Arts & Entertainment Yet Another Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary Party Happening Saturday at Pier 39 If you still have the appetite and remaining stash left for one more Grateful Dead 60th anniversary party in San Francisco, Pier 39 is throwing one all day Saturday, with some Dead cover bands, drink specials, and a “tie-dye making station.”
SF News Lifelong Grateful Died Fan Died From Medical Emergency While Dancing at Sunday Night’s Dead & Company Show A 54-year-old Michigan man who was visiting San Francisco to see Dead & Company last weekend experienced a sudden medical emergency during the show, and passed away shortly thereafter.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Grateful Dead Celebration Fills Up SF Hotels Many SF hotels were all full thanks to the Dead & Company shows; Gov. Gavin Newsom is hosting some Texas lawmakers who are trying to thwart redistricting back home; and a car fire in Castro Valley led to a serious vegetation fire.
SF News Of Course the SFPD Busted a Guy Outside Dead & Company Show With 100 Nitrous Oxide Tanks Dead & Company fans missed out on some extra party favors this weekend after San Francisco police say they caught a Philadelphia man with about 100 nitrous oxide tanks and balloons near Golden Gate Park Saturday night.
SF News Sunday Links: Tesla Ordered to Pay $243M in Fatal Florida Crash Involving Autopilot Software The dog stories continue this weekend with Pacifica's World Dog Surfing Championships highlights; two former San Ramon students were paid $7 million in a settlement over a sexual abuse case involving a teacher; and Tesla was found partly liable in a 2019 autopilot crash in Miami.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Jerry Garcia Street’ Officially Unveiled in Excelsior to Kick Off Grateful Dead Anniversary Bash The Excelsior District street Jerry Garcia grew up on has been honorarily renamed Jerry Garcia Street, on what would have been Jerry’s 83rd birthday, and just hours before Dead & Company kick off those Grateful Dead 60th anniversary shows.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Throngs of Deadheads Descend on SF for This Weekend’s Dead & Company Shows A firefighter was injured while battling a squatter blaze in West Oakland; someone threw a sex toy onto the court at a Valkyries game; and SF is bracing itself as legions of Deadheads get ready to run amok for the Dead & Company shows.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, the Dead & Company Shows Will Be Livestreamed on Pay-Per-View From Golden Gate Park There will indeed be a pay-per-view livestream of the sold-out Dead & Company shows August 1-3 at Golden Gate Park, and anyone worldwide can tune in for both the opening acts and the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead performances.
Arts & Entertainment Muni Is Truckin’ Grateful Dead-Themed Buses for Next Weekend’s Big Dead & Co. Concerts Your next Muni vessel might look like an LSD sunshine daydream, as the 7-Haight/Noriega, 5-Fulton, and N-Judah lines now have these psychedelic themed transit vehicles to whisk people to and from Golden Gate Park.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Those SF Dead & Co Tickets Go on Sale Friday Morning SF Pride has cobbled together a few new sponsors amidst their mass sponsor retreat, the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals are tonight, and those Dead and Company Golden Gate Park concert tickets go on sale at 10 am sharp Friday morning.
Arts & Entertainment Dead & Company Tickets for Golden Gate Park Shows Go On Sale Next Week, $635 for All Three Shows The eyes of the world have been set on when those Golden Gate Park Dead & Company tickets would go on sale, and now we know they’re on sale next week for $635 for all three shows, with single-show sales forthcoming, plus three different opening acts.
Arts & Entertainment Dead & Company Lined Up to Play In Golden Gate Park for Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary Mayor Lurie made a big ripple with a Monday morning announcement that Dead & Co. will be playing a three-show weekend in Golden Gate Park August 1-3, which will now be the main event of the Grateful Dead 60th anniversary celebrations.
Arts & Entertainment SF Street Jerry Garcia Grew Up On Will Be Renamed ‘Jerry Garcia Street’ The Excelsior District street that was the 1940s boyhood home of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia just got City Hall approval to be renamed ‘Jerry Garcia Street.’ It’s currently called Harrington Street, but new signage will shakedown this street.
Arts & Entertainment Longtime Grateful Dead Bass Player Phil Lesh Has Died at 84 Grief will ripple through the Bay Area music community today, as the family of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh announced that he passed away peacefully early Friday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Those Dead and Company Shows Pumped $31 Million Into the SF Economy SF supervisors approved Mayor Breed’s $15 billion budget, while Breed is courting the University of California to build a downtown SF campus, and this weekend’s Dead and Company shows brought a reported $30.9 million into the local economy.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Dead & Company Draws Thousands to SF For Final Shows, Dazzles With Drone Display The final concerts by Grateful Dead spinoff band Dead & Company took place over the weekend at Oracle Park, and they came with some spectacular drone light shows hovering over the stadium, in a fitting farewell.
Arts & Entertainment Jerry Garcia’s Marijuana Pipe, Lost for 30 Years, Has Been Found and Procured by Antiquities Collector I’ve heard of losing your bowl, but this is ridiculous — Jerry Garcia’s favorite marijuana bowl was last seen in 1991, but it has been found and acquired by a relics collector.
Arts & Entertainment Bob Weir To Ring In His 75th Birthday With a Three-Night Set at the Warfield Bobby turns 75 in October, and he’ll treat his hometown to three performances at the Warfield along with his latest band Wolf Bros, with tickets going on sale Friday.
Arts & Entertainment Rare, Full Johnny Cash San Francisco Concert From 1968 Digitally Restored and Free Online An SF Johnny Cash concert from 1968, recorded just one week before the release of his landmark Folsom Prison album, has been digitally restored and released online by the son of famed Grateful Dead roadie “Bear” Stanley.
Arts & Entertainment Martin Scorsese Grateful Dead Biopic Nabs Jonah Hill to Play Jerry Garcia Scorsese’s upcoming flick will be a yet-unnamed Grateful Dead biopic for Apple, and Jonah Hill will portray the late Jerry Garcia.
Arts & Entertainment Trailer: 'Long Strange Trip,' The Four-Hour Grateful Dead Documentary Produced By Martin Scorsese Not many musical acts in human history attracted the cult following and counter-cultural status of The Grateful Dead, a band that, as the AV Club puts it, "at its height, was simultaneously a
SF News Cole Valley Home Of Rolling Stone's First Photographer Is For Sale Although they might no longer recognize it if they were still with us, famous rock icons like Janis Joplin and Jerry Garcia were at one time very familiar with a house now for
Arts & Entertainment Grateful Dead Bassist Phil Lesh Says He Has Cancer Grateful Dead bassist and founding member Phil Lesh says he has cancer. On Friday afternoon, through the website for his San Rafael restaurant and music venue Terrapin Crossroads, Lesh revealed that he was
Arts & Entertainment Deadheads Never Say Die: Insatiable Fans Petition Band To Play Super Bowl Halftime Show In what's become a highly co-dependent relationship with the remaining members of the beloved band, Grateful Dead fans have now drafted a change.org petition, flagged by CBS SF, to encourage the remaining
Arts & Entertainment 'Kid Charlemagne': A Close Reading Of Steely Dan's Ode To Haight Street's LSD King "Oh Owsley, can you hear me now" Jimi Hendrix says on a BBC sessions recording of "Day Tripper just before he starts his solo. It's an appropriate reference, and one of very many
