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 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.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Jerry Garcia's Guitar Fetches $1.9 Million One of Jerry Garcia's guitars, maybe his favorite, named Wolf, just sold at auction for $1.9 million. [CBS 5] ICYMI, that bill to extend last call to 4 a.m. in California
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 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 Day Around The Bay: Mayor Ed Lee's Disappearing Parking Tickets MTA records show that Mayor Ed Lee's Chevy Volt has been ticketed six times since 2011 — for street-cleaning violations and parking in a tow-away zone — but all were conveniently dismissed by the San
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 Giveaway: Tickets to the Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration with Warren Haynes & the SF Symphony Celebrate Jerry Garcia’s 71st birthday with this ground-breaking orchestral program, featuring Garcia’s original compositions, and timeless standards that were hallmarks of Garcia and the Grateful Dead's shows. Collaborating with the Symphony,
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
Arts & Entertainment Jerry Garcia Bobblehead, Hunter Pence Debut Tonight [Update] Born in city's Excelsior District, Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia would have been 70-years-old today. And with that, your San Francisco Giants will honor the noted musician with a performance by Moonalice on the
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 The SF Women's Film Festival's On Its Way! The Women's Film Fest has put together an eclectic group of movie screenings, running from April 11 through Sunday the 15th, and organized into intriguing categories like LGBTQ short film (honoring Guinevere Turner
Arts & Entertainment McLaren Park: It's Time Us Full-figure Girls Get Noticed To Little Miss Golden Gate Park, princess of the City, Honey, I'm sick of you and your flat-ass panhandle getting all the attention. You think you're the only park in the whole City
SF News Alien Duck Update They came in peace, they asked to be taken to our leader -- and it looks like our leader is online casino GoldenPalace.com. Remember that awesome picture of the duck with the
Arts & Entertainment Happy Birthday, Jerry This is the third year of the event and is celebrated in honor of Jerry's birthday, which was August 1st. Why the party in the Excelsior is because it's where Jerry grew up
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Gav Says/He's Done With Sergio The irrepressible Mr. P.J. Corkery asks the question on everyone's mind -- what's on Gavin Newsom's iPod? Well, after some hemming and hawing ("I don't have time to download 99 cent tunes,
Arts & Entertainment Dead Heads to Palo Alto We have to go into the back of our closet for our tie-dye, but if we can locate some by Saturday, the Jerry Garcia show at Art21 in Palo Alto might be worth
