Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Isn't Actually Endowed Forever — Or Technically At All Because of his own passion for bluegrass music, billionaire philanthropist Warren Hellman frequently referred to the free SF music festival he founded and started funding 15 years ago as "the world's most selfish
Arts & Entertainment Warren Hellman Tribute Concert Announced, 2/19 [Updated] As City Insider reports, the Recreation and Park Commission announced it's organizing a Warren Hellman tribute concert honoring the beloved philanthropist and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass founder who passed away last month. Update: The
SF News R.I.P. Warren Hellman, Banjo Player and Billionaire Local billionaire and philanthropist Warren Hellman has died at age 77. The cause was complications from leukemia. He's well loved of course for creating and bankrolling the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, and fear
Arts & Entertainment Scenes from Friday and Saturday at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Sunshine! Famous people making music! Other people also making music! Lots of people not making music! Food Vendors! Dr. House on a Piano! Mayor Ed Lee! All of those things were in Golden
SF News <i>Guardian</i> Offers Advice to New Online Newspaper There's a staff editorial in this week's SFBG discussing the decline of the Chronicle and a new KQED/Warren Hellman-led non-profit venture to create a new online news source for San Francisco. The
Arts & Entertainment Compromise Can Be Healthy Too The battle over Healthy Saturdays was sort of at a stalemate until a study was released saying that attendance to the museums were up on Sundays when John F. Kennedy Drive was closed.
Arts & Entertainment The 'Fisties: Music Gillian Welch and Victoria Williams sat and watched Emmylou Harris perform, the guys from Los Super Seven hung out with some of the Knitters, and Patty Griffin stood by as Buddy Miller performed.
Arts & Entertainment The New de Young Building The original museum was built as the Fine Arts building for the California Midwinter International Exposition. The exposition made a profit, and the building and money were donated to The City and named
