Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Sorceress of the New Piano The crowd at the Castro Sunday night, at the Asian-Am film fest's centerpiece presentation for Evans Chan's documentary was about one-third new music aficionados, one-third Asians who'd played piano in the past, and
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Slow Jam King A friendly crowd greeted Filipino-American filmmaker Steven Mallorca at the San Francisco screening of his labor of love, for the Asian-American Film Fest -- about three rows of seats were reserved for his
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Review: Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley is a sentimental and beautifully crafted portrait of the young man as an artist. Jeff Buckley was a singer-songwriter who started out singing in cafes in New York and recorded and released a
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Parties To Which We <i>Were</i> Invited SFist was thrilled to receive an invitation to opening night of the 23rd Annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. After the screening of the fantastic , the action turned to the gala
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Saving Face</i> We had barely finished pawing through our wares (Pad Thai mix! Toothpaste! Febreeze! And much, much more!) when event emmcee Emerald Yeh, whom we miss every time we watch the news, took the
Arts & Entertainment 2005 Photobloggies West Coast reprazent! They're taking nominations for the 2005 Photobloggie awards -- click through and make sure our Bay Area photographers and their gorgeous art get some love! (Full disclosure: Our cuddly publisher
Arts & Entertainment Bright, Indeed Unless you're hitting A.C.T. or Berkeley Rep, it's a bit tough to find good theater to go to on a Wednesday night. Right now (and at least through early April), however,
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: SFist Has You Covered SFist is proud of our coverage of local events, including SF IndieFest, SF Noise Pop, and Cinequest. We're really happy to continue this tradition with our coverage of the San Francisco International Asian
Arts & Entertainment SFist To Rock Austin That's right, SFist is getting on a plane early tomorrow and will be flying deep into the heart of Texas in order to bring you wall-to-wall reporting of the internerd/hipster fest that
Arts & Entertainment Wake the Dead With Dr. Hunter S. Thompson moving on to bigger and better things, writers, critics, stoners and other hangers-on are organizing tributes around the country and around the world. But we have a feeling
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: CocoRosie Friday night's show with CocoRosie and Antony and the Johnsons at Great American Music Hall felt like a night at the underground opera. More than a few audience members came dressed in costume,
Arts & Entertainment I Want You To Hit Me As Hard As You Can Not up for this kind of activity on a school night? Then how about this oldie-but-goodie Chron article about SF's real-life fight club (though they wear mouthguards, so we question their hard-core cred)
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Review: Wilderness Survival for Girls Three girls go into the woods. They get drunk, they get naked, they get high. Do you think they might get dead? Wilderness Survival for Girls takes all the tension of a well-done
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Review: Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party Stephen Tobolowsky is the ultimate "Hey! It's That Guy!". He's been in more than a hundred movies and on dozens of television shows but until you see him you probably think you don't
Arts & Entertainment Gaming the Downtown Art Scene SFist loves it when punk kids get embraced by advanced-degree wielding curators, independently wealthy socialites and other high-art hangers-on. So when Robin tipped us to Thursday's "Video Game Art Show" we had to
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Review: The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess Hugh Dillon is back, as obnoxious late-night talk show host Bobby Tomahawk who interviews/taunts (intertaunts? We're just making up words here all over the place) Gillian Guess - a juror who slept
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Review: Sunnyvale SFist is still thinking about Sunnyvale, which we saw at Cinequest last night. We decided to go to this movie because, well ok, the title was a draw, and it is also described
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Event: An Afternoon with Sir Ben Kingsley After viewing a sort of Oscar lifetime award nomination-esque series of clips from some of Sir Ben's more notable movies (i.e. Ghandi and House of Sand and Fog included, Rules of Engagement
Arts & Entertainment Smoochie Boochies In the Morning Smith has been filling in for the past couple of days and sadly, Friday will be his last day. According to his site, he called in last spring for a phone interview to
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The After-the-Oscars Edition Well, the Oscars are over, so you can stop your vain attempt to see all the nominated movies -- a disappointing lot of them blew anyway -- and do something more interesting with
Arts & Entertainment A Cultural Exchange (of Fluids) We're baffled by the party's omission of any local professional pervert (NSFW) and burlesque performers, not to mention the near-total heterosexuality of the event -- fer pete's sake, by SF standards, this event's
Arts & Entertainment Bitch Magazine's Arts & Crafts Benefit Auction If you, like us, want to support our local arts community but aren't really interested in buying one of those Hearts of SF -- we're here to help! If you, like us, want
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares Special: Hordes of Boards So do you think your a leader with good judgement? Do you have a lot of professional qualifications but feel that you could be using those skills for the betterment of humankind? Well
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Robbers on High Street On Friday Noise Pop presented a matinee show with Ringside, Von Iva and Robbers on High Street at Cafe Du Nord. It's quite strange to head to a rock show at a time
