Arts & Entertainment SF and Another Planet Entertainment Bringing Another Huge Free Dirtybird Rave Back to Embarcadero in June Outside Lands promoter Another Planet Entertainment is doing at least one more free concert in downtown SF this summer, as they have once again tapped EDM label Dirtybird Records to throw a one-day free DJ show at the Embarcadero on Saturday, June 14.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Renovation Now $20 Million Over Budget, In Addition to Being Four to Six Months Behind Schedule The $15 million renovation of the Castro Theatre has now ballooned to a $35 million renovation, and this news comes on the heels of learning that the theater’s reopening will be delayed by anywhere from four to six months minimum.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Announces This Year’s ‘Week After Outside Lands’ Concert, With Zach Bryan and Kings of Leon There will once again be a one-day, multi-act concert the weekend following the Outside Lands festival in 2025, and organizers Another Planet Entertainment said they’ve got country star Zach Bryan and indie rockers Kings of Leon as the headliners.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Announces Free Portugal.The Man Show In Civic Center Next Month Fulfilling their pledge to put on three free concerts in the city this year, Another Planet Entertainment has just announced what the second one will be, and it's Portugal.The Man.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Entertainment to Throw Free Concert on Sunday In Embarcadero Plaza Fulfilling their agreement with SF to put on three free concerts in the city this year, Another Planet Entertainment is doing just that at Embarcadero Plaza, with a daytime electronic music show from the Dirtybird kids on July 21.
Arts & Entertainment Crowd of 25,000 Expected In Civic Center Plaza for Fred Again/Skrillex Show Saturday Will it be easy to hang around nearby and listen to the electronic music show Saturday in Civic Center Plaza even if you didn't get a ticket? Maybe! But promoter Another Planet says their equipment will be able to focus the sound pretty well so as not to disturb too may neighbors.
Arts & Entertainment Skrillex and Fred Again to Play Outdoor Show Saturday Night at Civic Center Plaza, Though It’s Already Sold Out Does it matter that the freshly announced Skrillex and Fred Again show this weekend at Civic Center Plaza is already sold out, considering the show will be outdoors, and these gentlemen are not known for being particularly quiet? We’ll find out Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Entertainment Loses Court Battle With Insurance Company Over COVID Losses The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously today in favor of an insurance company in a case involving pandemic-related closure orders and whether property loss insurance could be applied to address economic losses from a virus.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre’s New Cocktail Bar Plans Coming Together, Supervisors OK Their Liquor License Request It’s still up to the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control whether Another Planet Entertainment gets the liquor license they want for the Castro Theatre, but the SF Board of Supervisors recommended they do so, and we got a look at their application.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Now Selling Off the Seats They’re Ripping Out for Another Planet’s Renovation You can now buy the seats that Another Planet Entertainment has removed from the Castro Theatre at $349 a pop (or two for $499), though critics say the theater has “committed a massacre and are now selling the body parts for profit.”
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: This Weekend Is Your Last Chance to See a Movie at the Castro Theatre as We Know It The 16-month closure and overhaul of the Castro Theatre now looms, and this weekend will see the final film screenings at the Castro Theatre as we know it — with the 1932 horror masterpiece ‘Vampyr’ Friday, and a Sunday double-feature of 'Blade Runner’ and ‘Robocop.’
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Can Serve Liquor Upstairs at the Castro Theatre After Board of Supervisors Approval What might have been the final battle over Another Planet Entertainment’s makeover of the Castro Theatre ended with a whimper, as the SF Board of Supervisors quickly approved their plan to serve liquor on the second floor of the storied theater.
Arts & Entertainment Weekend After Outside Lands Concerts Approved by City Hall, Coming to Polo Fields in August 2024 Another Planet Entertainment will have another weekend of concerts the weekend after Outside Lands, as the SF Board of Supervisors approved granting a permit for the extra weekend of concerts starting August 2024.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Gets Closer to Approval for Extra Weekend of Polo Field Concerts, Free Downtown Concerts A proposal for an extra weekend of Golden Gate Park concerts the weekend after Outside Lands, plus three free concerts in downtown SF, picked up steam with approval this week from a key Board of Supervisors committee.
Arts & Entertainment Deal Reached For Extra Weekend of Concerts After Outside Lands 2024, as West Side Supervisors Drop Opposition The extra weekend of shows from the promoter of Outside Lands, starting next year, had faced opposition from the Supervisors Connie Chan and Joel Engardio, but Another Planet Entertainment has hammered out a deal that’s changed both of their minds.
SF News Another Planet Entertainment Gets Their Way On Castro Theatre Renovations In Decisive City Hall Vote Concert promoter Another Planet Entertainment got their wish on their proposed Castro Theatre renovations Thursday, though also agreed to a laundry list of compromises dictating their film and LGBTQ programming, and even what concessions they sell at the snack bar.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Entertainment Wants To Bring Free Outdoor Concerts To Downtown SF, Starting Next Year No acts have been named, but Another Planet Entertainment is proposing a batch of at least three free outdoor concerts in San Francisco next year, at Civic Center Plaza, Embarcadero Plaza, and Union Square, for the next three years.
SF News SF Supervisors Vote Against Landmarking Castro Theatre Seats, In Major Win For Another Planet Entertainment Concert promoter Another Planet Entertainment got their biggest City Hall victory yet on Tuesday, as the SF Board of Supervisors shot down an attempt to landmark the theater’s seats that the promoter hopes to remove.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Promoters Hope to Bring Second Weekend of 'Headliner-Driven Events' to Polo Field After Next Year's Fest While Another Planet Entertainment (APE) continues to run up against preservationist headwinds in their effort to take over and transform the Castro Theatre primarily into a music venue, they may separately score a coup with the city for more, likely very lucrative big shows in Golden Gate Park.
SF News City Hall Inches Forward to Landmark Castro Theatre Seats, Old Contract Comes Back To Haunt Another Planet An SF Board of Supervisors committee was in favor of saving the Castro Theatre seats at a Monday hearing, and while the vote is nowhere near final, they brought up a skeleton in Another Planet Entertainment’s closet regarding millions in unfinished renovations at Bill Graham Auditorium.
SF News Supervisors’ Committee Delays Castro Theatre ‘Save the Seats’ Recommendation Until April 17 Faced with an up-or-down vote on recommending that the Castro Theatre interior seats get landmark protection, the SF Board of Supervisors Land Use and Transportation Committee punted that decision on Monday, and won’t consider it for another two weeks.
SF News Big Meeting Looms Monday On the Fate of the Castro Theatre's Seats If you care one way or the other over the controversy regarding the Castro Theatre's seats, you may want to carve out some time to speak up at a crucial hearing on the matter this Monday afternoon at 1:30 p.m.
SF News Castro Theatre Gets Landmark Recommendation from City Hall, in Big Setback for Another Planet Entertainment Trouble for Another Planet Entertainment, as the SF Historic Preservation Commission just recommended landmark designation protections for the Castro Theatre’s seats, at a six-hour meeting where both “Save the Seats” and “Change the Seats” factions turned out in force.
SF News Another Planet Submits New Castro Theatre Plans With ‘Motorized' Flooring, Opponents Not Moved The latest chapter in Another Planet Entertainment’s plans to overhaul the Castro Theatre involve a “motorized raked floor” to quell opponents’ outrage about removing the floor seats, yet opponents seem no less outraged.
SF News Tempers Flare as Castro Theatre Hosts First Public Meeting With Another Planet Entertainment A packed Castro Theatre saw a slew of “Save the Seats” activists sound off at a raucous public meeting about the theater’s future Thursday night, and there were other concerns that Another Planet’s Entertainment’s rebooted Castro Theatre might also be a Ticketmaster-only venue.
