Paramount PicturesThe CoreIn real life, people are always fighting to preserve the beauty of San Francisco, but through the magic of the silver screen we can get the slightly wrong thrill of watching it get messed with just a little bit. We don't really want the Golden Gate Bridge to explode, crumble, or be swarmed by crazy creatures and we don't think cable cars should be used as weapons and flying machines . . . or, judging by the box office success of many of these films which depict these an
When people learn that Pedro Ordenes, 55, has swum to or from Alcatraz 126 times, or that he crossed the Strait of Magellan in 39-degree water, they often joke about his sanity. That's before they hear about his idea to swim the Bering Strait.
Even he's spending more than $23.33 a day in S.F.We were befuddled by one statistic in the Examiner's article on how tourism to the city grew in 2008: "About 131,000 people visited The City daily last year, spending an average of $23.33 a day."Huh -- $23.33 a day?! Who are these frugal travelers? An Alcatraz tour itself easily costs twice that. And lodging? Even a bed in a four-person hostel room near Union Square costs $29.75 a night. Perhaps they could sleep on park benches -- but we haven't n
Joe Eskenazi​Perhaps we have to thank the klutz responsible for the above scene at Church Street Station. After all, if he'd pulled his drop-the-merlot act on board an actual train it would have been that much worse -- but not just for the obvious reasons. Suppose a tourist had someone splatter mid-range red wine on his or her "Alcatraz Psycho Ward" T-shirt. Then this person would go home and talk (or worse, blog) about how, only in San Francisco, would someone have to worry about having vin r
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