Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: <i>Twitch</i> is a vignette about an unnamed teenaged girl (none of the characters has a name) whose mother has multiple sclerosis. The daughter (Emma Galvin in the film's strongest performance) pities her mother (Toni
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>On the Objection Front</i> The "refuseniks" (a term originally used to describe Jews who were barred from leaving the Soviet Union) had pledged to remain in the IDF and continue to serve "in any mission that serves
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Campfire</i> What we got instead was the story of an Israeli woman, Rachel (Michaela Eshet), who is somewhat in mourning a year after her husband's death from cancer. Rachel tries to uproot her daughters,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog the Musical at the Orpheum Theatre Based on the best-selling book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, Wicked makes its triumphant return to San Francisco, where
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Show Goes On It's either true commitment or sheer lunacy that Stage Fog comes to you this week, because we (that's we the contributor, not we SFist) are the sad victims of a major Comcast outage
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog 'Round the World From Milwaukee to Israel to Australia, you can visit them all from the comfort of your theater seat right here in SF. We've got three shows and one festival for you this week,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Theater for People Who Hate Theater We met a guy at Thee Parkside after the ill-fated SFist/Wired softball game who asked us, "What's playing now that I should go see?" Now, when we meet people at bars and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: SF Mime Troupe Right before the first scene of the San Francisco Mime Troupe's which opened on the Fourth of July weekend in Dolores Park, a trouper walks onstage holding a sign up for the audience:
SF News Ride Tiger to BART Another plus of the BART Widget is that it's open source; Victor invites anyone making their own trip-planning widget to use his code to jump-start theirs. And finally, it's free, but if you
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: A Little Something for Everyone For the last couple of weeks, Stage Fog has been rather thematic, which makes for a nice, tight column. But sometimes we just want variety. Mix those peas and carrots! Besides, the Shakespeare
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Bring-a-Blanket Edition San Francisco Mime Troupe's at Dolores Park What better way to show your patriotism than with an afternoon with the SF Mime Troupe, which has been skewering the US government for over 40
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Ashland's Not the Only Theater Destination, You Know You've heard of tornado chasers, but how about tsunami chasers? Despite numerous aftershocks, this week we're actually heading north to the towns of Arcata and Blue Lake to catch the first-ever Ensemble Theater
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: It's a Gay Play Buffet [After a too-long hiatus, Stage Fog returns with this entry, the debut of SFist Karen, whose blog is about the only one around that's devoted solely to Bay Area theater. You can find
Arts & Entertainment Calling All Font Film Auteurs The Typophile Film Festival is now accepting entries for its 2005 edition, to be shown at TypeCon 2005 in NYC this July. Last year's festival featured two of the shorts we created (catch
SF News Araujo Retrial Under Way As we predicted in our earlier post, the defense is indeed switching strategies in the retrial. When we spoke with Bill DuBois, defendant Jose Merel's new attorney, back in January, he hinted that
SF News Intel: Not Just for Crappy Windows Machines Anymore Of course it's all over Technorati. Trying to dispel the kind of hand-wringing usually reserved for anytime George Lucas futzes with the original trilogy, Jobs let us in on another little secret: Apple's
misc SFist Rants: Stupid-Ass Bicyclists We just recently got a new job in Berkeley that's too far from the house to walk. Plus, since we took a substantial pay cut to work at the new place, losing even
SF News SFist Rants: Unresponsive Representatives Honestly, we didn't really expect to hear back from her. But we felt more confident we'd hear something from Senator Barbara Boxer, who has apparently been more interested recently in taking national stands.
SF News The Schiavo Bill: How'd Our Senators Vote? And Why Didn't Any Bay Area Congressmembers Vote? It occurred to us that we don't pay that much attention to the individual voting records of our representatives. When elections come around, we pay some lip service to candidates' voting records, but
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Flutastic We're not being dramatic or anything, but we've had the flu for a week now, with massive pain behind our eyeballs and pretty much zero appetite. But you can't all come over and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's the Ides of March. Whatcha Gonna Eat? But it doesn't have to be this way. Michael Chiarello, whom we sort of adore, gets it right with this recipe from NapaStyle: the hearts of romaine are left as whole leaves, adorned
Arts & Entertainment Les Claypool Presents Gabby La La: Hello Kitty Meets Yoko Ono (and it’s Good) Eric McFaden and Wally Ingram/Gabby La La March 12, 2005 12 Galaxies San Francisco They came to see Les Claypool, many oblivious to who the main act was. But what they got
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,
