“The organization was founded in spring 1973 when the late rock promoter Bill Graham asked the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics to run a medical tent for overtaxed fans at a couple of his concerts at Kezar Stadium with the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin. The medical tent was such a hit, it quickly spun off into its own program for concerts all over the Bay Area.”
Rock Medicine helps keep fans mellow [Chron]
“Minor was an early investor in Salesforce.com and founded CNET Networks, a news website that he sold to CBS in 2008 for $1.8 billion. He also founded Minor Ventures in San Francisco, a firm that made more than half a dozen investments in early-stage tech startups and sold one of them, GrandCentral Communications, to Google, which turned the technology into Google Voice.”
CNET Co-Founder Halsey Minor Files for Personal Bankruptcy [WSJ]
“Beginning Sunday and Monday, the Visitacion Valley, Mission Bay and Portola branches will be open seven days a week.”
S.F. Public Library announces extended hours at three branches [Ex]
“It seemed quite well-suited for kink sex scenes, but from where I was sitting in the back on the right side it was very difficult to hear all that was being said.”
Packed S.F. Gay Suicide Forum Had Sound Problems [Petrelis]
