Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Announces Its 2024 Return, In Letter Promising Alameda It Won’t Be So Loud This Time The Portola Music Festival announced its coming back in late September, though not in a splashy social media announcement, but instead in a letter to Alameda residents who’ve been up in arms about the festival’s noise.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Music Festival Announces Dates For 2023 — and It's Not Folsom Weekend Members of the LGBTQ+ and fetish communities who are also fans of electronic music will be thrilled to know that the second annual Portola Festival is happening the weekend after Folsom Street Fair weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Closes Out With Chemical Brothers, No More Crowd Incidents, and Some Noise Complaints This past weekend's inaugural Portola Music Festival — which was not in the Portola neighborhood but over on Pier 80 — was a well attended debut with a ton of great EDM acts, crowd-control issues notwithstanding.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Portola Festival Debuts With Spectacular Shows, But Very Messy Crowd Management Long lines and some highly ineffective crowd management strategies led to mayhem, chaos, and bum-rushing at Saturday’s Day 1 of the Portola Festival, overshadowing terrific performances from Flume, Charli XCX, and Fatboy Slim.
Arts & Entertainment Portola, a New Two-Day EDM Festival From the Coachella People, Comes to SF's Pier 80 This September A new two-day festival in the vein of the defunct Treasure Island Music Festival is headed to SF this fall, just seven weeks after Outside Lands wraps up — and it's mostly EDM acts, with headliners Flume and The Chemical Brothers.
SF News FiDi Thieves Beat and Rob Elderly Man of Camera, as the Weekend Saw Something of a Robbery Spree Though robberies are down 28 percent compared to this time last year, the slow return of gatherings and semi-normalcy may bring back both petty and violent theft.
SF News ’Carmageddon’ Predicted To Snarl 101-Alemany Boulevard Area Much Of Next Summer When even Caltrans is referring to a construction event as “Carmageddon,” you can expect miles-long traffic jams, and this one’s scheduled to disrupt travel on the 101 around Portola next summer.
SF News Video: Man Wallops Woman As She Walks On SF Street A surveillance video that's been blurred at police request still shows a disturbing daytime attack in San Francisco, as a man runs up from behind a woman to bash her, then comes back
SF News Judge Deems Alleged 'NO MORE CHINESE' Tagger A Threat To Public Safety When a tagger gets caught in San Francisco, the miscreant is typically released on his or her own recognizance as they await trial, even if they face a massive number of charges. Not
SF News Local Pranksters Are Flipping Smart Cars For Kicks Last night around Bernal Heights and Portola, three Smart cars were flipped over in the streets. One witness described seeing a group of about six to eight hoodie-wearing suspects huddled around one of
SF News Woman Choked, Mugged By Four Suspects Near McLaren Park A 23-year-old woman walking home around 12:15 a.m. this morning at Felton and Harvard Streets near McLaren Park in the Portola neighborhood was attacked by four suspects who choked her and
SF News Reward Increased to $75K for Info on Portola Fire Members of the community (i.e., Mitchell Engineering, Michael Byrne, Platinum Advisors, Webcor Construction Company, Boston Properties, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco Fire Commissioners, PG&E, and American Airporter Shuttle) have
SF News $25K Reward for Portola Arson Info Authorities are offering a $25,000 reward for info leading to the arrest of the person(s) who set fire to a two-story Portola apartment building. The fire injured six firefighters, with two
SF News 2 Firefighters Remain Hospitalized Two of the xix SF firefighters that were injured in an early morning fire in the Portola District yesterday remain in the hospital this morning. According to SF Fire Lt. Mindy Talmadge, "Lieutenant
SF News 6 Firefighters Hurt in Portola Fire Six firefighters were hurt, with one suffering life-threatening injuries "after inhaling superheated gases," while fighting a blaze at a two-story residence at 627 Felton Street early this morning. According to Chron, "The names
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