Tag Archives: COVID-19
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SF to approve outdoor music, with conditions like no live singing
California Street in San Francisco is not as packed on March 17, 2020, the first day of a shelter-in-place to combat coronavirus. San Francisco will soon allow physically distanced outdoor concerts—and other events—through a permitting process, Mayor London Breed announced on Friday. The “Just Add Music” permits will be…
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SF’s Town Hall Restaurant reopens with outdoor dining, hope for more help
L to R: Town Hall Restaurant co-owners Björn Kock, Steven Rosenthal and Mitchell Rosenthal photographed on Sept. 18, 2020. Derek Tobias/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Mitchell Rosenthal, the executive chef and co-owner at acclaimed Town Hall Restaurant in San Francisco, seemed beyond happy to unbutton his shirt to reveal another…
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Insert Foot: Rock books and dying dreams of COVID-19 lockdown
Insert Foot ignoring reality by doing some light reading. You want hope that 2020 will work itself out anytime soon? Sorry. This is where your dreams come to die today. Here’s how optimistic I am the virus-soaked coast will clear to emerge from our dark corner/mother’s basement/fire shelter made…
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Another Planet, Bob Weir, Congressman Mike Thompson tie venue relief with economic recovery
Bob Weir performs at Jackie Greene’s annual birthday bash at the Warfield in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2016. Jon Bauer/STAFF. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on industries across America and around the world, but perhaps none as much as live music. “We were the first businesses…
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Insert Foot: No better time for Bruce Springsteen to rise up again
Insert Foot Loves The Boss. What happens when Bruce Springsteen is no longer around to scrape us from the pavement after life rips out our guts and smashes the rest into the ground? Excuse me if I just don’t see BTS or Cardi B coming to sooth our troubled…
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The Uptown nightclub to stay shuttered permanently
The Uptown Oakland. STAFF. For the second time since first opening its doors in 2005, The Uptown nightclub in Oakland has closed. The club, across the street for the Fox Theater on Telegraph Avenue, had already been shuttered since March. Its owners, Robbin Green-Yeh and Ray Yeh, announced the…
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Insert Foot: What live act would you risk seeing during COVID-19?
Insert Foot vs. risking your life at drive-in concerts. A RIFF editor recently asked me to cover an upcoming drive-in concert by Sublime with Rome at a local fairground, drive-in lot, or giant field of wheat in the middle of … somewhere. I was informed it’s one of the…
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The Chapel to host physically distanced outdoor show Saturday with The Red Room Orchestra
San Francisco’s Red Room Orchestra will perform on Saturday at a special outdoor fundraiser show produced by The Chapel and folkYEAH! The Chapel’s parking lot will be transformed into an intimate supper club. Related story: Independent concert venues centralize as NIVA, lobby for federal COVID-19 support The ticketed, seated dinner…
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Insert Foot: Cherish the memories, as 2020 is the end of the line for many live acts
Insert Foot vs. the future, and the possible end of the old guard like Fleetwood Mac. Photo and rendering: Roman Gokhman/STAFF. People love to say something is “the end of an era.” Usually it’s someone older than you, trying to say they remember when things were better. Or, in…
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Insert Foot: Burger Records’ song, sadly, remains the same. So F@CK them
Nobunny is no more. So is Burger Records. There’s this idea among intelligent, independently leaning artist types that they’re above the fray when it comes to sexism, racism … fill in your own “isms.” Fuck them. Words are supposed to be something I’m capable of forming. But that’s all…
