SF News As Rainbow Family Camp Departs, Hippies Say It's Not Cool How California Treated Them This Year A confluence of factors, including heightened fears and risks of wildfires in a national forest that has seen several devastating ones in recent years, led to an outsized response from local and federal authorities to the arrival of the Rainbow Family campout this year.
SF News Rainbow Family Gathering Ordered Out of National Forest For First Time, Threatened With Fines It's not all peace, love, and mushroom tea in the Plumas National Forest, with around 500 members of the Rainbow Family gathering five miles north of Antelope Lake, and federal authorities are trying to kick them out.
SF News The Rainbow Family Gathering Is Happening In a Northern California Forest and Locals Are Freaking Out An area north of Antelope Lake in Plumas National Forest is going to play host to around 10,000 unwashed hippies next month, and area residents and the local sheriff are sounding alarm bells and wondering what kind of mess they'll be cleaning up.
SF News Bay Area Man Seeks Woman With Whom To Conceive A Child During Upcoming Eclipse We won't get to see the total solar eclipse here in the Bay Area, but it will be visible through a swath of northern Oregon, and at least one local man wants to
Arts & Entertainment Video: Go Inside A 1967 Tour Bus As It Gawks At Haight Street Hippies Everything all summer long in SF continues to officially be "hippie" themed because it's the 50th anniversary of the famed Summer of Love and if you haven't been already you should be wearing
Arts & Entertainment Oh Snap. The City Will Throw Its Own 'Summer Of Love' Concert After Rejecting Everyone Else's After rejecting numerous proposals from a producer that really, really wanted to throw a free Golden Gate Park concert celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love, the San Francisco Recreation and
Arts & Entertainment What Was The Summer Of Love?: An Explainer As 50th Anniversary Celebrations Ramp Up When people talk about "the 60s" in San Francisco, they're talking about a period from January 1967 to December 1969 just three short years that would nonetheless forever reshape the population of the
SF News Instagram-Famous Haight Street 'Hippy' Cat Neutered, Owner Offers To Sell Its Testicles You know what they say about cats. They don't have owners: Just staff. Well, in San Francisco fashion, Butters the cat —whom Mashable calls "a beloved staple... of Haight Ashbury" — has a social
Arts & Entertainment Oh Lorrrd: Janis Joplin Documentary Arrives In SF Today A lot of you have likely never seen Janis Joplin perform a number onstage, live or on video, because most of you are under the age of 70 and have little use for
Arts & Entertainment The 1967 'Human Be-In' Vs. What Golden Gate Park Hippiedom Looks Like Now “Peace in San Francisco” arguably started with a conch shell blast and Hare Krishna chanting at the "Human Be-In" on the Polo Grounds of Golden Gate Park. In this rare footage of the
Arts & Entertainment Phish Fans Petition Band To Play One Last Concert At Candlestick To 'Honor' Seattle Seahawks Phish fans (you may know some... I do) have been abuzz with the news that the band repeatedly encouraged the Seattle Seahawks and their fans to adopt their song "Wilson" as a chant
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Too Slow? Too Bad! The official motor vehicle of UC Santa Cruz. Shot by Bhautik Joshi.
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Humboldt County... Of course. Why not, Humboldt. Why not. (Photo by Travis Jensen.)
Arts & Entertainment Video: Burning Man's First Year In The Desert (1990) Burning Man first started out as an indie festival at Baker Beach in 1986. Years later, in 1990, before many of you were born, the festival moved to the desert. The following footage
Arts & Entertainment Even In 1968, New Yorkers Thought S.F. Was A Joke Our colleagues back East have unpacked last night's episode of Mad Men, which begins with Don and Megan returning from a Hawaiian vacation in January 1968, after Don stole a G.I.'s
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
SF News Lady Activist Strips Naked During Committee Meeting, Calls Wiener 'Fascist' [NSFW] At a special meeting of the City Operations and Neighborhood Services committee yesterday, Supervisors Sean Elsbernd, Carmen Chu, and anti-public nudity chairman Scott Wiener unanimously voted to bring a comprehensive ban on public
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Anthem Singer Scott McKenzie Dies at 73 It's the song that drew thousands of hippie kids to a chilly San Francisco summer 45 years ago, when an unpopular war was raging in Vietnam and our city by the Bay was
SF News Free Hippie Festival Canceled Due To Crushing Weight Of Bureaucracy Power to the Peaceful, one of several free concert events in Golden Gate Park, will fall silent for the second year in a row after organizers announced the yoga and music event was
SF News Berkeley Mayor Wants His Own Sit-Lie Ordinance Even the hippies in Berkeley want the hippies to stop plopping themselves down all day on Telegraph Avenue! Berkeley mayor Tom Bates is asking the City Council to consider putting a sit-lie ordinance
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Beyond This Place' with Live Score by Sufjan Stevens and Ray Raposa (By Angela Zimmerman) A lot of people have fucked up parents. As cinematic subject matter, the emotionally resonant relationship between father or mother and son or daughter has been explored and dissected more
Arts & Entertainment Outer Sunset Business Wards Off Concert-Going Hippies Although this SFist contributor couldn't make it to the little bluegrass concert in the park last weekend, we kept hearing mention of lots of hippies saturating the event. To echo that sentiment, friend
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour Hipsters vs Hippies water balloon showdown in Dolores Park on Saturday. Photo by Bhautik Joshi.
SF News SF: Greenest City in U.S. & Canada In addition to having the filthiest streets in the nation, San Francisco has just been anointed the greenest city in the United States and Canada, according to a study by Siemens. The report
