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There was a moment at the end of Dead & Company’s Sunday night performance at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park when you could truly feel gratitude float through the chilly night air. Not from the 60,000 in attendance, but the two men standing with hand to heart on the stage.

Bob Weir and Mickey Hart have taken it upon themselves to continue the legacy started six decades earlier in the very same spot. The Grateful Dead, which they co-founded along with the late Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh, had gone on to tour stadiums and have hit records, but they very much remained a local band — as synonymous with the city as the fog.

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And for that, San Francisco rallied to mark the 60th anniversary in a big way. Flags bearing the Dead’s iconography flew over trolly tracks throughout downtown; “Jerry Day” was declared on...

Dead and Company continued their Grateful Dead 60th anniversary celebration Saturday at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, this time bringing out Sturgill Simpson for a rendition of “Morning Dew.”

Simpson, who — after established himself as a torchbearer of the Dead’s jam aesthetic during his recent tours — served as opener for the second Gd 60 show, led the group through “Morning Dew,” and traded solos with John Mayer over the track’s 12-minute runtime.

Simpson was previously enlisted as part of the Kennedy Center Honors’ tribute to the Grateful Dead earlier this year,...

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Rick and Morty” Season 3, Episode 4, “Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender.”]

At its best, “Rick and Morty” is a show that’s been able to take the basic, ordinary parts of human life and spin them into grand, misshapen sci-fi horrors. Dogs taking over the world, parasites taking over happy memories, and a school dance becoming the platform for an army of Cronenbergs all came from a simple premise warped so fully that the result was twisted, unrecognizable bliss.

“Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender” is an episode as deceptive as its title. What starts as a means for a “Guardians of the Galaxy”-style adventure against a looming foe gets the “Rick and Morty” treatment by putting that formula in reverse. It’s no surprise that this show would take a premise with unlimited possibilities and trap this supersquad in a simplistic “Saw”-bstacle course. Even if some of it feels a little familiar, at least it’s sending things in a different direction.

I'll never forget the day Jerry Garcia died.

It was a Wednesday; I was ten. My father came home in the middle of his work day, crestfallen, with the news. He spent the rest of the afternoon with his record collection, taking me through the life and legacy of his hero.

(Editor's Note: I know everyone in San Francisco thinks their dad was the Biggest Deadhead Of All Time, but mine actually was. We had Jerry's handprint, complete with the missing middle finger, framed on our wall.)

It's been almost 17 years since our city's greatest rock star passed away, and last Friday marks what would have been his 70th birthday. Accordingly, the Bay Area celebrated with tributes only fit for a legend.

On Wednesday, the San Francisco Giants held their annual "Jerry Garcia Day" at At&T park, complete with Jerry bobbleheads for attendees and a live concert before the game.