Arts & Entertainment It's Make It Work Time, People! Everybody's favorite Project Runway mentor is in the area on Friday and Saturday to promote his new book , which covers topics like: how to shop (broken down into designer, chain, and vintage), creating
Arts & Entertainment APE: Crafty Fun Bits Adding to the estimable Alternative Press Expo coverage by SFist Jeremy comes a little more APE coverage, albeit a teensy bit late. (Hey, its been a busy week!) Among our favs of the
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Fog City Mavericks</i> -- Can You Feel The Love Tonight? Sunday night, the SF International screened the world premiere of the film Fog City Mavericks at the Castro Theater. There were shades of Sundance as many of the films featured filmmakers and actors,
Arts & Entertainment Arrivederci Hans, das war der letzte Tanz. Friday will be a farewell: it is the last "Friday 6.5 show" of the season, a last dance of sorts, if only to make sense of our title. The performance is at
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Win Tickets To <i>Notes From The Toon Underground!</i> If the lines outside the Kabuki this weekend are any indication, everyone and their cousin knows that the SF Int'l Film Festival is the place to BE for the latest and greatest in
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <em>The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music</em> We're not unique in becoming slightly obsessed with The Anthology, and this film, which combines talking head interviews with live performances from a series of tribute concerts, is proof of that. And yet,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Parker Posey Pictures! Drew Altizer is on ! He passed along these adorable pictures of adorable Parker Posey, who was in town yesterday for the screenings of her two (count 'em, two) indie movie extravaganzas last night
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to Conan O'Brien Now here's the thing we discovered about the filming of a talk show-- there's a lot of standing around. A lot. The show isn't filmed continuously and then edited to make it look
Arts & Entertainment Eric McCormack Sings! Alas, Drew reports that scheduled guest Annette Bening didn't make it, but a source who was there tells us that Nancy Pelosi did. Pelosi missed the performances, but was surrounded by an entourage
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>A Few Days Later...</i> Okay, we're not going to lie. When we read the description of the Iranian movie in the SF Int'l Film Fest guide as "a gorgeous minimalist portrait of a woman crushed by indecision,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Heavenly Kings</i> The North American debut of Heavenly Kings for the SF Int'l Film Festival premiered at the Castro Theatre Friday night and it must have been a sweet moment for Berkeley-born, Bay Area-raised, local
Arts & Entertainment CounterPULSE Second Anniversary Show! We knew very little about the art space & resource center, CounterPULSE, before attending their Second Anniversary Show on Sunday night (yes, we mistakenly kept calling it "Compulse"). This is their second year
Arts & Entertainment Roadtripping At The SFIFF This Weekend Who needs Coachella when there’s Oppikoppi, a rock music festival held in South Africa every year? Really, we would have loved to have been at Coachella this weekend, but if you couldn’
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Stories From The SF Film Frontiers</i> The SF Int'l Film Festival isn't just about great national and international movies -- they've got music events, gala events, talks about the state of cinema, an online presence through SF360.com, and
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 3: The Storytellers--Traditional, With A Twist The last of our slightly less-than-timely coverage of the Alternative Press Expo, which took place last weekend, focuses on folks telling their sequential art stories in a longer form. Ted Naifeh, a Western
Arts & Entertainment Conan the Conquerer Did you get your tickets? We are speaking, of course, about free tickets to "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" which will be taping a week of shows at the Orpheum Theater starting on
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Win Tickets To <i>The Unforeseen</i>! Want to check out some film this Sunday afternoon? , a documentary set in one of our sister -ist cities, Austin, Texas, is about the battle between developers and environmentalists as a sweet-sounding but
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Win Tickets to <i>The Old Weird America</i>! This one's for a Saturday screening (6:15 p.m. at the Kabuki) of , an uplifting music performance documentary featuring performances by Elvis Costello, Beck, Beth Orton, Sonic Youth, and Philip Glass (and
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 2: Cute, Cool, And Arty Hey, Folks, welcome to part two of our APE coverage. The Alternative Press Expo was this past weekend, and there was so much fun stuff we had to break our coverage into several
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Win Tickets To Jonathan Richman's <i>The Phantom Carriage</i>! So -- how lucky are you, valued readers?? SFist has two tickets to give away to one lucky winner, for a screening of , a spooky silent movie showing at the Castro for the
Arts & Entertainment The SFIFF's Here (and Contests Are Coming)! Tonight's the opening night for the San Francisco International Film Festival! It's two weeks of everything in the world you can think of that's related to film: new indie favorites, an old (remastered)
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 1: Strips, Teases, and Gags The Alternative Press Expo (or APE) was this past weekend at the Concourse here in San Francisco. The show, which is put on yearly by Comic-Con International, features indy and small press creators
Arts & Entertainment No Fun Tomorrow at 7, the Democratic County Central Committee is going to vote on a resolution in support of fun. It's far for sure that this resolution is going to pass, so everyone is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Cuz a little culture never hurt anyone.... Aaron McGruder at the JCC: Ever crack open the morning paper to catch up on the latest exploits of Huey and Riley, adorable inner-city youths exiled
Arts & Entertainment Honoring the 1906 Earthquake As usual, there was a bit of a commemeration of the '06 quake, although much smaller than last year's gala Earthquakepalooza. Instead of the thousands who showed up last year, there were only
