To commemorate the bridge’s final day, a song. My first pick was Boogie Down Production’s “The Bridge Is Over,” but it wasn’t right. Then I thought about this but it was too maudlin. So please enjoy Linda Clifford’s disco remake of “Bridge Over Troubled Water.”
David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest... More by David Schmader

The real shame is they’re going to “close” it by leaving it fully open. Even lightweight pedestrians and cyclists won’t be able to cross. Fuck that marina. I hope the opening mechanism breaks and it comes back down forever.
i’m disturbed. i needed that.
Might want to check that headline, Schmader.
And on the classic rock station…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0d1HilfL…