Outside Lands bleeds into Halloween during sold-out festival’s final day – SF Chronicle Datebook
Kaya Johnson (left), Paulo Anzures and Brittany Garcia, all visiting from Texas, celebrate the final day of Outside Lands on Halloween. Photo: Bronte Wittpenn / The ChronicleAfter dressing as characters from Netflix shows the first two days of Outside Lands, Ryan Jones of Bakersfield saved his best costume for Halloween.
He walked through the gates as the festival’s 2015 headliner Elton John, decked in one of the singer’s most famous show costumes from the 1970s, which was recently reprised by Taron Egerton in the 2019 John biopic “Rocketman.” The only problem was it wasn’t exactly San Francisco appropriate: He was in a sparkly full-body Los Angeles Dodgers uniform.
“I’m maybe risking my life here,” said Jones, 33, from behind oversize glasses. “I haven’t gotten too many dirty l...