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San Francisco Bulls Invite You to Spend Your Last Day on Earth Watching Live Hockey

We can't think of a better way to spend your last day on Earth than a minor league hockey game. This Friday -- the much-anticipated 12-21-12 -- the San Francisco Bulls are hosting an "It's the End of the World as We Know it" game. Even if you don't like hockey, the team has a persuasive pitch. Whe ... More >>

Puck Yeah: Taking the Ice with the S.F. Bulls

Eat and Drink Your Way Through Victorian London at Dickens Fair

Looking for a holiday escape with exotic people, colorful language, music, shows and some tasty food and drink? You don't need to go to the airport -- just head to the Cow Palace for the 34th annual Great Dickens Christmas Fair. Every holiday season, the fair transforms the erstwhile hockey and rode ... More >>

San Francisco Bulls: Pancakes and Skating at the Cow Palace!

In some parts of the world, the notion of wolfing down a stack of pancakes before lacing up a pair of skates and hitting the ice sounds like business as usual for a Monday morning. Not here. But, for fans of the nascent San Francisco Bulls, that was on their plates today. For aficionados of hockey - ... More >>

Taste Samoa at South Pacific Island Restaurant

With its gated door and window, South Pacific Island Restaurant looks like it's closed, even when it's open. The area's only Samoan eatery is across the street and down the block from the Cow Palace, pretty much on the border between San Francisco and Daly City. Open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., the cash ... More >>

Number 38: Broken Record's Crawfish Grits

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​On New Year's Eve of 1973, the Allman Brothers put on a legendary, marathon show at the Cow Palace. Nearly four decades later, up Geneva at The Broken Record, Georgian Shane LaValley creates something just as unapologe ... More >>

Unemployed Still? Cannabis Jobs Fair at Cow Palace This Weekend

​This being election season means it's also jobs season. Jobs are on the lips of every politician worth his or her soft money -- from Barack Obama's jobs plan to Mayor Ed Lee's own Wilsonesque 17-point jobs plan (in some ways eerily similar to the 17-point jobs plan offered in June by mayoral oppo ... More >>

Watch an Amazing Video of Nirvana Playing at the Cow Palace and Destroying Shit from 1991

Breaking shit since 1987​This will remind you '90s-swiping teenyboppers of the high-as-fuck standards you have to live up to: A heretofore "rare" video of Nirvana playing the Cow Palace in Daly City (right next to S.F.) from 1991. Shot from the side of the stage, the clip shows the band screa ... More >>

Anti-Rave Legislator Fiona Ma Coming To Rave Near You

This is NOT a real photograph. Yet. ​Fiona Ma taketh away, and Fiona Ma giveth. The San Francisco Assemblywoman yesterday decided to nix her controversial "Anti-Raves Act of 2011." Area rave promoters may soon get something else, however: Fiona Ma. Ma told SF Weekly she plans on attending a rave s ... More >>

SF Lawmaker Fiona Ma Wants To Ban Raves Statewide

Thomas LevinsonIs this the future of raves in California?​Following several drug-related deaths, arrests, and hospitalizations at raves in the Bay Area and Los Angeles this year, S.F. Assemblywoman Fiona Ma says the state should ban raves altogether.Ma's bill, the Anti-Raves Act of 2011, would out ... More >>

Anti-Rave Bill Introduced By Fiona Ma

Now a slightly tougher choice​In the legislative version of the cops showing up and busting up your party, Assemblywoman Fiona Ma is attempting to make California a rave-free zone. The San Francisco politico's Anti-Raves Act of 2011 would forbid any "public event at night that includes prerecorded ... More >>

Cow Palace Says No to Subsonic Spookfest, Pop Raves

​You'll have to take your glow sticks somewhere else, raver kids: the Cow Palace in Daly City won't be hosting any more Subsonic Spookfests or Pop 2010 parties. The board of directors that controls the state-owned arena voted yesterday to specifically ban those events, after two died of ecstasy ov ... More >>

San Francycle: Local Gems at SF Bike Expo

​ Hey, I have an idea. Let's convene a vertigo-sufferers convention in the Swiss Alps. Then we'll hold a family picnic in an Alaskan timberwolf preserve. And finally we can organize an ocean cruise to Kansas. But first, let's hold the San Francisco Bike Expo at the Cow Palace. It's the perfec ... More >>

Delorean Reaches for (Musical) Ecstasy at Great American Music Hall

Delorean last night at Great American​DeloreanLemonadeNovember 10, 2010@ Great American Music HallBetter than: taking drugs at the Cow Palace.With all due respect to the lovers and survivors of house and trance music, the movement has moved, onward and outward, to bigger sounds and better ideas. T ... More >>

Cattle Stampede Planned for San Francisco Streets Tonight

Stop! You're violating the city charter! ​Here's the difference between Daly City and San Francisco: In the former, they'll have cows on the streets. Here we have people who think they're cows. Actually, tonight San Francisco will have cows trotting through its city streets as well. In order to co ... More >>

The Exotic Erotic Ball ditched the Cow Palace over ticket fraud

Exotic Erotic Ball Heads to Richmond, Abandoning Cow Palace

May I have this dance?​The San Francisco peninsula might be home to some of the world's most avid sexual recreation, but this year it will be bidding a fond adieu to one of its kinkiest confabs. The 31st annual Exotic Erotic Ball & Expo is moving from the Cow Palace to the East Bay, where it w ... More >>

Off the Grid, Urban Wine Experience, Street-Food Birthday: Your Weekend Planner

John BirdsallFriday: Happy Dumpling cheers up Fort Mason Center.​Can you believe it's almost August? Before summer advances into downed foliage and the sun starts setting before the end of happy hour, there's no better weekend to head out and enjoy yourself. Fri., July 30: • Feeling a littl ... More >>

Cow Palace Farmers' Market Starts Quietly

Urban Village The Cow Palace Farmers' Market takes place Saturdays through mid-October.​What would happen if there was a farmers' market and nobody showed up? That's sort of what happened last Saturday, when a first-ever market debuted at the Cow Palace, with just about zero fanfare. Organize ... More >>

Should the Underground Market Move to a Bigger Venue?

kewzoo/FlickrSmall and packed or trade-show sprawling?​Should the SF Underground Market go huge? The monthly phenomenon that's drawn thousands of locals interested in scoring artisan edibles from small, home-based vendors is suffering from growing pains. Last week, organizer Iso Rabins posted ... More >>

Funkless Crook Fails With The Bop Gun

www.duke.eduOne make-believe weapon, under a groove​The bop gun can do you no harm; it frees your mind so your kind can follow. Which is why fake firearms make for poor accessories to crime; which is why a young man attempting to pull off a robbery with what the San Francisco Police Department gen ... More >>

High Times at International Pot Expo

Chris RobertsHardcore pot enthusiasts probably didn't even notice the woman in the background of this photo. Right?​VIEW OUR POT EXPO SLIDESHOW HERE California is pot-friendly, but public mass consumption of cannabis is still a feat -- especially when it's on state property. That is partiall ... More >>

Fast & Lovely: Bike Fashion Porn

At this weekend's SF Bike Expo at the Cow Palace, fashion-conscious cyclists rolled out their best gear. Check out more in Joe Schell's "Heavy Pedal: The S.F. Bike Expo @ The Cow Palace." ​A bicycle built for too sexy. ​We're plaid about it!​Can we hop in your basket?

Exotic Erotic Ball Slideshow: Wildest Party on Earth (NSFW)

​San Francisco gathered at the Cow Palace last weekend so celebrate the wilder side of human sexuality at the Exotic Erotic Ball--six hours of unadulterated(and adult) fun. Click through our (very NSFW) slideshow for lingerie, fetish, and leather.

The Great Dickens Christmas Fair Offers Free Orphans, Bad Teeth

Engineers’ Roundup: Thousands of Scientists Descend Upon Cow Palace for Grueling Exam

Tomorrow: Round Two American Idol Auditions at Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel

Thursday: American Idol Auditions in Daly City

Bitch is Back: American Idol Auditions Kick Off in Daly City

Exotic Erotic Ball Ditches Cow Palace for Treasure Island

Exotic Erotic Ball Couches Tits as Freedom: Get Real! ... about Freedom (not Tits; fake Tits are fine)

His Story

Love through the ages

Green Scene

Nature's in bloom at the Cow Palace

Tag Tour

Graffiti spree

Planet Party

One-stop New Year's Eve shopping

Wake Up, America!

Infiltrator works his way into an anti-immigration petition drive -- at a gun show

Wiener World

Dachshund-lovers unite

Yippie-Ki-Yay!

Getting back to what the Cow Palace was intended for: rodeo

Drop a Bomb

Custom cars are really hoppin'

Wild Wild Life

Invading the privacy of birds

Tricksters

The Globetrotters dribble into town

Cool Medium

Video commentaries cut the crap

San Francisco Victorians

At the Great Dickens Christmas Fair, 'tis always the season for historical fidelity

The Full Monty

A Horse Whisperer's marketing caravan rolls into the Cow Palace

Riff Raff

Night Crawler

Slap Shots

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