Arts & Entertainment Conservatory Of Flowers' 'Summer Of Love' Light Show Extends Run Through Thanksgiving The Conservatory of Flowers has announced that their popular Summer of Love-anniversary projection-mapped light show, Photosynthesis, will continue to be shown through November 26th. In a press release, they write that the project
Arts & Entertainment SF's 'First All-Female Rock Band' Ace Of Cups Reunites For New Album Sure, go ahead and laugh at those seventysomething silver-haired biddies recording rock music in the image above. Those seventysomething silver-haired biddies are the seminal Summer of Love musical act The Ace of Cups,
Arts & Entertainment Semi-Autonomous VW Electric Microbus, The I.D. Buzz, Makes Appearance In San Francisco Making an obligatory stop for a photo op in the nexus of once-upon-a-time and still-sorta-kinda Hippieville, the Upper Haight, here is VW's concept car version of their upcoming minibus throwback, which also just
Arts & Entertainment Rare Photo Collection From 1967 Shows Haight Street Fashions In The Summer Of Love In the private photo collection of Charles W. Cushman, recently made available online through the Indiana University Archives, there's a group of photos that were all likely shot in the same month, March
Arts & Entertainment Video: Go Inside A 1967 Tour Bus As It Gawks At Haight Street Hippies Everything all summer long in SF continues to officially be "hippie" themed because it's the 50th anniversary of the famed Summer of Love and if you haven't been already you should be wearing
Arts & Entertainment Sneak Preview: Conservatory of Flowers 'Summer of Love' Projections Come Alive The wildly anticipated trippy Summer of Love light show at the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park has its grand lighting ceremony Wednesday night, but the technical and artistic aces of Illuminate
Arts & Entertainment Rec And Parks Denies 'Summer Of Love' Concert Yet Again, But The Hearing Was Hilarious Will promoter and old-school hippie Boots Hughston ever catch a break? The 68-year-old has been trying to get the city and County of San Francisco to let him produce a free concert in
Arts & Entertainment Oh Snap. The City Will Throw Its Own 'Summer Of Love' Concert After Rejecting Everyone Else's After rejecting numerous proposals from a producer that really, really wanted to throw a free Golden Gate Park concert celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love, the San Francisco Recreation and
Arts & Entertainment Summer of Love Anniversary Concert Is Really, Definitely Not Happening It’s not like San Francisco has a shortage of 50th anniversary commemorations of the 1967 Summer of Love squat-in, with a "Summer of Love Experience" exhibit underway at the deYoung, a Summer
SF News Local Nudists To March In Nude Summer Of Love Parade Next Weekend Led by body freedom fighter Gypsy Taub, a local contingent of nudists is planning their own celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, further testing San Franciscans' tolerance for the
Arts & Entertainment DeYoung Museum's 'Summer Of Love Experience' Opens, Dede Wilsey Declares 'I'm A Flower Child' Last Thursday night was the opening reception for the deYoung's exhibit The Summer of Love Experience, and the Chronicle's Leah Garchik was on hand to hear some introductory remarks by Dede Wilsey, the
Arts & Entertainment What Was The Summer Of Love?: An Explainer As 50th Anniversary Celebrations Ramp Up When people talk about "the 60s" in San Francisco, they're talking about a period from January 1967 to December 1969 just three short years that would nonetheless forever reshape the population of the
SF News Rec And Park Commission Denies Appeal For Summer Of Love 50th Anniversary Concert In a unanimous vote yesterday, the SF Recreation and Park Commission denied promoter Boots Hughston's appeal of an earlier decision not to grant a permit for a June 4th concert on the Polo
SF News City Denies Permit For Free Summer Of Love 50th Anniversary Concert A second "Human Be-In" is perhaps not to be. The event promoter who had planned a free 50th anniversary concert to mark the fateful 1967 "Summer of Love" with its massive crowd in
Arts & Entertainment Even In 1968, New Yorkers Thought S.F. Was A Joke Our colleagues back East have unpacked last night's episode of Mad Men, which begins with Don and Megan returning from a Hawaiian vacation in January 1968, after Don stole a G.I.'s
