Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Girls Rock Camp Opens This Summer Boys, it looks like you'll have to start your own rock camp. Or wait until you're 50. But then again, your garage/basement is much more accessible. Additionally, for those of us ladies
Arts & Entertainment <i>Girls Rock! The Movie</i> Premieres Tonight at Embarcadero The film also opens at Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley today, with a grand opening event tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m., featuring performances by campers As Ifs and Shattuck Cinemas' band Kitties,
SF News More <i>Milk</i> Extras Needed We just got word that Gustaf Van Sant needs more extras this Sunday for . You know what that means, don't you? Time to throw on your hippest and tightest '70s duds revealing the
Arts & Entertainment Put On Those Hair Buns: 2008 Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge Have you always wanted to appear on Spike TV? We have. We'd even be on Max-X, which is, aside from Intervention, the best show on TV. But there's a safer way to get
Arts & Entertainment Your 2008 Academy Awards Shorts It's almost Academy Awards® time and whether or not the writers will still be on strike, it seems that each year the movies are less and less relevant to the show itself. Between
Arts & Entertainment More, More, More: <i>Milk</i>'s Castro in the '70s Seeing as how castroshopper's Ray F. has some choice shots of the Castro's conversion to 1978, we thought we'd thrill you with a few more recent images of the world's most flowery neighborhood.
Arts & Entertainment Is America Ready for a Black Hero? No? Well, How About a Black Antihero? Or maybe the movie isn't racist at all -- maybe it's just the trailer. It introduces us to Will Smith by showing him in tattered clothes, seemingly drunk, sleeping on a park bench.
SF News Penn to Hit Castro Bars as <i>Milk</i> Shooting Starts Undergoing a procedure to erase 30 years from its face, the Castro neighborhood is going retro, circa 1978, for the filming of Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic, Milk, which starts shooting this
SF News Behold the MacBook Air! OMG! It's the Nicole Ritchie of laptops! (Ritchie before she got fat and pregnant, that is.) It seems that the new MacBook Air, just unveiled a few hours ago, features multi-touch ability on
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #14 STANDOUTS: 1. Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - Complete Edition Soundtrack: Though we aren't completely sold on the musical itself (we have only seen the new John Doyle production and
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
Arts & Entertainment Jerry Seinfeld Was In Town? Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. Jerry Seinfeld was in town the other day, presumably to promote his upcoming film (why on a cable car, though? Is there an SF
misc Keenen Ivory Wayans' Destination Oakland Project Dead According to the Chronicle, '90s comic brain behind the long-ago hit In Living Color and current Scary Movie franchise, Keenen Ivory Wayans, will not build a movie studio and shopping center (a shopping
Arts & Entertainment "Following Sean" on POV "I smoke grass," was the shocking line uttered by precocious 4-year-old Sean from Ralph Arlyck's 1969 short-film documentary "Sean," which was set in a Haight Ashbury flat that housed Sean's large family and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Cribs, Sean Na Na, and the Hugs: popscene presents a surprisingly not-so-greasy group of Britrockers, the Cribs, performing along with Sean Na Na and the Hugs. (Aw.) Show starts at 8
Arts & Entertainment Frozen Silent: Your Film Fest Options This Weekend At the Castro this weekend, the organists are warming up -- it's time for the Silent Movie Festival. This year's lineup features a series of Hal Roach comedies, a Cecil B. DeMille over-the-top
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight It's that time of the year again for San Francisco magazine's Best of the Bay party. The annual bash features lots of eats, drinks and chances to win prizes. Be prepared to fork
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: Win Tickets To The Closing Night Movie <Strike>And Party</strike>! It's the end of the week -- and it's our last Frameline LGBT film fest ticket giveaway. The last one's a blowout, though -- it's passes for you and a friend to the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SF Improv Fest kicks off tonight with Emo Phillips, performing with Bassprov and 3 For All, at the Buriel Clay Theatre. Get tickets in advance here. Show starts at 8pm, 762 Fulton St,
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
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Go To The Movies: Big <i>Ocean</i> This week's Big Movie: ! It’s a real surprise how divided the critics are about this one! Sure it’s franchising, sure it’s full of top shelf men in designer clothes and
Arts & Entertainment We're Fans of Fans (Actually, in Viacom's defense, the terms are pretty fair: all fans retain ownership, and some retain license to exhibit. Yes, that's right, we just defended Viacom.)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Other events: --Belly dancers, including local troupe Fat Chance Belly Dance, perform at the Mighty tonight with dancer Ansuya. 8:30 p.m., 119 Utah (x 15th), $15. --Buy Mom an orchid at
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Win Tickets To Jonathan Richman's <i>The Phantom Carriage</i>! So -- how lucky are you, valued readers?? SFist has two tickets to give away to one lucky winner, for a screening of , a spooky silent movie showing at the Castro for the
Arts & Entertainment SFWFF: Youth Films Yes, we’ll admit we went to the ‘youth shorts’ with some preconceptions about youth films (maybe we were picturing our own painful camcorder films from years ago). But what we saw from
