Arts & Entertainment GrassLands at Outside Lands Stays Cleaner, Chiller Than The Rest Of Festival The festival’s “weed zone” called GrassLands had no arrests or medical incidents. Sales were high, prices were decent, and lines ran as long as 60 people or longer at some booths.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Wraps Up With Sunny Weather, Mellow Main Stage Sets (and Kygo) After the crush of humanity that was Saturday at Outside Lands, Sunday arrived with a noted calm, and a sunny afternoon in Golden Gate Park in which a lot of people seemed to stay home until the evening sets.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Paul Simon Bring Out the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir To Do Their First-Ever Duet At the end of a 21-song set Sunday night to close out Outside Lands, Paul Simon brought out the great Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead — a friend he's known for 52 years.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Nothing Bad Happened At Outside Lands The Transbay Transit Center bus deck reopened over the weekend, SF is lagging behind Oakland in housing production, and the Chronicle's Soleil Ho talks about the strange tension of expecting a possible mass shooting at a big festival like Outside Lands.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Attendance Tops 90,000 Saturday, Breaks Record With Childish Gambino Headlining Saturday is often the most attended day of the three-day Outside Lands festival, but this year broke records with a reported 90,000 attendees — and that crowd didn't come without some complications.
Arts & Entertainment How To Do Outside Lands, Part 3: Logistics and Transportation Completing our three-part series on how to do Outside Lands like a pro, SFist brings you some tips for getting there, navigating the place, and getting out.
Arts & Entertainment How To Do Outside Lands, Part 2: The Music (and Comedy) Outside Lands (OSL) is just a day-and-change away, which means Golden Gate Park will, again, be inundated with gastronomes, comedians, and, of course, more musical acts than you can shake a mic stand at.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Becomes First Major Music Festival to Allow Marijuana Sales As of late Wednesday, Outside Lands was cleared to become the first major event in San Francisco — and the first big music festival in the country — to sanction on-site sales and consumption of cannabis.
Arts & Entertainment How To Do Outside Lands, Part 1: The Food and Drink SFist has done a lot of these fests — ten of them, in fact, all but 2018's — so allow us to give you some tips and highlights, in our role as old pros.
Arts & Entertainment 'Grass Lands' at Outside Lands Still Might Have On-Site Weed Sales, Maybe It's down to the wire for the final permit approval to make Outside Lands possibly the biggest music festival in the U.S. ever to allow both on-site sales and consumption of legal marijuana.
Arts & Entertainment 'American Indian Headdresses' Now Officially Banned At Outside Lands Cultural appropriation in the form of Native American headdresses has now joined the list of banned items at Outside Lands — meaning it's no longer just an insensitive faux pas, its completely prohibited.
Arts & Entertainment Childish Gambino, Twenty One Pilots, Lil Wayne & Kacey Musgraves Headlining Outside Lands 2019 We now have the full lineup announcement for Outside Lands 2019, which is happening August 9 to 11 in Golden Gate Park, and we know who'll be joining the bill besides the great Paul Simon.
Arts & Entertainment It's Time To Play The Outside Lands Lineup Guessing Game Lady Gaga, The Strokes, Maggie Rogers, Kacey Musgraves, Childish Gambino, and Chance the Rapper are all solid possibilities for who will be getting top billing when the organizers of Outside Lands drop the full lineup Tuesday.
Arts & Entertainment Paul Simon Will Headline This Year's Outside Lands Even though he's spent the last year giving farewell concerts ahead of his announced retirement, the great Paul Simon will grace one more Bay Area stage before calling it quits, at Outside Lands this August.
