Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Stories From The SF Film Frontiers</i> The SF Int'l Film Festival isn't just about great national and international movies -- they've got music events, gala events, talks about the state of cinema, an online presence through SF360.com, and
Arts & Entertainment SFWFF: Youth Films Yes, we’ll admit we went to the ‘youth shorts’ with some preconceptions about youth films (maybe we were picturing our own painful camcorder films from years ago). But what we saw from
Arts & Entertainment SFWFF: Documentary Shorts We got to a classroom-sized room and settled into a folding chair just as people were starting to trickle in and, more importantly, right as the Trader Joe's snacks were being unpacked. Clearly
Arts & Entertainment All We Meant To Do Was Get A Burger You may know by now that we prefer our meat grass-fed, pedigreed, pasture raised, and without ooky hormones, antibiotics or other additives. So when we had a craving for a burger the other
Arts & Entertainment We Get By With a Little Yelp From Our Friends We ourselves haven't yet jumped into writing our own user reviews, but we love to read other people's. In recent times, we have checked out the forums at Steve's Digicams when we were
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Snoozing Through The <i>Century</i> Recipe for a nice nap: A beer and a whopping bbq turkey sandwich from Tommy’s Joynt followed by last night’s SFIAAFF film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, actually titled Syndromes and a Century.
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Great Happiness Space: Tales Of An Osaka Love Thief</i> As SFist Mihi so wisely put it in her review, "Don't hate the player, hate the game." As we got totally caught up in the -like mind games between the host men and
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Girl Who Leapt Through Time</i> This is why we go to film festivals. Once in a while you get to see a movie that you probably would have missed if it weren't for film festivals, but has made
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Year Of The Fish</i> We love a good Cinderella story and apparently so do a bunch of people on dates. Year of the Fish, a modern interpretation of a 9th century Chinese folk tale played at the
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Shanghai Kiss</i> The world premiere of played on Saturday night at the Castro Theatre and the house was packed. One of the themes running through the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival last year
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Looking For Love at <i>Summer Palace</i> and <i>Mistress of Spices</i> This was a good weekend, thanks in large part to the Asian-American film festival. We spent part of the past two days at the Castro checking out a couple of remarkably different films:
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Baby</i> Preview for the movie Baby, which premiered last night at the SF Int'l Asian-Am Film Fest. (Movie's not rated but this clip probably should be rated R for violence.) The clip is a
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Cats Of Mirikitani</i> What started out as a project about the drawings of homeless SoHo street artist and cat-lover Jimmy Mirikitani turned into a quest to save a man from his present and from his past
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Na Kamalei: The Men Of Hula</i> The moving and inspirational has the distinction of being the first movie to sell out in this year's San Francisco Int'l Asian-American Film Festival -- and the buzz only got better once the
Arts & Entertainment A Little Bite of This or That? <i>¡Qué Bueno!</i> Small plates are certainly très chic these days (even if our propensity for mixing foreign phrases is not), but usually, the price tag is not quite as nice of a fit. Not that
Arts & Entertainment Review: Indestructible at Cinequest The narrative of Indestructible is focused on Byer’s search for hope via treatments all over the world and on his interactions with his young son. After undergoing a risky and experimental surgery
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Annuals We always stand in the back at Cafe du Nord because the excellent sound system always sounds best there, plus there's that really bright digital clock at the soundboard so you can check
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Matt & Kim It was a show of nonstop manic glee, as cuddle-pop indie couple-duo Matt & Kim returned to San Francisco to play Noise Pop at the Bottom of the Hill Thursday night. So much
Arts & Entertainment NoisePop Film Fest: <i>You're Gonna Miss Me</i> The crowd inside was raucous, befitting a man who's an icon not only to 60s psychedelic fans but also 70s horror-metal ones -- a woman stood up and started shouting something about making
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews "One Man Star Wars" When we first heard about the show, "One Man Star Wars", we weren't sure whether it was the dumbest idea ever or the awesomest idea ever. After seeing it, we can say with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Loose Change's Human Nature We liked the staging and we dug some of the music and we got into the dancing and we thought some of the staged sets were pretty innovative and extremely well-done. Yes, it
Arts & Entertainment A New Chef at B Oakland's B Restaurant (or just "B," apparently), promised to be such a place. Since the establishment's doors opened across its refurbished 120-year-old mosaic tile floor in 2005, reviewers have unanimously noted the New
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <i>Your Mommy Kills Animals</i> Watch the trailer for Your Mommy Kills Animals. We felt a little bad when the lady working the concession stand at the Roxie seemed so startled we were getting butter on our popcorn
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <i>The Substance Of Things Hoped For</i> We’re sure there are a lot of great films at Indiefest, but we screened one of the best on Wednesday night at the Roxie - The Substance of Things Hoped For. Daphne
