Arts & Entertainment Roxie Theater Explains How They Managed to Raise Millions to Buy Their Building The Roxie Theater is still in the home stretch of its $7 million capital campaign to buy their building outright, but the theater’s leadership gave us some insights into how the mighty little Roxie had already secretly raised 75% of that money.
Arts & Entertainment Roxie Theater on the Verge of Buying Its Building, Launches ‘Capital Campaign’ The 113-year-old Roxie Theater just might be around for another 113 years, as the movie house has been secretly working on a deal to buy the theater outright, and they’re launching a fundraising leg of that campaign to complete the deal.
SF News SF Lyft Driver Found Guilty of DUI on the Job, After Running Into Motorcycle and Fighting With Bystanders An SF Lyft driver with twice the legal BAC limit hit a motorcycle, got into a physical fight with people in front of the Roxie Theater, and tried to drive away. Today he was found guilty on these charges.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Preservationists Launch Rival ‘Castro In Exile’ Movie Nights, With Sing-Along ‘Grease’ The old Castro Theatre sing-along shows have gone rogue while the theater sits unused, as the “Save the Seats” crowd is rebooting the traditional movie screenings in a “Castro In Exile” series starting with Sing-Along Grease on April 7.
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest Turns 25, And Is Now Underway At The Roxie The 25th annual SF Independent Film Festival better known as IndieFest is now rocking at the Roxie, plus online until February 12, with 95 independent films including documentaries about Moby and Negativland.
Arts & Entertainment Help the Roxie Choose What Movie to Screen For Its Reopening Weekend The Mission's beloved, historic Roxie Theater has weathered a pandemic and is getting ready to reopen for in-person screenings. And they're asking Bay Area cinephiles to vote on what movie they want to see grace their main screen when that happens.
Arts & Entertainment Honey Bear Artist fnnch Releases ‘Movie Bear’ Prints to Benefit Roxie Theater In a “this weekend only” benefit to help the still-shuttered Roxie Theater, fnnch — who’s now raised nearly $300,000 for COVID-19 charitable efforts — is selling exclusive, limited-edition Movie Bear prints up until midnight PT Sunday night.
Arts & Entertainment Latinx Film Festival CINELOA Moves Online, Ticket Sales Go Toward Supporting Local Nonprofits Pedestaling Latinx short films, CINEOLA's cinematic lineup aims to connect audiences with diverse representations of Latinoamérica on screens (big and small), with funds made through ticket sales benefiting SF institutions like the Roxie Theatre and Artists’ Television Access.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Projectionists Keep On Rolling At The Roxie "It feels like a secret performance" Isaac Sherman, a projectionist at the Mission's Roxie Theater tells KQED. Their lovely video, shot by Claudia Escobar, takes us inside the projection booth at the Roxie
Arts & Entertainment Trailer: 'Advantageous', Showing This Weekend At The Roxie Bay Area-raised director Jennifer Phang's Sundance Jury Prize-winning film Advantageous tells the story of a futuristic corporation called The Center for Advanced Health and Living, which offers an alternative to invasive plastic surgery
Arts & Entertainment The Roxie Theater, SF's Oldest Cinema, Gets A Three-Year Reprieve From Landlord Small, independent, neighborhood movie houses are of course an endangered species pretty much everywhere besides Los Angeles, but San Francisco's oldest continually operating cinema, The Roxie (3117 16th Street) which also bears the
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: Dave Grohl's 'Sound City' Let's face it: none of us thinks about Dave Grohl nearly enough. But the former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman is at it again, this time as the director of a newly
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: 'Vampyr' With Steven Severin's Live Score Long before Twilight turned sex-crazed teenage vampires into a national fad, and even 25 years before Bram Stoker penned Dracula, there was Carmilla — a 1872 tale of a prototypical lesbian vampire that became
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
