Arts & Entertainment Still Independent After All These Years One of the mothers of all intellectual crack dens - Kepler's Bookstore - turns 50 this year. Fifty years of social consciousness (Roy Kepler was an anti-violence activist) and social unconsciousness (this is,
Arts & Entertainment <i>I'd Kill For A Parking Place</i> Back in the 1970s, everyone was talking about Traffic Commissioner Jerry Levitin. Commish Levitin, a former criminal defense attorney, spent the decade of stagflation reducing or just outright vacating over 200,000 tickets,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Palindromes</i> Back on April 13, Gothamist published this great interview with director Todd Solondz. At the time, we wondered if he'd be screening his new film, , at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Sure
Arts & Entertainment SFist Gets <i>The Skinny</i> SFist loves local magazines, from to Other to Dwell. (And before all you "Wavefans" from the same IP address write in, the answer is "no".) We're so happy to welcome The Skinny, a
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Princess of Mount Ledang</i> The thing that amazed us was that it only cost $4M, as it was as lush, detailed, and beautiful as an American film of ten times the price. From the intricately beautiful credits
Arts & Entertainment SFist Raves: Cinco de Mayo Before we moved to the Bay Area, all our knowledge on Cinco de Mayo came from our time spent at our local Chi-Chi's, (which played host to a perennially broken sign reading "17
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Life in a Box</i> World Premiere It's long been our experience that when a significant other says, "I think we should have an open relationship," what they really mean is, "let's ensure that our impending breakup is painful and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV While in Denial This Week So, yeah...April 18th, 1906? What was that again? Image of a possible disaster bigger than the '06 quake, from The Smoking Gun.
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Youth Voices and Visions So far SFist has been covering the San Francisco International Film Festival as a spectator, but SFist Paolo has graciously agreed to offer his perspective as a festival participant. His short, "Elements" appears
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Film Society Awards Night Keep reading past the jump for bona-fide celebrities and how we almost lost our sh** with one of them!
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Black Friday</i> And <i>Shape Of The Moon</i> Black Friday.Photo of Kay Kay playing Rakesh Maria from
Arts & Entertainment A Touch of Class At the SFIFF’s super-special ritzy glamorous hoi-palloi Brad-Bird-Meet-And-Greet last week, Brad was surrounded by such a large gaggle of pleased society-types, you could’ve been forgiven for not realizing he was there
Arts & Entertainment Cue the Creepy Psychic-ish Theremin Music Awesome news for clued-in geeks like SFist Jackson: according to the Psychonauts forum, there's going to be a "PSI Recruitment Seminar" at EB Games from 11am to 1pm. And you know that that
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>November</i> There we were with our litle digital camera that seemed so fancy when we bought it at Best Buy, surrounded by big bad shooters. OK, that's kind of a lie, all the photographers
Arts & Entertainment Feeling Guilty About Not Feeling Guilty Abortion is one of America’s last major, messy taboos. It’s been called the “A-word;”; it’s also been called murder, and a right, and a luxury, and a choice. It’s
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Brad Bird's State of Cinema Address Surprisingly, the bulk of his talk concerned the Business End of the industry – specifically, the crappy things that studios, exhibitors, the media, and moviegoers do that allow awful movies to be made and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: An Imposter This Week The movie in question is Murder at the Presidio, which premieres on USA Monday, May 2nd, at 9 p.m. Lou Diamond Phillips stars as a member of the "Criminal Investigation Division" investigating
Arts & Entertainment Ho U The classes are part of the 4th Annual Sex Worker Film & Arts Fest, Sex Worker, of course, being the nice, politically correct term for a hooker (SFist, being the essence of politically
Arts & Entertainment Games We Wanna Play So the good folks over at Double Fine released their new project, Majesco's Psychonauts. Originally to be distributed by a certain company in a certain suburb of a certain city north of here
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <em>Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off Screen</em> If this review were an Edgar G. Ulmer movie, it would be covered in fog, have a sweeping orchestral score (public domain of course), and SFist would be a nihilistic outsider desperate for
Arts & Entertainment SF International Film Festival: SFist Has You Covered One of the many perks of SFist, (besides the private jet, sumptious office spaces, and Gavin calling round-the-clock "just to say 'hi'"), is that we are forced to get out of the house
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Week, While Wishing We Could Watch Ourselves We can't really explain why we get such a thrill out of seeing our beautiful town show up on prime time television, but we do. Maybe we're hoping to see someone we know
Arts & Entertainment On The Road with Electric Six Electric Six are a rock band from Detroit who want you to enjoy yourself, whether that's through the guitar-heavy dance grooves they deliver, or through their laugh-out-loud lyrics. Don't get them wrong; they
