Arts & Entertainment SF Rolls Out the Punk Rock Red Carpet to Host Benefit Auction for the West Memphis Three In 1994, three teenagers – Jessie Misskelley, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols – stood trial and were convicted for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in the small town of West Memphis, Ark. Many believe
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Punk Like Me</i> This is such a brilliant idea. So the 36-year-old star (and writer) of this documentary, Rich Wilkes, had the genius idea to sneak his band onto a major national rock tour -- by
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Air Guitar Championship Last Thursday night we went to go check out the San Francisco Regional of the U.S. Air Guitar Championship. And it was awesome. The competition worked like this-- the first round consisted
Arts & Entertainment Maverick's Hits the Big Time We realize that those of you with Tivo don't have to trouble yourselves with the minutiae of daily television programming, but for you old schoolers with the VCRs and you hard-liners who only
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: SFist Has You Covered In addition to our coverage, we'll be giving away tickets to DocFest screenings, of course. So come back to SFist early and often for all sorts of DocFesty goodness. In fact, let's kick
Arts & Entertainment Straight from Death Row: Damien Echols’ Art Auctioned at 111 Minna Tonight To give you some background: Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin were once three young boys in rural Arkansas who happened to listen to heavy metal and wear black. Shortly after three
Arts & Entertainment Drop Your Clocks and Grab Your RockShox It's about 3:30 a.m. and some dude you just met a couple of days ago on Craig's List is shaking you awake. Crawling out of your thin, damp sleeping bag in
Arts & Entertainment City CarShare's Old Enough to Start Kindergarten Happy birthday to you! City CarShare (it's basically a membership-based car rental program with extra perks) turns five this year, and they're throwing a party and giving out awards. Nancy Pelosi will be
Arts & Entertainment There He Is, Mr. Hyphen Magazine We are totally fascinated by the phenomenon of the Asian-American fashion show. In college, the various Asian-American student groups would always throw some kind of runway-themed benefit, featuring the clothing of Armani Exchange,
Arts & Entertainment Cutting No Corners: Caesurae Opens at Urbis Artium Normally, we get a little grossed out by work that uses blood (although we admire the chutzpah of the artist) – Andres Serrano and Gina Pane come to mind, but their work was more
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Of War and Blood at Traveling Jewish Theatre FoolsFury packed Traveling Jewish Theatre on Sunday night with friends, funders, foreign consulates and, of course, the press for anticipated opening night of its world premiere English translation of
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To <i>Art School Confidential</i>! That's right: SFist MiHi, denied entrance to ! Given that we always want what we can't get, that makes this movie hott hott hott in our eyes. Enrage MiHi and enter below to win
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Play</i> Here's a brief summary of the plot, so you can follow our dialogue: Lonely Cristina finds depressed Tristan's stolen briefcase at the beginning of the movie, takes his cool cigarette lighter and iPod,
Arts & Entertainment One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Titian: Vik Muniz Pictures of Junk You know how some people just can’t seem to throw anything away? Well, Vik Muniz is one of those people and he has amassed a collection of junk that would make any
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To <i>Frankenstein!!</i> The music, played by the traditional orchestra doubling on a battery of toy instruments, ranges from the deceptively tuneful to the mildly berserk, like a Looney Tune score imagined by Mozart. This is
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Encounter Point</i> We are accustomed to the typical media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which generally emphasizes the violence and hatred. "Encounter Point," co-directed by Ronit Avni and Julie Bacha, also a co-director of "Control
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Jonestown: The Life And Death Of Peoples Temple</i> Anyone who's interested in San Francisco history must see this movie. Director and MacArthur genius grant recipient Stanley Nelson (who previously directed the Emmy-award-winning ) has put together a sensitive and thoughtful history of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Warfield We wish we had seen them earlier. Not that they didn't put on a good show or the music wasn't great, it's just that what we saw wasn't the raucous, fevered band we
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Favela Rising</i> Arriving at Baycat, the Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts & Technology, about forty minutes prior to the San Francisco premier of "Favela Rising," we hadn’t banked on the sellout crowd. Fortunately,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Drawing Restraint 9</i> While mainstream America's attention has been focused on TomKat's recent offspring and Brangelina's pending progeny, we joined San Francisco's arthouse hipster crowd at the Kabuki late Wednesday night for the local unveiling of
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Executive Koala</i> Um, we're still trying to figure out what we thought of the Japanese movie , which was screened as part of the SFIFF's Late Night series. Maybe if we'd had more of the Stella
Arts & Entertainment Reel SF: Take the Money and Run For those not up on their Woody oeuvre, Take the Money and Run, a mockumentary about notorious criminal master mind Virgil Starkwell (he, unfortunately, never made the FBI's Most Wanted List because, as
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Seeds Of Doubt</i> "Papa, are you a terrorist?" We spent several very fun, yet dark weeks in Hamburg, Germany (when you don’t get up before noon in December there, you don’t see much light)
