Cow Palace

Live Review, 8/3/12: Iron Maiden Dominates Shoreline

Iron Maiden Coheed and Cambria Friday, August 2, 2012 Shoreline Amphitheatre Better than: Spending the evening with any other '80s metal band, and arguably any metal band period. Reliving past glories with tours that focus on classic albums or eras has become a standard practice for bands across a ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The Sounds of 2010

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

Anti-Rave Bill Nixed By Fiona Ma

The anti-anti-raves crowd will be pleased​Readers may recall Assemblywoman Fiona Ma empowering the "I'm a raver and I vote" contingent with last week's introduction of the Anti-Raves Act of 2011. Well, the party's over... on ending parties. Ma yesterday announced she's pulling back her bill until ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Brazen Diaper Theft on Bus

''ll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash ya got...'​In the closest we've seen to the signature scene from Raising Arizona being recreated on Muni, a woman reported to police she was forcibly robbed of a package of diapers. The incident, which took place at Geneva and Santos -- a stone's thro ... More >>

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 >>

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.

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.

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 >>

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 >>

Clubs preview: Boys Noize

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The aftermath of the 2008 Exotic Erotic Ball fiasco

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

Going Under

Performing art

Salty Cinema

Film from the watery depths

Play Ball

Glove Up in S.F.

Ant Invasion

See them creep and crawl in SOMA

Round One!

Get KO'd at the Cow Palace

Doctor's Appointment

Commemorate a Seussian century

No Strings

Make your own manikin at MOCHA

Slam! Stomp! Smash!

WWE pile-drives into S.F.

Painted Ladies

Antique ads from old Shanghai

Auto Erotic

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

All Wet

This film fest sings a salty love chantey

Pedal Power

VeloSwap rides into town

Spooky Stroll

City of the Dead

Moonstruck

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

'Ndian Sync

Bollywood's most beloved actors offer a surreal live spectacle

Side Dish

Dog Bites

Night Crawler

Night+Day

Night+Day

Night+Day

Kiddie Primer

Slap Shots

Night+Day

Totems Are Taboo

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