Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <i>Manhattan, Kansas</i> And so began Tara's story about growing up in rural Kansas as an only child of a single mom who never quite grew up herself. The story beautifully unraveled and came back together
Arts & Entertainment The Adventures of the Superfisters: The Dramatic Conclusion I've had a lovely time hanging out at Isotope and writing comic book reviews for SFist for the last year and a half, and it's very fondly that I'll be devoting this last
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <em>Rolling</em> and <em>Mojave Phone Booth</em> Though the plot is fully scripted and cast with actors, Rolling is produced in the style of as a documentary. As such, the film alternates between talking head interview footage of each of
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <i>The Ballad of Greenwich Village</i> and <i>Mischief at 16th and Florida</i> The two SF Indie Fest films we watched on Friday night at the Victoria Theatre made for a very thought-provoking juxtaposition. The short film Mischief at 16th and Florida captured the rich history
Arts & Entertainment Of Montreal Brings Lots o' Fun Unfortunately, Gold Chains' set on Thursday night lacked everything we love about Gold Chains. The bad-ass, masculine beats and lyrics of "I Come From San Francisco" were replaced by what sounded to us
Arts & Entertainment The Apocalyptic Adventures of the Superfisters How is it that you've never heard of ? It's been around for about 20 years, so you have absolutely no excuse for not diving into this unjustifiably unknown sci-fi pleasure. The year is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews UCB ASSSSCAT at Sketchfest Which makes us wonder how much of a review we read is really what the critic thought or what kind of mood the critic is in. Think about it-- if you're in a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews <em>Climates</em> What do we mean? Climates is the type of movie where there's not that much dialogue and there's not much action, but the simple act of smoking a cigarette is so fraught with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to SF Sketchfest's First Annual Filmed Sketch Night Why gather with strangers in a theater to stare at funny films on a screen when you could . . . sit at home on your couch and stare at funny films (even these most of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Paul Reubens Tribute The scene at the Palace: No kids. Just adults who were once in various stages of kidness and under Reubens' thrall. "We've all grown up," observed Big Sis. The show opened with a
Arts & Entertainment The Awkward Adventures of the Superfisters In Roanoke of 500 years ago, the settlers clash with a creepy bestial native tribe. In Berkeley of the present day, a young boy comes of age as he discovers that a creepy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Kasper Hauser/Elephant Larry Now, before tomatoes get thrown at us, we don't mean it in a negative way. It's not like we didn't enjoy Kasper Hauser-- we very much did-- it's just that we liked Elephant
Arts & Entertainment Review: Comedy Death-Ray at SketchFest SFist was excited to hit SketchFest’s Comedy Death-Ray act last night at Cobb’s. The line up (full of Mr. Show and I LOVE the ‘80’s alumns) looked promising. After the
Arts & Entertainment The Morbidly Morbid Adventures of the Superfisters "Amerikan Freak," by John Leekley, Ahmet Zappa (yes, him), and Brendan Smith is not about to embrace comedy of any sort. It is serious, serious, serious, serious. But on the other hand, "Polyglot
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the 14th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy Friday night may have kicked off the 14th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy soiree, but it was our first. Though we're clearly members of the target audience for a December night of comedy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews <em>Jesus Christ Superstar</em> at the Orpheum Theater But that's just us. We were pretty excited about seeing the play at the Orpheum Theater primarily because it's the first time we've ever seen it actually produced on a stage by professionals.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews <em>Curse of the Golden Flower</em> Which brings us to Curse of the Golden Flower, Yimou's latest epic sword and kung fu flick. Will it blow us away or will it bore us? The answer, actually, is somewhere in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Kasper Hauser's <em>SkyMaul</em> So what kinds of items have the Hauser gang come up with? Well, how's about Medical Test Results Fortunes Cookies. Or a Transforkshire Terrier ("this incredible kids' toy transforms from a dog to
Arts & Entertainment The Decontextualized Adventures of the Superfisters All of our comics this week have been struck by some kind of diabolic decontextualization ray, leaving them to fend for themselves in the bleak tundra of WTF. From local artist Chris Wisnia
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Misses SFist Ced: Weird Fish and Peter And The Wolf Before heading out to the SF Youth Orchestra's holiday concert this afternoon, we grabbed brunch at new trendy Mission bistro Weird Fish. Weird Fish is a combination seafood/vegan restaurant at 18th and
Arts & Entertainment Digital Camera Test: $10 Walgreens Innovage Mini [Please see the note added to the end of this post for info about software drivers.] This straight outta Shanghai drugstore special advertises itself an eight-frame-per-second sports digicam. It's complementary metal oxide semiconductor
Arts & Entertainment Christmas at Cow Palace is as Fun as the Dickens We ventured out to Cow Palace with 6-year-old Julian in tow, where we proceeded to do a full circle around the entire building before finding the fair. A motorcycle swap was going on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Wolfmother at the Fillmore SFist Chris: You're right on about the Zep II situation SFist Jon. Though I was not around to see Zep in 1968 when they broke out, last night was a definite Zeppelin '68
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Goes To The Movies: Hilary Hahn Plays Symphony Hall It was a night of romantic movie themes and orchestral folk music (and one modern piece described in the program as "an aircraft revving for takeoff"), with violinist Hilary Hahn the main star.
