Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For This Maya Angelou Documentary That Premieres Tonight On KQED A documentary that's been on the festival circuit but hasn't yet premiered to the general public, Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise might, as the New York Times points out, "seem redundant to
Arts & Entertainment Dustin Lance Black And Gus Van Sant Return To Familiar Turf With SF LGBT History Doc Series The writer and director of 2008's Milk, Dustin Lance Black and Gus Van Sant, will be reuniting returning to the topic of LGBT history in San Francisco with When We Rise, an eight-part
Arts & Entertainment Oh Lorrrd: Janis Joplin Documentary Arrives In SF Today A lot of you have likely never seen Janis Joplin perform a number onstage, live or on video, because most of you are under the age of 70 and have little use for
Arts & Entertainment Trailer Drops For Unauthorized Steve Jobs Documentary By The Guy Who Made 'Going Clear' Alex Gibney, the director who made the provocative HBO documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, has just made a new doc about the man who made Apple, Steve Jobs, titled
SF News Video: Techie Newlyweds Spend Miserable Honeymoon Living On Bitcoin Alone One pioneering couple who can bravely afford to treat money as a fun little experiment is ready to premier their revolutionary new documentary, Life on Bitcoin, next week at the Internet Archive. Bitcoin,
Arts & Entertainment Watch 'The Rejected,' A Recently Rediscovered 1961 Documentary Thought To Be The First Ever Made About Gay People Two local archivists recently triumphed after a six-year treasure hunt, trying to locate an existing copy of a 54-year-old documentary that aired on PBS stations called "The Rejected." Made in 1961 and produced
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Totally Free' Gives You A Peek Into The Lives Of SF's Roller Skate Community "Thirty years ago," filmmaker Daniel Soares says, "rollerskating was everywhere" in San Francisco. "But these days it's nearly impossible to find people on roller skates," which is one of the reasons Soares made
Arts & Entertainment Video: GaymerX Conference Organizers Debut Queer Gaming Documentary GaymerX, which debuted in San Francisco in 2013 as the first ever LGBT gaming convention, has been a huge success, even earning its own episode on HBO's erstwhile Looking. Now, as Boing Boing
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Cab Driver Releases Documentary On What It's Like To Compete With Uber And Lyft People who follow San Francisco's transit industry are likely familiar with the name John Han — he's written, on and off, about the cab business for years on his blog, and he's a frequent
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: DocFest Local Shorts The 12th Annual SF DocFest has hit the Bay Area, and that means dozens of films providing "a manageable amount of truth" are screening for your enjoyment. (Side note: can you handle the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Cecilia Chiang Talks Mandarin, Herb Caen, Serving Jefferson Starship, & More This past weekend we had the pleasure of attending the annual Pebble Beach Wine & Food Festival. The second best moment of the weekend came when, in the middle of a Michelin three-star
Arts & Entertainment In Honor of World AIDS Day: AIDS-in-S.F. Doc Shortlisted for Oscar; Who Was the Real Patient Zero? It's World AIDS Day everyone! Therefore you should be putting on a condom right now and/or trying to combat HIV in the streets or the laboratory! In lieu of that, you may
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: 'Life Before the Lifeboat' Featuring Dr. Paul Volberding After heading out to play in the Civic Center during the Gay Pride festivities and Gay Inc.-related parties and whatnot, be sure to check out Life Before the Lifeboat on KQED. Airing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Fishbone Documentary 'Everyday Sunshine' Lives Up to Its Name by Erick Pressman SF Docfest kicks off this Thursday evening with the Bay Area premiere of Every Day Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, followed by a post-screening Q&A with the filmmakers
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest Starts Friday It's time for all you non-fiction junkies out there to get your fix. The 8th Annual SF DocFest, "the film festival that provides a manageable amount of the truth," will showcase over 50
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Cambodian pop band Dengue Fever journeys to Cambodia in Sleeping Through the Mekong, and explores the history of the vibrant 1960s and 1970s music scene, when Cambodian musicians reinvented Western rock 'n'
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Science of Chocolate, Tonight, 7:30 p.m., KQED QUEST on KQED Public Media. Everyone loves chocolate -- especially "bitches," as a female friend loves to remind us whenever we reach for a Snickers. From Willy Wonka to Kylie Minogue, people love
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: During a time in which the military is desperate for new recruits, unless you're openly gay, Ask Not exposes the tangled political battles that led to the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Portland's Pierced Arrows brings their cult, raw, scratchy, "high-desert country gunslinging" sound to Bottom of the Hill. The Sermon and Burnt House will provide '60s garage rock and maxed-out rhythm and blues.
Arts & Entertainment <em>D tour</em> to Screen at SFIFF This May D Tour Trailer from dtour on Vimeo. The San Francisco International Film Festival starts in less than two weeks! SFist will highlight various films in the line-up during the days leading up to
misc <em>The Tuesday Noon Siren</em>, a Short Documentary This cute, two-minute video created by 72hours.org with the help of the SF Department of Emergency Management explains the history of San Francisco's outdoor warning system and profiles Cesar Santos, the dispatcher
Arts & Entertainment <i>Girls Rock! The Movie</i> Premieres Tonight at Embarcadero The film also opens at Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley today, with a grand opening event tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m., featuring performances by campers As Ifs and Shattuck Cinemas' band Kitties,
