Results tagged “americanwest”

One could hop on the snark wagon and refer to Darfur, the current Third World cause célebre, as the new Tibet or appreciate the 21st Century sensitivity to the non-universality of Christmas, but we are not that "one." The genocide going on in Darfur is pretty shocking and awful, and thus we applaud the efforts of the folks at Distortion 2 Static and Pumpkin Cutter Projects who are putting on The Save Darfur Tour at the Elbo Room (647 Valencia at 17th St) tonight. The entertainment benefiting refugee assistance NGO's includes DJ Haylow, Tic Toc, and hip-hop performers Visionaries, GraySkull and FreeStyle. (9pm)

As a child, this SFist spent a portion of nearly every summer in our mother's hometown, Rock Springs, Wyoming. Perhaps because of this involuntary desert quality time, we've never really "gotten" Westerns -- to us, they seemed to have nothing in common with the quirky, arid, and occasionally desparing West we knew firsthand. However, , director Wim Wenders' newest film (which opens today at the Embarcadero), freakin' NAILS the West, or at least our West.