Arts & Entertainment SF Attends: 'Hamlet' on Alcatraz Get thee to Alcatraz. We Players artistic director Ava Roy brings the Prince of Denmark to The Rock, with chilling results. by Naomi Kirsten There were shades of drama as we waited to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Fishbone Documentary 'Everyday Sunshine' Lives Up to Its Name by Erick Pressman SF Docfest kicks off this Thursday evening with the Bay Area premiere of Every Day Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, followed by a post-screening Q&A with the filmmakers
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: 'Paris Review' Editor Lorin Stein at City Lights There’s sex, love, and betrayal in the Fall Paris Review. Prepare to be seduced. by Naomi Kirsten A few years into the millennium, we attended a party at the Paris Review. It
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Chinese White Bicycles,' An Evening With Joe Boyd and Robyn Hitchcock by Rebecca and Quinn Miller We grabbed two delicious veggie burgers from Sparky’s 24 Hour Diner, regaled by our statuesque server on how his psychic powers were coming unveiled by the full
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Willie Brown Slams Tres Agaves Former S.F. Mayor and SF Chronicle dilettante Wilie Brown recently supped at Tres Agaves, Sammy Hagar's Mexican food in SoMa, and was less than pleased. It turns out management didn't press their
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burger Bar Reviews Are In Eater has a handy list of reviews (professional, Yelp-y, and otherwise) about Hubert Keller's Burger Bar. It seems too early to tell, but people sorta like the place. SF Weekly's Meredith Brody asks
Arts & Entertainment <em>NYT</em> Gives Mixed Review to SF Ballet's "Jewels" Alastair Macaulay, writing for The New York Times, gave a rather stilted and mixed review of the San Francisco Ballet's current staging of Balanchine's "Jewels," honoring several of the dancers but getting fussy
misc "Indestructible" at the Roxie From March 2007:SFist tends to stick pretty close to SF but this week’s Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose has been calling to us and we made it all way to
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop 2008: Tales from the Merch Booth Tuesday: Our first Noise Pop night was on Opening Night at the Rickshaw Stop, which was available to badge-holders, staff, and volunteers. We got there right when the doors opened and went straight
misc Film du Jour: Movies With Grandma Joy While we can't agree with Grandma Joy on her dismissive review of There Will Be Blood, because our love for self-indulgent vanity pieces knows no limits, we can agree that "Movies With Grandma
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Queens Of The Stone Age Q.) What are theees "Queens Of The Stone Age?" A.) That'd be a band that makes hip-shakin' heavy rock 'n roll for adults. On the second night of their sold-out stand at The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews... Eskimo Joe We featured Eskimo Joe in our weekly column a few weeks ago and stated that "Hands down, one of the best CD's of 2007." We still completely agree with that sentiment - even
SF News Cry of the FIsh Monger Oh Yeah, the Season Started. Somebody Tell the Players- Part 2 Ah. the Sharks roster, chock full of the most unique, special, fragile snowflakes that ever graced a consistently good (regular season) team. And Mike Grier. I'll also grant an exception to defenseman Douglas
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews... Ingrid Michaelson & Melee Michaelson breezed through "The Way I Am" (the Old Navy sweater commercial) with audience participation. After a few tries, the audience finally clapped correctly (I don't think we impressed Ms. Michaelson with our
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <I>A Skin Too Few</i> Nick Drake is the subject of Jeroen Berkvens's short documentary A Skin Too Few, which is playing the DocFest this week, and he's a tough guy to make a film about. He put
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Eat At Bill's: Life In The Monterey Market</i> Now this is why we love DocFest so much! is a completely charming love letter to the famed local organic Monterey Market in Berkeley and its perpetually-cheery (and perpetually-free-sample-eating) owner Bill Fujimoto. The
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>New Urban Cowboy</i> The Mission's an interesting place to screen a movie about gentrification, filmed from the eyes of the gentrifier -- so there was certainly no shortage of things to think about at last night's
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Wiener Takes All</i> There's nothing like a celebrity appearance at a film festival, and Sunday night at the Roxie Theatre, the crowd went wild when it was announced that two of the wiener dogs who star
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Off The Grid: Life On The Mesa</i> SFist Wendy goes off the grid, and then comes back to the land of electricity to tell us all about it! We welcomed the return of DocFest, your local indie documentary festival, last
Arts & Entertainment Sara Bareilles Concert Review Let's make this short and sweet: Sara Bareilles is incredible. Not only do we love her rich yet effortless voice, but her clever music is indeed what pop music needs right now. We
Arts & Entertainment Reviewing Summer of Love Anniversary Reviews Seeing as how the Summer of Love was the single most important event in the history of time and space, we thought it would be delightful of us to review a smattering of
Arts & Entertainment <i>American Fusion</i> Even though there's no film fests in town, we stopped by the movie theater and checked out American Fusion, which opened this past weekend at the Sundance Kabuki. This film totally reminded us
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>So Long Are You Young</i> Judith Schaefer's movie, , screened at the Roda Theatre in Berkeley on Tuesday and when the lights went back up, the crowd of mostly senior citizens were on their feet wildly applauding the filmmaker.
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Sidewalk</i> SFist Mihi warns you that this preview clip above may be dull. Sidewalk, the documentary we saw at the Roda Theatre in Berkeley on Sunday for the SF Jewish Film Festival, was billed
