Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight We Write the Book Who Wrote the Book of Tea - free public lecture by Norwood Pratt (we don't know if he has a charming British accent, but with a name like that, he so should) hosted
Arts & Entertainment The Gothamist Adventures of the Superfisters After two issues, "Pirates" is shaping up to be a really gorgeous book, with a sort of headstrong style that reminds us of Jamie Hewlett (the artist for Gorillas and Tank Girl). Rival
Arts & Entertainment Upcoming Events -- Hilary Hahn The Korngold incorporates various movie themes from 1930s Hollywood, and the symphony will also be performing Aaron Copland's and a suite by Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly. (We don't think the Kodaly has any
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews <em>Volver</em> Despite what you may have read here before, Almodovar's been one of our favorite directors for some time now. From the young Antonio Banderas in 'Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down' to the
Arts & Entertainment 3rd i South Asian Film Festival: Sorry We Missed It! We are so sorry that the collective we of SFist missed this year's South Asian Film Festival by Third i -- due to an unfortunate confluence of reviewers being out of town, a
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Emmett Malloy You're appearing in Apple stores to discuss how to use Macs in Film and Editing, what is the BEST thing about them? WELL, THESE DAYS I JUST LIKE HOW SMALL AND SIMPLE EVERYTHING
Arts & Entertainment There...Is...Another...Promotion... What does this mean. Well according to the boards, there will be "Star Wars character appearances (courtesy of the 501st and Rebel Legion)" and by character's we're guessing not Obi Wan or Darth
Arts & Entertainment Nate Grover from Love is Chemicals Love is Chemicals will be at Café Du Nord tomorrow night, and if you haven’t seen this local act yet, Go! Nate Grover, the singer of Love is Chemicals. has undergone the
misc Around The -Ist-A-Verse Halloween is Tuesday, which means this weekend is really the time for all of the –ists to celebrate. And whether they’re designing super-spooky costumes or talking about the super-spooky upcoming elections, we’
Arts & Entertainment The Curtain's Chris Cohen Chris’s band, The Curtains, has a new album out which you can check out here. Even if you’ve never heard of Chris, or The Curtains, you’ve likely heard of local
Arts & Entertainment Local Loses Colbert's Green Screen Challenge For those of you who don't watch the "Colbert Report", Stephen has been running a green screen challenge where he asked members of the Colbert Nation to add all sorts of computer effects
SF News It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas? Or maybe not. The snow started early this morning and continued into mid-morning, leaving three to six inches on the ground. All roads and passes were allowed to be open but chains were
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews <em>9/11: Press for Truth</em> We all know the anger of extremist Muslim fundamentalists, but what we don't know and what the White House keeps conveniently hidden from the American public is how we let them get so
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Gary Carr Gary’s interview does an excellent job of reminding us that we’re all in it together in this town, no matter what we do in our free time. Homelessness is an enduring
Arts & Entertainment SFist Contest: <em>Mutual Appreciation</em> at the Red Vic This weekend at the Red Vic will be the premiere of Andrew Bujalski's critically acclaimed "Mutual Appreciation" It's Andrew Bujalski's follow up to his previous movie "Funny Ha Ha" and is billed as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: The Bigfoot Lodge Take Sasquatch for example. Perpetually bashful, unashamedly fuzzy, Bigfoot has been a major source of bar banter since his first sighting in 1811. While the wayward biped may just be a big hairy
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To The SF Underground Short Film Festival! Aw, yeah! Though the Midnight Mass film series has ended, Peaches Christ isn't done with us yet. This Saturday, she opens the doors of the Bridge Theatre for one last midnight extravaganza, The
Arts & Entertainment Wanted: "People who dig fun movies with rad action" The Stunt People are to movies what The Primitive Screwheads are to theatre. (As you might have noticed, we love the Screwheads, so we consider the comparision high praise indeed.) We first heard
Arts & Entertainment Negative People: SFist's Bread and Butter The party's happening this Saturday, the 12th, from 7:30pm to 10. It's at the 540 Club, mnemonically located at 540 Clement Street (near 6th Ave). On the agenda are screenings of some
Arts & Entertainment Cheech Marin Conjures Up ‘Chicano Visions’ at the De Young We have to admit, there’s been a lot of hype about his show and we were worried it might fall short of our expectations, but oh, were we wrong. The show is
Arts & Entertainment Mick LaSalle Blows It Again (Surprise!) When this SFist attended a recent press sceening of the animated feature Monster House, something wonderful happened. A writer we've always respected made a pointed crack about "movie reviewers from the dailies", which
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Movies at Dolores Park Behind us was Film Geek guy who spent the entire night dazzling his fawning girlfriend with his amazing ability to discover plot holes. In front of us was some woman who just couldn't
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <em>The First Zionist Bunny</em> The movie basically follows the contestants who try out to be the host of the brand new Israeli Playboy channel. This apparently was a big deal but we get no sense of just
misc Win Passes To <i>The Night Listener</i> We were surprised to see that Williams (whose eternally FRESH and HILARIOUS mincing simp impression makes us want to kick puppies) had taken on the lead role in the film version of local
Arts & Entertainment Larry Clark on <em>Wassup Rockers</em> While at times funny and entertaining, the movie seemed to shy away from the provocative sensationalism of his earlier work, which may have something to do with Clark's difficulty getting US distribution for
