Arts & Entertainment Fell in Love With a Girl- This Week in DVDs Anyhoo, let's see what Santa just might be bringing you this holiday season: The Bourne Supremacy- Matt Damon stars in a sequel to the popular Bourne Identity. Long story short, Jason Bourne is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Thanksgiving TV This Week Television has become as a much of a Thanksgiving staple as turkey, cranberries, and drunken uncles. Let's face it: when you've just eaten a week's worth of calories, and you've got a house
Arts & Entertainment These Pretzels Are Making Me Thirsty- This Week in DVDs So yeah, there's a bunch of movies out this week, but like last week's This Week in DVDs, the movies aren't really the important thing. Sure, we love Harry Potter, but this is
Arts & Entertainment Elephant Four Local filmmaker Ryan Junell went to New York for the Republican National Convention back in August and filmed what he saw. is the result. See the Elephant is a documentary that runs on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Look Upon the Trimethyldioxypurist, Ye Mighty, and Despair A good, strong cup is always a priority -- but it's not always the whole story. Take Cafe Abir, for instance, a stand-out coffee joint (and more) in the Western Addition (1300 Fulton
Arts & Entertainment Season of Hate We're just blamelessly living our idyllic lives out here: blue skies, a Democratic mayor, a modern art museum that doesn't cost $20 to get into, a panda bear coming to Oakland..... when suddenly,
Arts & Entertainment Toy Story 3 Will Probably Be Really Crappy In another blow to an already failed relationship, Disney has begun ramping up production for Toy Story 3 at their new digital production facilities in Glendale -- meaning that it isn't likely Pixar
Arts & Entertainment From Beneath You, It Devours- This Week in DVDs Although most people think of DVDs in terms of movies, this week in This Week in DVDs we're primarily going to feature TV shows. And it's not necessarily because this week features only
Arts & Entertainment Let the Stalking Commence Filming has started for the upcoming Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo romantic comedy "If Only It Were True," based on an adaptation of local novelist Marc Levy's 2000 novel of the same name.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend All Festival Edition If SFist answered to mammon instead of to you, our readers, we might bother to have a big budget pick this week. But look at what's out there! Dude, it's so not going
Arts & Entertainment In the Eye of the Beholder Criticism is a funny thing. One person loves a piece of art and another hates it. Happens all the time. But today there's a particularly delicious example of this phenomenon to relish. Robert
Arts & Entertainment So That's How they Make Cameron Diaz Ugly Not geeky enough? If your Wednesday (next) is free (SFist has book club, sorry), check out "The Making of Shrek 2" presented by the SF Bay Area Chapter of the ACM. The presentation,
Arts & Entertainment Hate Leads To Suffering SFist's had a complicated relationship with George Lucas since 1999. He reminds us of a high-school boyfriend who found us on Google and won't stop calling. Dude, we loved you so much at
SF News Bush to Bay Area: "F**k you!" Why does the Bay Area hate George Bush so much? Is it really about partisan machine politics or an innate culture of dissent? SFist thinks it's more a matter of self-preservation. The fact
Arts & Entertainment More Depressing News We could barely read the paper this morning, we were so depressed. So we thought, "Hey! Read Datebook instead! It's always quote unquote fun!" So what should our scarred soul see? Infighting over
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend All Horror Edition If that isn't scary enough for you, how about this Saturday's Midnight Mass at The Bridge? Miss Peaches Christ brings you Reanimator, a touching tale of star-crossed love, medical school, and unwilling organ
Arts & Entertainment Scary San Francisco It'll be cold. The crowds will be horrendous. No one's gonna give you any candy anyway. Why bother stepping outside on Halloween? Be one of those creepy people that stays home and turns
Arts & Entertainment Swan Dress-Up Time The Dave Eggers publishing venture McSweeney's, their Icelandic printer, and the Eggers family house band are sponsoring America's first Icelandic film festival this week (on Friday and Saturday) at the Castro. Bjork will
Arts & Entertainment Mr. McNamara's Vacation In the truly tasteless department, Low Culture tipped us off to the "Apocalypse Now" tour of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, one of Wild Frontiers "Reel Adventures." Kate Watson of Wild Frontiers, quoted in
Arts & Entertainment Grand Theft Auto Stolen Well, we have some interesting developments regarding the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Seems the game has been leaked and is now all over the internet. That's right - rather
Arts & Entertainment The Soundtrack Alone is Worth Fitty Bones! There are video games that are popular with gamers - Counter Strike, Half-Life, Halo - and then there are video games that become cultural phenomena. The audience is drawn not so much by
Arts & Entertainment Sean Penn Brings It But that's really not where the action is. Not even close. Sean Penn, in fact, just might have set off one humdinger of a Celebrity Spat as it also involves Matt Stone &
SF News Interview:Oliver Wang SFist recently went back to school for a Ph.D. (don’t worry, you’ve got at least 4-5 years before we demand to be known as Dr. SFist). As we stare down
SF News Just Hook The IV Directly Into Our Brain As of now, this is still a pipe dream, though -- TiVo and Netflix admit that it will be an uphill battle coaxing reluctant fascist movie companies that they can ensure against piracy.
