Phil's gonna close the Warfield down in May

http://www.sfweekly.com/adindex/ad.php?ad_id=345607

yep, it's an ad, just check out the small print.

and that is close down as in be the last band.

 

ahhhhh.. thank gods...
It's a lease ending, not a use ending.... I'll change the title later, and track down the original link for the rest of this info (my source is good)

Warfield Theatre has new promoter
AEG Live, the second-largest event promoter in the United States, has begun programming at San Francisco's historic Warfield Theatre in advance of the expiration of Live Nation's lease on the venue in May.
"We're not going to be the promoter there anymore," said Erik Siebert, marketing manager for Live Nation. "We're working on finding a new venue."
AEG Live is a subsidiary of the Anschutz Entertainment Group, the Denver concert promotion giant that owns and operates the Staples Center in Los Angeles, the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and the O2 in London. It produced Celine Dion's long-running Caesars Palace show in Las Vegas and holds interests in sports teams including the Los Angeles Kings, Lakers and Galaxy.
The company's chairman, Philip Anschutz, a champion of conservative Christian causes who is the 31st richest person in the United States, according to Forbes, also acquired the San Francisco Examiner in 2004 and revived the struggling paper as a free tabloid.
AEG Live has previously booked shows at San Francisco venues, including the Nob Hill Masonic Center, the Great Meadow at Fort Mason, AT&T Park and the War Memorial Opera House. AEG has taken over programming for the Grand Ballroom at the Regency Center as well.
Bill Graham Presents, which was absorbed by Live Nation, started hosting concerts at the 2,200-person- capacity Warfield in 1979, establishing the Market Street theater as one of the country's most popular midsize venues, with shows by Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead and David Bowie.
Opened by theater chain owner Marcus Loew in 1922, the theater had previously hosted silent films and vaudeville revues with the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson and Rin Tin Tin.
Atlanta real estate investor David Addington bought the venue and office building on Market Street from Florence Fang, former publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, for $12 million in 2005.
A recent attempt at renaming the venue the SF Weekly Warfield, after the local paper owned by the New Times chain, was blocked by a lawsuit brought by Addington.

 

yeah.... that's pretty sticky, a comp here and there is more likely.
If a place has child prices, that's how "good prices" tend to happen.
Or, if a venue is an NPO with member prices.