This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too - two of them in -Ist cities. Sampaist was shocked when a passenger jet crashed into the center of Sao Paulo, killing at least 200 people. The airplane, an Airbus A320, skidded off the runway at the......

We went to our last SFIFF movie last night at the PFA in Berkeley and the house was packed for the 9:10 pm screening. It was a mixed crowd, but once again the gray panther contingent in their nubby-cloth, vegan, shoes made a strong showing. Love for Sale: Suely in the Sky follows 21-year-old Hermila who moves from Sao Paulo, Brazil back to her rinky-dink hometown to wait for her baby daddy. Naturally, the......

It's SFist Wendy and Liana, chatting about Tuesday night's movie! We were pumped to be headed to the SFIFF again this year with our friend, Liana, who’s from Brazil. We’ve seen several Brazilian films together at the festival over the years, and this year we had a number of good options, but decided on 12 Labours, a film by Ricardo Elias. 12 Labours is the story of Heracles, a young Brazilian boy, recently released......

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for?...

Blame it on the nice weather earlier this week, but we got antsy and just couldn’t wait for First Thursday to get out and see some art; so we stopped by 77 Geary to take a peek at the Vik Muniz show at Rena Bransten Gallery that we keep hearing so much about. You know how some people just can’t seem to throw anything away? Well, Vik Muniz is one of those people and he......