Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Stories From The SF Film Frontiers</i> The SF Int'l Film Festival isn't just about great national and international movies -- they've got music events, gala events, talks about the state of cinema, an online presence through SF360.com, and
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Girl Who Leapt Through Time</i> This is why we go to film festivals. Once in a while you get to see a movie that you probably would have missed if it weren't for film festivals, but has made
Arts & Entertainment FunCheapSF Goes Beta With New Site Good news! SFist fave FunCheapSF is emerging from its Yahoo groups format and has started a much slicker and more useful Web site. Check it out for FunCheap's usual excellent tips and listings
Arts & Entertainment Cycling: RSVP Dates for 2007 It's just getting too dangerous out there on the pavement these days isn't it? Time to head for the hills. Mountain biking is a grass-roots sport that is only about one bake sale
Arts & Entertainment Christmas at Cow Palace is as Fun as the Dickens We ventured out to Cow Palace with 6-year-old Julian in tow, where we proceeded to do a full circle around the entire building before finding the fair. A motorcycle swap was going on
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Barb Traub Barb Traub has been going to Burning Man for a long time. Her book, Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography, chronicles a changing festival over the last decade. If you
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To The SF Underground Short Film Festival! Aw, yeah! Though the Midnight Mass film series has ended, Peaches Christ isn't done with us yet. This Saturday, she opens the doors of the Bridge Theatre for one last midnight extravaganza, The
Arts & Entertainment The North Beach Festival: Now With More Beer Basically, what this will mean is that part of Washington Square Park will be open for everyone and parts of it will be fenced off for all the alcoholics to roam free. The
SF News How Dry We Are The decision was at the behest of the neighborhood types who complained about the drunken hordes of riff-raff acting all riff-raff-y. They were opposed by neighborhood businesses and organizers of the festival who
SF News What's Going On At SXSW 2006? Our pals at Austinist have been busy with all sorts of fun at this year's South by Southwest conferences and festivals. Let's see what they'be been up to: In film, Austinist Bre went
Arts & Entertainment SF360 Revealed! Part Five: Festfest No, apparantly, according to the SF Film Society. As a part of their recently-launched SF360 campaign, they're pleased as punch to announce three new fests, and boy they're really cool. One of them
Arts & Entertainment SF360 Revealed! Part One: New News Because the Film Society's SF360 program is so multi-faceted, our coverage is going to be split into a five-part series over the course of this week. Today, we're be exploring a local film-news
misc Happy Holidays From SFist: Win a copy of <i>Alcoholica Esoterica</i> Given that it's commonly referred to as amateurs' night by inveterate drinkers, what better way to differentiate yourself from the less alcoholic than by brushing up on your boozin' facts with SFist interviewee
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend, Sexxxy Film Festival Edition There are a lot of film festivals underway this weekend -- and we're going to most of them! So, stay tuned all next week for SFist reports from the trenches, but that doesn't
misc Win Passes to <i>Quality Of Life</i>! Bay Area filmmaker Benjamin Morgan shot , his cutting-edge directorial debut film in our very own Mission district. The story of two young graffiti artists arrested for vandalism, this film has gotten a lot
SF News Interview: Lila Yomtoob Lila happens to be two things SFist holds near and dear: film maker and blogger-- A dreamy, dreamy combination when it comes right down to it. When Lila isn’t racking up credit
Arts & Entertainment Coming Attractions: Cinequest 2005 The San Jose Film Festival is in its 15th year (The gift for that is crystal by the way. I'm sure they'd appreciate it.) and once again is bringing a jam-packed lineup of
misc Pub Transin' The New Year In For all those New Year’s revelers looking to party-hop or wondering how they are drunkenly going to stumble home after drinking way too much champagne, there are plenty of public transportion options
Arts & Entertainment Rising From the Depths... Nothing caps off a day at the office like the site of a misunderstood monster stomping the corporate towers of Tokyo. When we watch Godzilla we can almost imagine what it must have
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend All Festival Edition If SFist answered to mammon instead of to you, our readers, we might bother to have a big budget pick this week. But look at what's out there! Dude, it's so not going
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
Arts & Entertainment Manic Moon Day For those of you not fasting next weekend, you , can 20% of the population in San Francisco suggest Zhong Qiu Jie instead? Those of you who don't feel the Mandarin Chinese (or who
