A purple reign has rained upon the famed painted rock of Bernal Heights Park, and dig if you will these pictures of “Happy Birthday 2 U” messages to Prince for his birthday.

Our dance-funk lord and savior Prince Rogers Nelson, popularly known as Prince, or “the Artist Formerly Known as Prince,” would have turned 64 years old on Tuesday, June 7. And while Prince did die 4 U in early 2016, his birthday has been observed this week as the often-painted Bernal Heights Rock has been painted purple for a Prince birthday homage.

The rock was similarly painted purple when Prince died six years ago, so this is not the first time the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame artist has been honored on the rock.

But U got the look of a more complex Prince homage here, complete with multiple colors of glitter, and cursive wooden cutouts of the words “Magic” and “Love,” because apparently Michaels craft stores don’t sell a “Lovesexy” cut-out.

You don’t have to watch Dynasty to know that this is clearly a Prince birthday tribute, for it explicitly says “Happy Birthday Prince” on the opposite side of the rock.

Additionally, the “Artist Formerly Known As” symbol is stenciled on several places across the big boulder.

And in an unconventional turn, this particular anonymous artist has affixed a picture of Prince with gold duct tape.

Even Mother Nature is getting in on the purple Prince celebration, with fields of purple flowers in full bloom along the entire lower perimeter of Bernal Heights Park. So it really is worth a hike up there to take it all in, in person, for however long this display lasts. Yes indeed, it is a steep hike, but nothing compares 2 the scenery up there. And the hike is a heck of a lot easier on the way down!

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Images: Joe Kukura, SFist

Four years ago today, the icon known as Prince left this mortal coil after an accidental fentanyl overdose, leaving countless grieving and despondent. Suffice it to say the late, great Purple One will forever live on in the minds of millions — and there’s a bevy of ways to commemorate his legacy, online.

Prince had a certain affinity for San Francisco. The musical prodigy behind songs like “Little Red Corvette” and “Purple Rain” commonly frequented Mr. Tipple's Recording Studio whenever he was in town, sipping on limoncellos while enjoying the club’s live performances. (The seven-time Grammy winner, too, was also an avid Warriors fan.) So it was only fitting that City Hall lit up purple — thanks a million like-colored heart emojis, Eve Batey — on the night of his passing in 2016.

Even though we’re all now bound to our dwellings on what’s the fourth anniversary of Prince’s sudden death, there are still ways to honor the legend’s incredible life and work that spanned some four decades-long. Here are but a few, including two nods to SF.

Watch the Prince tribute concert tonight

To honor the global figure, recording artists like Common and the Foo Fighters came together and filmed a tribute concert featuring some of his most memorable music. "Let's Go Crazy: The GRAMMY Salute To Prince" is scheduled to air tonight at 6 p.m. PST on CBS and CBS All Access. Because these performances were recorded pre-pandemic, this won’t be an assortment of at-home webcam performances, but rather a collection of concert-quality videos; a welcomed treat to say the least.

Take a digital tour through his Paisley Park complex

Prior to the coronavirus shutting the country (and globe) down, VICE News got an up-close and personal tour of the legend’s private estate and production space. You can watch the six-minute video of their tour inside Prince’s cryptic citadel that was led by Dan Piepenbring, Prince’s co-author of the experimental biography The Beautiful Ones, below.

Read the story behind Prince’s autobiography… that turned into a memoir

Speaking of The Beautiful Ones, the ode to Prince’s lush life and career published in 2019, the book’s co-author Dan Peipenbring wrote an essay in The New Yorker on the unusual bond and working relationship he forged with the then-living legend in the months before his passing. If you’ve got say, fifteen minutes to delve into some reading — you won’t be disappointed by “The Book of Prince.”

Order vegetarian delights and stiff cocktails from Nopa and Mr. Tipple's Recording Studio

In February of 2016, just weeks before his earthly departure, Prince and his team went on a Bay Area odyssey. One stop along their route was high-brow Nopa, where the well-known vegetarian indulged in plant-based bites. While it’s unclear as to what he exactly dined on that evening, you can both pay homage to him and support a local eatery by placing an order for pick up from Nopa via ChowNow; opt for the grilled broccoli and their basil pesto kit to stay to-theme.

Thirsty? Mr. Tipple's Recording studio is currently taking to-go cocktail orders via Caviar. Let your eyes go wide while scanning their online menu.

Re-visit a purple San Francisco

SFist was the first to report on the purple aurora which illuminated much of San Francisco that evening in April. Not only did City Hall sport a purple palette that night, but as did much of the seven-by-seven. Case in point: Foreign Cinema paused a screening Japanese film I Wish to play Purple Rain on the patio, bathing it in plum and periwinkle. Take a digital walk down memory lane, here.

And, of course: stream the hell out of his discography on Spotify and Apple Music today.

Related: All The Things That Were Lit Up Purple Last Night

San Francisco Fans React To Sudden, Inconceivable Death Of Prince

Image: Darwin Bell

Continuing what they started with a couple of memorial concerts following the death of beloved artist and frontman Prince last April, his longtime backup band The Revolution — keyboardist Matt Fink, keyboardist Lisa Coleman, guitarist Wendy Melvoin, drummer Bobby Z, and bassist Brown Mark — is doing a national tour this year which will be making stops in Chicago, DC, New York, LA, and San Francisco. As the San Jose Mercury-News reports, the tour begins on April 21 at Paisley Park in Minneapolis, on the one-year anniversary of the Purple One's untimely death.

It's a bit hard to imagine The Revolution getting along without Prince front and center, but what was planned as just a brief two-week tour bloomed, due to demand, into a four-month affair with two dozen dates, perhaps because Prince nostalgia is still going strong, and and in particular fans know the work of Melvoin and Coleman (a.k.a. Wendy and Lisa) on their own.

There is the tricky issue, though, of how to satisfy fans without Prince there to sing, and here's how Melvoin explained it to Rolling Stone:

Everybody keeps saying, "Well, why are you doing it? Who's going to sing? Who's going to be Prince? Who's going to be the centerpiece?" All right, let's break this down: No one. No one's going to be Prince. No one will ever be Prince, and none of us in the band are going to try and be him. You can't. It's just not going to happen.

All this is all fluid right now. But the plan today — and it's changeable — is we only perform songs that don't distance us as the band. So in other words, if we perform "Darling Nikki," none of us are going to sing it. We're going to have someone come out and do it. Wherever we go, there's going to be an artist who loved him deeply and they can come up and sing that song. But the other tracks that were specifically geared around a band — say, "Let's Go Crazy" or "Controversy," or songs that have more like group vocals — we're going to [sing them].

Melvoin also acknowledges that The Revolution was not the only band Prince performed with, and technically they broke up 30 years before he died. They were, however, Prince's band during his rise to fame in the early to mid-1980s, and were an integral part of Purple Rain, arguably Prince's single most famous album.

"Bobby [Z] says it all the time," Melvoin tells Rolling Stone. "'We were the last band Prince was ever in.'" She says that many of the later musicians Prince performed simply weren't as cohesive or scrappy of a group.

As for who the guest singers will be in each city, that could be a surprise each time, but Melvoin throws one example out there: "If, say, D'Angelo wants to come out and sing, I don't know, 'Sister,' he can go ahead and do that."

Prince passed away last April from an accidental overdose of the drug Fentanyl. Investigations into the death continue, but the source of the drug was likely counterfeit painkillers that Prince believed were Percocet or a less potent drug.

The Revolution arrives at The Fillmore in San Francisco on July 12. Tickets go on sale on March 10 at 10 a.m. at LiveNation.

The full tour schedule is below.

April 21 - Celebration 2017 @ Paisley Park - Minneapolis, MN

April 23 - Metro - Chicago, IL

April 24 - Metro - Chicago, IL

April 27 - The Fillmore Silver Spring - Washington, DC

April 28 - BB Kings - New York, NY

April 29 - Theatre of Living Arts - Philadelphia, PA

April 30 - Theatre of Living Arts - Philadelphia, PA

May 3 - Webster Hall - New York, NY

May 4 - Capitol Theatre - Port Chester, NY

May 12 - Barrymore Theatre - Madison, WI

May 14 - The Vogue - Indianapolis, IN

May 16 - Bogart’s - Cincinnati, OH

May 18 - House of Blues - Cleveland, OH

May 20 - Majestic Theater - Detroit, MI

May 21 - Phoenix Theatre - Toronto, Ont

June 14 - House of Blues - Dallas, TX

June 15 - House of Blues - Houston, TX

June 16 - The Aztec Theater - San Antonio, TX

June 17 - ACL Live - Austin, TX

June 21 - Brooklyn Bowl - Las Vegas, NV

June 22 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA

June 23 - Wiltern - Los Angeles, CA

July 12 - The Fillmore - San Francisco, CA

July 13 - Artown - Reno, NV

July 14 - Roseland Theater - Portland, OR

July 15 - The Showbox - Seattle, WA

When Prince's autopsy concluded that the artist accidentally overdosed on the powerful painkiller fentanyl, questions were raised as to how he got his hands on a drug 50 times more potent than heroin that is typically only administered in hospitals. We now know the answer may be "accidentally." The Associated Press reports that at least one pill found in the singer's home was falsely labeled, and in fact contained the dangerous drug.

Fentanyl has been in the news a lot recently, mainly because of its prevalence in counterfeit drugs. People taking what they think are familiar painkillers like Vicodin or anti-anxiety meds like Xanax are in fact ingesting illegally manufactured pills containing the powerful narcotic. Prince may have been merely the most famous in a long line of victims to accidentally overdose on such a mislabeled drug.

An official investigating the death told the AP that one pill found in Prince's home was stamped "Watson 385," signifying a combination of acetaminophen and hydrocodone, commonly known as Vicodin. In fact, the pill contained fentanyl. A bottle of aspirin was also discovered that had 60 counterfeit tabs — amounts of fentanyl, lidocaine and U-47700 (a synthetic painkiller eight times stronger than morphine) were all discovered within the mislabeled pills.

According to the Star Tribune, Prince did not have a prescription for fentanyl, and the levels found in his blood were enough to kill anyone. Prince was found dead on April 21 — just one day before he was scheduled to meet with an opioid addiction specialist.

It's believed that Prince had begun abusing prescription painkillers as far back as 2008 after having surgery to correct a hip injury.

The CDC last year reported a nationwide increase in fentanyl seizures — there were 4585 in 2014 alone.

Previously: Prince Died Of Accidental Fentanyl Overdose, According To Autopsy

A very large donation to the San Francisco Foundation last summer from a donor who wished to remain anonymous may have come from Prince, or so surmises Tamara Palmer writing for SF Sounds. A friend of Prince's, Van Jones, provided the biggest clue in the days following the singer's death, saying on CNN, "He did not want it to be known publicly, but I’m going to say it because the world needs to know that it wasn’t just the music. The music was one way he tried to help the world. But he was helping every day of his life. There are people who have solar panels on their houses right now in Oakland, California that they don’t know Prince paid for them.”

SF Weekly picked up the story, noting that "Prince loved the Bay, especially Oakland," and in addition to the numerous surprise shows he played there, "some of his favorite people — namely Sheila E. and Steph Curry — are from Oakland, as well."

The large sum was reportedly earmarked to help a bunch of organizations including Black Girls Code East Oakland Youth Development Center, Hack the Hood, and #YesWeCode. The latter organization, which seeks to provide tech and programming training to low-income individuals, was mentioned by name by Van Jones as one that Prince "quietly" helped him create.

Per SF Sounds:

In July 2015, reps for the San Francisco Foundation, a community foundation dedicated to improving racial and economic equity across the Bay Area, announced that they had received an anonymous donation of $34 million. TSFF announced that the donation would be used to help Oakland to create 731 new jobs and 2,502 new affordable housing units.

If true, this of course is just one more reason to be upset about the fact that Prince apparently left behind no will, as we may never know the good he could have done with the remainder of his vast estate.

Previously: Prince Died Of Accidental Fentanyl Overdose, According To Autopsy

The long-awaited results of Prince's autopsy were released by Minnesota officials on Thursday, and the official cause of death is an accidental overdose of self-administered fentanyl, as the New York Times reports. Multiple reports emerged in the days following Prince's April 21 death that the star suffered from an opioid addiction, but at the time the first reports were that his painkiller of choice was Percocet. The news about fentanyl in his blood — the amount has not been disclosed — casts yet another shadow on his case, and could mean serious trouble for a Minnesota doctor who treated Prince one day before his death.

Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is said to be 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine, and it is typically only administered in a hospital setting. The Centers for Disease Control estimate that illegal fentanyl being sold on the street, sometimes masquerading as other drugs, was responsible for 700 deaths between 2013 and 2014, leading them to issue this warning in 2015. More recently, a spate of about 300 fentanyl overdoses in San Francisco caused alarm bells, most of which ended with lives saved by emergency doses of naloxone, also known as Narcan, which is now carried by all SF police officers.

Days before Prince's death, he was also reportedly given a life-saving dose of naloxone after his plane made an emergency landing in Indiana. The Wall Street Journal earlier had attributed that overdose to Percocet.

Per the Associated Press:

Legal experts say the finding that Prince died of an accidental overdose of the synthetic opioid fentanyl could make the prospect of criminal charges more likely.

A Chicago-based attorney [Gal Pissetzky] with no link to the case says the substance, while it has medical applications, is frequently associated with illegal trafficking.

[Pissetzky] also explains that categorizing the death as accidental indicates only that it was not intentional. It does not preclude charges if the fentanyl was supplied illegally.

The illegal distribution of fentanyl resulting in death carries a mandatory minimum 20 years behind bars in federal court.

The day before Prince died, April 20, when he was also reportedly visited by Minnesota doctor Michael Schulenberg, his associates called in the emergency help of Northern California opioid addiction treatment specialist Dr. Howard Kornfeld. Saying he could not arrive until the 22nd, Kornfeld sent his son Andrew Kornfeld, who is not a licensed physician, ahead of him on a redeye flight. The younger Kornfeld allegedly arrived at Paisley Park with a quantity of the drug buprenorphine — which Dr. Kornfeld uses in the treatment of opioid addiction, and which is gaining traction in the addiction treatment community — only to find the singer already deceased in an elevator on the property.

Vox today highlights the fact that Prince's case proves the severity of the opioid addiction epidemic in the US, and according to a recent survey "one in five Americans has a family member who's addicted to prescription painkillers, and more than four in 10 Americans personally know someone who's addicted."

It is alarming that a celebrity with Prince's wealth and resources should have come so close to the brink of death with his addiction, only to be saved and to die just days later — though the Journal discussed earlier how, following the advent of Narcan, it's becoming more common to see it used more than once on a single patient if they are not ushered immediately into treatment. It's effectiveness, however, is limited to about 30 minutes from the time of an overdose, and it appears that first-responders did not reach Prince in time to administer it on April 21.

Dr. Kornfeld spoke out last month to the San Francisco Chronicle saying, in part, "[Opioid addiction] isn’t a problem that should be solved by commercial industry. This is a national epidemic that needs to be prioritized, just as the AIDS epidemic was prioritized."

Previously: Prince's Potential Addiction Doctor Speaks Out As Doctor's Son Could Face Charges

The story about a "life-saving mission" by a Bay Area opioid addiction specialist who was intending to treat Prince just one day prior to his death has grown, with the New York Times delving further late Wednesday into the root cause of Prince's alleged addiction: a hip problem that led to surgery in the mid-2000s. Now TMZ is blaring the headline that Andrew Kornfeld, the son of addiction doctor Howard Kornfeld, could face charges for transporting a quantity of the drug buprenorphine, or Suboxone, across state lines.

We learned yesterday that the younger Kornfeld flew out to Minnesota a day ahead of his father, only to arrive at Paisley Park to discover a lifeless Prince, alongside two of Prince's staff, in an elevator on the property. Kornfeld was the person who made the 911 call, and Prince was pronounced dead at 10:07 a.m. on April 21, 19 minutes after emergency responders arrived. It's been widely reported that Prince had suffered an opioid overdose just six days before, on April 15, on board a private plane which then had to make an emergency landing in Indiana so he could receive a life-saving dose of naloxone, or Narcan.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune is reporting via a source close to the investigation that the drug Percocet was in fact found in Prince's system at the time of his death, even though official toxicology results could still be weeks away. The paper notes that the Drug Enforcement Agency and the US attorney’s office have joined local investigators following the revelation about Kornfeld's involvement, though his lawyer stated Wednesday that Andrew Kornfeld arrived too late to administer any drug.

It seems likely that emergency responders were unable to revive Prince with Narcan this time because he was already dead, and that the overdose had occurred too long before they arrived, though that has not been confirmed. It is recommended that Narcan be used within 30 minutes of a possible overdose.

Dr. Howard Kornfeld spoke exclusively with the SF Chronicle Wednesday, not about Prince's case, but in an effort, he said, to raise awareness about the epidemic of opioid addiction. "If this disease was not stigmatized, patients would seek care earlier and there would be less deaths," he tells the paper. "This isn’t a problem that should be solved by commercial industry. This is a national epidemic that needs to be prioritized, just as the AIDS epidemic was prioritized."

While some addiction treatment centers advocate for drug-free treatment, it's notable that the respected Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation in Minnesota added Suboxone to its treatment program for opioid addiction in 2013. As the Star Tribune explains, the drug helps limit cravings among addicts, and "Since that time, the number of opioid addicts dropping out of treatment early has declined from 25 percent to 5 percent."

Previously: Mill Valley Addiction Specialist Was Scheduled To Treat Prince Before His Death

Though the toxicology report has yet to be completed in the untimely death of Prince two weeks ago, a new source is confirming that the singer did in fact have a serious opioid addiction at the time of his death, as has been rumored and reported by TMZ and others. Northern California-based addiction specialist Dr. Howard Kornfeld, known to be a national authority in the treatment of opioid addiction, was contacted by Prince's team just one day before his death on April 21, and was scheduled to fly to Minnesota on April 22, as the Minneapolis Star Tribune is reporting. Kornfeld's son, Andrew Kornfeld, who works with him at Recovery Without Walls in Mill Valley, CA, had actually hopped on a redeye flight to Minneapolis the night of the 20th, and arrived at Paisley Park in Chanhassen the morning Prince was found dead in an elevator. And while staff at the house was apparently too distraught, Andrew Kornfeld was the one who called 911.

As KQED explains, the elder Kornfeld's practice has been widely known for the use of buprenorphine as a replacement drug for those addicted to other opiates, because it is less dangerous and less possible to result in overdose. Unlike OxyContin, Percocet, and Vicodin, buprenorphine doesn't bring the same euphoria to patients and can apparently help wean them off the more dangerous drug they're addicted to.

Reportedly, Andrew Kornfeld, who's listed as a practice consultant on the treatment center's website but not a doctor, arrived at Prince's compound with a small amount of buprenorphine and was going to begin creating a treatment plan, however he never had the chance to administer any of the drug.

Per the Star Tribune, via the Kornfelds' attorney William Mauzy:

“The plan was to quickly evaluate his health and devise a treatment plan,” Mauzy said, speaking on behalf of the Kornfelds. “… The doctor was planning on a lifesaving mission.”
... When Andrew Kornfeld arrived at Paisley Park at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Prince’s representatives could not find him, Mauzy said. Andrew Kornfeld was one of three people at Paisley Park when the musician’s body was found in an elevator a few minutes later — and it was Andrew Kornfeld who called 911.

Mauzy said that Andrew Kornfeld told him that the others “screamed” when they found Prince and “were in too much shock” to call 911.

Unfamiliar with Paisley Park, Andrew Kornfeld simply told the dispatcher, “We’re at Prince’s house.”

Asked again to give an address, he said simply: “The people are just distraught. … We’re in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and we are at the home of Prince.”

As the AP is reporting, a log of the 911 call confirms that the caller did not know the location of the house, saying it was in Minneapolis and not the suburb of Chanhassen.

The Kornfelds have apparently hired the Minneapolis-based Mauzy to represent them because there is an ongoing criminal investigation by authorities, however they have said from the outset that foul play was not suspected.

Dr. Kornfeld says he instructed Prince's team to get a local doctor to assess him as soon as they contacted him on April 20, and it was hoped that Prince would fly to California for longer-term treatment.

Kornfeld was called upon specifically because of his noted use of buprenorphine, the main ingredient in Suboxone, which is thus far uncommon in addiction treatment in the U.S., though it's been shown to be effective. As the Star Tribune explains, "The drug has been underutilized, in part, because many doctors haven’t completed the federal training that is necessary to prescribe it."

The complete toxicology report on Prince is still expected in the coming days or weeks.

Update: The New York Times elaborates on the story, discussing how he had been prescribed painkillers over a decade ago for a hip problem, for which he had surgery in the mid-2000s, followed by more pain medication.

Prince’s penchant for privacy may help explain how he kept his secret from so many. At the Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall near here, where Prince was a worshiper, congregants scoffed at the first reports that Prince may have been abusing painkillers.

And rarely did he let the musicians who toured with him know how much his hips actually hurt from decades of high-voltage performances, jumping onstage in platform heels. They would only notice small things, like that he stopped doing splits.

Previously: Prince Is Dead At 57
San Francisco Fans React To Sudden, Inconceivable Death Of Prince

oh, Bernal Rock, you're in more dire need of a Twitter account than any rock in history #prince #purple @Bernalwood pic.twitter.com/oV0KYPwx5G

— cristiano valli (@cristi4nov4lli) April 26, 2016

You know how there was a Bernie v. Hillary war happening with the graffiti on Bernal Rock over the weekend? Well, somebody decided to wipe the slate clean Monday, from the looks of it, with a fresh coat of purple in honor of the late, great Purple One himself, just as Purple Rain was screening at the Castro Theatre.

Perhaps, out of reverence, people will leave the thing alone for a while now.

Purple Rain 7 pm & 9:30 pm Monday, April 25 @Castro_Theatre #Prince #RestInPurple #PurpleRain pic.twitter.com/JBygBTZ1id

— Steve Rhodes (@tigerbeat) April 25, 2016

With everyone still in shock following last week's sudden passing of music legend Prince, The Castro Theatre will show Prince's cinematic masterwork Purple Rain tonight at both 7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets to the film, which per IMDB follows a "young musician, tormented by an abusive situation at home, [who] must contend with a rival singer, a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band, as his star begins to rise," are still available as of press time.

In many ways The Castro Theatre is an interesting place for a Prince tribute showing. In 2008, the artist suggested to The New Yorker that he was opposed to same-sex marriage as a religious matter. "God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out," Prince was quoted as saying in response to a question about gay marriage and abortion after he tapped his nearby bible. "[God] was, like, ‘Enough.’" Later, however, his public relations team walked the offending quote back and claimed he was misquoted.

The Atlantic tackled this very controversy last week, observing that Prince became a Jehovah’s Witness sometime in the early 2000s, and soon thereafter began to tone down his racier lyrics. Whatever the truth is, it likely falls somewhere in between — just as many of Prince's lyrics do themselves.

“I’m not a woman / I’m not a man," he sings in the 1984 song "I Would Die 4 U." "I am something that you’ll never understand.”

Tickets to tonight's showing are $10.00, and regardless of the controversy surrounding the artist, we can only image there will be a lot of purple in the audience.

Previously: All The Things That Were Lit Up Purple Last Night

In honor of Prince and thanks to the quick suggestion of the citizenry (ahem, Eve Batey), City Hall went purple last night, and some people got down among those rabbits and danced. The arched windows at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium also, purple.

Photo: Rick Camargo

Photo: Eve Batey/SFist

The Bay Area, like many places across the country, collectively shed some tears over the loss of a beloved artist last night — yet another, as Gothamist's Ben Yakas writes, who, like David Bowie, "seemed like a mythological creature, a space alien, an androgynous rock star who touched us and encouraged us to touch ourselves unapologetically," and one who didn't seem capable of human frailty.

Elsewhere in San Francisco, they were playing Prince all night at The Phone Booth in the Mission, and the new colored streetlights in the Castro all went purple for the evening too.

At Foreign Cinema, they took a break from screening the Japanese film I Wish, which had been showing this week, and played Purple Rain on the patio last night instead.

Photo: Gayle Pirie/Facebook

As the Chronicle reports, all the Prince vinyl and CDs flew off the shelves at Amoeba Music, Rasputin, and the Mad Monk Center in Berkeley yesterday in the couple of hours after his death was reported.

Also, Oakland's Oracle Arena, which was one of the last local places Prince graced with his regal presence when he was here in March, will be lit up purple for the next week, as KRON 4 tells us.

Up in Sausalito, a tribute is being planned at the former Record Plant music studio where Prince came to record his first album, For You, in 1977. The place is now called Harmonia, as CBS 5 reports, "a wellness and social club that features yoga and music."

And the Chronicle has this remembrance of Prince, recalling how he "always felt a special connection [to the Bay Area] since first coming here in the early 1980s to play at the Stone on Broadway in San Francisco." Also, "Apart from the usual arena shows, he regularly delighted in playing at smaller venues such as the Fillmore, DNA Lounge and Slim’s."

There will be more and more and then some when it comes to Prince parties and tributes, this weekend and beyond. So keep your eyes and ears and peeled.

Previously: San Francisco Fans React To Sudden, Inconceivable Death Of Prince

• More about the death of Prince: CBS 5 looks back at when Prince recorded his first album, For You, at age 19 at Sausalito's Record Plant Studios. Google's doodle has gone purple, with rain, in his honor. And, naturally, in the hours after his death, Prince topped the iTunes sales charts today.
  
• Also, Eve spoke, and they listened: City Hall will be lit purple this evening, starting at 8 p.m. [Twitter]
  
• A quarter to a half inch of rain is expected to hit the Bay Area tonight and into Friday. [Chron]
  
• Five Bay Area oil refineries were ordered Wednesday to track and report air pollution on the edge of their properties. [Chron]
  
• There was a “Burn One for Bernie 4/20 Cannabis Awareness Reggae Concert” in Oakland Wednesday night. [Chron]
  
• New cellphone evidence that the accused murderer Darnell Williams told prosecutors to pour over might actually further link Williams to the 2013 shooting death of an 8-year-old girl. On the phone, they found photos of guns, one of which was like the one used to kill the girl. [ABC 7]
  
• Racist and pro-Trump graffiti shows up at Palo Alto High School. [CBS 5]
  
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sued the U.S. Department of Justice in search of secret-court orders aimed at forcing tech companies to decrypt customer data. [Chron]
  
• You think you have it rough? Wheelchair users have a near-impossible time finding housing in SF. [SF Weekly]
  
• Check out these driverless commuter pods that are taking over Singapore this year. Is this our future? [CNet]
  
• Chatbots don’t work, so why is Silicon Valley so obsessed with them? [NYT]
  
• The city is still mulling moving voting age to 16. [Examiner]
  
• And yours truly just gave Curbed SF a few thoughts and stories about my neighborhood, Alamo Square.
  

When Prince sauntered into Oracle Arena as a guest, and fan, of the Golden State Warriors earlier last month, the mood was celebratory. Today, of course, the mood is different. But the Warriors are thinking of Prince still — in fact, the Chronicle is told, the team is listening to the late artist's music while they practice in anticipation of Game 3 in a playoff series against the Rockets.

“I was shocked and saddened to hear the news of Prince’s death today, especially after hosting him at a game recently at Oracle Arena,” Warriors owner Joe Lacob, who invited prince to the game in March, said on learning the news of his passing.

“That night was a real honor for me and, looking back, he appeared to be doing well and was in great spirits. From everyone in the Warriors’ organization, our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and millions of fans during this difficult time. We lost a true icon in the entertainment business.”

Prince, as Chappelle's Show immortalized, was a fan of basketball, a sport he played as a child and continued to play — no matter what he was wearing — as an adult. And, at a show held at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre a few nights prior to the game, he reportedly said of the Golden State Warriors' star, Steph Curry, "What can you truly count on besides Steph Curry? And you can count on Steph Curry.”

Personally, I can't count on anything anymore.

Related: San Francisco Fans React To Sudden, Inconceivable Death Of Prince

No sooner did the news spread this morning that the great Prince was dead at age 57, but local party promoters and DJs were gathering up their Prince records and putting out the word that there'd be dancing tonight. As Marke B. at 48 Hills shows us, there's already a half dozen parties planned for tonight, Thursday, April 21, to honor the legendary artist whom the New York Times calls "a wildly prolific songwriter, a virtuoso on guitars, keyboards and drums and a master architect of funk, rock, R&B and pop."

Among the things planned are Sweater Funk & Friends Celebrate Prince at the Make Out Room (10 p.m., free), this Prince Tribute at the Cat Club (9 p.m., $7 after 9:30), and an all-Prince set in the always 80's-rich DJ set of DJ Jim Hopkins at 440 Castro.

80's dance party Sexitude PM, at Oasis, hosted by D'Arcy Drolinger will be doing a Prince tribute tonight, too (9 p.m., $8 advance, $10 at door).

Will there be some impromptu dancing in Dolores Park as soon as work lets out for most people? Probably.

And no doubt Heklina will do something at Mother (Saturdays at Oasis) but it won't be this weekend because she's in Hawaii doing a road tour of Mother at Hula's in Honolulu. Also, the Bowie drag tribute required a couple months to pull together, and this one surely will too.

See more Thursday Prince events here at 48 Hills.

Related: San Francisco Fans React To Sudden, Inconceivable Death Of Prince

How could this happen?

Details are still scarce, but the legend that was Prince Rogers Nelson is dead. Many of you are probably saying, "He was just here!" and "Why didn't I go to that show?!" after Prince did a couple of shows just last month at the Paramount and Oracle Arena, and dropped into Nopa and a few local nightspots while he was here. All we know is that between then and now he fell ill, and his plane had to make an emergency landing last week so he could be rushed to a hospital in Illinois for apparent flu-like symptoms. He still managed to resume partying a day later, but perhaps he shouldn't have.

Much like the equally sudden and untimely death of Michael Jackson seven years ago, and the recent death of David Bowie in January, the equally influential but wholly unique icon's passing is sure to bring a tidal wave of grief on social media for days to come, many nightly news retrospectives, and many, many local tributes, drag and otherwise, in the coming weeks.

Update: Here are some tribute parties happening already tonight, Thursday, April 21.

For now, I bring you a selection of local reaction as it stands, including from locals MC Hammer, W. Kamau Bell, and Margaret Cho, in the first hour of this news sinking in, beginning with a perfectly reasonable suggestion from SFist's own Eve Batey.

Update 2: They listened, and City Hall will be lit purple tonight, starting at 8 p.m.

And Vulture suggests watching this full, hour-and-seven-minute concert video of Prince in 1982, saying, "It'll help."

And of course there's his iconic 2007 Super Bowl Halftime Show, performing in the rain, with a do-rag on his head, which has to be watched on YouTube.