Arts & Entertainment A Civil War Bridges the Two Americas. Inequality might be rising, but who’s to complain? There’s opera for everybody. Actually, aside from tonight’s opening gala, there are affordable tickets for all performances (and if history is our
Arts & Entertainment Downtown Symphony What's better than picking up a Beard Papa cream puff across from the Metreon over your lunch break? Eating that Beard Papa cream puff while catching the free symphony concert at Yerba Buena
Arts & Entertainment <i>American Fusion</i> Even though there's no film fests in town, we stopped by the movie theater and checked out American Fusion, which opened this past weekend at the Sundance Kabuki. This film totally reminded us
Arts & Entertainment This Crow's Gotta Fly -- A Plan For Burning Man Hannah Watson's really into crows. In June 2000, surrounded by family, her mother passed away. Hannah tells us that right outside, just after her mom died, "the crows cawed, hollered at one another,
Arts & Entertainment America's Next Opera Star To conclude the apprenticeship program’s 50th season, the Merola program gave its grand finale concert last Saturday at the War Memorial Opera House. The singers did not present a full fledged opera,
Arts & Entertainment The Gallant Pussycat. Well, we won’t spoil the story, but thanks to the performance of the Merola program apprentices, the light comedy did fire, and on all cylinders. We found it gutsy for these aspiring
Arts & Entertainment Free Movies In Union Square? Inconceivable! Who doesn't love free movies? Comcast and cable channel IFC are sponsoring three nights of free movies starting today through Thursday in Union Square, to celebrate the awesomeness of indie film. Plus: free!
Arts & Entertainment Catch Some Short Film It's a grab bag of short films from here until Saturday -- the screenings are loosely categorized by theme ("But A Good Crazy" we think is our favorite, though "A Tragedy Called Love"
Arts & Entertainment Calling Local Filmmakers The conference features panels about the ins and outs of Bay Area filmmaking, how to get financing and funding in the area for your projects, getting distribution for documentaries, as well as panels
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>So Long Are You Young</i> Judith Schaefer's movie, , screened at the Roda Theatre in Berkeley on Tuesday and when the lights went back up, the crowd of mostly senior citizens were on their feet wildly applauding the filmmaker.
Arts & Entertainment Local Guys Make Comic Contest Finals With 'Dr. Le Faux' Remember Marcus Thiele and Kevin Buckley (perhaps this interview will refresh your memory)? They are the co-creators of "The Strange and Many Eyes of Dr. LeFaux," a comic book property that has just
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Sidewalk</i> SFist Mihi warns you that this preview clip above may be dull. Sidewalk, the documentary we saw at the Roda Theatre in Berkeley on Sunday for the SF Jewish Film Festival, was billed
Arts & Entertainment Free Passes To See <i>The Ten</i>! Hey, wanna see ? No, not the LA freeway, a movie of ten short films illustrating each of the Ten Commandments, featuring such of-the-moment actors as Jessica Alba, Paul Rudd (yay!), Adam Brody (pictured
Arts & Entertainment Happy Hour 3 = Film + Theater + Kookiness (Ticket Giveaway!) Do you like film? Do you like theater? Do you like film and theater mixed together? Also, do you like happy hours and after-parties? Then you might be inclined to check out Happy
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Hot House</i> Filmmaker Shimon Dotan spent about a year interviewing various imprisoned Palestinian political terrorists about their lives and their crimes. We were a little startled that even people serving multiple life sentences in a
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Theater Festival Breaks A Leg This past Sunday, under blazing blue skies in the City's snuggly warm SOMA bosom of Yerba Buena Gardens (YBG), there were no microphones, no stage lights, and no admission fees (and sadly no
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>My Fuhrer -- The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler</i> The premise of the movie is that a famous Jewish acting professor, Adolf Grunwald, sent to a concentration camp in World War II, is summoned by Joseph Goebbels to coach a depressed and
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>The Chosen Ones</i> No, not these Chosen Ones (white Christian gospel choir) or these (psychic powers): this Chosen Ones is a documentary about the Jewish music scene in New York by a German filmmaker/tourist, which
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Slint Every tale about the band Slint begins with retrospect. A couple guys who’d known each other a long time got together in Loo--ville, KY, to make a band named after a goldfish.
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Gorgeous! (Comme T'y Es Belle!)</i> We headed to the Castro on Sunday evening for the SFJFF's Gorgeous! (exclamation included in the title), sort of a Desperate Housewives meets Sex and the City, featuring four women, some single, some
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Bad Faith (Mauvaise Foi)</i> Who woulda thought. . . . we weren’t the only ones not completely immersed in isolation with the final Harry Potter book this weekend... although we did see a couple books neatly tucked under the
Arts & Entertainment SF Jewish Film Fest: <i>Sweet Mud (Adama Me'shuga'at)</i> The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF) is the first and only Jewish film festival in the world. At least that's what the President of the SFJFF said at the Castro Theatre last
Arts & Entertainment What? More Contests? Win Dinner With <i>The Breakaway Cook</i>! What's a Breakaway Cook? Well, Gower defines a Breakaway Cook as one making easy home cooking including ingredients and techniques from around the globe. Miso-flavored mashed potatoes? Poached eggs with green tea-infused salt?
Arts & Entertainment This is the End, My Muggle Friends, the End In case you haven't heard, tonight, at precisely 12:01, THE VERY FINAL HARRY POTTER BOOK WILL BE RELEASED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY GOD!! OH MY GOD!! OH MY GOD!! And by final, we mean
Arts & Entertainment SFist Giveaway! Win Tickets To The Cribs It is a cavalcade of giving these days at SFist! Today's present to our faithful readers: tickets for you and a friend to see new alternaband the Cribs. They're three brothers (two twins)
