Arts & Entertainment Bonnie MacLean, Celebrated Psychedelic Poster Artist And Ex-Wife Of Bill Graham, Dies At 80 The onetime spouse of famed promoter Bill Graham, Bonnie MacLean was one of the most well-regarded concert poster artists of the late-60s, early-70s psychedelic rock era.
Arts & Entertainment Legendary Fillmore Promoter Bill Graham Set For Film Treatment Bill Graham, a towering figure in San Francisco and rock history, is set to receive the music bio pic treatment courtesy of Fox. Deadline broke the news, reporting that writer Zach Dean and
Arts & Entertainment Happy 40th To 'The Last Waltz,' The Greatest Concert In San Francisco History The Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco was the first place that the Band played as "the Band," guitarist Robbie Robertson tells director Martin Scorsese in an interview from his magnificent concert documentary The
SF News Hillary Clinton In SF This Morning To Raise Money, Snarl Traffic With less than a month before a presidential election will indicate if more voting Americans are sane decent human beings or bigoted monsters, the (in some cases, admittedly begrudging) choice of the sane
SF News Apple Unveils Revolutionary Updates To TV, Rose Gold iPhone, New iPad Pro [Liveblog] Announced two weeks ago amid a bit of cultivated mystery, Apple is taking over San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium this morning for a larger (in scale) than usual product release. They might
Arts & Entertainment Jack White's Short Hair And Loud Guitar At Bill Graham Civic Auditorium: Photos Last night, Jack White played the first of a two-night stand at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and, if you're headed to tonight's show, be sure to bring earplugs. It might have been the
SF News Historical Hideaways: Bill Graham Discusses the 'Old' Fillmore We just came across this historic interview with legendary concert promoter Bill Graham, standing outside what is currently, and was originally, the Fillmore auditorium on Geary Street. This interview was likely shot sometime
Arts & Entertainment Getting to Know... Maldroid We briefly introduced you to Maldroid earlier this week but this time we wanted to do a full introduction before the big day. Tickets are still available - you can get them here.
Arts & Entertainment Barack Obama to Perform at Bill Graham Sure. We'd love to see Hilary Clinton win just for the darling Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton pattern that's coming along nicely, but we're also curious about this Barack Obama fella. He seems to be some guy
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Arts & Entertainment Martin Luther King Day Events There's a whole bunch of events going on today, most of which are either happening now or have already started. We would have gotten to this post earlier, but like a lot of
Arts & Entertainment It's In the Vault Wolfgang's Vault is one of those online stores where you can order your vintage rock t-shirts and other cool stuff. 'Cause you know, nothing says cool like wearing tees for bands you've never
SF News MUNI Goes Where Gavin Fears To Tread The first meeting was held yesterday, but if you want to attend, the next slate of meetings will also be held Monday at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium from 4:30 to 7:
Arts & Entertainment Win Tickets to See AFI Did you know that the band AFI has its roots in Ukiah, California? They've come a long way in the last 15 years, winning a Video Music Award last week for Best Rock
SF News SFist Goes To The 75th San Francisco Golden Gloves Though last week's Golden Gloves was not actually the "Golden Gloves" event sanctioned by boxing's governing body, USA Boxing, that information failed to dissuade some of the Bay Area's greatest fighters from appearing
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Cut Copy at Popscene Cut Copy's CD Bright Like Neon Love makes us smile and dance like no other CD we own. We haven't taken a shine to an upbeat electro-pop band like this since Tahiti 80.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Sufjan Stevens "What? This isn't the Beck show?" we heard a guy ahead of us in line cry out in the Great American ticket line last night. Nope, the sold-out show was for quirky folkster
SF News CCA To Feed The Homeless In a press release from the California Culinary Academy we received today, the executive chefs and students at the CCA will be serving 1,000 lunches to the local homeless at the Bill
Arts & Entertainment Put On Your Yarmulke, Here Comes Hanukkah The big event happening is the annual lighting of the Bill Graham Menorah at Union Square. The fun starts at 5 p.m. and lasts 'til 6 p.m., so for those who
misc The Essefficist Fills More Recycling Containers Than You Can Imagine Once again, the Essefficist is back, a day late and at least a dollar short. We could go on all night about what a piece of junk this column is -- she may
