The melting pot of contemporary eclectic music oozed last weekend at Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco in what is turning out to be an annual SF shakedown. The 3 day event which took place in the historic (yet still an old home place to those seeking alternative shelter) remained...

If it weren't already apparent, the vibe of San Francisco oozes Green. From its progressive ordinances, including mandatory composting and recycling, to its three-year-old ban on plastic bags in supermarkets, San Francisco sets the enviro-bar, both for us permanent residents as well as our transient passersby. This year's Outside Land's...

My pedometer clocked in at 51,323 steps (~29 miles) traveled by foot at the end of Sunday night's closing Phish Set; a part of this years Bonnarro Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, TN. Extrapolating this across the massive 70,000 concert-goers gives us a cumulative 2,000,000 (plus) miles walked,...

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Touring bands such as Widespread Panic, Radiohead, Tom Petty, Ben Harper, and Jack Johnson drew a crowd of 150,000 over the course of last weekend in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park for the Outside Lands Music...

"Either you're on the bus or you're off the bus," was the hackneyed statement proposed to me by three members of Dartmouth College's Big Green Bus; an ex-diesel goes veggie 37' foot school bus. My hometown San Francisco weekend was just beginning...