Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: <i>Twitch</i> is a vignette about an unnamed teenaged girl (none of the characters has a name) whose mother has multiple sclerosis. The daughter (Emma Galvin in the film's strongest performance) pities her mother (Toni
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 The 'Fisties: Music Gillian Welch and Victoria Williams sat and watched Emmylou Harris perform, the guys from Los Super Seven hung out with some of the Knitters, and Patty Griffin stood by as Buddy Miller performed.
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Scary, Mary! We've only seen an audience turn ugly once, but it very nearly happened at Monday night's showing of at the Roxie. Our previous ugly-audience experience was at an attempted comedy in the Indie
Arts & Entertainment Damn, It Feels Good To Be An SFist! Special thanks to Noisepop for their ongoing support of SFist’s coverage of the festival. SFist has a hard time making it to opening bands. General tardiness, and memories of suffering through openers
Arts & Entertainment Wanted: Skinny Hipsters. Heroin Habit Optional. So Dan Strachota, one of the music writers for the San Francisco Weekly, forwarded a note from Beau Bonneau casting to the SF Indie yahoo group mailing list. Looks like the Rent production
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: Oakland Raiders Parking Lot Anyhoo, when SFist was younger, we had a boss who wouldn't stop talking about . When the movie played at SFMOMA, he took half the department with him to see it. During the work
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: White Skin But first, a word from local filmie Tom Pankratz, whose short film precedes White Skin. Tom's been making films in the bay area for several years, and we like him -- at a
Arts & Entertainment All-Star Game Reach a hand across the blogger/print media divide and get your weekly buzz on at the Indie Mag All-Star party this Saturday from 8-10. Locally-published magazines Kitchen Sink, Bitch Magazine, Other Magazine,
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City We reckon a good percentage of San Franciso music-lovers will be at Great American Music Hall this week, whether it's at one of the three sold out Arcade Fire shows or Saturday's sold
