SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ask A San Francisco Native: What's Your Favorite Place To Get A Burrito? In these Troubled San Francisco Times, there is a lot of talk about who was here when, and what that does (or doesn't) mean. In an effort to both assist newcomers and take
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, London Has Fallen, Zootopia Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - Everywhere Tina Fey's second movie in three months is more serious than Sisters was, but I found myself liking it more. One of the issues I had with Sisters
Arts & Entertainment Someone Should Put 'Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story On Stage' In A Corner I was never a huge fan of the movie Dirty Dancing, mainly because its mix of period pop and contemporary songs always bugged the hell out of me, and its story was a
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Gods Of Egypt, Eddie The Eagle, Triple 9 Gods of Egypt - Everywhere See a bunch of mostly white dudes playing ancient Egyptian deities in this CGI-filled epic that I totally thought was a video game when I first saw the
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: What High School Did You Go To? Dear Rain, Where did you go to high school?? Most important question to be asked from one native to the other! Signed, Another Native Dear AN, This is probably a question that only
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The Witch, Race, IndieFest The Witch - Alamo Drafhouse and the AMC Theaters The Witch is a tough sell. While it has both the creepiest and most beautiful imagery I've seen in a horror movie in many
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Deadpool, Zoolander 2, How To Be Single Deadpool - Everywhere Your ability to enjoy Deadpool is directly predicated on how much you enjoy the entire Ryan Reynolds thing, by which I mean that whole smartass-with-the-shit-eating grin persona he's been working
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Is Saving Parking Spaces By Standing In Them Kosher In The 415? Dear Rain, I've lived a couple places before I moved to SF, but nowhere else have I seen people "save" parking spaces the way they do here. I'm talking about how someone will
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Hail, Caesar!, Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, The Choice Hail, Caesar! - Everywhere My opinion of Coen brothers movies tend to fall into one of four categories: I immediately love it and want to have its babies. (Raising Arizona; True Grit.) I
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The Finest Hours, 50 Shades Of Black, Kung Fu Panda 3, Jane Got A Gun The Finest Hours - Everywhere This Disney-produced drama is based on the true story of a 1952 Coast Guard rescue mission off the New England coast. If last year's Ron Howard-Moby Dick movie
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Were The Zebra Killings Really That Terrifying? In these Troubled San Francisco Times, there is a lot of talk about who was here when, and what that does (or doesn't) mean. In an effort to both assist newcomers and take
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The 5th Wave, Dirty Grandpa, The Lady In The Van, Noir City The 5th Wave - Everywhere AKA, The Hunger Games with Aliens. The world is on the verge of complete destruction by aliens, and only Chloe Grace Moretz and a bunch of teenagers can
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Ride Along 2, Norm Of The North, Bowie At The Castro 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi - Everywhere If you think this will be a realistic, fact-based, and sober look into the events that occurred at that diplomatic compound in Libya on
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Has SF's Diversity Changed As Much As People Say It Has? In these Troubled San Francisco Times, there is a lot of talk about who was here when, and what that does (or doesn't) mean. In an effort to both assist newcomers and take
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The Revenant, Anomalisa, The Forest, Censored Voices The Revenant - Everywhere The Revenant is one of the most violent, grueling, and gory movies I've ever seen, and this is coming from someone who regularly watches The Walking Dead while eating
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Did Muni Always Suck? In these Troubled San Francisco Times, there is a lot of talk about who was here when, and what that does (or doesn't) mean. In an effort to both assist newcomers and take
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Joy, Daddy's Home, Concussion, Point Break, The Hateful Eight While some of these movies have early screenings tonight, most won't open until Christmas Day. Check your local listings! Joy - Everywhere David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook players are back for this
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Sisters, Chipmunks, Every Thing Will Be Fine Star Wars: The Force Awaken - Everywhere I'd love to have something to say about this little indie movie, but while there was a screening for critics, SFist was either not cool enough
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Carol, In The Heart Of The Sea, The Danish Girl Carol - Embarcadero Todd Haynes is back with another story about homosexuality in the 1950s, but this time he's adapted a book, The Price of Salt, written by famed mystery author Patrica Highsmith
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Chi-Raq, Krampus, Macbeth Chi-Raq - Metreon Spike Lee's latest adapts the ancient play Lysistrata by Aristophanes and sets it in modern-day Chicago, complete with dialogue that's part rap, part iambic pentameter. As gang war accelerates, girlfriends
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The Good Dinosaur, Creed, Legend, Victor Frankenstein The Good Dinosaur - Everywhere In any other year Pixar's The Good Dinosaur would garner the usual universal praise and go on to win an Oscar. Unfortunately, it comes the same year as
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Mockingjay Part 2, The Night Before, Secret In Their Eyes, Peggy Guggenheim The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part Two - Everywhere I read the Hunger Games trilogy, and thought the books got progressively worse, and could barely finish the third, which was a slog. Of
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Spotlight, Love The Coopers, By The Sea Spotlight - Metreon and Kabuki It's both a good thing and a sad thing that I went into the movie Spotlight not knowing all that much about the molestation scandal that rocked the
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The Peanuts Movie, I Smile Back, Tab Hunter The Peanuts Movie - Everywhere Well, at least these CG Peanuts don't look as completely terrifying as The Today Show's Halloween costume versions. And at least Charles Shulz's son and grandson had a
Arts & Entertainment Too Much Plot: <em>Spectre</em>, Reviewed I have a conflicted relationship with James Bond movies. In some respects I find them quite boring, as they always follow the same story arcs, and predictably end with Bond living to die
