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
misc Political Junkie/Housing Bubbles: The Daly Show The Land Use Committee of the Board of Supervisors met yesterday, to discuss whether the city should put caps on the number of owner-occupied two-unit buildings that can be converted from tenancies in
Arts & Entertainment Hate Leads To Suffering SFist's had a complicated relationship with George Lucas since 1999. He reminds us of a high-school boyfriend who found us on Google and won't stop calling. Dude, we loved you so much at
Arts & Entertainment A 'Purple' America Because SFist is ready for simpler times, when perhaps the country wasn't shrill shades of read and blue, but rather a more velvety purple, we're quite excited about this weekend's Sing-a-Long Purple Rain
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 SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend All Horror Edition If that isn't scary enough for you, how about this Saturday's Midnight Mass at The Bridge? Miss Peaches Christ brings you Reanimator, a touching tale of star-crossed love, medical school, and unwilling organ
Arts & Entertainment Scary San Francisco It'll be cold. The crowds will be horrendous. No one's gonna give you any candy anyway. Why bother stepping outside on Halloween? Be one of those creepy people that stays home and turns
Arts & Entertainment Swan Dress-Up Time The Dave Eggers publishing venture McSweeney's, their Icelandic printer, and the Eggers family house band are sponsoring America's first Icelandic film festival this week (on Friday and Saturday) at the Castro. Bjork will
SF News Temporary Reprive for Local Theaters Update and Clarifications: Thanks to Jerry Threet, legislative assistant to Supervisor McGoldrick, for his great follow-up! He noted that the primary sponsor of the ordinance to create a CU process (as described below)
Arts & Entertainment Mr. McNamara's Vacation In the truly tasteless department, Low Culture tipped us off to the "Apocalypse Now" tour of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, one of Wild Frontiers "Reel Adventures." Kate Watson of Wild Frontiers, quoted in
Arts & Entertainment We're Too Sexy for this Blog Ever wanted to hobnob with VIPs, sipping top-shelf liquor and ogling models? Well, tonight's your chance. GenArt, a national non-profit organization dedicated to promoting emerging artists in film, art and fashion will be
Arts & Entertainment Sean Penn Brings It But that's really not where the action is. Not even close. Sean Penn, in fact, just might have set off one humdinger of a Celebrity Spat as it also involves Matt Stone &
SF News Crazy Carmelites Strike Again Okay, we'll admit it, Californians have a reputation for being wacky. Nutso. Bonkers. Flakey. Weird. Crazy. So maybe we are. Certainly the folks of Carmel-By-The-Sea have had their fair share of "Only in
Arts & Entertainment Self-Powered Marshmallows If you were walking down 24th east of Mission yesterday around 6:15 like SFist was, you may have been treated to the sight of a few dozen bicyclists tricked out in white
Arts & Entertainment I Read the Earth Moved Litquake started two years ago when groups of Bay Area writers decided it was high time they put on events like those put on by music, film, and arts groups in the area.
misc Big Screen Fifteen movies are screening, running the gambit from classic IMAX fair like Whales (about, yes, Whales) to Pulse: a Stomp Odyssey which tours with Stomp. Thrill Ride, which traces the history of roller
SF News Caressing the Hand That Feeds You SFist brings you another update on the Governator's bill-signing binge -- and this one will hit you right in the gut if you're an unrepentant file-sharer like we are. It is now a
SF News Farewell, Mr. Meyer Nicknamed "King Leer," he released his first film, , in 1959 with the backing of Peter DeCenzie, owner of Oakland's El Rey Burlesque. At the time Russ was working as a photographer, shooting centerfolds
Arts & Entertainment Mourn the Birth of a Theater No, no, no, we don't mean that. We mean, go check out the opening of Last Planet Theatre's first show in its brand-new space on the border of the Civic Center and the
Arts & Entertainment Unleash Your Inner Coen SFist wants to encourage all of you Bay Area folks to get out there and actually use your degrees in film for something other than the local pub quiz. That's right, people. it's
Arts & Entertainment Run, Robert Duvall, Run! Following "Star Wars," Biskind writes that Lucas was haunted by it's success - that whole selling out thing. Not to mention being the one blamed for killing the Golden Era of 70's movies
Arts & Entertainment Darko Sees the Light at the Lumiere []Ed. Note: Salon.com has a great explanation of what's actually going on in Donnie Darko for those of you who were wondering "Dream sequence or parallel dimensions or both?"
Arts & Entertainment Photo-Friendly, Photo-Averse Thomas Hawk, local San Francisco photo/blogger, posted an interesting essay on his experiences taking pictures at different private cultural venues around town. SFist found the link on Boing Boing, which often covers
Arts & Entertainment Sit Back and Relax, Enjoy The show So, you're saying that you want to see a movie in San Francisco this weekend, but you don't feel like braving the faux-Vegas splendor of The Metreon or the many many escalators of
