This is how I enjoyed myself alone at Outside Lands 2023
Three very important circumstances keep me coming back for more OSL: It’s cool, it’s local, and however much money I spend on food I save on not buying a hotel room.
For a second year in a row, I launched a three-day solo adventure at my favorite and only festival I attend, Outside Lands. Friends had their reasons for not wanting to go, but three very important circumstances keep me coming back for more: It’s cool, it’s local, and however much money I spend on food I save on not buying a hotel room.
The real question is: How do you have fun at a music festival alone?
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This newsletter is our OSL 2023 special rewind edition. Here’s what else we covered:
Food and cocktails from Outside Lands 2023 that we’re ready to order again
This year’s Karl the Fog added to the mystique and magic as thousands of people flocked to music, food and drink in Golden Gate Park at Outside Lands. And although prices got even higher for good eats in a post-pandemic market, so too was their high quality. We sampled and enjoyed seven dishes and cocktails at OSL 2023 that we can’t wait to try again next year.
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Why Foo Fighters still holds my heart after 20 years of seeing them
I was 18 when I first attended a rock concert; I knew little of Kurt Cobain and nothing of Dave Grohl, and therefore an equal nothing of the Foo Fighters. But as a still-closeted gay teen, I spent copious time staring at men on the internet pre-smartphone adoption, which in this era meant gay.com, MySpace, Downelink, an AOL chat room, and Adam4Adam. It was in the latter that I met the tour bus driver for Foo Fighters.
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Scenes from Outside Lands 2023
This year’s Outside Lands music festival once again delivered us amazing music, greasy food, and plenty of surprises.
Michael Bublé finally made good on a long-running joke by the Foo Fighters and showed up in person. Doctor McSteamy Eric Dane casually dropped by to see Lana Del Ray perform. We loved checking out the fashion, hearing great sound, and feeling all the good vibes from an estimated 225,000 attendees.
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These are the women-fronted acts who took over Outside Lands 2023
These female-fronted bands showed up and rocked out all weekend — we give you short reviews of Janelle Monae, Pretty Sick, Maggie Rogers, No Vacation, Coco & Breezy, and Ethel Cain.
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What we’re doing this week
4-day carnival in San Francisco Civic Center
Corn dogs, carnies and carousel rides are coming to San Francisco’s Civic Center. The four-day event will feature spinning teacups, a ferris wheel, fun house and giant slide. Carnival games and prizes, plus food favorites including cotton candy, caramel apples and funnel cakes will also be on tap.
WHERE: Fulton Street between the Main Library and Asian Art Museum.
WHEN: Aug. 24 to 27, 2:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. but hours also vary on certain days.
What’s on our mind
We keep content mostly fun and light at The Bold Italic, but the future of the Bay Area interests us, too. Here’s what we are thinking about in local news. Brought to you by GrowSF.
Workers at the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building told to work from home due to crime
The Federal Government is telling its San Francisco employees to work from home due to the crime and miserable street conditions surrounding the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building, writes Kristin J. Bender for The Examiner.
Apparently, the conditions have become so bad that the Speaker Emerita herself asked for more to be done.
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There are definitely benefits to attending OSL alone. Mostly you can move at whim when you want and are not bound by the musical tastes of your group. Plus you can take a chance and meet some new people on your adventures, or just dance goofy in the crowds.