Subject: Jim Harrington

• Lauryn Hill's "Train Wreck" Concert at Paramount Theatre UPDATE

  July 2, 2007

• Bruce Springsteen at Oracle Arena Last Night: Mehhh

  October 26, 2007

• Bye Bye Blues Fest?

  Scott AllenHe's No B.B. King: Tommy Cast As the Merc's Jim Harrington reported yesterday, not has only the 2009 SF Blues Festival has been canceled, but "that cancellation could turn out to be permanent." Harrington quotes event organizer Tom Mazzolini as saying, ""we may well have seen the last San Francisco Blues Festival," which certainly sounds like a death knell for the venerable American genre, at least as far as San Francisco's once-popular festival is concerned. SFist also has a

  February 19, 2009

• Outside Lands Post-Script

  EKAphotographyVinyl Vamp: Zap Mama​ Fickle weather and last-minute headliner replacements aside, Outside Lands was a success, by most yard sticks. Here's what folks are saying about the three-day extravaganza, which drew more than 100,000 people to Golden Gate Park: Local reaction: The Chron's Aidin Vaziri noted the lack of "urgency in the air" for big-ticket headliners, but added that the event itself was the event: "unlike last time, when people stampeded for hot commodities like Radio

  September 1, 2009