I love Jerry Garcia’s music as much as the next born-San Franciscan, but those “psychedelic” Muni buses just look dumb. I get what they were going for, but the design is so generic that it loses all meaning. It reeks of corporate appropriation. If you wanted a bus to acknowledge the Grateful Dead without using the Steal Your Face logo, you can just cover it with those stickers that put Jerry’s dire wolf onto Mickey Mouse’s body. Honestly, that would be less vomit-inducing when it drives down the street.

I bring this up because news recently broke of another Garcia tribute—one that promised a great deal more depth—being put in cold storage—right as the city gears up to celebrate one of its favorite offspring. Magic Theatre commissioned Richard Montoya’s Jerry Garcia in the Lower Mission fo

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