Arts & Entertainment 'One-Man Star Wars' Guy Returns to San Jose With 'One-Man Lord of the Rings' Canadian performer Charles Ross, who delighted the geeks of geekdome down in Silicon Valley last year with his One-Man Star Wars, returns to San Jose Rep to do his other show, a one-man
Arts & Entertainment In Response to Colorado Tragedy, Local Paper Interviews 'Dark Knight' Fans In a move we'd associate more with local TV news than with a print publication, the San Jose Mercury-News sent a couple of cub reporters to interview people standing in line this morning
Arts & Entertainment 'Star Wars' Day at AT&T Park Announced Once again, the creative minds at AT&T announced another Star Wars Day on September 3rd. So, in addition to catching the Giants take on the Diamondbacks, you could receive a limited
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top 7 Favorite Food Lines In Movie History What with Nora Ephron's untimely passing, one of her most noted films' famous quotes, the one that follows Meg Ryan's (very) fake orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally, has been played on
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco 23rd 'Smuttiest City,' Says Men's Health Men's Health has a breakdown of the top 100 "smuttiest" (i.e., porn-happy) cities in the United States. Orlando, Florida comes in a No. 1. However, San Francisco ranks a distant 23rd and
Arts & Entertainment Fatal BART Shooting To Big Screen: Octavia Spencer To Star In Indie Movie About Oscar Grant Killing Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer and former Friday Night Lights actor Michael B. Jordan are in talks to star in Fruitvale, an independent flick about the 2009 New Year's Eve killing of Oscar
Arts & Entertainment Woody Allen's Next Movie Will Be Filmed In SF! Over the past few years, Woody Allen had all but abandoned shooting films in New York City. As Gothamist reported back in 2009, Allen explained his decision was due to financial constraints, saying,
Arts & Entertainment Sing-Along 'Jesus Christ Superstar' To Be Greatest Sing-Along Ever! Once upon a time way back in the late nineties, a light-smearing outfit called the Cubby Creatures would perform the entire score to Jesus Christ Superstar, Andrew Lloyd Weber's second best rock opera.
Arts & Entertainment Oscars This Sunday! Our Picks For The Best Places To Watch In SF It's that time of year again where stylists dress actors to within an inch of their true personalities for the red carpet and product endorsement deals. That is to say, it's Academy Awards
Arts & Entertainment Oscar Nominees Are In: Hugo Leads With 11, Melissa McCarthy Scores 1 We're into the final stretch of award show season, folks. The nominees for the 2012 Academy Awards (now hosted again by your grandmother's favorite, Billy Crystal, not Eddie Murphy) are out! If you've
Arts & Entertainment Indie Film Veteran Bingham Ray Dies At Sundance Sigh. San Francisco Film Society just announced that beloved Executive Director Bingham Ray died today, January 23, while attending the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. In addition to manning the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Gift Guide: 'The Joy Luck Club' (Film) You may have loudly professed your love for food trucks. You may tweet with the utmost convincing gravitas about Occupy SF. You may like to gnaw on a sourdough loaf while taking a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'The Dictator' Preview Sacha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles, who worked together on such gems as Borat and Bruno, just released a preview to The Dictator. According to the film's team, "The film tells the
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Film Critics Circle Fails To Honor Melissa McCarthy The just-announced San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards weren't as egregious and self-conscious as in years past. But not by much. The gaggle of local film aesthetes selected Terrence Malik's (overwhelming and divine)
Arts & Entertainment Jonathan Nolan Is Awesomely Paranoid About Facebook Jonathan Nolan, who wrote the short story "Memento Mori" (which later his brother, Christopher, turned into Memento) and helped pen The Prestige and The Dark Knight, has created some of the greatest cinematic
Arts & Entertainment 'Moneyball' Premiere Pics with Brad Pitt, Philip Seymour Hoffman, et al. In a startling twist, Oakland played host to both glitz and glamour Monday night when it screened the premiere of Brad Pitt's latest flick, Moneyball. It's all about A's general manager Billy Beane.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Contagion' Has A Billboard Made of Bacteria Contagion, the Soderbergh et al. outbreak thriller we've been keeping tabs on for awhile now is finally out in theaters today. And since you've already seen the trailer and read up on the
SF News Schwarzenegger Cinematic Comeback to Be Filmed in New Mexico Disgraced former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger plans on making a return to the big screen. Sure to be as successful as Norma Desmond's Salome, his latest effort, titled, Last Stand, will be shot
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theater to Go Dark Eight Nights in August What with so many cinema houses closing down, we always worry about our dear Castro Theatre, the Bay Area's best (if we may) theater. But, just like in April, it will go dark
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Ice Cream Man Cometh Lively Tumblr Bi Curios Dad came across a sight at the Metreon complex at Fourth and Mission, one that they've seen several times. Specifically, a man who comes in regularly and eats store
SF News Like to Stream AND Get Discs Via Netflix? Prepare to Bend Over and Take it in the Wallet Your days of enjoying a combo plan of getting a disc or two via those red envelopes in the mail and streaming content from California-based Netflix are numbered, kids. Starting September 1, the
SF News Paul Thomas Anderson, James Franco Shooting Movies In Bay Area This Summer A few notables will shoot movies in the Bay Area this summer. Valley kid Paul Thomas Anderson will start filming The Master in Vallejo mostly, with some shooting at sea. Anderson's latest flick
Arts & Entertainment Extra-Footage 'Lord of the Rings' Trilogy Back in Theaters This June The Academy Award-winning trilogy The Lord of the Rings, now featuring extra footage for an exclusive engagement, will return to theaters this June for a special run. Taking place over a three-week period,
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Addendum: Pop-up Dance Party at Cafe Zoetrope We almost forgot! Before cementing any plans for the evening, we strongly suggest you head over to Coppola headquarters in North Beach for a choice pop-up dance party to help celebrate the release
SF News Oscar Nominations Spew Forth Well, both Mila Kunis and Barbara Hershey were snubbed for their work in Black Swan, and Christopher Nolan was nixed from the Best Director category for Inception at this morning's Academy Award nominations
