Night & Day: Outlands, Avedon, and No Doubt

Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews coming to SF's Outside Lands

Last year’s inaugural Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in San Francisco got off to a rocky start, with intermittent sound snafus marring performances by Radiohead and Tom Petty. Hopefully, this year’s festival Aug. 28 to 30 will have all the kinks ironed out. At the very least, the line-up looks stellar.

Headliners at the festival held in Golden Gate Park include Seattle grunge rockers Pearl Jam on Aug. 28, the uber-popular Dave Matthews Band on Aug. 29 and hardcore hip-hop band Beastie Boys on Aug. 30. Single-day tickets are $89.50 in advance; three-day ticket is $225.50. One-day shuttle pass is $9, three-day shuttle pass is $25. For tickets and more information, go to

sfoutsidelands.com.

— Diane Peterson

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will display more than 200 images by one of America’s most famous photographers, the late Richard Avedon, starting July 11.

Some of his portraits are iconic: young Bob Dylan standing in the rain, a very vulnerable Marilyn Monroe, Nastassja Kinski clad only in a boa constrictor, Twiggy with her long hair trailing in the wind behind her.

“Richard Avedon — Photographs 1946-2004” continues at

SFMOMA, 151 Third St., San Francisco, through Nov. 29. Summer hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily except Wednesdays; open until 8:30 p.m. Thursdays.

Admission: $9-$15, children 12 and younger free. Information: (415) 357-4000, sfmoma.org.

— Dan Taylor

From Jane’s Addiction to Phish, it’s a summer full of reunion tours. No Doubt, that spunky little ska-pop band from Los Angeles that propelled singer Gwen Stefani to a pop-candy solo career and radio hits about about bananas, is at the top of the list of comebacks.

So why get back together now? Rumor has it, the rest of the band was going to form a No Doubt without her.

They’re talking about writing new music and recording a new CD. But before all that, they’ve gotta dredge up all the old hits — “Just a Girl,” “Spiderwebs,” “Hey Baby,” “Trapped in a Box” and the cry-in-your-cherry-coke break-up ballad “Don’t Speak” — in two Bay Area shows: June 21 at Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord and June 25 at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View.

$25-$90. www.ticketmaster.com.

— John Beck