Arts & Entertainment Perfectly Timed Rainbow Over Grateful Dead Show Had Fans Debating Whether It Was Real Everybody at the Grateful Dead show at Levi's Stadium on Saturday night was treated to a lovely sunset, and then they pretty much lost their minds when a rainbow appeared right over the
Arts & Entertainment Grateful Dead Ticket Prices Plummet To $20 A Head For Santa Clara Performance "Ran into the devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills," is a lyric from the timeless Grateful Dead tune "Friend Of The Devil" that also approximates the current cost of seeing the band
Arts & Entertainment Long Lost 1988 Jerry Garcia Interview Surfaces In San Francisco TV Studio Archive Apparently KPIX in San Francisco has been sitting on a 26-minute VHS tape interview with the late, great Jerry Garcia which never aired. As they tell us, "The Grateful Dead singer sat down
Arts & Entertainment Grateful Dead Confirm Bay Area Farewell Tour Dates At Levi's Stadium The surviving members of the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir, have confirmed the month-old rumor today that they will be adding two additional Bay Area dates to
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Arts & Entertainment Briefcase Full Of Never-Before-Heard Jerry Garcia Songs May Be Hiding In SFPD Storage When Jerry Garcia was booked on drug possession charges in Golden Gate Park in 1985, it wasn't just 23 packets of "brown and white substances," according to an article in the SF Examiner
SF News [Updated] Grateful Dead Reportedly Consider Bay Area Performances Ahead Of Chicago Finale As the "core four" members of the Grateful Dead — Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann — prepare for a series of sold out "Fare Thee Well" shows in Chicago this July
Arts & Entertainment Richard Loren, Manager Of The Doors And The Grateful Dead, Talks Egypt, Bailing Out Jim Morrison, And His New Memoir Richard Loren has just arrived back in the Bay Area where he resided from 1970 to 1986. In fact, it was none other than Jerry Garcia, whom Loren would come to manage, that
Arts & Entertainment A Touch Of Class For Jerry Garcia's 71st Birthday At Davies (By Angela Zimmerman) Grateful Dead fan or not, it's impossible to deny the impact of Jerry Garcia, especially living here in the Bay Area. Had he survived the health and addiction issues that
Arts & Entertainment THE HORROR: Nonprofit Wants To Rename Jerry Garcia Amphitheater In what might be a perfect storm of San Francisco headbutting: Deadheads and neighborhood groups are ready to square off against a non-profit organization and the Rec and Parks Department over the naming
SF News Berkeley Teacher Busted For DUI, LSD After Leaving Grateful Dead Bar What was that about all California drivers being on drugs? 51-year-old Berkeley High School teacher Douglas Haight (seriously?) lost his job and teaching credentials after a December DUI arrest turned up a bottle
Arts & Entertainment Listen To An Entire Year Of The Grateful Dead Tuning Up Before Shows While the thought of listening to an entire year of the Grateful Dead tuning their instruments on stage doesn't sound like much, it is (much to our surprise) a fascinating thing to behold.
Arts & Entertainment Mickey Hart To Turn Golden Gate Bridge Into Giant 'Wind Harp' In honor of the 75th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge, being celebrated this May, artist and former Grateful Dead member Mickey Hart will turn the iconic bridge into a giant musical instrument
SF News SF Giants to Host World Record-Breaking Kazoo Concert Tonight To honor Jerry Garcia at tonight's Giants game, Grateful Dead member Mickey Hart will conduct more than "7,000 kazoo-tooting fans" in playing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning
Arts & Entertainment Grateful Dead Grateful for Obama Those goddamn, dirty, lovable hippies known as the Grateful Dead -- i.e., Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Phil Lesh -- reunite tonight in honor of (our future president) Barack Obama. Looking to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Endless Strummer": It seems like at any moment in San Francisco, a Joe Strummer tribute is taking place. Ok look! Here's one now, featuring Clash City Rockers, La Plebe, David J, Odd
Arts & Entertainment Selections from <em>LA Times</em>' Critical Mass Article Too much ink has been spilled and too much bandwidth used to praise/bury Critical Mass in length. Now the LA Times gets in on the action. We'd love to break it down
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Love Letter Submit your found photos, letters, objects, grocery lists, etc to found @ sfist.com, or tag them as sfist on Flickr! Tell us where and when you found them and any other helpful info.
Arts & Entertainment Going Smashing With the Pumpkins So we're not sure what to think of the announcement today that the Pumpkins 2.0 are going to play eight shows at the Fillmore from July 22 to August 1. On the
Arts & Entertainment Can You Loan Me Twenty Bills? A Chance To Bid On Grateful Dead Stuff A bunch of stuff formerly belonging to a longtime road manager of the Grateful Dead's, Lawrence "Ram Rod" Shurtliff, will be up for auction starting today. Rudson Shurtliff is selling his father's guitars,
Arts & Entertainment Guess This Is What They Mean By San Francisco Values You can check out all the action in those Flickr photostream (including a picture of a really old and somewhat scary looking picture of Bob Weir) but the big news didn't concern who
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: They Love the '70s at Marines Memorial Theatre We admit we were a little skeptical when we heard about this Janis Joplin musical. After all, remember Lennon, the musical that premiered here and closed after a month
Arts & Entertainment Come Download Uncle John's Band We would say that something like this is "the death of the 60's" but that corpse has been long dead, ridden with more wounds than Sonny Corleone (speaking of which, has anyone else
