The monstrous Bay Bridge linking San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., may soon be given a new name: the Emperor Norton Bridge. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted 8 to 2 to rename the span ...

The Western Span of the Bay Bridge was rechristened for former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown in February, but that doesn't mean San Franciscans are copping to the new name. Asked if he'd accepted ...

I like Emperor Norton for a name -- at least for the portion above our fabled waterfront, which extends to Treasure Island. Give those in the East Bay the honor of choosing something appropriate for ...

No other city in the world so honors its eccentrics as does urbane San Francisco. In the 1860’s, the city was the demented domain of a host of harmless witlings, dizzards, giddy-heads and zanies. In ...