Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Fired!</i> There's no question that getting fired, canned, axed, rif'ed, or booted SUCKS. We were back at one of our favorite SF theaters, the Roxie, for the SF debut of Annabelle Gurwitch's at Docfest
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>The Future of Pinball</i>/<i>Buffet</i> Our usual movie companion loves pinball with a burning passion. A burning passion! So all week, it's been like, "When do we get to see the pinball movie? When do we get to
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Pizza! The Movie</i> Whatever you do, don't go see hungry. Boy were we glad we'd had that burrito (but we must admit, that didn't prevent us from stopping off for a slice after the film). Even
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Diameter of a Bomb</i> And then, about three quarters of the way into the movie, we started to understand what the movie is about. In one sense, yes, it's about how awful terrorism is, but there's more
Arts & Entertainment 10th Annual Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival Sunday kicked off the 10th annual Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival featuring over 170 music acts, most of them local but some of them national (Vincent Gallo) and international (Ane Brun). The
misc Win Passes To <i>Punk Like Me</i>! Given that Rita spends most of her time in a man hating lesbian funk due to her angry infatuation with our mayor, the fact that this movie could get her to crack a
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Punk Like Me</i> This is such a brilliant idea. So the 36-year-old star (and writer) of this documentary, Rich Wilkes, had the genius idea to sneak his band onto a major national rock tour -- by
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: SFist Has You Covered In addition to our coverage, we'll be giving away tickets to DocFest screenings, of course. So come back to SFist early and often for all sorts of DocFesty goodness. In fact, let's kick
Arts & Entertainment Mike Taylor from The Court and Spark One word to describe The Court & Spark: Affable. One word to describe your music: Shady. What's it take to get a gig in this town anyway? Other than the belief that what
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Play</i> Here's a brief summary of the plot, so you can follow our dialogue: Lonely Cristina finds depressed Tristan's stolen briefcase at the beginning of the movie, takes his cool cigarette lighter and iPod,
Arts & Entertainment We're So Proud of our Hometown Whore Even though she once made fun of our blog's name (and who hasn't) we've always loved that lovable scamp, Peaches Christ. So we're pleased as punch to hear that the queen's finally hitting
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Encounter Point</i> We are accustomed to the typical media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which generally emphasizes the violence and hatred. "Encounter Point," co-directed by Ronit Avni and Julie Bacha, also a co-director of "Control
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Jonestown: The Life And Death Of Peoples Temple</i> Anyone who's interested in San Francisco history must see this movie. Director and MacArthur genius grant recipient Stanley Nelson (who previously directed the Emmy-award-winning ) has put together a sensitive and thoughtful history of
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Favela Rising</i> Arriving at Baycat, the Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts & Technology, about forty minutes prior to the San Francisco premier of "Favela Rising," we hadn’t banked on the sellout crowd. Fortunately,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Drawing Restraint 9</i> While mainstream America's attention has been focused on TomKat's recent offspring and Brangelina's pending progeny, we joined San Francisco's arthouse hipster crowd at the Kabuki late Wednesday night for the local unveiling of
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Seeds Of Doubt</i> "Papa, are you a terrorist?" We spent several very fun, yet dark weeks in Hamburg, Germany (when you don’t get up before noon in December there, you don’t see much light)
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Runners High</i> celebrates the growth and accomplishments of four of these students, three of whom ended up completing the LA Marathon. We watch the students ramp up both their training and their mental discipline, with
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela</i> Faithful readers, you've probably noticed that this SFist watches the same types of movies over and over again: So we figured we'd mix it up a little bit and go watch something a
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: Vote for SFist in the EBX Readers' Poll! We love the chicken holding a sword with its foot in this week's Dream Comic. A company that
Arts & Entertainment Are We Too Old To Be Part Of The Digital Generation? Find Out Tomorrow Night. A panel including New Jewish Filmmaking Project's Sam Ball and Klaira Markenzon, Youth Sounds' Erica Eng, and TILT's Tina Bartolome (TILT) will discuss how "media, culture, and education influence the way youth tell
misc Win Passes To <i>One Last Thing</i>! On the face of it, this premise is a debatable one, but since we haven't seen the movie we're not going to (publicly) comment further. Far be it for our misgivings to stand
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: The Spanish-American War; Cannes or Canned? Oh, man, we're coming down to it--Bravo's just keeps getting better and better. Watch this San Francisco-based series tonight at 10 p.m. before it's too late! Someone is walking away from this
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Le Petit Lieutenant</i> We woke up again today with a strange kink in our neck, which we immediately recognized as the curse of our height challenge. Ahhhh . . . . It must be those darned subtitles we were straining
Arts & Entertainment Wednesdays, The New Wednesdays Wednesday, please pack your knives and go. Tonight: We're keeping it bipartisan for once! You can stop by the Democratic County Central Committee monthly meeting at the State Building at 455 Golden Gate
