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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Dead & Company Will Celebrate Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary With 3 San Francisco Shows
The Mayor of San Francisco is ready to welcome Deadheads to the Grateful Dead's birthplace: the Bay Area. On Monday, Mayor Daniel Lurie posted a video of himself in front of Golden Gate Park, announcing that Dead & Company will be performing there for three consecutive shows in August to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. More from Rolling Stone What Do Rock Hall Voters Have Against Mariah Carey, Oasis, and Phish? Phish Didn't Get Into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. WTF? Grateful Dead Continue 60th Anniversary Celebration With 'Gratest Hits' Collection 'We have some really big news,' Lurie said in the short video. 'Dead & Co. Three shows. August 1, 2 and 3. Right here in the city that is the home of the Grateful Dead.' 'What better way to celebrate?' he continued. 'We'll see you out here in August.' Lurie's post teased that the band will be announcing the shows 'soon,' although local outlet San Francisco Standard reports that the band's events will still need to be approved by the Recreation and Park Commission at a meeting on Thursday. According to the Standard, the band is expected to draw up to 60,000 fans for each show. While it's Dead & Company's first show there, Grateful Dead played at least 14 times at the San Francisco park, including in 1967 for the Summer of Love, and in 1991 to honor the late Bill Graham. A rep for Dead & Company did not provide comment. 'Celebrating their 60th anniversary with a Dead & Company performance in the very place where the Summer of Love took root is a powerful tribute to their legacy,' Recreation and Park Department General Manager Phil Ginsburg told the Standard. 'These concerts not only honor their cultural impact but also shine a light on the park's surrounding neighborhood — its restaurants, local businesses, and vibrant community.' Rolling Stone spoke with Bobby Weir about the band potentially reuniting for the 60th anniversary, which Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart discussed before Lesh died. 'I think when Phil checked out, so did that notion, because we don't have a bass player who's been playing with us for 60 years now. And that was the intriguing prospect.… I think you need somebody holding down the bottom. Phil had all kinds of ideas that were pretty much unique to him. I grew up with Phil holding down the bottom in his unique way,' Weir said. He added: 'I suppose I could go back out. I wouldn't put anybody in his place, so it would be a trio at this point. It'd be me and two drummers. I'd have to think about that. I haven't thought about it — it's just now occurring to me that it's a possibility that we could do that, since you asked.… I guess we'll just see what the three of us can pull together.'Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Axios
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Dead & Company to return to San Francisco
San Franciscans will have the chance to re-experience the Grateful Dead's most renowned hits at a "once-in-a-generation musical celebration" this summer commemorating the band's 60th anniversary. Why it matters: The homegrown, psychedelic rock band, founded in Palo Alto in 1965, was a pioneer in the counterculture movement and remains a Bay Area fan favorite decades later. Driving the news: Mayor Daniel Lurie on Monday announced plans for a three-day concert series with Dead & Company, a spinoff group with longtime Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, at Golden Gate Park's Polo Fields from Aug. 1-3. The event is part of a wider effort to expand cultural and musical events in San Francisco to help boost business activity. The concert series will be Dead & Company's first public performance outside their ongoing Las Vegas residency since 2023, when the band ended its farewell tour at Oracle Park. It will also mark the first anniversary after bassist Phil Lesh's death and will coincide with the birthday of late founding member Jerry Garcia. What they're saying:"Golden Gate Park and the Grateful Dead share a rich, intertwined history that helped shape a cultural era," San Francisco Recreation and Park general manager Phil Ginsburg said in a statement. "Celebrating their 60th anniversary with a Dead and Company performance in the very place where the Summer of Love took root is a powerful tribute to their legacy." The intrigue: The concert series is the first big entertainment-related initiative he has spearheaded that isn't an extension of former Mayor London Breed's portfolio. It's expected to draw about 180,000 attendees, with potential to generate tens of millions of dollars for the local economy, according to the mayor's office. The band's three-day run in San Francisco in 2023 produced $31 million in economic revenue. Catch up quick: As an offshoot of Grateful Dead, Dead & Company honors the jam band's eclectic psychedelic style by playing covers of songs that have come to define the city's 1960s counterculture era. Though the group officially disbanded after Garcia died in 1995, surviving members have gone on to perform in various offshoots, including as The Other Ones, The Dead, Furthur and, most recently, Dead & Company. Between the lines: Dead & Company pays homage to the band's non-commercial approach to music through improvisation in live performances and an emphasis on experimental sound — a blend of folk, blues, rock, reggae and more — that has long drawn diehard Deadheads while resonating with today's younger audiences.
Buzz Feed
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
27 Stylish, Light, And Comfy Dresses From Amazon
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I got so many compliments the entire day. It fit nice but I just ended up safety pinning the dress to my bra." —CopePrice: $34.99 (available in sizes XS–XXL and in 11 colors and prints) A sleeveless dress with a long, flowy skirt because we are approaching wedding season, and you want something reliable that you know will photograph well when you snag a pic with the happy couple. Promising review: "Bought this dress for a summer wedding. It fits perfectly! Just a little long, but with heels, it will be fine. I like the material — soft, light, and comfortable. You can wear it casual or dressy with jewelry. I am adding sandals with a mid-heel for the length. If you are shorter, you may need to have it hemmed. It is worth it!" —DLFPrice: $44.95 (available in sizes XS–4XL and 28 colors) A ruffled, smocked bodice open-back maxi dress I feel like Princess Ariel would 100% wear in 2025, since we are all trying to play mermaids, but in a grownup way. Promising review: "This dress is beautiful!! I wore it for a beach wedding; it feels flowy and feminine. It seems to wear well on many different body types, so I purchased it. Thankfully, I did — would love another occasion to wear it again!" —summer evans steedPrice: $35.99+ (available in sizes S–XL and 32 colors) A darling faux wrap dress WITH POCKETS (!!!) so, if you choose, you can leave your purse at home and keep all your essentials on your person. Promising review: "This dress is spectacular. The sunflowers pop, the comfort is phenomenal and I received many compliments when wearing this dress. Great for work or for a summer party or event. It was perfect to pack for my work travel and was not wrinkled at all. 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Boston Globe
09-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
R. Crumb helped invent modern comics, but we haven't known much about his life … until now
Robert found sanctuary from this raging domestic mess in comic books, though he rejected superheroes. Who was Superman, really, if not another brawny bully like Crumb's alcoholic uncles? Instead, he was drawn to the animal adventures of Walt Disney's animation empire, especially Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics penned by a former Disney 'story man' named Carl Banks, whose richly detailed work, '[imbued] with psychological and emotional depth,' suited Crumb's desire for a meticulously rendered private universe. Young Robert began furiously drawing, inking, and writing his own comics with Charles. A few years later, Crumb hightailed it to Cleveland for a key apprenticeship making birthday cards for American Greetings. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Crumb felt the pull of the nascent counterculture well before he became a reluctant counter-cultural figure, taking his first acid trip with his first wife, Dana, in 1965, a mammoth 600-microgram dose that changed his life. 'When I took LSD I realized I was trying to be smart all the time,' he tells Nadel. 'And LSD made me realize that doesn't matter at all. If you trust your instincts … it's all right there.' Acid introduced Crumb's subconscious to the hermetic world of his art, a liminal space, writes Nadel, 'that ushered in ideas whose real meanings were a mystery even to him.' Crumb in 1966 would create his familiar gallery of comic book avatars — Eggs Ackley, Flakey Foont, and Mr. Natural, his first 'Keep on Truckin'' high-stepper. The comics were brazenly perverse and sharply satirical, stories of sexual fetishism and urban depravity next to gently savage attacks on religion and the nuclear family. The die was cast: Crumb was an outsider raging against the mindless conformity of postwar America, Salinger with a Rapidograph pencil. Advertisement Nadel pegs this as the moment when Crumb's id took charge, ushering in a new era of highly idiosyncratic personal and social exploration in comic art. In 1967 Crumb was settled in San Francisco, just in time for the Summer of Love and a psychedelic renaissance. Zap Comix, Crumb's first comic to get wide national distribution, was a watershed moment in adult comics. Grounding his work in what Nadel calls 'surreal happenstance … semipolitical essayistic comics, or visual poetry,' Crumb became the leading voice in an alternative comics movement that also included Gilbert Shelton, Victor Mososco, and S. Clay Wilson. Advertisement With Crumb's success came an ambivalent entry into the mainstream of American consumer culture, the very thing he had savaged in his comics. The perennially poor Crumb took on a few commissions, most notably the album art for Big Brother and the Holding Company's 'Cheap Thrills,' thus finding his work landing in the bedrooms of suburban teenagers everywhere. Mr. Natural became the first meme of its time, appearing without his consent on posters, T-shirts, and lunchboxes. Crumb sued every one of Mr. Natural's bootleggers. The idea of selling out was anathema, especially if it meant compromising a worldview that was taking on a darker, more disturbing cast. 'Snatch,' a 1968 comic book collaboration with Wilson, was an opportunity for Crumb to work through his complicated feelings toward women, a preoccupation which became a leitmotif for Crumb's career. Yet even as he insisted that stories like 'Don't Touch Me!' and 'The Adventures of Dick Nose' were pornographic satires, it's hard to find the humor in them. Understandably, this is the place where many Crumb fans get off the bus, as it becomes difficult to square the lacerating satirist with the coarse misogynist. Nadel, to his credit, doesn't make excuses for Crumb, calling this work 'the ugliest vision of white male heterosexuality' while allowing that Crumb's sexual frankness was a form of self-laceration: 'He was ruining the wet dream with grotesque nightmares.' Crumb is a complex guy, in short, and Nadel understands that genius and virtue are often incompatible, especially with an individual as tortured as his subject. There is a lot of ugliness from Crumb here, including parental neglect and serial philandering, but there is also his abiding love and deep respect for his second wife, comic book artist Aline Kominsky, which held for nearly 50 years until her death in 2022. Nadel tells their story movingly, with empathy and affection. Advertisement Having hounded the reclusive Crumb for years to get his approval and cooperation, Nadel, a curator-at-large for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, was amply rewarded with unlimited access to Crumb's personal archive: thousands of pages of diaries, letters, and sketchbooks, as well as a timeline of Crumb's life from 1943 to 2005. This material, as well as Nadel's interviews with Crumb, gives his biography the kind of granular texture and thematic heft that Crumb's life and work deserves. CRUMB: A CARTOONIST'S LIFE By Dan Nadel Scribner, 480 pages, $35 Marc Weingarten is the author of ' .'
CBS News
08-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Giants reveal new City Connect uniforms honoring San Francisco music scene
Paying homage to the musical heritage of San Francisco, the Giants revealed their latest new City Connect uniforms. The uniforms, produced by Nike, will make their on-field debut Tuesday night as the Giants face the Cincinnati Reds at Oracle Park, and will be worn during Tuesday home games this season. Nike has produced City Connect uniforms for nearly all MLB teams, which are often are a major departure from their team's typical gear. "With our new City Connect uniform, we're pushing creative boundaries and remixing how the Giants reflect the spirit of our city," said Rachel Heit, the team's chief marketing officer. While the new uniform features the team's trademark orange and black, shades of purple also make an appearance. In the long history of the Giants, the team had worn violet between 1913 and 1917 during its days in New York, as a tribute to New York University. The team said purple was also meant to honor the stage lights at The Fillmore and posters in the Haight-Ashbury, which was made famous in the Summer of Love. The jersey, which is black and features gray lines meant to evoke the grooves on a record, also features a distinct Giants script, which were inspired by psychedelic posters, the team said. A glove patch on the shoulder features a font also reminiscent of the 1960s. Meanwhile, the cap also features purple accents along with a new "SF" logo. To create the jerseys, the team had collaborated with multiple Bay Area artists, including producer Ghazi Shami, CEO of local record label Empire Distribution. The new uniforms replace a City Connect design the team debuted in 2021, which featured an orange and white design and paid homage to the Golden Gate Bridge and the city's fog. While controversial with fans, the team went 30-16 while wearing the original City Connect jerseys. Entering play on Tuesday, the Giants are 8-2, second place in the National League West.
