PERFORMANCES Most Sundays around noon for half an hour or so Marin Headlands Construction 129
(look below for directions)
NO MORE DETOUR!
LOWER CONZELMAN ROAD OPENING EARLY
Lower Conzelman Road from Battery Spencer to McCullough Road will reopen at 5:00 pm today Friday, August 12. The opening to vehicles, bicyclists, and pedestrians is approximately one month earlier than expected and will eliminate the Bunker Road detour for those who wish to access Hawk Hill. The National Park Service and Federal Highway Administration want to thank you for your patience while the roadway was closed. The roadway is safe for travel, but users can expect delays up to 15 minutes from Monday through Friday until miscellaneous final clean-up work is competed.
Listen to a 7 minute mp3 recording of NPR's Weekend America
radio program of The Tunnel Singer receiving Botox treatment for her voice problems
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Providing one of the most spectacular
views in the Bay Area, this World War II coastal defense facility
has a tunnel with an 8-second natural acoustic reverberation.
Ravens in Moonlight is recorded in this tunnel.
Directions
to Construction 129 From San Francisco, take
Route 101 across the Golden Gate Bridge. Take the first exit (Alexander
Avenue) and stay left at the stop sign. Go under Route 101, heading
back toward the Golden Gate Bridge. Just before entering Route 101,
take the only road to the right. Continue uphill (staying left at
the fork) to the top of the Headlands.
Palace
of Fine Arts The Palace of
Fine Arts in San Francisco, is located at Marina Blvd. and Lyon St.
(at the Exploratorium)
The
Rotunda Is Now Open! On Tuesday,
August 18, 1999, a moderate earthquake centered in Bolinas, California
damaged the inner facade of the rotunda. Fortunately, no one was injured
when a chunk of concrete crashed to the floor.
On July 21, 2001,
repairs to the rotunda were completed. See the San Francisco Examiner
Ex Files (Arts and Entertainment section) for a interview
and photos.
A mesh safety net
now hangs under the ceiling to protect visitors from possible falling
debris. This has dramatically altered the harmonic reverberation inside
the rotunda, however the sound quality of the Sound Column (inside
one of the support columns) is intact. I sometimes sing in the Sound Column on Saturday afternoons.
Inner
Runes, her first album is recorded live inside the Sound Column, a wedge-shaped 64-feet tall room. Located
inside a Palace of Fine Arts rotunda support column, this unique space
is used by the Exploratorium to demonstrate sound wave interference
patterns.
