SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Mick Jagger Cracks Bay Area Jokes at Levi’s Stadium Stones Show SF drug overdoses hit a two-year low in June; the Motel 6 near Ocean Beach might become an affordable housing complex; and Mick Jagger busted out some solid Silicon Valley wisecracks at Wednesday night’s Rolling Stones concert.
Arts & Entertainment Despite Saying They'd Never Be Back After 2019 Dustup, Rolling Stones Schedule 2024 Levi's Concert The concert promoter of the Rolling Stones suggested four years ago that the band would be skipping Levi's Stadium on future tours, due to all of the hassles and last-minute rules it said the City of Santa Clara imposed on them. But they're coming back next year, anyway.
Arts & Entertainment On This Day 50 Years Ago, The Rolling Stones Did A Disastrous Bay Area Show That History Calls 'The End of the 60s' It was supposed to be "The West Coast Woodstock," but Altamont instead became synonymous with the death knell of The Sixties, a symbol of the darkness that lay just below the surface of the music-loving, free-loving hippie movement.
SF News 40 Years Ago Today, the 60's Died at Altamont Today marks the 40th anniversary of Altamont, the infamous free concert thrown at the the Altamont Speedway, east of Livermore near the junction between 580 and I-5. The concert was billed as Woodstock
SF News Swells by the Numbers SFist Rita is out of town for work, so we are donning our tiara and gown for this weeks Swells analysis. Tra-la-la! Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column:
Arts & Entertainment It's Only Rock n' Roll The Stones play Oakland Coliseum tonight having had to move it from last night's show due to Mick having a bad throat. Now granted, most people don't really care about the Stones anymore
SF News Going to the World Cup With Fabian Núñez Hey, we just found out a way to go-- just give tons of money to Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez? He's taking some of his biggest fund raisers to Germany to watch the Finals.
SF News SchwarzenWatcher: Rock 'n Roll Edition Hey, want to spend an evening with an aging former drug abuser watching four other aging former (?) drug abusers shake their wrinkled heines on stage? For $100,000 and the cost of some
Arts & Entertainment Bummer, Dude After thirty-five years, Alameda County sheriff's investigators have finally closed the murder of Meredith Hunter at the Rolling Stones' Altamont concert 35 years ago. Apparently, they’ve been looking for the semi-mythical "second
