Arts & Entertainment Protest Group Ends Boycott of Dickens Christmas Fair, Says Racism and Groping Allegations Addressed Performers of color said the Great Dickens Christmas Fair had become a bleak house of racism and groping incidents, and instituted a boycott of the fair the last two years, but they now have great expectations that fair organizers have addressed those concerns adequately.
Arts & Entertainment Dickens Christmas Fair Faces Backlash and Boycott Over Racism, Harassment Allegations More than 200 Dickens Fair cast members, and thousands of attendees from years past say that the annual holiday festival has been a bleak house of racist behavior toward performers of color.
SF News One Dead, Five Injured In 2-Alarm Fire Near Cow Palace One victim died Tuesday evening after a two-alarm fire broke out in two residential buildings near the Cow Palace in Visitacion Valley. According to witnesses, a large explosion was heard just before the
SF News Hey Guys, Did You Know We Have a Hockey Team Now? The cover story in tomorrow's Weekly is all about SF's new minor-league hockey team, the San Francisco Bulls, and how they're doing in their nascent few weeks over at the Cow Palace. It's
Arts & Entertainment Rave That Led to Ecstasy Death Returning This Weekend, But In Oakland The POP2012 electronic music fest, which is the latest incarnation of the party that contributed to the MDMA-related deaths of 23-year-old Anthony Mata and 25-year-old Trung Nguyen in 2010, is set to happen
SF News Teens Robbed Riding Muni Bus Wednesday Night At around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday near the intersection of Brookdale Avenue and Santos Street, near the Cow Palace, two young folks, ages 15 and 19, were robbed on a Muni bus.
Arts & Entertainment Scene from Rehearsal of Cirque du Soleil's Quidam Before Cirque du Soleil's Quidam opens tonight at the Cow Palace, this acrobat (?) defies gravity during a taut routine. Kudos to you, sir.
SF News Fiona Ma Backs Down a Bit on Anti-Rave Bill, Will Hold Some Meetings You'll recall how State Assemblywoman Fiona Ma was looking to define what a "rave" was so that she could write a bill that would ban raves from occurring on public property? Well, now
SF News Fiona Ma Attempts to Define "Raves" (So She Can Ban Them) The State assemblywoman, whose district includes the Daly City home of the Cow Palace, has introduced legislation to ban those all-night bamp-bamp dance parties from public land across the state. Unsurprisingly, it's called
SF News Cow Palace Temporarily Nixes Raves As expected, Cow Palace in Daly City will no longer host "music and dance parties" after a slew of booze and drug overdoses at parties there. While the Cow Palace board "voted unanimously
SF News 16 Kids Hospitalized In Yet Another Cow Palace Rave OD Situation In further party-casualty news from this past weekend, sixteen people were taken to the hospital after apparent drug overdoses during another Cow Palace dance music fest on Friday night. Two remained in critical
SF News Second Death After Cow Palace Rave Trung Nguyen, 25, died on Sunday at Washington Hospital in Fremont, making him the second fatality after Memorial Day weekend's infamous Cow Palace rave. Nguyen was a graduate of Overfelt High School and
SF News Authorities Talk 'OD' In Re: Cow Palace Death, But Overdose of What? Though toxicology reports are still two weeks off, the San Mateo County Times wants to be the first to shout it from the rooftops that last weekend's post-Cow Palace, drug-related death and multiple
SF News Eleven Ravers Have Bad Trip at Cow Palace Apparently, raves are still going strong, as 20,000 people attended the "POP 2010: The Dream" party on Saturday night at Cow Palace. Eleven attendees ended up in the hospital due to taking
SF News Potheads to Descend En Masse on Cow Palace The International Cannabis & Hemp Expo comes to the Cow Palace for the first time on April 17th and 18th, featuring a multitude of booths to educate you as to the wonders of
SF News Cow Palace May Say Its Final 'Moo' We'll 'fess up. We haven't been to the Cow Palace since the 2005 Tattoo Expo. With that said, we're a bit torn with how to feel about the possibility of the Cow Palace
SF News RIP: Evel Knievel The motorcycling-riding Johnny Knoxville of his time, minus any homoerotic subtext, Evel Knievel died today at the wonderful age of 69. He passed away after years of suffering from "diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary
SF News "Oracle World Wasted My Ambien!" Who knew living in a city would be so noisy? We received a few messages this morning regarding mass sleeplessness due to last night's Oracle Open World finale. Even the enchanting Stevie Nick's
SF News Oracle Open World Chaos to Commence Okay, granted, we're personalizing this a bit. We digress. But Oracle Open World causes so much congestion in the downtown/SOMA area; we're surprised that this is still allowed to go on. But
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight We could've gone with a YouTube clip of the video for Love Is A Battlefield (totally one of the best videos ever), but we went instead for the Benatards doing "Hit Me With
SF News Another Month, Another Muni Payout The other $15,000 gets split between Tokuko ($6,000) and State Farm ($8,917.83). Tokuko's claim relates to some personal injury and property damage done by a bus in 2005, and
Arts & Entertainment Christmas at Cow Palace is as Fun as the Dickens We ventured out to Cow Palace with 6-year-old Julian in tow, where we proceeded to do a full circle around the entire building before finding the fair. A motorcycle swap was going on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Gun Show Yes, we went to the Crossroads of the West Gun Show at the Cow Palace this weekend. Why? Aren't we supposed to be virulently anti-gun? Shouldn't we hate not just guns but people
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: "American Idol" Tonight You can bet your ear plugs we'll be tuning in to "American Idol" tonight as the show continues with its seemingly endless episodes of auditions, because San Francisco is their next stop! The
Arts & Entertainment Back in the Day... Like, Two Centuries Back We were walking through the Cow Palace the other day -- that giant warehouse-ish building, way south of the Mission, where they have rodeos and exhibitions and stuff -- when who should walk
