SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top 7 Favorite Food Lines In Movie History What with Nora Ephron's untimely passing, one of her most noted films' famous quotes, the one that follows Meg Ryan's (very) fake orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally, has been played on
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Roxie Adds Booze to Your Theatergoing Experience While we sadly bid farewell to the beloved Red Vic tonight, we gladly welcome a new addition at one of the city's favorite independent movie houses: As the boozegazers in the Mission report
Arts & Entertainment Red Vic to Close This Month After 31 Years After serving the stoned and extremely tripped out for three decades, Haight Street's Red Vic will officially close forever on July 25, the movie theater's 31st birthday. It was the kind of place
misc Calling All Filmmakers: Streetsfilms Wants You to Film Pavement and More The folks at Streesblog are looking for a few good (and, God willing, entertaining) fillmmakers to document the streets of San Francisco, if you will. They say: "we are now seeking future Streetfilms
Arts & Entertainment German Gems @ The Castro by Rachel Brodsky German film isn't necessarily something in which you dabble. With its rich history kicking off during the Weimar era and expanding into the very controversial Third Reich propagandist movement, German
SF News Carly Fiorina's New Attack Ad: Cinematic Effort of Swine, Sheep, Furries So. Has senate candidate Carly Fiorina been hitting the medicinal marijuana brownies a bit too hard as of late? Because we see no other explanation for this epically entertaining attack ad. It's part
Arts & Entertainment Roxie Cinema Needs Your Help Being Better Oh, we love the Roxie. Or rather, we love the idea of the Roxie. It's a small, yet oddly spacious seeming, theater nestled in the heart of the Mission with so much potential.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: SF Indiefest wraps up tonight with Ben X, 7:15 p.m., and Paranormal Activity, 9:30 p.m., at the Roxie Cinema. For more info, go here. *MUSIC: We love the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: San Francisco's favorite crooner, Utah-born singer/songwriter Spencer Day, performs tonight at the one of the city's newest music venues, the Rrazz Room located at Hotel Nikko. COMEDY: Let hilarity wash over
Arts & Entertainment Your 2008 Academy Awards Shorts It's almost Academy Awards® time and whether or not the writers will still be on strike, it seems that each year the movies are less and less relevant to the show itself. Between
misc The Real Drama Queens - <i>Marie-Antoinette</i> One of the greatest misunderstandings in the history of US cinema -- oh please, as far as repeated viewings go, Ordinary People is a superior and more devastating film than Raging Bull --
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Aimee Mann's Second Annual Christmas Show: Paul F. Tompkins, Sean Hayes, Chuck Prophet, and Morgan Murphy join the delightfully blond songstress for a night of holiday warm fuzzies. Because X-Mas is coming
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Cinema Soundscapes: This evening of "voice, music and cinematic exploration" features mezzo-soprano vocalist Silvie Jensen and woodwind musician Bodhan Hilas headlining a night of sound oddities and Stephen Parr film such as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Dirty, Delicious Business of Reservation Scalping Eater SF uncovered something new and morally-questionable -- two of our favorite topics -- TablePronto, an online service that scalps restaurant reservations. Basically, it's a site that allows you to buy and sell
Arts & Entertainment "Dirty Country" Sneak Previews at Yerba Buena Tonight Tonight, for one night only, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be featuring two sneak previews of Dirty Country, a highly entertaining documentary about the underground world of raunchy music, directed by
misc Top Drawers: SF International Animation Festival Ticket Giveaway The International Animation Festival starts tonight, kids. And speaking of them, don't bring yours to tomorrow night's wonderfully smut-filled orgy of animated shorts, Top Drawers. What's more, one lucky soul will get a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight (All Hallow's Eve Edition) So much to do, so much not to do. What's a girl to do? Well, here is just a smattering of what's going on tonight. (An aside, is there any reason to buy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Lust, Caution (2007): Ang Lee's new espionage flick is rated NC-17 (i.e., the pretentious thinking person's X). Hot. Oh, and it's actually really good -- at least we think so, anyway.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Bachelorette, 34: Oh the manic behavior of being on your 30s and still single. Check out Kara Herold's personal film about mothers, daughters, marriage, and being single. Starts at 8:30 p.
Arts & Entertainment Free Passes To See <i>The Ten</i>! Hey, wanna see ? No, not the LA freeway, a movie of ten short films illustrating each of the Ten Commandments, featuring such of-the-moment actors as Jessica Alba, Paul Rudd (yay!), Adam Brody (pictured
Arts & Entertainment Interviews: Colma! The Musical Colma opens at the Embarcadero Cinema June 22 Introduce yourself in one sentence: H.P: Hi, I'm HP and I'm a Pisces with a Virgo rising which means I don't put any stock
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Go To The Movies: Local Virtues We are always going to tell you to see Other Cinema. You can set your watch to it, we promise. This week’s Incredibly Strange Music program is packed with punk rock/bad
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 Gearing Up For the SF International Film Festival To celebrate their gold anniversary, the SFIFF is not only presenting the always-dazzling film festival itself, but hosting a huge array of events as well: from tributes to Spike Lee (and a screening
