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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Party animalProving 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 >>
What we'll remember from the year in S.F. music.
The anti-anti-raves crowd will be pleasedReaders 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Forty-one more men are now forbidden from flashing gang signsThree 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 >>
''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 >>
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 >>
CEP AmericaDr Keith LoringDetails 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.
CEP AmericaDr Keith LoringDetails 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.
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 >>
'The Dream' turned into a nightmare for some rave attendees this weekenedThe 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 ExpoBlood. 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 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, 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 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 >>
Performing art
Film from the watery depths
Glove Up in S.F.
See them creep and crawl in SOMA
Get KO'd at the Cow Palace
Commemorate a Seussian century
Make your own manikin at MOCHA
WWE pile-drives into S.F.
Antique ads from old Shanghai
When cars are this sensuous, you have to call them hot rods
This film fest sings a salty love chantey
VeloSwap rides into town
City of the Dead
Two museum events that'll turn your kids into space cadets
Bollywood's most beloved actors offer a surreal live spectacle
But if the court's crucifixation is overblown, let a thousand icons bloom
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