Hippie Hill

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Sunday: Doin' It In the Park

Planetary Alignment

Park It for the Summer

A survival guide for outdoor musical events in the city.

Caught Up in the Rapture

A survival guide for outdoor musical events in the city.

Whose Haight?

Street kids expect the neighborhood to welcome them as it did their forebears in the '60s, but residents, merchants, and cops are planning a different future

Slap Shots

Street kids expect the neighborhood to welcome them as it did their forebears in the '60s, but residents, merchants, and cops are planning a different future

Hey, Hipsters! Oakland's the New Vacation Spot!

Killing My Lobster really killed it on this one: a travel video that attempts to convince Dolores Park hipsters that there's a budget vacation for them in this exotic place across the bay called Oakland. Lots of riffing on white kids in skinny jeans here, but the best part of this clip has to be the ... More >>

Cheap Musical Thrills

Give your ears — and your wallet— a summer treat.

Reeling Drunk With Apparent Ability to Alter Time and Space Arrested at S.F. Zoo For Harassing Kids, Animals

If you're going to be instantaneously transported from Hippie Hill to the zoo, it isn't happening without this guy's helpA man with a fondness for large amounts of cheap alcohol and an apparent ability to teleport across the city was arrested Wednesday evening for bothering children and animals at t ... More >>

San Francisco to Unveil 'Parks Portal' So You Can Post What's Going On In Your Local Park (Good Lord! You Don't Want to Know!)

GoldenGatePark.comLooks like these folks didn't need a Web portal to know about the 4/20 goings on in Golden Gate Park...For those of you who enjoyed your two-dollar Muni ride downtown today -- perhaps to protest during the Board of Supervisors budget and finance committee meeting , because, you kno ... More >>

Last Night: Le Loup and French Miami at Bottom of the Hill

Le Loup and French MiamiTuesday, Oct. 27, 2009Bottom of the HillBetter than: Staying home and working on your sexy wood sprite Halloween costume.French Miami​There are far worse bands to take influence from than Animal Collective. At their best moments, those zany pop freaks sound ecstatic, primal ... More >>

S.F. 'Cannabis Freedom Day' Is Coming -- Isn't It?

PacdogHow will you celebrate Cannabis Freedom Day? ​It seems 4/20 isn't the only holiday on a marijuana aficionado's calendar -- in fact, around these parts there's a more important -- if more obscure -- fete just a few weeks afterward. That'd be Cannabis Freedom Day, which is traditionally the f ... More >>

Quitzow, Battlehooch, and Setting Sun at the Rickshaw Stop

Setting Sun​Quitzow Battlehooch Setting Sun August 3, 2010@ Rickshaw Stop  Better than: A musical adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream set in outer space. Let it not be said that Crispin McCabe of SFitall books a show unimaginatively. It can't be easy to place loca ... More >>

Our Ideas for the New Golden Gate Park App

Parks hold other wonders besides waterfowl​The California Academy of Sciences has just launched a new app that serves as a guide to Golden Gate Park, according to richmondsfblog.com. The app offers a few different functions, including a "field guide" to the park's flora and fauna; a map; an "adven ... More >>

One Toke Over the Line

Is it legal to smoke in public? Theoretically, almost anywhere in S.F., if you have a card. But there are important exceptions.

Happy 4/20! Here's a Guide to Music-Related Activities on Doper Day

Photo by Jenne WarrenGet high with Cypress Hill at the Warfield tonight.​Any crunker still mired to the concept of time recognizes and observes the entirely spurious significance of April 20. Sadly, organized recognition of the day is just as ad-hoc, leaving teaheads to the dictates of their colle ... More >>

Dumb Thief Steals Police Car at Crime Scene

WTF?​Now here's a great episode for Bait Car -- the reality show where cops leave vehicles on the streets, hoping to tempt alleged thieves into stealing cars just so they can bust them.Police are looking for a ballsy man who stole an unmarked police car as cops responded to a call at Golden Gate P ... More >>