LovEvolution, née LoveFest, has found a new home after the city grew weary of the thumping bass and rolling crowds of brightly colored teensters descending on Civic Center every year. Growing concerns about the free event's surging popularity and recent cases of nightlife-adjacent violence made city officials standoffish about these sorts of things and last year's event was canceled after a dispute about the location.

According to the Examiner today, discussions between organizers and the city about alternate locations for this year's event never came together. So, after determining that the Polo Fields were too cold for the pasties-and-fishnets crowd, festival promoters opted to take this year's event to Oracle Arena in Oakland where the sunny climates, transit accessibility and crowd control know-how made it an obvious choice.

At least one member of the Entertainment Commission lamented the move saying, "We should be a city that is pumping 24/7, because that’s what cities do.”

Previously: SF LoveFest/LovEvolution Needs a New Home
[SFExaminer]

Do you like this (warning: autoplay) kind of music? Do you like crowds? Do you love the fun yet oddly titled SF LovEvolution/LoveFest, the annual rave-ish parade cum dance party? Well then, listen up: The SF LovEvolution/LoveFest lost the right to use Civic Center this year for their annual end-of-summer bash, and now they're looking for a new venue. the party's promoters write:

We have worked for months with city authorities on a plan that would allow us to continue at Civic Center, but in the end, it was concluded that our Civic Center festival site was not large enough to safely host an event of such huge popularity.

But:

We've been working on an alternative site and continue to do so. We hope to make an announcement next week

To sum up, there is no event at Bill Graham Auditorium this year. But Love Week will go on. Visit sflovevolution.org (warning: autoplay) for more details.

Speaking of fuzzy hats... It's been dubbed LovEvolution this year, but it's all the same shit. Nostalgia for 90s-rave-era fashion, combined with deep house beats and nostalgia for 60s-era peace, love and body paint -- all reveled in by teenagers who are too young to remember either. Well, them and at least A DOZEN fully naked, middle-aged men who looked like they just wandered out of the dungeon they've been in since Folsom Street Fair just to get their picture taken with some kids. Seriously, guys -- half of these girls and boys are, like, twelve! Put some clothes on! We couldn't even stomach taking pics of the nudists, but here's some general sense of the day-drinking, dancing, and drugging that paraded up Market Street toward the afternoon rave at Civic Center.

7:45 PM UPDATE - *MAJOR* shitshow at Civic Center BART/Muni right now. The cold blew on in, everyone's coming down and shivering in their skivvies. It looked like they'd locked the Muni gates and were otherwise preventing the crowd to move through, or else they were too effed up to figure out the whole making change thing. Anyhow, see more pics at this Flickr Pool.