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San Francisco Chronicle
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Outside Lands 2025 announces Dolores' lineup featuring Rebecca Black, local legends
Rebecca Black, who shot to fame with her viral hit 'Friday,' is among the special guests at Outside Lands for the return of Dolores', its open-air dance club dedicated to celebrating the Bay Area's queer and trans communities. Set to take over the Polo Field during the festival's 17th edition, from Aug. 8-10 in Golden Gate Park, Dolores' marks its second year with a lineup that promises a high-energy blend of DJs, live performances and drag artistry curated by local nightlife staples Fake and Gay, Oasis Arts and Polyglamorous. Among the standouts joining Black over the weekend are DJs Father Figure and Chase Icon. Drag luminaries from Oasis, including D'Arcy Drollinger and Nicki Jizz, are also set to appear alongside collectives like Baloney & Friends and Reparations. 'Dolores' honors the extensive history of queer arts, events, and activism both in San Francisco and beyond,' organizers said. 'All are welcome at Dolores'!' In the lead-up to the festival, Outside Lands will also host a pre-party at the Independent on June 28 dubbed Bay Area Pride Amplified! The event will feature Bay Area queer talent and drag performers including Emily Afton, Pillowprince and Aurris X Lilith. This year's Outside Lands will be headlined by Tyler, the Creator (making up for his 2024 cancellation), Doja Cat and Hozier, alongside more than 100 acts, including Beck, Doechii, Anderson .Paak, Vampire Weekend and Ludacris. Single-day tickets begin at $199, while three-day passes start at $465. All ticket options are available online at Among other returning experiences at Outside Lands this year are City Hall, an exclusive outdoor wedding venue where festivalgoers can legally marry or renew their vows, and SOMA, the festival's open-air house and techno stage. The latter will feature a fresh redesign by Studio RRD with creative direction from Iron Bloom and performances by top artists like Black Coffee, Claude VonStroke and Floating Points.
San Francisco Chronicle
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Dead & Company tickets for Golden Gate Park already topping $9,000 on StubHub
Tickets for Dead & Company 's three-night run at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park this summer were expected to sell out within hours of going on sale Friday morning, despite prices that surpassed those of major music festivals like Coachella, Outside Lands and BottleRock — and prices on the resale market have already soared into the thousands. The shows, scheduled for August 1–3 at the Polo Field, commemorate 60 years of Grateful Dead music and will feature performances by bluegrass phenom Billy Strings (Aug 1), country rocker Sturgill Simpson in his Johnny Blue Skies persona (Aug. 2), and the Trey Anastasio Band (Aug. 3). Each act will open with a 75-minute set before Dead & Company — featuring Grateful Dead veterans Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, joined by guitarist John Mayer, bassist Oteil Burbridge, pianist Jeff Chimenti and drummer Jay Lane — takes the stage. General admission weekend passes originally started at $635, while single-day tickets were priced at $245. High-end packages escalated quickly, with VIP tiers reaching $6,236 and the Golden Road Super VIP package priced at $9,548. That top-tier experience includes early venue access, a private viewing deck, complimentary dining and drinks, premium restrooms, concierge service, and a signed, limited-edition poster. For those who missed the initial sale, the secondary market is offering a second chance — at a premium. As of Friday, StubHub listed three-day general admission passes for $898. VIP packages were priced up to $3,356, with some Golden Road Super VIP listings already topping $9,000 per day. General admission single-day tickets, meanwhile, started at $338 and $896, depending on the date. Prices are expected to fluctuate, particularly one to two weeks before the event. During the Grateful Dead's heyday, tickets typically cost between $8 and $24 — and many of the band's shows in Golden Gate Park between 1966 and 1991 were free. According to Billboard Boxscore, after Dead & Company earned $21.6 million from six concerts at Las Vegas' Sphere in March, as part of a return engagement following a successful run last year.
San Francisco Chronicle
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
How to have a hella Bay Area summer
Like foggy summer days, there are certain things that are quintessentially San Francisco. Here are some uniquely Bay Area ways to soak up the season. BottleRock Napa Valley Memorial Day weekend will once again be marked with musical and culinary excellence as BottleRock Napa Valley gets underway in Wine Country. The three-day tradition, set for May 23-25, plans to welcome East Bay rockers Green Day, pop artist Justin Timberlake and singer-songwriter Noah Kahan as headliners at Napa Valley Expo. More than 80 additional acts are slated to take the stage over the course of the festival. — Zara Irshad 'Co-Founders' Since tech companies controlling our brains got started in garages, accelerators and hacker houses in our backyard, the Bay Area is the perfect place for new theater that explores the broader social ramifications of the industry: When you start up, who or what gets left behind? Enter 'Co-Founders,' a hip-hop musical written by locals Ryan Nicole Austin, Beau Lewis and Adesha Adefela making its world premiere at American Conservatory Theater's Strand Theater on May 29. The production runs through July 6. Ilana DeBare discusses 'Shaken Free' To hell and back. So travels the protagonist of 'Shaken Free,' the sequel to Oakland author Ilana DeBare's offbeat 2023 debut novel 'Shaken Loose,' which followed the high-temperature challenges facing a Bay Area woman who finds herself in the underworld. Along with San Francisco writer Audrey Ferber, she plans to talk about her protagonist's not necessarily eternal damnation when Green Apple Books hosts her book launch on June 4. — Kevin Canfield David Nayfeld discusses 'Dad, What's for Dinner?' David Nayfeld's new cookbook offers numerous answers to the question asked in its title. On June 5, the chef and co-owner of Che Fico in San Francisco comes to the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco to discuss 'Dad, What's for Dinner?' (written with Joshua David Stein; foreword by Gwyneth Paltrow). His kid-centric collection of recipes includes the Best Fricking Meatloaf in the World. It's not bragging if you can back it up. — Kevin Canfield SoSF A new Pride Month celebration is hitting San Francisco's Pier 80 this summer. Oakland R&B star Kehlani, 'Nasty' singer Tinashe and Grammy history-making trans pop artist Kim Petras are set to headline the event, dubbed SoSF. It is set to take place June 28, a day before the city's official Pride Parade, with a portion of proceeds benefiting the nonprofit organization Lyric Center for LGBTQ+ Youth. — Zara Irshad Outside Lands San Francisco's biggest musical tradition is returning to Golden Gate Park on Aug. 8-10, for its 17th edition. This year, rappers Doja Cat and Tyler, the Creator and alternative folk singer Hozier are slated to headline Outside Lands, which is also set to offer attendees unique experiences such as on-site weddings, a performance area dedicated to LGBTQ communities and more. — Zara Irshad
San Francisco Chronicle
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
S.F. drag club turns to nonprofit model to keep queer creativity thriving
San Francisco drag club Oasis is banking on a new partnership to guarantee its future survival. Owner D'Arcy Drollinger told the Chronicle that all of the stage shows, club nights and off-site performances presented by the South of Market nightclub will now be under the umbrella of Oasis Arts, his nonprofit organization launched in 2022. In doing so, Drollinger, who is also executive director of Oasis Arts, can seek funding through grants and accept donations, which are tax deductible, to support its theater, cabaret and nightlife events. Oasis Arts plans to hire a development director to create a strategy to reach individual donors at a time when arts organizations across the country are losing federal grant support. 'We spend a lot of money and resources on our productions. That coupled with rising prices of everything over the last few years with a slight decline in people going out has put us in a situation where we're realizing this is not sustainable in this model,' said Drollinger, who also serves as the first San Francisco Drag Laureate. The nonprofit's annual budget was $500,000 in 2024, but he expects it to increase to $2 million by the end of this year now that Oasis Arts is taking over the club's programming. 'Oasis is still going to be Oasis. The space will still be the same, the bar will still run the same, but Oasis Arts is going to be the entity that is programming the space,' said Drollinger. Drollinger reports Oasis presented 352 events in 2024 that ranged from performances in the club to curating stages at San Francisco Pride and the Outside Lands music festival's Dolores' pop-up queer dance club in Golden Gate Park. Oasis sold 48,000 tickets last year and currently makes half its annual budget through ticket sales. The largest expense is paying artists, which totaled nearly $800,000 for the year, so rather than pay performers and stage crew less or raise ticket prices, Drollinger said he would 'rather evolve than give up.' 'Making Oasis sustainable is the first priority, and then we want to raise enough money to invest more into the artists in the community,' he added. As part of this new strategy, Drollinger plans to host a telethon on June 1, for Oasis Arts. The upcoming event hopes to see the same success as Oasis' first telethon in March 2021, when it was able to raise $270,000 to save the club from closure. 'Raising $200,000 would be great, but what we could really use is $400,000,' said Drollinger. Oasis opened on New Years Eve 2014 under the ownership of Drollinger, fellow drag performer Heklina, along with Jason Beebout and Geoffrey Benjamin. The venue quickly became a destination for cabaret and drag stage shows, including original plays by Drollinger like his 'Champagne White' trilogy as well as recreations of classic television shows like 'Three's Company,' 'Sex and the City' and 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.' By February 2020, Drollinger was the club's sole owner (he has six investors who are not involved in the daily operations of the club), and he helped it weather the COVID-19 pandemic closures by launching enterprises like Oasis TV, which showed old performances at the club on-demand. He later established Oasis Arts to support queer art in the Bay Area. Among the first projects was commissioning local artists Serge Gay Jr., Elliott C. Nathan, J Manuel Carmona, Simón Malvaez and Christopher McCutcheon to paint the mural 'Showtime' in June 2022 for the exterior of the club. In February, Oasis Arts debuted a new mural project in the club's all-gender bathroom by seven local artists and launched its own Instagram account @ Oasis Arts also supported four film projects in 2024 by providing studio space and equipment. It also produced five theatrical events at Oasis and co-produced a sixth play. 'After the past decade of running Oasis, we've built an audience and I'm proud of what we've accomplished,' said Drollinger. 'But even more important to me is this idea that the queer community can make our own spaces that can thrive and exist at a moment when it feels like the rug is constantly getting pulled out from under us.'
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Beck Bringing An Orchestra To Outside Lands
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Generate Key Takeaways Beck may be touring with a symphony this year, but that won't stop him from joining the lineup for the 17th edition of the Outside Lands festival, during which he'll be backed by an orchestra on the event's Aug. 8 opening day in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Beck launched the orchestral concept in 2024 with shows at such storied venues as New York's Carnegie Hall and Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl. Following three gigs in Japan this month, he'll return to the symphonic motif during an 11-date summer North American tour, beginning July 15 in New Haven, Ct. More from Spin: As previously reported, Outside Lands will be led by Tyler, the Creator, Hozier and Doja Cat. Also set to perform are John Summit, Anderson .Paak & the Free Nationals, Gracie Abrams, Doechii, Glass Animals, Jamie xx, Gesaffelstein, Bleachers, Ludacris, FINNEAS, Floating Points and Jorja Smith. Meanwhile, previously announced performer Vampire Weekend will now play both opening and closing sets at their stage on Aug. 9. Tickets go on sale tomorrow (May 7). Per usual, Outside Lands will offer a host of other amenities, including an on-site venue for fans to exchange wedding vows, the cannabis-friendly Grass Lands, the open-air SOMA dance stage and the Golden Gate Club, where chefs such as Tyler Florence and Melissa King will be cooking up a storm. To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, click here.
