Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Bill Callahan, formerly known as Smog for the past 20 years, masterfully combines lo-fi folk/rock arrangements with his signature, smooth baritone. Callahan will play his lullabies for SF audiophiles at Bimbo's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Gary Hustwit, the director of the hip documentary Helvetica presents his second hip documentary, Objectified, which is about "our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SING-ALONG: Join San Francisco's favorite film critic (and SFist Brock's) Jan Wahl in a Castro Theater-style sing-a-long of the world's most famous "shtetl" musical, Fiddler on the Roof. Shtetl fashion is encouraged. 6
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FLASH MOB: Ok, folks, it's apparently time for yet another flash mob. This one will last five minutes, and everyone will be singing the Beatles' "With a Little Help From My Friends" (in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Award-winning violinist Gil Shaham will perform the Berg Concerto, "part requiem, part showpiece," which he has explored for years and has played often, and Schubert's Mass No. 6, a "glory of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: This week's $7 Tuesday flick at the Red Vic is Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Come see Sean Penn at his best as the infamous Jeff Spicoli, and who can forget the
Arts & Entertainment Scribe at Chron Baby Blog Thinks He Found the 'Up' House We've heard the new Disney/Pixar movie Up is fantastic, and we're not going to knock it or sing its praises here because we haven't seen it, and, well, we don't usually do
misc Photo du Jour 325 We came across this over at Eye On Blogs. Greg Dewar, N-Judah Chronicle blogger, captured these shots of a futuristic San Francisco as conceived by J.J. Abrams in the new Star Trek
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Master trumpet player Herb Alpert, of the delightfully cheesy Sergio Mendes and Tijuana Brass fame, and his wife, singer Lani Hall will perform an intimate night of American and Brazilian jazz featuring
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The 2009 Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup Conference presents a free screening of DARE, which follows three very different teenagers through the last semester of high school. The screening will be followed by
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: There's still a few remaining nights of film noir at I Wake Up Dreaming. Tonight's double feature is Women in the Night (8 p.m.), "one of the rarest of 40s B
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: In celebration of Harvey Milk's birthday this past Friday, the Castro is screening both Rob Epstein’s Academy Award-winning 1984 documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk and Gus Van Zant's feature film
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: As part of SFMOMA's Robert Frank Retrospective, Program 3 will be a screening of three of Frank's short films. Keep Busy is a spontaneous, improvised story of a group of people living
Arts & Entertainment Film Noir Double Features at Roxie Theater All Week Roxie Theater has been having a film noir festival, I Wake Up Dreaming: The Haunted World of the B-Film Noir, which started last Thursday and runs through this Sunday. The best part is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: Liz Roman and Dancers, who were recently featured in SFist's Photo Du Jour, present their newest building romp At Play. Roman and her dancers/collaborators will move audiences through the halls, stairwells,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery presents On Your Mark, featuring Bay Area artist Leslie Shows, courtesy of Jack Hanley Gallery. Small bites and cocktails have been donated by local Bay Area
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Guest curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present Slapstick Follies (and Other Fine Messes). The line-up will features shorts and a few silent films, including the rarely seen or screened Down Memory
misc Guerrilla Movie Marketing: Still Relevant? Has anyone else been peeved by the "Angels & Demons" graffiti marketing effort that's recently decorated the paths in Dolores Park? Doubtless some clever marketing firm who specializes in "non-traditional" or "guerrilla marketing"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Bring your bike, a cushion/blanket, and a radio for the Disposable Film Festival's first ever bike-in screening (as opposed to a drive-in). Immediately following the movie, there will be a party
Arts & Entertainment Perhaps Fearing Being Canned, <em>Chron</em> Film Critic Mick LaSalle Already Doing His Decade Best List It's April, the eve of 150 pink slips over the old Faded Floozy (a.k.a. The Chronicle), and film critic Mick LaSalle has decided to get a jump start on his critic
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queen Filmmaker Peaches Christ Looking for a Few Good Extras Drag queen Peaches Christ (a.k.a. Joshua Grannell -- the mastermind behind SF's annual cult movie fest Midnight Mass) is currently shooting a new film titled All About Evil and needs volunteer
Arts & Entertainment Call for Entries: Fourth Annual ATA Film & Video Festival Since most of you peeled the yellow wallpaper after American Apparel dared to open shop on Valencia Street, it's payback time. Artists Television Access is inviting experimental film and video artists to submit
SF News Jonas Brothers Make SurpriOMGJ*(Y( h8o2 hi90t023!@#R@34mk,!!! Theater seats were dampened by stunned teens over at the gay-hating Cinemark theater at the Westfield Mall in San Francisco on Sunday night. Why? Well, alleged virgins and heterosexuals the Jonas Brothers made
SF News Siebel Almost Bares All Via New On Demand/Pay-Per-View Movie Allegedly winning praise on the film festival circuit, San Francisco First Lady Jennifer Siebel's latest film, , shows on On Demand/Pay-Per-View (aw) starting tonight. The movie is about love and stuff, and Jen
