Arts & Entertainment Interview: Miranda July Miranda's first feature length film won big at Sundance, and opens next week in San Francisco. "Me and You and Everyone We Know" is about connecting in a disconnected world, and about meeting
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 Frameline 29: Peaches Christ at the Castro and her Tran-ilogy of Terror The exact content of the films isn't really crucial; there's a lot of makeup, and trashy jokes, and screaming and drinking and running around and falling down and a particularly gory scene involving
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Queermation The strongest of the bunch: , a hilarious Dutch cartoon about a massive dom and the puny sub who loves him. The Warner-Brothers-ish superstretchy style sets a great wacky tone for the silly, horrifying
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria Gays don't always have the best grasp on their activist history (which may be why they think that picketing a lame bar is the best use of their resources), but you couldn't ask
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: The Lady in Question is Charles Busch As a young actor, Charles found it tough to get work as an impersonater of classic film stars. So he turned to writing, creating plays like "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom," which allowed him
Arts & Entertainment Todd Barry at the Purple Onion One of Gothamist's favorite comedians, Todd Barry, will be performing six shows starting tonight at eight at the Purple Onion and running through Sunday. Who is Todd Barry? Well, find out for yourself
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: A Whole Lot of TV...In a Few Weeks So last week we decided to bite the bullet and upgrade our cable TV package to digital cable (mainly so we could watch precious "Amazing Race" season one reruns on the Game Show
Arts & Entertainment (Yet) Another Hole in the Head: <i>The Man With the Screaming Brain</i> Well, it starts off with a castration and only gets better from there. What else do you need to know about ? Well, it's got Bruce Campbell in it, who also directed and co-wrote
Arts & Entertainment (Yet) Another Hole in the Head: <i>Cold & Dark</i> High school crush and gristly supernatural murder (two great tastes that go great together) after the jump!
Arts & Entertainment (Yet) Another Hole in the Head - <em>Satan's Playground</em> We were thinking a lot about that snake during the short "Human No More," mainly because the film tested our nerves after the first eight minutes or so, and our minds began to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Fine Trimethyldioxypuri...Oh, Never Mind. So, yeah, we flaked last week. Holiday weekends are always a good excuse, right? We've always been of the opinion that people who do an excess of reviews (movie critics, people employed as
Arts & Entertainment (Yet) Another Hole In The Head: Saturday It's a beautiful Saturday, which is why we're spending the entire day at the movies. While the rest of you get melanoma, we're going to watch folks kill and be killed. Join us!
Arts & Entertainment I Can't Believe It's Not New York And for those friends visiting via Google, let us add: Rosario Dawson naked!...Maybe. We couldn't spot that in the trailer either, but we've got our fingers crossed.
Arts & Entertainment (Yet) Another Hole in the Head: SFist Has You Covered The fun begins Thursday night at 8 with the launch party at the Rickshaw stop, which includes a screening of . Right after the movie, bands The Formaldebrides, The Godz of Rock, and the
Arts & Entertainment Bummer, Dude After thirty-five years, Alameda County sheriff's investigators have finally closed the murder of Meredith Hunter at the Rolling Stones' Altamont concert 35 years ago. Apparently, they’ve been looking for the semi-mythical "second
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Alice Wu If the interview below isn't enough of Alice, make sure to check out her movie, Saving Face which you can check out beginning June 3rd at your favorite Landmark Theater. Heck, SFist liked
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Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>ScaredSacred</i> The line snaked down to Albion Street for the teensy Little Roxie theater's screening of Canadian film ScaredSacred for DocFest, filled with an odd mix of earnest well-scrubbed management consultants with expensive handbags,
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>Call It Democracy</i> This was our first time at the Li'l Roxie, and we hope it won't be our last! (Please, please, say the rumors aren't true!) We squeezed past the teeny-tiny hallway and into a
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <em>Derailroaded</em> It can be hard to separate an artist from his art. Can anyone listen to "Beat It" these days and not feel a little...icky? Stories of Phil Spector's "eccentricities" are a little
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>Steven Tobolowsky's Birthday Party</i> Um, anyway, so that's what bugged us about . (Well, that and its anamorphic distortion; the movie was shot in 16:9 but that wacky Women's Building projected it in 4:3, which meant
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>Mana: Beyond Belief</i> It was the usual scene outside the Roxie during a film fest -- odd groups of people clumped in odd places on the sidewalk, frantic-looking pedestrians just trying to get into Truly Med,
Arts & Entertainment "All Tommorow's Jokes" at the Hemlock Tavern "All Tommorow's Jokes" features the comedy stylings of music duo Hard N Phirm, stand up comedian Jasper Redd, the sketch comedy group Prank the Dean, and stand up comedian Brent Weinbach. The show
Arts & Entertainment Attack, Revenge, and Return Of course we can't disclose anything too super about the film that isn't out there already (for that matter, we can't even disclose the stuff that out there already). But we can say
