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Cow Palace

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Marijuana Smokers Will be Cited for Smoking in Golden Gate Park

    ​It's illegal to smoke marijuana in Golden Gate Park -- and the Park Patrol will cite you for this "major issue."Tell yourself this, the next time you stroll into the park at Stanyan and Haight near the McDonald's, past the touts offering marijuana for sale, heading through the tunnel toward Hippi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    San Francisco Bulls -- The Best Hockey Name Money Couldn't Buy

    The right name at the right price. And they're passing the savings on to you! ​These days, San Francisco feels good about its 49ers. But, even during the darkest days of the team's long Babylonian captivity in the cellar, we could at least take pride that "49ers" is one of the cleverest and most g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Fiona Ma Invites Donors to Lady Gaga Concert

    Party animal​Proving that she is no party pooper after all, Assemblywoman Fiona Ma is putting the fun back in fundraiser for her senate campaign with some high-profile bashes including a Giants party and a trip to the Lady Gaga concert.So put on your orange and black and join Ma on March 3 for her ... More >>

  • Music

    December 29, 2010

    The Sounds of 2010

    What we'll remember from the year in S.F. music.

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Would Fiona Ma's New Year's Bash Violate Her Own Anti-Rave Bill?

    layout sparksRave while you can, kids...​Assemblywoman Fiona Ma is well on her way to establishing a reputation as Party Crasher No. 1 after authoring the self-explanatory "Anti-Raves Act of 2011." In the wake of May's Pop the Dream event at the Cow Palace that left two event-goers dead of drug ov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    Exotic Erotic Ball Canceled (You'll Have To Wear Your Leather Thong Somewhere Else)

    Where we gonna do this now?​This just in: the Exotic Erotic Ball, scheduled for tonight and tomorrow night at a waterfront venue in Richmond, has been canceled. This would have been the 31st year of the ball's celebration of "flesh, fetish, and freedom."In a press release, the organizers said the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2010

    Gang Injunction Includes Three Men Acquitted Murders This Year

    Forty-one more men are now forbidden from flashing gang signs​Three men acquitted of first-degree murder charges earlier this year aren't out of the legal spotlight. Emon Brown, Joc Wilson, and Floyd Jackson are among the 41 alleged gang members listed in the gang injunction that City Attorney Den ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    A Look Back at Michael Jackson's Bay Area Appearances

    Michael Jackson never graced the Bay Area with a solo show, though the Jackson 5 did perform its second official concert as a Motown act at San Francisco's Cow Palace on June 19, 1970, appearing as the opening act for Tina Turner and Rare Earth; they returned to the venue in 1972 and 1973. J5 wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    SF Doctor Busted with Special K at SFO

    CEP AmericaDr Keith Loring​Details are still emerging in the arrest yesterday of a San Francisco doctor accused of smuggling ketamine -- an animal tranquilizer for vets, an incapacitating party drug for the rest of us -- into San Francisco International Airport.

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    SF Doctor Busted with Special K at SFO

    CEP AmericaDr Keith Loring​Details are still emerging in the arrest yesterday of a San Francisco doctor accused of smuggling ketamine -- an animal tranquilizer for vets, an incapacitating party drug for the rest of us -- into San Francisco International Airport.

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Come Together: Paul McCartney's Return to SF

    ​My mom is way cooler than I am. Back when she lived in Atlanta, Georgia, and had a southern accent still intact, she was a music journalist whose homemade chocolate chip cookies gave her an automatic "in" backstage at Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen concerts. At 57, she continues to tell me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2010

    Anthony Mata Dead, Five Others Critical From Possible Tainted Drugs at Cow Palace Rave

    'The Dream' turned into a nightmare for some rave attendees this weekened​The San Mateo County coroner confirmed to SF Weekly that 23-year-old Anthony Mata of Santa Clara is dead following a very bad trip at the weekend's Pop 2010 music festival at the Cow Palace. Along with Mata's death, a handfu ... More >>

  • Music

    May 26, 2010

    Clubs preview: Boys Noize

    'The Dream' turned into a nightmare for some rave attendees this weekened​The San Mateo County coroner confirmed to SF Weekly that 23-year-old Anthony Mata of Santa Clara is dead following a very bad trip at the weekend's Pop 2010 music festival at the Cow Palace. Along with Mata's death, a handfu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Marijuana Guru Dennis Peron Suffers Stroke

    Dennis Peron says he's on the mend. 'Don't count me out.' ​With the marijuana movement sparking these days, one of its seminal figures was just nearly snuffed out. Dennis Peron -- a longtime pot activist and the co-author of the 1996 medical marijuana ballot initiative, Prop. 215 -- on Sunday conf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Will Tea Partiers Kill Pro-Marijuana Measure?

    Fibonacci BlueSo paranoid. So uptight. So stiff. What could cure this? Hmmm...​On today of all days, marijuana is on everyone's mind. But that goes doubly for politicians: Just last week, state Democratic Party chairman John Burton told media that he and fellow Dems (like that Jerry Brown guy) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Outhouse Fire! Car Fire! Two Old Faves Together At Last!

    The peanut butter and chocolate of San Francisco arson crimes have finally come together...​Over the past year and change, San Francisco has been host to two sprees of flaming objects (three if you include Harvey Fierstein's just-concluded run as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof): Burning cars and bur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Slayer/Megadeth/Testament Tour To Hit the Bay Area After All

    ​So we wrote that the metal titans tour involving Slayer, Megadeth, and Testament was thrown off course after Slayer bassist/vocalist Tom Araya threw out his back in a serious-headbanging-injury sorta way. Well, although that Jan. 21 show didn't happen, the tour will indeed kick start anew after A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    Tattoo Tuesday: Blood- and Ink-Soaked Photos of This Year's Tat Expo

    All Photos | Daniel C. Britt, used with permissionThat's the ticket: Angelica Olmos, 20, shows off the bodywork she got at the weekend's Tattoo Expo​Blood. Tattoos. Parking Lot. Cow Palace. It's a combination that's been golden for decades, and when there's a massive Tattoo Expo at the stadium ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    DJ Paul van Dyk Announces Cow Palace Show, iPhone App

    DJ Paul van DykBerlin-based DJ Paul van Dyk  has just announced an appearance at the Cow Palace May 23, as part of the ETD POP festival, an electronic music extravaganza (okay, it's a rave) sponsored by Skills Workshop, expected to draw 10,000 people to the same venue once popular among arena ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Michael Phelps, Motivational Speaker, Headed to San Francisco -- 'Get Fired Up!'

    Michael Phelps, who deviated from a training-driven lifestyle that put Communist Chinese programs for 12-year-olds to shame only to channel Frank "The Tank" Ricard with a boozy, druggy bacchanal at the University of South Carolina is coming here.A full-page spread in the Sunday Chronicle pitched the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2008

    Photos: The Great Dickens Christmas Fair

    Photos by Janine KahnThe Cow Palace was packed to the gills last weekend, with folks scuttling about in Victorian garb and civilians gawking and attempting to make the most of the abundant photo-ops in the dimly-lit venue. Chimney sweeps with soot-dusted faces strolled along, two blokes ran around w ... More >>

  • Music

    November 5, 2008

    The aftermath of the 2008 Exotic Erotic Ball fiasco

    Photos by Janine KahnThe Cow Palace was packed to the gills last weekend, with folks scuttling about in Victorian garb and civilians gawking and attempting to make the most of the abundant photo-ops in the dimly-lit venue. Chimney sweeps with soot-dusted faces strolled along, two blokes ran around w ... More >>

  • Music

    May 21, 2008

    Choirgirl-cum-club diva DJ Colette headlines the 11th Annual Etd. Pop

    Photos by Janine KahnThe Cow Palace was packed to the gills last weekend, with folks scuttling about in Victorian garb and civilians gawking and attempting to make the most of the abundant photo-ops in the dimly-lit venue. Chimney sweeps with soot-dusted faces strolled along, two blokes ran around w ... More >>

  • News

    May 31, 2006

    More Than Zero

    A trio of twenty-something San Franciscans have invented SFZero, a game that bleeds far into reality

  • Music

    November 9, 2005

    Opa!

    Katy St. Clair has a big, fat Greek encounter at the Silver Crest

  • Calendar

    October 19, 2005

    Going Under

    Performing art

  • Calendar

    January 26, 2005

    Salty Cinema

    Film from the watery depths

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2005

    Play Ball

    Glove Up in S.F.

  • Holiday

    November 24, 2004

    Holiday Events

    Glove Up in S.F.

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2004

    Ant Invasion

    See them creep and crawl in SOMA

  • Calendar

    March 24, 2004

    Round One!

    Get KO'd at the Cow Palace

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2004

    Doctor's Appointment

    Commemorate a Seussian century

  • Calendar

    February 11, 2004

    Slam! Stomp! Smash!

    WWE pile-drives into S.F.

  • News

    January 14, 2004

    Auto Erotic

    When cars are this sensuous, you have to call them hot rods

  • Calendar

    January 7, 2004

    All Wet

    This film fest sings a salty love chantey

  • Calendar

    November 12, 2003

    Pedal Power

    VeloSwap rides into town

  • Calendar

    October 22, 2003

    Spooky Stroll

    City of the Dead

  • Summer Guide

    June 25, 2003

    Summer Events a Go Go!

    What to do, all summer long

  • Calendar

    May 7, 2003

    Moonstruck

    Two museum events that'll turn your kids into space cadets

  • Music

    September 20, 2000

    'Ndian Sync

    Bollywood's most beloved actors offer a surreal live spectacle

  • Dining

    March 24, 1999

    Side Dish

    Bollywood's most beloved actors offer a surreal live spectacle

  • Calendar

    October 28, 1998

    Night + Day

    Bollywood's most beloved actors offer a surreal live spectacle

  • News

    April 1, 1998

    Dog Bites

    Bollywood's most beloved actors offer a surreal live spectacle

  • Calendar

    February 4, 1998

    Night Crawler

    Bollywood's most beloved actors offer a surreal live spectacle

  • Calendar

    November 26, 1997

    Night+Day

    Bollywood's most beloved actors offer a surreal live spectacle

  • Calendar

    August 27, 1997

    Night+Day

    Bollywood's most beloved actors offer a surreal live spectacle

  • Calendar

    February 19, 1997

    Night+Day

    Bollywood's most beloved actors offer a surreal live spectacle

  • Calendar

    September 4, 1996

    Slap Shots

    Bollywood's most beloved actors offer a surreal live spectacle

  • Calendar

    August 28, 1996

    Night+Day

    Bollywood's most beloved actors offer a surreal live spectacle

  • News

    August 28, 1996

    Totems Are Taboo

    But if the court's crucifixation is overblown, let a thousand icons bloom

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