Arts & Entertainment Wanted: "People who dig fun movies with rad action" The Stunt People are to movies what The Primitive Screwheads are to theatre. (As you might have noticed, we love the Screwheads, so we consider the comparision high praise indeed.) We first heard
Arts & Entertainment Caution: Puzzle Solver Crossing Keep an eye out for groups of people doing weird things all over the City on Saturday. No, no. Different weird things. The company behind Perplex City has organized a major live event
Arts & Entertainment Eat My Shorts, Man! Tickets for each program (including the keynote by San Winston Studio's Richard Landon) are 9 bucks. You can see a list of every program and featured film here, or buy tickets here. Though
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: It's All Meta at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts This is our pick for most anticipated show of the season, and the season's barely started. This multimedia performance by The Builders Association and dbox played
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Il Matriomonio Segreto We saw James Schwabacher once, at his debut recital series, which he endowed in perpetuity, and where he introduced the singers. He was 86 yo, but still had the quick wit of a
Arts & Entertainment That Burning Man Feel: Slip 'N Slide in Dolores Park Sounds like it will be cheap, fun and crazy. For only five bones, take endless rides on a custom built (!!), giant Slip 'N Slide, rumored to have more curves and thrills than any
Arts & Entertainment Cheech Marin Conjures Up ‘Chicano Visions’ at the De Young We have to admit, there’s been a lot of hype about his show and we were worried it might fall short of our expectations, but oh, were we wrong. The show is
Arts & Entertainment Mick LaSalle Blows It Again (Surprise!) When this SFist attended a recent press sceening of the animated feature Monster House, something wonderful happened. A writer we've always respected made a pointed crack about "movie reviewers from the dailies", which
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Information Overload A Sneak Peek at the Fringe at Exit Theatre Talk about advanced publicity. The SF Fringe doesn't open until September 6, but on August 9 the Exit throws its doors open to theatre
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Movies at Dolores Park Behind us was Film Geek guy who spent the entire night dazzling his fawning girlfriend with his amazing ability to discover plot holes. In front of us was some woman who just couldn't
Arts & Entertainment Light Up The Roxie At 7 pm, before the showing of State of Fear (a documentary about Peruvian terrorists), the Roxie is hosting a reception, along with live Peruvian music, with all proceeds going to fix up
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest Wants YOU! If we were the kind of person who took proactive steps toward bettering her relationship (oh, we're so not, trust us), we'd shut our damn piehole and submit an entry to next year's
Arts & Entertainment But Does BAGel Radio Like Jelly? So, get this: Ted, and his partner, Misty, went to the Flaming Lips show in Berkeley last Saturday, and got invited to dance on stage the entire show. Even better, they were to
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy Of Edie Meidav's <i>Crawl Space</i>! The subject of the panel is "Dispatches from Dystopia: California Writers on (Writing) the Bad", and each author will briefly read from their work before the panel discussion begins. Edie's so happy to
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <em>The First Zionist Bunny</em> The movie basically follows the contestants who try out to be the host of the brand new Israeli Playboy channel. This apparently was a big deal but we get no sense of just
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog Goes to Ashland on the Elizabethan Stage A sort of poor man's As You Like It, Two Gents covers the same terrain as many of the Bard's comedies. A couple of young men travel from Verona
Arts & Entertainment SFist Raises a Fist for Surrealism The Fist is currently on view at the Weinstein Gallery in Union Square as part of a Donati retrospective until it makes its final home at the De Young. The Milan-born Donati appeared
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Russian Dolls</i> The 20somethings have progressed (or regressed depending on your take) into nearly 30somethings for , and are now somewhat spread out among Paris, London, and St. Petersburg. It opens with Xavier (Romain Duris), the
Arts & Entertainment Kathy Griffin: Dishing and Swishing Last Friday night, Kathy Griffin, star of the Bravo reality show "My Life on the D-List" and heir apparent to the Sandra Bernhard/Joan Rivers style of snark and dish comedy -- without
Arts & Entertainment JK And The Rowlings Okay, let's get the premise of this band over quickly, and with a minimum of references to Hufflepuff badgers and flying Bludger balls -- the band Harry and the Potters is made up
Arts & Entertainment We Are Two! All of us here at SFist want to thank all of you for what have been a great, great two years. While all of us write for SFist for the sheer joy of
Arts & Entertainment Whoa, man! Cosmic Wonder Opens at YBCA It’s obvious there has been a sudden resurgence of psychedelic art making its way through the contemporary art scene. On our last trip to Chelsea in New York, we certainly saw our
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: They Love the '70s at Marines Memorial Theatre We admit we were a little skeptical when we heard about this Janis Joplin musical. After all, remember Lennon, the musical that premiered here and closed after a month
