Arts & Entertainment Mike Judge's 'Silicon Valley' Actually Looks Good After Bravo's colostomy bag of a reality show, disastrously produced by Randi Zuckerberg, and Amazon's ho-hum Betas, Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-Head) takes a stab at the tech world with Silicon Valley. The
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Reviews Very Mixed; But One Writer At 'Esquire' Gets It All Wrong The reviews are in, and HBO's new, indie-film-paced dramedy about contemporary gaydom, Looking, has been declared both a quiet triumph and a bore. Among the adjectives frequently employed on both sides of the
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Episode One: On 'Becoming One Of Those Gays...' As soon as we all figured out what was happening in the opening moments of Looking, I suspect that most San Francisco gay men between the ages of 20 and 50 quietly thought
Arts & Entertainment Dispatches From Last Night's 'Looking' Premiere At The Castro Theater I wasn't around for HBO's big premiere event for the new show Looking at the Castro Theatre last night, and it's totally because I want to have the experience of watching the show
Arts & Entertainment Mike Judge's 'Silicon Valley' Hits HBO In April Continuing the Home Box Office network's Bay Area fascination, the simply titled Silicon Valley from the mind of Beavis and Butthead and Office Space creator Mike Judge will debut on cable and borrowed
Arts & Entertainment Video: An Actual Trailer For HBO's 'Looking' "What's wrong with having a life outside of work? This is San Francisco. That's why I live here," says Jonathan Groff's character, while walking and eating a Mission burrito, in the new trailer
Arts & Entertainment First Teaser For HBO's 'Looking' Arrives And now we bring you the first teaser, via HBO, for the new gay Girls/Sex and the City show that you've heard so much about, currently shooting in San Francisco. It's called
Arts & Entertainment HBO's 'Looking' Gets A Premiere Date, Cast Members Ride Muni HBO's new comedic drama about the "real life" of 20- and 30-something gay men in San Francisco got a release date today. On January 19th at 10:30 p.m., those of you
Arts & Entertainment This Is What HBO's 'Looking' Looks Like When last we checked in with "Looking," HBO's forthcoming non-dramedy original series about gay video game designers, the crew was looking for a few gay, hipster and gay-hipster extras to dress up their
Arts & Entertainment Hipsters, Gays, And Hipster Gays Needed For New HBO Show The previously untitled HBO Project penned by Michael Lannan and starring Jonathan Groff as one of a trio of 30-something gay men navigating their lives in San Francisco is in need of some
SF News HBO Doc On Fight For Gay Marriage In The Works Billed as "the story of a modern-day American revolution," California's history-making Prop 8 snafu, and its triumphant outcome, will be made into an HBO documentary. NYT has more: The still-untitled documentary will be
Arts & Entertainment Jonathan Groff HBO Series About S.F. Gays Gets Picked Up Delightful. It's TV upfronts week, and the highly-anticipated untitled HBO show about homosexuals in their thirties -- thirties!! -- was picked up as a series. Deadline reports: HBO has picked up to series
Arts & Entertainment HBO Shooting New Pilot About Gay Thirtysomethings In S.F. We recently told you about Mike Judge's Silicon Valley comedy pilot being shot for HBO down in Palo Alto, and today we learn there's a second HBO pilot set in the Bay Area,
Arts & Entertainment 'Office Space' Creator Mike Judge Filming HBO Pilot In Silicon Valley Mike Judge, creator of the original office slacker comedy, will be in Palo Alto today filming scenes for a new HBO pilot about life in the strike-it-rich, startup world of Silicon Valley. After
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *FILM: The 5th Annual San Francisco Irish Film Festival kicks things off with by director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O’Halloran. This is followed by a reception with the Consul General of
Arts & Entertainment Wanted: Barry Bonds-ish Actor, Ready for His Close Up HBO bought the rights to Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sport, the infamous book penned by Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. According to
SF News It's a Motherf------ Column-Off dueling press conferences and memo-leakage, the Homeless issue is becoming the Issue du Jour, leading to a full-fledged reporter dogpile. First came CW Nevius who weighed in with yet another story on the
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Giants 4 Braves 2- You know, the fun thing about this whole Barry chase is that ESPN and Fox are trying to show as many Giants games as possible because nobody knows when
SF News Today in Barry Barry didn't play last night due to his legs being shot from playing Tuesday's 13 inning birthday game, thus disappointing a sold out stadium, Bud Selig, and scores of press from around the
misc Week Around The -Ists From the tallest skyscraper in the City of Brotherly Love to Canadian tourism copywriting brilliance, here's what you should know from our -ist cities: This week, Phillyist took a gleeful listen to the
misc Week Around The -Ists Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the
SF News Oh, Where Art Thou GleeGate? We're not sure how this will work out, though, because according to police records, Dwyer admitted to kicking one of the Yalies but is now pleading the opposite. Not to go with "the
SF News Blackout! We don't know much of the details as there doesn't seem to be a lot of news on it out there right now. We just know we were halfway through reading Deadspin when
Arts & Entertainment Straight from Death Row: Damien Echols’ Art Auctioned at 111 Minna Tonight To give you some background: Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin were once three young boys in rural Arkansas who happened to listen to heavy metal and wear black. Shortly after three
