SF News Sarah Tucker, 1979-2006 We saw the saddest obituary last week in the Chron, for the death of Sarah Tucker, a 26-year-old Mission resident who was killed in a hit-and-run bicycle accident on Polk and Geary Street
Arts & Entertainment Dispatch from Noir City: NoirQuake! In 1950, the great mystery writer Raymond Chandler wrote of the contemporaneous critical response to his stories and those of James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, et. al. that: It takes a very open
misc SFist Answers (Or Do We?) We try our best here at SFist Answers, but we have two very real limitations: 1) If y'all don't ask us questions, we have nothing to answer; similarly, the more questions we get,
Arts & Entertainment Berlin and Beyond Film Festival: <i>Sergeant Pepper</i> What distinguishes "Sergeant Pepper" from other Films About Children -- it would be a mistake to call it a Children's Film -- is its deft restraint. Sure, there are thrills like a crazy-inventor
Arts & Entertainment Berlin and Beyond Film Festival: Rhythm Is It. A picture of Rhythm Is It graces the cover of the program, so there is no escaping it: you'll see it's about kids dancing. It is a documentary which follows, amongst others, a
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes to the SF IndieFest Benefit Party! Musical acts Potion, Teenage Harlets, Tom Jonesing, and The Sermon will be performing, festival previews will be previewed, advance IndieFest tickets will be sold at a 10% discount, and there'll be drink specials
Arts & Entertainment SFisting: Red Hot Cinema at the Red (Hot) Vic We're starting to think that the Haight's Red Vic Movie House, a worker-owned theater with comfy couches and yummy popcorn, is hitting that age (you know that age) when they think about sex
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Watches the State of the State Speech If the Governator's State of the State speech was one of his movies, it would be Terminator III. Why? Because, if you remember back to those halcyon days when the Governor was an
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: In with the New and Old at the Curran Theatre Goths everywhere, rejoice! They finally made a musical based on Anne Rice's vampire novels. Now, our gut feeling is that this will either totally rock or totally suck, so
Arts & Entertainment Roxie Saved! -- the New College Roxie Film Center! Ending years of nail-biting and speculation, the Roxie Theater on 16th and Valencia has been saved from shuttering by its neighbors the New College. The New
SF News SFist Checks Out The 510: Popcorn Edition So SFist's take on the movies made you think you'd like to escape the holiday madness by going to the movies. We understand. We've been hiding from assorted shoppers and/or relatives in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Weekend OK. We promise never to attempt lame rhyming ever again. But we DID want to let you know that there's a "Creature Comforts" marathon on BBC America tonight, starting at 7:30 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tech Labs: OK to Play We're happy about the injunction, and not just because it guarantees kids will be able to develop the skills they'll need to survive in an increasingly zombie-slaying and drug-dealing economy. The bigger picture
SF News Indescribable... Indestructible! Nothing Can Stop It! According to the terrifyingly brief article, a mystery substance is spreading over the water between Angel Island and Aquatic Park, and is presently a mile and a half long and 100 yards wide.
Arts & Entertainment Gays Love Cowboys? Who Knew! We hate to admit it, but all this modern mania for has simply passed us by. At this point, we're dreading the inevitable trip to the Embarcadero to watch the damn thing, borne
Arts & Entertainment Review: 700 Sundays Throughout, Billy is imitating different stages of himself: as a five year old trying to impress musicians with his tap dancing, as a fifteen year old in the throes of puberty coping with
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Cries Freedom! Last week, the Governator put an abortion loving lesbian in charge of his Administration. The Right was not amused (neither was the Left, but that's neither here nor there in terms of this
SF News SFPD Video Scandal We've never understood this phenomenon of encouraging disgruntled employees to film skits to screen before the whole office to "boost morale." The last time we were forced to do this, we filmed a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>The Tribe</i> First off, we have to give Ms. Shlain credit for wracking up the PR as the Herbst was almost sold out. She also managed to turn a fifteen minute movie into almost an
Arts & Entertainment The Superlative Adventures of the SuperFisters Kablammo! Oh excuse us. We were just reading some comic books. This week, courtesy of Isotope's guidance, we're checking out Harvey Pekar's new book, ; as well as Desolation Jones, a newish series inked
Arts & Entertainment Shhhhh! The loud crass holidays impeding your Oprah-like search for your spirit? Perhaps some time spent without the distraction of dialogue would help you clear your mental palate. Until the gentlemen come along and
misc Keep your Eye On The 'Fist This December First, you'll wanna come see us pretty regularly, because we'll be giving away fabulous prizes every stinkin' day of December. That's right, 31 days of free stuff from SFist! Some of our contests
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Greg Whiteley SFist is thankful for many things this time of year. We are especially thankful for independent movies and the independent theaters that show them. SFist has been lucky to attend the Sundance Film
Arts & Entertainment SF Int'l South Asian Film Festival: <i>It's My Country Too</i> As we settled into our seats at the Castro for the world premiere of documentary , part of the SF Int'l South Asian Film Festival, there was a generalized hubbub as a tall man
SF News The Mighty Mighty Unions Amazing what a difference two days makes, huh? After the unions triumphed in their combined opposition to Arnold's Very Special Election -- well, would you look at that? Sutter is settling with the
