SF News Cathay Pacific's 7 Hour Delay Passengers reported there was no food or water and no information about the delay, while Cathay Pacific claimed everyone was happy and sleeping like lambs. They did let some folks off at around
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight The acclaimed French-trained Guinean contemporary circus troupe Circus Baobab makes its US debut as part of the SF Int'l Arts Festival, performing The Jumping Drum, a fable about globalization and family, complete with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Other events: --SF Women Against Rape present the documentary "NO!" at the Women's Building. 5-7:30 p.m., $5-$15 sliding scale, Audre Lorde Room, 3542 18th St. (x Valencia). --Bohemian Carnival --
Arts & Entertainment Win Tickets to <i>Adam's Apples</i>! We're very sad that the SF Int'l Film Festival is over -- but at least we live in a city where you don't have to wait for just once a year to see
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Family Ties After having watched and Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project on the very fancy SF Int'l Film Fest screener DVD machines this afternoon, we're thinking the theme of the afternoon was family obligations. (This
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Private Fears In Public Places</i> We knew very little about the SF Int'l Film Fest's Private Fears in Public Places but were intrigued by the title. Turns out the play is based on an English play by the
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Audience Of One</i> A movie about local filmmakers wrangling with local politicians? We are so there! The SF Int'l premiered the documentary Thursday night in one of the big newly-renovated theaters in the Kabuki Sundance. Audience
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Win Tickets To <i>Notes From The Toon Underground!</i> If the lines outside the Kabuki this weekend are any indication, everyone and their cousin knows that the SF Int'l Film Festival is the place to BE for the latest and greatest in
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>A Few Days Later...</i> Okay, we're not going to lie. When we read the description of the Iranian movie in the SF Int'l Film Fest guide as "a gorgeous minimalist portrait of a woman crushed by indecision,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Heavenly Kings</i> The North American debut of Heavenly Kings for the SF Int'l Film Festival premiered at the Castro Theatre Friday night and it must have been a sweet moment for Berkeley-born, Bay Area-raised, local
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 SFIFF: Win Tickets To <i>The Unforeseen</i>! Want to check out some film this Sunday afternoon? , a documentary set in one of our sister -ist cities, Austin, Texas, is about the battle between developers and environmentalists as a sweet-sounding but
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Win Tickets To Jonathan Richman's <i>The Phantom Carriage</i>! So -- how lucky are you, valued readers?? SFist has two tickets to give away to one lucky winner, for a screening of , a spooky silent movie showing at the Castro for the
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>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 Trouble With Romance</i> (The Jennifer Siebel Movie) The infamous SFist Rita took time away from her remote cave lair and evil blogging minions to hook me up with an advance copy of , starring none other than SFist commenter herself, Jennifer
Arts & Entertainment It's Time For the SF Asian-American Film Festival! This is the 25th SF Int'l Asian-American Film Festival, and they're celebrating their silver anniversary this year with a special focus on Chinese-American film, a retrospective of the work of Korean filmmaker Hong
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>No Sleep Til Shanghai</i> The crowd at the Kabuki Theater on Friday night had more hip-hoppers than usual, as SF Int'l Asian-American Film Fest attendees eagerly lined up three-deep for the sold-out showing of No Sleep Til
SF News Sarah Tucker, 1979-2006 We saw the saddest obituary last week in the Chron, for the death of Sarah Tucker, a 26-year-old Mission resident who was killed in a hit-and-run bicycle accident on Polk and Geary Street
Arts & Entertainment SF Int'l South Asian Film Festival: <i>It's My Country Too</i> As we settled into our seats at the Castro for the world premiere of documentary , part of the SF Int'l South Asian Film Festival, there was a generalized hubbub as a tall man
