Arts & Entertainment Cult Movie 'Showgirls' Turns 20, Here's How To Celebrate The high holy holiday on the San Francisco drag calendar that is Peaches Christ’s Night of 1,000 Showgirls takes on a special significance at Saturday night’s annual screening and party,
Arts & Entertainment 40 Fabulous Photos Of Pflueger's San Francisco [Updated] Before thick glass, reclaimed wood, and casual minimalism became de rigueur San Francisco style, Timothy L. Pflueger, a working class kid from the Mission who didn't even attend college, drenched the city in
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: 'Linsanity' At The Castro Theater Disclaimer: Tickets for tonight are available through RUSH only. Last year, NBA player Jeremy Lin became one of the world's most talked-about athletes in the world. His quick rise to fame, spurred by
Arts & Entertainment Video: Al Pacino's Castro Theatre Red Carpet Appearance Al Pacino was in town last night to premiere his new Oscar Wilde documentary Wilde Salomé to a sold-out Castro Theatre audience. Naturally the relatively rare appearance of Hollywood royalty in our fair
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre to Stop Regular Movie Screenings? [Updated] Hold the phone! According to a local film industry source (via Michael Petrelis) the venerable and universally adored Castro Theatre is allegedly going to cease to be a movie house in January, and
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theater to Go Dark Eight Nights in August What with so many cinema houses closing down, we always worry about our dear Castro Theatre, the Bay Area's best (if we may) theater. But, just like in April, it will go dark
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Erased James Franco</em> at the Castro Theater Some collaborations between Hollywood people and non-Hollywood artists yield magical results -- take Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers' work on Where the Wild Things Are, for example -- but in the case of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: As we already mentioned, Why? is performing this evening along with Dose One, Cryptacize, DJ Odd Nosdam, DJ Jel. *THEATER: Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning play the Vagina Monologues -- featuring such monologues
Arts & Entertainment Kathy Griffin vs. the GayVN Awards According to the fine folks over at The Sword (NSFW), the GayVNs (NSFW) will be held here on Saturday -- you know, those homosexual pornography achievement awards, which led to Mayor Gavin Newsom
misc More <i>Milk</i> Extras Needed for March Reenactment Starting this week, as we all know by now, Palme d'Or-winning writer/directer Gus Van Sant starts filming Milk on our pretty yet smelly streets. But Gustave needs your help, folks. On Monday
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Crispin Hellion Glover If you’d like a Crispin Glover experience of your own, Glover will be at the Castro Theater tonight through Sunday. He will be presenting his “Big Slideshow” (which we’ve heard great
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Bad Faith (Mauvaise Foi)</i> Who woulda thought. . . . we weren’t the only ones not completely immersed in isolation with the final Harry Potter book this weekend... although we did see a couple books neatly tucked under the
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>La Vie En Rose</i> And The Closing Night Party And on to Mezzanine Thursday night for the SFIFF closing night party -- with a surprise performer . . . . but before the final sendoff, we headed over to the Castro Theater for what turned out
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 We Are So Doing This See, the way we see it is it'll be cold, the stores will be mayhem, we've already seen "A Christmas Story" over twenty times, and we have no life. What could be better
misc The Winner Is Deceitful Above All Things We have a winner in our Fake Tales of San Francisco contest! As you may recall, we're giving out "The Heart Is Deceitful" movie swag to the person who came up with the
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: SFist has you Covered We're awash in trannies! Frameline, San Francisco's annual GLBT film festival, has decided to highlight the "T" portion of the acronym this year, but there's still plenty of G, L, B, and P
Arts & Entertainment Now You, Too, can be a Gay Usher Just when you were starting to worry that The Castro Theater might've gone all ex-gay, along comes Frameline 29, the 29th annual San Francisco International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Film Festival, or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Stuffed: Marcello's That said, while waiting for local luminaries to strut down the red carpet on Sunday, we overcame our fears of potentially dreadful west coast pizza (thanks to an endorsement in our comments) and
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
SF News Castro Update However, litigation seems to be afoot from a number of sides, so no one we contacted was willing to comment. In any case, we were at Saturday's protest organized by Audiences in Action
Arts & Entertainment Turmoil at the Castro SFist was dismayed when we heard rumors surrounding the controversial firing of the Castro Theater's long-time programming director, Anita Monga. We first heard these rumors when we read the Chron story detailing the
Arts & Entertainment More Depressing News We could barely read the paper this morning, we were so depressed. So we thought, "Hey! Read Datebook instead! It's always quote unquote fun!" So what should our scarred soul see? Infighting over
