets level, so you’re standing on a sloping floor the whole time: And then you go up up up to the highest horizontal point of Sutro Tower: I haven’t seen it in...
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Sutro Tower Elevator, Top Floor
TweetThis is a new shot – as close as I’ve gotten when it’s at its highest: And here it is near the bottom floor: I don’t think it ever gets level, so you’re standing on a sloping floor the whole time:...
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