Arts & Entertainment Al Gore INd Bay Area Really, of course, it's because of his new project, INdTV (pronounced "indie TV" -- such clever use of case). INdTV is currently accepting video entries for consideration -- you can register and then
Arts & Entertainment Whazzzup, Doc? Says Sander Schwartz, president of Warner Bros. Animation and a man who will someday find himself roasting in one of the darkest, dankest pits of hell, "the new series will have the same
Arts & Entertainment Have You Heard The One About Incompatibility of Military Heroism & Love? Skyler Cooper is one of the most beautiful women in the Bay Area. SFist has been vacillating between envy and infatuation since we saw her in the title role of Impact Theatre's (Full
Arts & Entertainment GRAMMY Report: Green Day's Still Blowin' Up We went through the pains of watching Sunday night's GRAMMY Awards telecast so you didn't have to. Ray Charles was unsurprisingly the top winner, but our Bay area homeboys in Green Day made
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: Oakland Raiders Parking Lot Anyhoo, when SFist was younger, we had a boss who wouldn't stop talking about . When the movie played at SFMOMA, he took half the department with him to see it. During the work
Arts & Entertainment Rumors of The Coronet's Demise Are Slightly Exaggerated We're happy to hear that folks made it out to the Coronet, given that we, and everyone else had been told yesterday would be the Coronet's last day in business. However, according to
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: The Devil and Daniel Johnston We should confess that, before seeing the Sundance award-winning documentary this Sunday for the second weekend of IndieFest, we didn't know very much about the eponymous singer-songwriter -- we liked that charmingly-naive "Speeding
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Don't Bother Us, We're In Mourning We knew it was coming, but we're still weren't ready when the news came down. SFist's beloved Coronet Theater is closing its doors forever this Sunday, in preparation for demolition by the owner
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: Antenna SFist wasn't quite sure what to expect when we went to last night's screening of , and our mind continues to reel almost 20 hours after experiencing the film. With undeniable references to Lynch
Arts & Entertainment Lose Those Extra Pounds: Laugh Your Ass Off Friend of SFist and Bay Blogger Alex Blagg doesn't need us anymore. Sniff. His shows at the comedy club 50 Mason have been written up in the Chronicle, so he reports "[T]he
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: the Romantic-Industrial Complex Edition SFist would like to take a moment of silence for Arthur Miller, who passed away last night. Without question, Miller was one of the great American playwrights. We regret that we'd only read
Arts & Entertainment Walk About (or Get Off That Couch!) Two of SFist's favorites from the local art scene are teaming up to bring you a guided walk tomorrow. Kate Pocrass, creator and perpetuator extraordinaire of Mundane Journeys will personally be leading the
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: Born in a Barn We bring this up because, for much the same reason, it's so easy -- even for us permissive, enlightened San Franciscans -- to look askance at an adult who likes to dress up
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: White Skin But first, a word from local filmie Tom Pankratz, whose short film precedes White Skin. Tom's been making films in the bay area for several years, and we like him -- at a
Arts & Entertainment Emerging Technology Conference: New Media Sticking It to Old Media. But How's the Food? Of course our first mission was to find Yahoo News Editorial Director Bill Gannon and his loyal band of editors who were nice enough to take SFist out for a drink and give
Arts & Entertainment Living in the Pollan Nation Pollan is the author of and a couple of other books, as well as countless articles for Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, and elsewhere. He is a master of investigative
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Or Do We? Oh, it's a sad day for SFist. Not to encourage undue speculation, but it seems like we have all found better things to do than read this week. Is it that our online
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: Munch on This The high point of this collection of short animations: "Petunia," a simple, lovely story about a moody guy and a flower; if it was CG rather than hand-drawn, it would be the sort
Arts & Entertainment <i>Xin Nian Kuai Le</i> (Happy New Year) And a and/or Gong hay fat choi, depending on your dialect, to you! It's Chinese New Year's! Lunch is on your Asian-American friends, who should be flush with red envelope cash today.
Arts & Entertainment Has Ribity Gone Too Far? Art critic and photographer Claudine, who has been something of a modern-day Chalfant or Ahern by cataloging photos of graffitti pieces throughout the city, left a comment in our Get Ur Geek On:
Arts & Entertainment Dance Review: Facing Mekka [] In restless anticipation we sat staring at the stage, waiting to see the dance performance acclaimed by so many. Yerba Buena Center for rhe Arts Theater was hosting the first of three performances
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The Superbowl Ads You see, America? You see what you get when you complain about a little boob action? You get the most boring halftime show imaginable featuring a snooze-inducing performance by Paul McCartney, AKA The
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: The Dry Spell Hey, have you heard? Apparantly men and women are very different, and at times they have problems connecting romanically! Who knew? Somebody ought to make a movie about that. Ha ha ha, we
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: Double Feature We signed up for the screenings that Larsen Associates offered credentials to but weren't already claimed by fellow 'Fisters. Which means we were given New York productions. Granted, we're the least removed from
