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
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
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: 'Sing-A-Long Beauty and the Beast' at the Castro Theater When it comes to delivering movies in unique sing-a-long format, no other venue stands and delivers quite like the Castro Theater. The theater's sing-a-longs represent a rare
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Bill Murray In Broken Flowers Who doesn't like Bill Murray? No one, that's who. So check out Murray in Broken Flowers along with Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Tilda Swinton and Jeffrey Wright.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Saturday: 'Death Becomes Her' With Drag At The Castro Local legend and midnight-movie enthusiast Peaches Christ is doing a first-ever screening of the modern classic Death Becomes Her Saturday night at the Castro Theatre, and it will, like all of
SF News Video: Castro Theatre Manager Goes Off On Nudists, Journalist George Davis, a transplant from Tennessee who once ran for mayor of San Francisco, likes to get naked in the Castro. And good for him. The Castro, famous for being the queer historic
Arts & Entertainment The Roxie, Balboa Theatre Lead Nationwide Trend in Small Cinemas Turning Not-for-Profit Every couple of years some new alarmist story appears about the Castro Theatre closing down, and each time it gets debunked. But the panic comes from the nationwide death knell for small, single-
Arts & Entertainment Judy Blume Coming to the Castro Theatre Sunday! Perhaps the most important young-adult author of the twentieth century, Judy Blume, is coming to the Castro Theater on Sunday to take part in a screening of a new film by her
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Michael Ian Black & Meghan McCain Liberal comedian Michael Ian Black and progressive Republican Meghan McCain joined forces to write a new book delicately titled, America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom. Though, yes, a bit of
Arts & Entertainment Reluctantly Gay Author Chuck Palahniuk 'Remixes' His Gayest Book, Comes to Castro Theater Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk only quietly, reluctantly came out of the closet a few years ago in an Advocate interview, after letting a statement in 1999 that he had "a wife&
Arts & Entertainment Gay Jesus Play Still Drawing Conservative Ire Over A Decade Later It's been fourteen years since Terence McNally's play "Corpus Christi" debuted in New York, off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theater Club in 1998, and because this country
Arts & Entertainment Sharon Needles Is Coming To San Francisco! Before a winner is crowned next week on RuPaul's Drag Race, we implore you to a) you personally see to it that Sharon Needles wins the pageant, and b) buy tickets
Arts & Entertainment Benefit Screening of 'Milk' at Castro Theatre in May In honor of Harvey Milk Day on May 22, the Friends of Harvey Milk is doing a screening of Milk at the Castro Theatre to benefit the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy the
Arts & Entertainment Al Pacino Brings Oscar Wilde Doc To Sold-Out Castro Theatre This Week Al Pacino directed a new documentary called Wilde Salome that's described as "unconventional" and "an intimate, behind-the-scenes glimpse into Oscar Wilde's life." It
Arts & Entertainment Pam Grier Is Coming To The Castro Theatre Saturday Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the great Pam Grier, the queen of blaxploitation and longtime obsession of Quentin Tarantino, is appearing at the Castro Theatre on Saturday night as part of a double bill
SF News Ed Lee to Appear at First Mayoral Debate Tonight This mayoral debate is going to be big, with a 99% chance of people heckling the stage. Why? Because Mayor Ed Lee, who announced today his intentions to run for full term, will
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Robert Hays, <em>Airplane!</em> Star, Who'll Be In S.F. Tonight Robert Hays, who played Ted Striker in the perennially quoted Airplane! movies, is making a special appearance this evening at the Castro Theatre at 7 PM as part of Sketchfest, where he'
Arts & Entertainment Alice In Wonderland @ the Castro by Rachel Brodsky It's the event you've all been waiting for--another Tim Burton feature presentation! And maybe this one will actually work! Burton, the master of fairy tale
Arts & Entertainment Golden Girl Cancels Castro Appearance Sad news, Golden Girls fans. Rue McClanahan (AKA Blanche Devereaux) canceled her November 14 tribute at the Castro Theatre. The actress, it seems, is laid up in the hospital over an ailing heart.
Arts & Entertainment Frameline, the San Francisco LGBT Film Fest, Opens Today Every Pride season, there are a legion of LGBT film fests accompanying the legion of regional Pride fests across the land, now that gay pride isn't just for major metropolitan areas
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Late '90s Santa Cruz band the Huxtables headline a night of "fun rock" tunes. Take, for example, the song their dedicated to Dungeons & Dragons, "Dungeon Master,"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *COMEDY/THEATER: Rejoice, mama's boys of San Francisco. According to SF Weekly, "Judy Gold and award-winning playwright Kate Moira Ryan traveled around the U.S. for five years, interviewing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *CLUB: Check out Rock Out Karaoke over at Amnesia. What is Rock Out Karaoke? Well, it mean that you will hear neither a Righteous Brothers cover nor a note from everyone's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *MUSIC: Kelley Stoltz, Grand Archives, the Morning Benders, and le Weather Underground sing some songs for you over at the Independent. (Part of Noise Pop 2008.) COMEDY: Get ready to hee yourself silly.
misc SFist Tonight *COMEDY: That wacky/sexy comedy troupe, SPF7, puts on a show at The Dark Room tonight. According to Justin Lamb, "there will be a politically incorrect ad campaign for fruit, a massage,
