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…

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…

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…