Arts & Entertainment Video: Go Inside A 1967 Tour Bus As It Gawks At Haight Street Hippies Everything all summer long in SF continues to officially be "hippie" themed because it's the 50th anniversary of the famed Summer of Love and if you haven't been already you should be wearing
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For This Maya Angelou Documentary That Premieres Tonight On KQED A documentary that's been on the festival circuit but hasn't yet premiered to the general public, Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise might, as the New York Times points out, "seem redundant to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Chef David Kinch Wins Emmy Award For <i>The Mind Of A Chef</i> The Anthony Bourdain-produced PBS series The Mind of a Chef, which already has a James Beard Award, just took home a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Culinary Host, which went
Arts & Entertainment Hunter Thompson Rides With The Hell's Angels In This Animated Interview "It had been a bad trip fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like a bummer." That's how Hunter Thompson concludes his time embedded
Arts & Entertainment Video: Meet San Francisco's 5-Year-Old Venture Capitalist Everything But The News, PBS's answer to The Daily Show/The Onion has taken on San Francisco tech culture before, with a report on the early days of ridesharing and an attempt to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Everything But The News' Starts Up The Startups Everything But The News, the PBS lite-comedy/parody show that previously skewered San Francisco's ridesharing scene, is back with another episode lampooning the local tech culture. In this episode, reporter and unrepentant Canadian
Arts & Entertainment 'Everything But The News' Takes On S.F. Ridesharing Everything But The News is a news parody show, similar to The Daily Show, but with more PBS-focused jokes. In it, freelance reporter/out and proud Canadian Steve Goldbloom ventures throughout the Bay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meet Christopher Kimball, October 20 Oh boy, do we have a bushel of questions for America's Test Kitchen host Christopher Kimball. Like: who do you like better, Bridget Lancaster or Julia Collin-Davison? (We cannot decide!) What's the deal
Arts & Entertainment Literary Fest Litquake Opens With Lovely Laura Linney Serialized gem / siren song Tales of the City drew many folks to SF. Well, it brought us here, anyway. And the character of Mary Ann Singleton acted as a temporary stand-in until many
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Jonestown and the Summer of Love The first, and best, is Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple. Through interviews with former members and survivors of the Jim Jones cult, along with loads of archival footage, you get
Arts & Entertainment "Following Sean" on POV "I smoke grass," was the shocking line uttered by precocious 4-year-old Sean from Ralph Arlyck's 1969 short-film documentary "Sean," which was set in a Haight Ashbury flat that housed Sean's large family and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV There were a lot of locals in the world of reality TV this week! "America's Got Talent" included an audition from an East Bay music teacher named Michael Strelo-Smith. He had an OK
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Green TV Two "green TV" programs are set to air in the coming weeks, and both focus on making your home more "sustainable." Tonight at 8 p.m., YourTV20 (yes, it's YOURS) airs an episode
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to Conan O'Brien Now here's the thing we discovered about the filming of a talk show-- there's a lot of standing around. A lot. The show isn't filmed continuously and then edited to make it look
Arts & Entertainment MTT Scores Again. A few years back, we were flipping the channels, and we ended up on a program on PBS. We recognized Michael Tilson-Thomas and at first, we were thinking, hey, it’s our MTT,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Runners High</i> celebrates the growth and accomplishments of four of these students, three of whom ended up completing the LA Marathon. We watch the students ramp up both their training and their mental discipline, with
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela</i> Faithful readers, you've probably noticed that this SFist watches the same types of movies over and over again: So we figured we'd mix it up a little bit and go watch something a
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>They Chose China</i> is the relatively forgotten story of a handful of American soldiers who were prisoners of war in Chinese camps during the Korean War. At the end of the conflict they chose to stay
SF News SFist Rants: We Want Our NBC We're fine, that is, until someone starts talking about, like, "Law and Order: Shoplifting Diversion Program" or something. For cable-free SFists do not receive NBC, since the local NBC affiliate switched from KRON
SF News More Crazy Cartoon Hijinks So, in this particular episode, Buster goes to Vermont to meet a sweet little girl named Emma and learn about making maple syrup. Funny little thing about, Emma, however: she has two mommies.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Real TV This Week SFist is sure there are some important, good-for-you TV shows airing sometime this week. Probably on PBS. And we wish them and their viewers all the best. But we can't let a certain