SF News George Lucas Proposes Presidio Museum To Showcase His Stellar Collection You know that Sports Basement near Crissy Field? It's going to become a museum of visual storytelling, if George Lucas has his way. According to The Chronicle, the 68-year-old filmmaker (of Indiana Jones,
SF News George Lucas Engaged To Longtime Girlfriend Mellody Hobson George Lucas has just become engaged to his longtime girlfriend, 43-year-old finance expert Mellody Hobson. Hobson and Lucas met at a business conference about six years ago, and as they told Oprah last
Arts & Entertainment Video: Darth Vader Goes To Disneyland On the heels of buying Lucasfilm for a whopping $4 billion, the folks at Disney Parks released this video (last year!) showing Darth Vader and his stormtrooper entourage spending a day at the
SF News Disney Buys Lucasfilm for $4 Billion; George Lucas Passes 'Star Wars' on 'To a New Generation of Filmmakers' George Lucas has just sold out to Disney, ladies and gentlemen, for the tidy sum of $4.05 billion in stock and cash. The deal, announced just minutes ago, represents Lucas' desire to
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Drinks And AT-ATs At The Walt Disney Museum Finally hopping on the after-hours museum trend, tonight the Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio hosts Animate Your Night: Where It's AT-AT. The informative drinking event promises to teach attendees a thing
Arts & Entertainment 'One-Man Star Wars' Guy Returns to San Jose With 'One-Man Lord of the Rings' Canadian performer Charles Ross, who delighted the geeks of geekdome down in Silicon Valley last year with his One-Man Star Wars, returns to San Jose Rep to do his other show, a one-man
Arts & Entertainment 'Star Wars' Day at AT&T Park Announced Once again, the creative minds at AT&T announced another Star Wars Day on September 3rd. So, in addition to catching the Giants take on the Diamondbacks, you could receive a limited
Arts & Entertainment Using The Force, SFist Attends Lightsaber Training School When we first caught word that San Francisco had its very own lightsaber training school, two thoughts popped into our heads: First, "Ha! Look at those nerds!" Followed by, "...so where can I
Arts & Entertainment Discover Your Force At Lightsaber Training School Using LED Lucasian swords, the Golden Gate Knights teach lightsaber courses each week in San Francisco. Headed by a former choreographer for George Lucas' Star Wars films, the classes (for kids-at-heart 17 and
Arts & Entertainment Couple's Rad 'Star Wars' Engagement Photo Shoot In related Star Wars news, photographer Michael James recently took part in an engagement photo shoot, one that breathes new life and (ahem) force into a stale tradition. Specifically, these pre-wedding photos of
Arts & Entertainment Behold The 12-Foot Santa Yoda Made Entirely Of Legos Over the nippy weekend, loads of children and adult Star Wars fans helped construct a 12-foot Santa Yoda in San Francisco's Union Square. The wondrous creation, being dismantled as we speak, helped support
Arts & Entertainment 12-Foot Tall LEGO Santa Yoda Coming to Union Square On Friday, November 18, the public and the fine folks at LEGO will help construct a 12-foot tall by 10-foot wide Santa Yoda made out of lego bricks, right next to the ice
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 29: May the Franchise Be With You After the Giants drew that delightful connection between late summer baseball and the struggles of a small group of rebels fighting to defeat the evil, intergalactic empire, our friends at the Tenderloin Geographic
Arts & Entertainment Star Wars Day at AT&T Park Will Freeze Brian Wilson in Carbonite Look, nerds! The Giants have pulled off what could be one of the greatest promotional tie-ins in baseball history: a limited edition Brian Wilson-frozen-in-carbonite statue. The tchotchke (which features Han Solo on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Star Wars Darth Vader's Dark Side Roast Laughing Squid draws our attention to a new caffeinated brew set to get last night's meal moving faster than a Landspeeder. Created by the minds at Think Geek, it's called the Star Wars
Arts & Entertainment Star Wars "Clone Wars" Takeover Tomorrow Fans of the Star Wars prequels can get their pictures taken with some Clone Troopers tomorrow at Parkmerced from 4 to 7 p.m. The first 500 guests will get free prints of
Arts & Entertainment <i>Star Wars</i> Concert Coming Hey, fans! Listen up. Yet another way for you to enjoy that sci-fi story about Princess Leia and those adorable Ewoks is coming. A touring production of George Lucas' famous and much-loved films
misc Film: The Death Star Destroys the Starship Enterprise Here's a great follow-up to last fall's Imperial Fleet Week: Death Star Over San Francisco, by Mike Horn of Current TV. Military force was authorized yesterday minutes after the E.T.'s 48
misc Darth Vader Takes Over San Francisco "Orders bust of himself erected at City Hall," reports SF Citizen. Will advise of impending doom.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *CLUB: San Francisco's 6th annual DJ Dreamteam lineup -- which consists of local legends Miguel Migs, Mark Farina, David Harness, Julius Papp, Taj, Rooz, Icon, Dirtyhertz, a-tn-nae, Smoove, Mancub, Kapt'n Kirk, M3, Aaron
Arts & Entertainment Put On Those Hair Buns: 2008 Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge Have you always wanted to appear on Spike TV? We have. We'd even be on Max-X, which is, aside from Intervention, the best show on TV. But there's a safer way to get
misc Stellar Science Fiction Reading: io9 Rejoice, space believers! For there is finally - yes, finally! - someplace you can go on l'Internet to read about such sci-fi-ness (excuse us, "science fiction-ness" for all of you purists) ranging from
Arts & Entertainment Luke Skywalker's Original Lightsaber at Oakland Airport, Ready for Destruction Well, it won't be destroyed so much as it will be sent into space. And then vaporized, or zapped, or something. Anyway, someone sporting a Chewbacca outfit handed over Luke Skywalker's original lightsaber
Arts & Entertainment <em>Star Wars</em> PSA Star Wars-ish stuff sometimes seems done to death, but we fondly remember this PSA. What we forgot, though, was the pillow talk at the very end of this anti-smoking propaganda. It's very moving.
