SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Vegetation Fire Contained Near Altamont Pass A wind-whipped vegetation fire grew to 50 acres last night in eastern Alameda County, Twitter released decent earnings for the first quarter of 2022, and Alice Waters' new LA cafe has opened and isn't that exciting according to one Berkeley resident.
Arts & Entertainment On This Day 50 Years Ago, The Rolling Stones Did A Disastrous Bay Area Show That History Calls 'The End of the 60s' It was supposed to be "The West Coast Woodstock," but Altamont instead became synonymous with the death knell of The Sixties, a symbol of the darkness that lay just below the surface of the music-loving, free-loving hippie movement.
SF News 40 Years Ago Today, the 60's Died at Altamont Today marks the 40th anniversary of Altamont, the infamous free concert thrown at the the Altamont Speedway, east of Livermore near the junction between 580 and I-5. The concert was billed as Woodstock