Arts & Entertainment Negative Reactions Continue to News About Castro Theatre Changes, While Actual Details Remain Scarce Lamentations on social media and editorials in other media continued over the weekend after last week's bombshell news about the Castro Theatre coming under the management of Another Planet Entertainment. And a rally on Sunday served as a gathering for the most anxious fans.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Changes Management, Will No Longer Primarily Screen Movies, Become More of a Live Venue Sadly for film buffs, this means it will largely cease to be a repertory movie house — however it will continue to host film festivals and other film events.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Matrix Resurrections’ Will Have Its Red Carpet U.S. Premiere at the Castro on December 18 You cannot get tickets to the U.S. premiere of 'The Matrix Resurrections’ at the Castro, but you may be able to snap pictures of Keanu, Carrie-Anne, and NPH from some sort of “fan zone” outside the Castro Theatre.
SF News Guy Climbs and Damages Castro Theatre Sign, Creates Bizarre 90-Minute Standoff An unidentified man climbed the Castro Theatre sign Tuesday night, and according to eyewitnesses, threw cinder blocks to the street, got naked, and masturbated on the roof.
Arts & Entertainment The Castro Theatre Readies To Install Largest Pipe-Digital Hybrid Organ On Earth A huge new organ is on its way to the Castro to replace the theater's long-gone "Mighty Wurlitzer."
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Armistead Maupin Says SF's New Culture Is 'A Bit Dull' At ‘Tales of the City’ Premiere SFist talked to Armistead Maupin, Laura Linney, and a whole gang of characters both old and new as the Netflix ‘Tales of the City’ reboot premiered Wednesday night.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bollywood Film Star Shah Rukh Khan Honored At SFFILM Fest, Teaches Brett Ratner Lungi Dance With #KingKhan @iamsrk doing the #LungiDance during the @sffilm Inspiring, humble, a great dancer, and smells great too!! A post shared by Brett Ratner (@brettrat) on Apr 14, 2017 at 11:17pm PDT
Arts & Entertainment Caitlyn Jenner To Make Book Tour Stop At Castro Theatre In May Remember Caitlyn Jenner? The Trump-supporting trans woman who used to be an Olympic athlete and reality TV star and recently decided maybe Trump isn't such a hero because of his administration's decision to
Arts & Entertainment Emma Stone And Ryan Gosling Appear With 'La La Land' Director Damien Chazelle At Castro Theatre Thursday night marked the first ever SF Honors awards ceremony from the SF Film Society, with the prize for 2016 awarded to La La Land, a new movie musical from Whiplash director Damien
Arts & Entertainment Ryan Gosling Comes To SF Next Week For Special Screening Of 'La La Land' Gosling fans, hold onto your seats. The San Francisco Film Society is hosting a special screening on December 8 of the already Oscar-buzzworthy movie musical La La Land, at the Castro Theatre, and
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Preview 'Mascots' With Christopher Guest Live On Stage! Lovers of the oeuvre of writer-director Christopher Guest and his brilliant mockumentary/comedy ensemble (like myself) are getting Busy Bee-level excited about the upcoming Netflix release of Guest's latest work, Mascots, coming on
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Castro Theatre Sneak Preview Of 'Transparent' Season 3, With Cast Q&A “I would be happy if I were the last cisgender male to play a transgender female,” Jeffrey Tambor declared Sunday evening in accepting his second Emmy for his portrayal of Maura Pfefferman, the
Arts & Entertainment Silent Film Festival Sounds Awesome This Weekend Flappers, dandies and fetishists for all things 1920s will have their Wurlitzers in a bunch all weekend long for the 21st annual Silent Film Festival, kicking off tonight and running through Sunday at
Arts & Entertainment Alan Cumming Brings His 'Sappy Songs' Show To The Castro Theatre In June Scottish-born actor Alan Cumming, who lately has been doing his best American accent as Eli Gold on the final season of The Good Wife, returned to the live stage in 2014 to reprise
Arts & Entertainment Everyone, 'Purple Rain' Is Playing Tonight At The Castro Theatre Purple Rain 7 pm & 9:30 pm Monday, April 25 @Castro_Theatre #Prince #RestInPurple #PurpleRain pic.twitter.com/JBygBTZ1id— Steve Rhodes (@tigerbeat) April 25, 2016 With everyone still in shock following last
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho's 'psyCHO Tour' Hits The Castro Theatre Thursday In addition to discussing her sexuality, sex toys, and how Patti LaBelle is scared of her, native San Franciscan Margaret Cho may be touching on some more serious issues during two sets at
Arts & Entertainment Kim Kardashian Talks Cellulite, Spanx, Objectifying Herself At The Castro Theatre Pregnant Kim Kardashian was seen at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Tuesday A photo posted by Ramses (@kingramsesfresh) on Jul 1, 2015 at 10:59am PDT The reviews are in, and
Arts & Entertainment Kim Kardashian Commonwealth Club Event Moved To Castro Theatre Tonight Celebrity eyeroll-inducer Kim Kardashian West and her team of publicists have been trying to legitimize her as she tours the country promoting her new book Selfish which is (I am not joking) a
Arts & Entertainment Eight Must-See Movies At Frameline (The LGBT Film Fest) San Francisco's LGBT film festival Frameline kicks off Thursday night, and it is now in its 39th year, making it the oldest continually running film fest geared to the LGBT set in the
Arts & Entertainment Oprah Drops In For Castro Screening, Everyone Goes Nuts Queen of Everything Oprah Winfrey made an appearance at a Q&A on Sunday at the Castro Theatre in conjunction with a screening of Selma, the new Martin Luther King biopic in
Arts & Entertainment Tonight At The Castro Theatre: 'Carrie'... Also On Netflix Steven King's horror classic Carrie is coming to the Castro theater tonight. Coincidentially, Carrie was also recently made available on Netflix. At the same time, you could choose to watch the 2013 remake,
Arts & Entertainment Dispatches From Last Night's 'Looking' Premiere At The Castro Theater I wasn't around for HBO's big premiere event for the new show Looking at the Castro Theatre last night, and it's totally because I want to have the experience of watching the show
Arts & Entertainment Jinkx Monsoon To Reprise Her Little Edie Impression At 'Grey Gardens' Screening Fans of RuPaul's Drag Race who are still annoyed at the paucity of representation from San Francisco (no disrespect to last season contender Honey Mahogany, who performed admirably despite that kaftan incident) can
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Watch: Sing-along Mary Poppins At The Castro Theatre Yes, this weekend promises the best weather of the year. And yes, most of the city will be basking in jorts along the city's parks and sidewalks. But to capture that authentic summer
Arts & Entertainment 'People Despised Faye': Tales From The Set Of <em>Mommie Dearest</em> One thing we'll never tire of are real-life tales of working with Faye Dunaway. The most recent tidbit comes to us from Rutanya Ald, the actress who played Carol Ann in Mommie Dearest.