Arts & Entertainment Total Eclipse Of The Sun -- Eclipse of the heart, eclipse of the moon, eclipse of the sun -- same diff! So at 2:55 a.m. PST tonight, there's going to be a total lunar solar [do
Arts & Entertainment Green Apple Books at Tosca Tomorrow Night That's right, Wednedsay at 7:30 it's Green Apple Books at Tosca (242 Columbus Avenue, as if you didn't know), with Harmon and Bucky celebrating the publication of Leon's book . Knowing these guys,
Arts & Entertainment The Alien Adventures of the Superfisters This week's comic books bring us, Sherpa-like, into two worlds we know relatively little about: comic book conventions and Mormonism. If only there were a way to combine them. We find it difficult
Arts & Entertainment Bar of Contemporary Art Opens with New Works from Nathalia Edenmont The atmosphere inside was pleasant enough albeit a bit stark, but what won us over was the stunning large-format photography of Nathalia Edenmont. Strikingly brilliant in color and equally unsettling in imagery, Edenmont’
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Wim Wenders Written by and starring Sam Shepard, tells the story of fallen Western star "Howard Spence" (Shepard), who sort of blurilly bails on his current film in an effort to reconnect with estranged family
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: Shostakovich-Rostropovich --You'll Lovich. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Dimitri Shostakovich's birth (1906-1975), the Symphony played an all-Shosty program with an all Russian guest list. The connection between Shostakovich and Rostropovich goes much deeper than just
Arts & Entertainment Suicide Prevention is Serious Business, Except When It's Hilarious We suppose that sometimes you've got to laugh, otherwise you'll cry, when it comes to "Laughs for Life," an evening of comedy benefiting San Francsico Suicide Prevention. The SFSP hotline has run 24/
Arts & Entertainment Creativity Explored Portrait Auction Creativity Explored is an organization that fosters the artistic talents of developmentally-disabled adults, not only to provide independence and self-sufficiency to the artists but also to give the general public access to their
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>ABDUCTION The Megumi Yokota Story</i> is a documentary about the 1977 kidnapping of 13-year-old Japanese school girl, Megumi Yokota and the decades-long odyssey her parents go through to get to the bottom of her disappearance. Chris Sheridan and
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Colma: The Musical</i> Colma is the BART stop between Daly City and South San Francisco. Not exactly a bustling place, until now. Colma: The Musical takes the sleepiness and between-ness of the town and explores how
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Villainy, Thy Name is Stephen So, anyone else out there watching on Bravo? Allow us to introduce you to it -- it's like the Apprentice for foodies. Notably, it takes place right here, in our fair city. The
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Memories In The Mist</i> Hey, we scored a free fan! NBC 11 was giving out free handheld fans to SFIAAFF-goers attending last night's screening of Bengali movie . We're not really sure what the fan had to do
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Red Doors</i> Lee's first feature film, played on Saturday and after seeing Grain in the Ear boy were we ready for something completely different. Red Doors is the director's vaguely autobiographical story of a modern
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Sobhraj</i> As much as we were ready to love this slender (70 minutes) documentary, we bristled at the introducer's assertion that the reason for the inclusion of this film in the festival was because
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Birds and the Trees Matthew Bourne's at Orpheum Theatre Not since Mark Morris's The Hard Nut or the antics of Les Ballets Trocadero de Monte Carlo has the Bay Area seen anything quite like Matthew Bourne's all-male
Arts & Entertainment Get Out Of My Dreams And Onto My Couch cinematic superimpositions, symbolic imagery of razors and knives, and menacing shadows create a frightening world. A professor (Werner Krauss) is driven into a state of terror by strange intense nightmares accompanied by compulsive
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy of Amanda Boyden's <i>Pretty Little Dirty</i>! Even if you can't make it to one of these readings, Amanda's publishers want to give the winning SFist readers a copy of this book. Enter below to win a copy of . Good
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Achievers</i> In doing a little due diligence before writing this review, we turned up an entry on the Hyphen blog noting that reviewers are not supposed to reveal any of the plot to this
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Chinese Restaurants: Latin Passions</i> Long-time SFist readers will remember that we were so inspired at last year's SFIAAFF by "Chinese Restaurants: Three Continents" that we gave it our prestigious Best Film We Saw On SFist award for
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>No Sleep Til Shanghai</i> The crowd at the Kabuki Theater on Friday night had more hip-hoppers than usual, as SF Int'l Asian-American Film Fest attendees eagerly lined up three-deep for the sold-out showing of No Sleep Til
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Grain in the Ear</i> The film festival representative who introduced this movie described it as "challenging," which we think may just be a euphemism for slow--but not in a bad way. If you're used to the fast
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Rules of Dating</i> The pervy teacher, Lee (played by Lee Yu-rim) is part clumsy lothario and part relentless sexual predator whose creepiness is only mitigated by his over-riding goofiness. In one scene he drunkenly looks at
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Americanese</i> Image from Americanese By contributing SFist MiHi Ahn
Arts & Entertainment Catch Lucky! And, hey, did you see the comment from Anshuman on how to hack NextBus to reflect your desired route? We tried it for all our favorite Muni lines, and it totally works! Anshuman,
Arts & Entertainment Beyond Linkin Park Every Asian-American music listener has that list of Asian-American stars they whip out at a moment's notice: Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park, the half-Japanese violinist (of course he's a violinist) from Yellowcard, Karen
