Arts & Entertainment Things To Do This Week: Climate Week, Art Battle, Sundance Stompede Doc, JFK Promenade This week, 4/21-27: Five-day sustainable fashion exhibition; queer-oriented climate meetup; live-painting and art auction; two-day celebration of queer country-western dance culture; and the 5th anniversary of the JFK Promenade.
SF News Sunday Links: Sacramento Sheriff’s Deputy Fired For Shoving Prisoner To The Ground The opening of the new Sunset Dunes park was a big success, but opponents' concerns haven't been addressed; the city announced the winners of its first Culture Forward grant program; and a Sacramento sheriff's deputy was fired for shoving an elderly prisoner to the ground.
Arts & Entertainment 'I Am Not Your Negro', 'The Big Sick' Lead PROXY SF's Outdoor Movie Night The second annual PROXY and HERE FOR NOW Fall Film Festival in Hayes Valley is set to kick off this Friday, and they just released their full lineup of films. Whereas many outdoor
SF News 'Transformers' Production Crew Paints Over Downtown Vallejo Memorial, Outcry Ensues A Vallejo mural that was created to remember the tragic passing of local youth has vanished underneath a coat of bland brown paint. The mural's cover-up happened as a result of an accident,
SF News Both 'Transformers' And '13 Reasons Why' Are Filming In The Same Marin 'Hood San Rafael's Peacock Gap neighborhood might want to change its name to Tinseltown. The Marin Independent Journal (breathlessly) reports that crews from both Transformers Universe: Bumblebee and Netflix's 13 Reasons Why are currently
Arts & Entertainment Dioramas and Miniatures Become Vessels For Memory In 'Forever, Chinatown' by Jessica Lachenal While many people turn to cellphone photos, videos, or even journaling to remember the things that are important to them, artist Frank Wong turned to an art form once thought
Arts & Entertainment Check Out This Award-Winning, Locally Shot 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Short Film A groundbreaking new short film shot in San Francisco’s Ingleside District recently won the Student Filmmaker prize at National Association of Theater Owners CinemaCon, and the winning film “Sirens” is now available
Arts & Entertainment Video: Salma Hayek Translates Mexican Slang Salma Hayek, who's starring in the new film How to Be A Latin Lover, has just done this cute explainer video for Vanity Fair translating various Mexican slang phrases some of which have
Arts & Entertainment Video: Projectionists Keep On Rolling At The Roxie "It feels like a secret performance" Isaac Sherman, a projectionist at the Mission's Roxie Theater tells KQED. Their lovely video, shot by Claudia Escobar, takes us inside the projection booth at the Roxie
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 All About 'I'm Not Fascinating,' A Quirky Relic Of 1990's San Francisco I'm Not Fascinating—The Movie! The Trailer from danny plotnick on Vimeo. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first screening of I'm Not Fascinating, a 1996 film centered on the arguably
Arts & Entertainment Janis Joplin Biopic In The Works With Michelle Williams To Star A Janis Joplin biopic that's been several years in the making now has a new celebrity signed on to star, Michelle Williams. As E! News reports, the film, based on the book Love,
Arts & Entertainment About 'Moonlight' Director Barry Jenkins's Debut Film, The SF-Set 'Medicine For Melancholy' "It seems like this city just pisses you off," Joanne (Tracey Heggins) tells Micah (Wyatt Cenac), speaking of San Francisco in the 2008 romance Medicine for Melancholy. "I love this city," Micah replies.
Arts & Entertainment Regarding The Real-Life Mystery Of The Maltese Falcon, A Famous Movie Prop Lost For Decades For the 1941 John Huston film adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco-set noir novel The Maltese Falcon, a book twice produced as a film before this defining version starring Humphrey Bogart as the
Arts & Entertainment Frameline Film Explores Largest Gay Mass Murder In US (Before Orlando) The most disturbing aspect of tonight’s Frameline documentary about “ the largest gay mass murder in US history” is that it’s no longer about the largest gay mass murder in US history.
Arts & Entertainment Living Trans In Mississippi Since the 1970s: A Firsthand Account Trans people have never had it easy. But they had it way less easy in rural Mississippi in the 1970s. Meet Jheri Jones, who transitioned to female in 1976, and is the subject
Arts & Entertainment Video: New Werner Herzog Doc About Tech Features Elon Musk, Other Luminaries Watch this on The Scene. Wired brings us the trailer for a new documentary from Magnolia Pictures, directed by Werner Herzog, titled Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World. Herzog scopes out
Arts & Entertainment The Most Famous American Actor In Chinese Cinema Lives In Oakland In China, fans shout to Jonathan Kos-Read: "Cao Cao!" they call him by his nickname, which he chose for himself to honor a member of the Han Dynasty. Kos-Read, 43, is a go-to
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 [NSFW] Video: 'Who Do I Look Like, A Girl Or A Boy?', A Documentary Short About Shannon Pat Local trans woman and all around eccentric Shannon Pat is an occasional fixture in the LGBTQ nightlife scene in San Francisco, though not many who meet her get to know much about her.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>San Francisco 2.0</i> on HBO I think most of us can agree that when we heard that Nancy Pelosi's documentary filmmaker daughter had made a film about SF's "digital gold rush" and current growing pains, we could only
Arts & Entertainment Alexander Skarsgard Explains The Drag Thing Monday night, Alexander Skarsgard inexplicably showed up at the Diary of a Teenage Girl premiere in SF in full, rather excellent drag. While some might say he didn't need a reason for this,
Arts & Entertainment Alexander Skarsgard Went In Drag To The <em>Diary Of A Teenage Girl</em> Premiere Monday night marked the official premiere of Diary of a Teenage Girl at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, and for some reason one of the film's stars, Alexander Skarsgard, decided to attend
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
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
