Arts & Entertainment The Day Cynicism Took A Holiday: Batkid Begins I had barely dried the tears from my face after seeing Inside Out when I had to go to a screening of the documentary Batkid Begins. Just as I feared, I was overcome
Arts & Entertainment Video: New Trailer For Batkid Begins Is Here To Make You Sob At Your Desk While we still have some time before the Julia Roberts-starring Batkid feature film pops into gear, a new trailer for Batkid Begins, the locally-shot documentary all about November 15, 2013, the day Miles
Arts & Entertainment A Batkid Movie Starring Julia Roberts Is On The Way With the debut of the Batkid Begins documentary at the Slamdance Film Festival on Saturday came the news that Julia Roberts is going to star in a feature film adaptation of the young
SF News Batkid One Year Later: Miles Turns 6, Remains In Remission The one-year anniversary of the great Batkid brouhaha that turned five-year-old Make-a-Wish kid Miles Scott into a national celebrity just arrived on Saturday. And we're happy to inform you that Miles, now six,
SF News Make-A-Wish Kid Picks Riding BART As His Ultimate Dream Come True If your evening commute involves sweating on a crowded BART train, this story might make you think twice before grumbling about it. A wheelchair-bound 13-year-old boy with cerebral palsy recently rode BART for
Arts & Entertainment New Batkid Documentary Seeks Funding Filmmaker Dana Nachman has just launched an IndieGoGo campaign to fund a feature-length documentary about everyone's favorite Make-a-Wish kid of 2013, Batkid, a.k.a. Miles Scott. The Make-a-Wish Foundation earlier released this
Arts & Entertainment Watch Batkid Throw Out The First Pitch At Giants' Home Opener Young Miles Scott (AKA Batkid) put another feather in his mask: he got to throw out the first pitch at the Giants' home opener. Scott, a Northern California boy with leukemia, saved San
Arts & Entertainment Batkid NOT Snubbed By 'Spider-Man' Star At The Oscars [Updated] Update: According to Andrew Garfield, the Oscars are to blame for crushing the hopes of Batkid. "The reps say Garfield DID contribute to the presentation script, but he had nothing to do with
Arts & Entertainment This 10-Minute Batkid Documentary Will Get You Through Your Wednesday It's been two months since Batkid, a.k.a. five-year-old Leukemia survivor Miles Scott, rid the city of evildoers and adult onset cynicism. Today, apparently to get us all through our mid-week, mid-January
SF News Our Favorite Moments Of 2013 That's all, folks. 2013 has come to an end. And with that, here are the best moments of 2013, at least according to the SFist staff. Feel free to add yours. The Castro,
SF News Matt Cain Matches $50,000 Raised By Make-A-Wish After Batkid proved an astounding success — by not only allowing San Franciscans to temporarily forget their woes, but also by reaching a $50,000 fundraising goal — lanky Giants pitcher Matt Cain and his
Arts & Entertainment Batkid Returns (For A Fundraiser) Local cancer patient and pretend super hero Batkid will return to San Francisco tomorrow after his recent victory lap through New York and probably a few naptimes. This time around, the celebrity five-year-old
SF News Batkid: President Obama Denied Audience With Nation's Most Popular 5-Year-Old As Batkid's heroic rescue of our nation's cold hearts continues from the streets of San Francisco to the morning talk show circuit, our tiny national hero has suddenly found himself too busy to
Arts & Entertainment Video: Trailer For 'The Batkid Rises' It's been a week since we all got to vicariously live out our own childhood superhero fantasies through Miles the Batkid and the Make-a-Wish Foundation. And now we bring you the trailer for
SF News Report: Batkid Wish Cost S.F. $105,000 As the city comes down from the high of the year, The Chronicle's City Hall watchdog duo Matier & Ross have dug into what Miles' wish cost the city of San Francisco. According
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oh, And Batkid's Key To The City Was Made Of Chocolate And not just any regular old chocolate, you see. It was made with local artisan enablers TCHO Chocolate. Ta-da. Update: The key, according to TCHO, was "was made with our semi-sweet 60.5%
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Casual Batkid Coverage This ABC reporter casually covers Friday's Batkid melee from the ground.
SF News Barack Obama's Special Vine For Batkid How about that. Today's transformation of San Francisco into Gotham City for five-year-old Miles—now known as Batkid—promoted a lot of attention, earnestness, and tears. (Some of them right here at the
SF News Supervisor Eric Mar Tries To Ruin Batkid Merriment For Everyone [Updated] Waiting for Miles the BatKid & Wondering how many 1000s of SF kids living off SNAP/FoodStamps could http://t.co/LNNwpDsIsS— Eric Mar (@ericmar415) November 15, 2013 Sheesh. District 1 Supervisor Eric
SF News SFPD Chief Plays Along, Issues Urgent Message To Batkid Ugh. We're getting choked up upon choked up over here. ABC 7 and "Gotham" police chief Greg Suhr earlier today aired this urgent message to Batman, a.k.a. the Caped Crusader, a.
SF News Photos: Batkid Saves Gotham City, Wins San Francisco's Heart You can breathe a sigh of relief, San Francisco, as young, yet oh-so strong, Batkid Miles saved the day. Here now are pics showing what went down after Make-A-Wish turned Baghdad by the
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SF News The Batmobile Has Arrived As SF Turns Into Gotham City For Batkid! [Updated] The Batmobile has arrived in San Francisco for 5-year-old Leukemia patient Miles (AKA Batkid)! As most of you know by now, today Union Square turns into Gotham City so that Miles can save
SF News Reminder: Tomorrow We Live In Gotham City On Friday, the Bay Area Make-A-Wish foundation will make 5-year-old Leukemia patient Miles' dream come true by turning San Francisco into Gotham City for a day and calling on Miles — or as you
