Lotfi Mansouri, Tim Burton, HBO Show and Driving the Bay Bridge

Opera - Lotfi Mansouri, S.F. Opera director 13 years, dies
San Francisco Opera's Mansouri dead at 84
Remembering Lotfi Mansouri
Cheryl North: Ildar Abdrazakov sings like the devil in San Francisco Opera's 'Mefistopheles'
Dolora Zajick withdraws from SF Opera's 'Claiborne'
San Francisco Opera brings Stephen King’s ‘Dolores Claiborne’ to stage

Movies - Tim Burton Transforms North Beach Into 1950s San Francisco
Big Eye Keane Paintings
Margaret Keane - The Lady Behind the Big Eyed Kids

Reed Morano Preps LOOKING in San Francisco - “The instructions I gave to my B camera team were basically ‘Don’t shoot anything that anyone’s ever shot of San Francisco, ever,’” says Reed with a laugh. “’For the love of god, no cable cars!’” 
Russell Tovey Joins Gay-Themed HBO Dramedy 'Looking' (Exclusive)
Scott Bakula Joins HBO’s Michael Lannan Dramedy Series, Now Titled ‘Looking’
Mapping San Francisco Buildings Used in Movies and Television
Porn actress' positive HIV test spurs state investigation

Outsourcing - Chinese Cinema: Base FX’s Effects Exception

Disney/Pixar/Lucas - Keeping Disney’s kingdom magical

Sounds Familiar Dept. - Bob Peterson No Longer Directing 'The Good Dinosaur' For Pixar
Pixar Animation yanks director Bob Peterson off 'The Good Dinosaur'


How it would look if you could drive across the bridge at 100mph - Mark Jones, who is part of the documentation team, drove the length of the bridge in both directions, including both new spans to document the construction zone. The drive was conducted at speeds under 25 miles per hour and slower near construction. It has been speeded up 400% so you can make the nearly 16 mile drive across the new Eastern Span and the historic Western Span, and then back to Oakland, in just 13 minutes.

Only in San Francisco - “America doesn’t do big infrastructure projects that well anymore...” Richard Walker, an emeritus geography professor at the UC Berkeley
After years of delays and billions of extra costs, new SF-Oakland Bay Bridge on track to open
Caltrans never approved design of Bay Bridge S-curve
Westbound Virtual Ride across the New Bridge
Eastbound Virtual Ride Across the Bridge