SF News Over 100 Arrested At Electronic Music Fest At Shoreline Mountain View police succeeded in harshing the mellow of many ravers and would-be ravers over the weekend when they arrested over 100 people at the Beyond Wonderland music fest at Shoreline Amphitheater. The
Arts & Entertainment Raving 5k Fun Runs Promise To Be The Next Great/Terrible Intoxicated Sporting Event For anyone who ever thought Bay to Breakers was four miles too long and not nearly neon-colored enough, a new fun-running sensation directed at fans of EDM and fitness who apparently don't have
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Mark Zuckerberg Probably Went To Rave, Danced Awkwardly In 2009 Scandal has rocked — or at least gently swayed to a pulsing beat — Mark Zuckerberg this week as a British tabloid has dug up this ancient photo from 2009 which allegedly shows the young
SF News Big Rave in Oakland Upsets Many Oaklanders A big electronic music fest called Beyond Wonderland happened on Saturday night in the parking lot outside Oracle Arena in Oakland. There were three tents/stages, a ferris wheel, and enough thumping oontz-oontz
Arts & Entertainment Rave That Led to Ecstasy Death Returning This Weekend, But In Oakland The POP2012 electronic music fest, which is the latest incarnation of the party that contributed to the MDMA-related deaths of 23-year-old Anthony Mata and 25-year-old Trung Nguyen in 2010, is set to happen
SF News Santa Clara Thinks It Has an Ecstasy 'Epidemic' Oh, jeez, here we go again. Santa Clara County health officials have put together a PSA warning teens about the dangers of ecstasy, in response to some surveying that found that one in
SF News Fiona Ma Attempts to Define "Raves" (So She Can Ban Them) The State assemblywoman, whose district includes the Daly City home of the Cow Palace, has introduced legislation to ban those all-night bamp-bamp dance parties from public land across the state. Unsurprisingly, it's called
SF News Cow Palace Temporarily Nixes Raves As expected, Cow Palace in Daly City will no longer host "music and dance parties" after a slew of booze and drug overdoses at parties there. While the Cow Palace board "voted unanimously
misc This Is Why People Hate San Francisco: Volume 6 Once again it's time for an installment of this mildly confusing feature, in which we ask those ensconced too cozily in your SF bubbles to take a step back, summon your inner C.
SF News Second Death After Cow Palace Rave Trung Nguyen, 25, died on Sunday at Washington Hospital in Fremont, making him the second fatality after Memorial Day weekend's infamous Cow Palace rave. Nguyen was a graduate of Overfelt High School and
SF News Authorities Talk 'OD' In Re: Cow Palace Death, But Overdose of What? Though toxicology reports are still two weeks off, the San Mateo County Times wants to be the first to shout it from the rooftops that last weekend's post-Cow Palace, drug-related death and multiple
SF News Eleven Ravers Have Bad Trip at Cow Palace Apparently, raves are still going strong, as 20,000 people attended the "POP 2010: The Dream" party on Saturday night at Cow Palace. Eleven attendees ended up in the hospital due to taking
misc Vallejo Mayor Disgusted By Folsom Street Fair But that's the entire point! Anyway, RicardoSF tells us in the comments section here that: In January's issue of The Advocate in the Rants & Raves section -- unavailable online -- -- Openly
misc When Apple Sends You a Lemon, Make Lemonade We had been a proud, satisfied owner of an Apple PowerBook for a little over two years (and a blue-and-white G3 for five years before that) when it all went quickly downhill last
SF News Death Race 2007 Today, they're back in the news as a new story of wild behavior is making the rounds. The story comes from today's Matier & Ross and, to make a long story short, a
misc This Is Good: AlertSF.org Welcome to This Is Good, a new recommendation column for SFist about things that are good. If something is good, we'll tell you. Simple as that. * http://AlertSF.org Is Good. AlertSF is
misc Craigslist Encounters: Empty Boards Just like other network effect services, a new Craigslist sites takes time to develop as people in the far-off reaches (say... Centre County, Pennsylvania) don't just wake up and start using Craigslist. But
misc SFist Raves: Little Otsu, Our Hero We're so delighted by Little Otsu that we're posting a Rave on Friday! So we've been meaning to check out Little Otsu since the switch from clothing products to paper, along with the
misc SFist Raves: Ranch 99 Fry Your Own Fish Our vegan co-editor and labor-activist editor-at-large are going to kill us, and snide food snobs are already saying, "It's ," but our parents call it Ranch 99 (like our relatives call it King Burger)
misc SFist Raves: We Don't Hate SBC anymore And we so love the Power of the Blog! Do you remember, back in December we were ranting about SBC and how it had taken away our DSL and refused to discuss the
misc SFist Raves: Moving Pictures We're kind of on a pro-BART kick today -- which may be due in part to the fact that we've been taking the BART down to Millbrae all week. We understand that not
misc SFist Raves: The Power of Rock Compels You After realizing that we were probably never going to make it past the C, G, and F chords, we promptly gave it up (just like karate, the piano, African line-dancing, and summer school
misc SFist Raves: Food Loving Fund Raising Not only could you score a food photography lesson with local cookbook writer Heidi Swanson who took the pretty picture on the left, you could win a $200 voucher towards dinner at feted
misc SFist Raves: Internet Access (almost) Wherever We Go Yesterday we were ranting about the fact that stoopid SBC had decided to reduce the status of our internet connection from DSL to dial-up. It kind of pissed us off and we were
misc SFist Raves: Chinatown Sidewalks The days of being bopped on the shins by little old Chinese ladies carrying pink and white striped plastic bags and suspiciously poking the flesh of fresh fish may be numbered, as DPW