Arts & Entertainment 21-Hour Marathon of All Nine 'Star Wars' Movies Happening at Alamo Drafthouse Are you such a big Star Wars fan that you'd like to sit through all nine movies of the saga in one go with a bunch of other Star Wars fans? Well, Alamo Drafthouse can give you this experience.
Arts & Entertainment Star Wars-Themed Burlesque Show ‘Empire Strips Back’ at Great Star Theater Is a Real Blast You’ll laugh it up, fuzzball, at ‘The Empire Strips Back,’ a Star Wars burlesque parody stage show that uses the force of elaborate costumes, props, and puppets that are out of this world.
Arts & Entertainment Star Wars App Lets You Watch Tie Fighters Fly Over The Golden Gate Bridge Starting today, if you have some spare time, and the Star Wars app on your phone, you can hold it up to take a photo of the Golden Gate Bridge and see a
Arts & Entertainment Owner Of World's Largest 'Star Wars' Memorabilia Collection Reveals Major Theft The owner of the Petaluma-based Rancho Obi-Wan, a museum housing what's said to be the world's largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia, claims that he was robbed over the last couple of years
SF News [Update] Lucas Museum Turns To The Dark Side, Is Bound For LA Despite Mayor Lee's Brown-Nosing It might take Jedi mind tricks to convince billionaire filmmaker George Lucas to place his Museum of Narrative Art on Treasure Island, but rest assured, Mayor Lee is trying the next best thing:
Arts & Entertainment SF Finally Gets a Comic Con, Kicking Off Today The ratio of nerds to official Comic Cons has always been out of whack in San Francisco, where we cosplay every day but have never had a full-on Comic Con (just WonderCon!) held
Arts & Entertainment 'Happy Chewbacca' Viral Video Star Visits Lucasfilm, Facebook The Star Wars fan whose Facebook Live video streamed from a Kohl's parking lot made her a star visited California this week, hitting up both Lucasfilm in the Presidio and Facebook's Menlo Park
SF News Lucasfilm Lawsuit Forces Name Change for 'Lightsaber Battles' There will be no more "Lightsaber Battles" in San Francisco or anywhere else for that matter, and no, not because the last time the unpermitted event came to San Fransisco in December it
SF News As Chicago Plan Stalls, Oakland Hints At Second Bid For Lucas Museum For several years now, filmmaker and extremely rich person George Lucas has been working to create a massive museum dedicated to showcasing his collection of movie memorabilia, illustrations, and graphic art. After his
SF News Lightsaber Battle Causes Thousands Of Dollars In Damages, Brings Out Organizers' Dark Side Last month's Star Wars opening brought with it plenty of opportunities to celebrate all things Jedi, most notably that large-scale lightsaber battle on December 18 in Sue Bierman Park. The event, organized by
Arts & Entertainment Video: Friday's Rainy Lightsaber Battle In an attempt to break a world record for the largest ever faux-lightsaber battle (7,000 people, San Diego ComiCon, 2015), a legion of dorks gathered in a park by the Embarcadero Friday
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Arts & Entertainment Photos: <em>Star Wars</em> Premiere Awakens Stellar Cosplay Unless you’ve been living in a $500-a-month crawlspace, you know that Star Wars: Episode VII opens nationwide today and had West Coast premieres last night. Though we were denied access to press
SF News Top Five Local Spots To Get In That <i>Star Wars</i> Mood Without Having To Travel To A Galaxy Far, Far Away We know the story: You really, really love Star Wars but for some reason slept on getting those tickets and now all the showings are sold out for the foreseeable future (i.e.
Arts & Entertainment All Six Star Wars Movies Available For Digital Download This Week For the first time, all six parts of of George Lucas' Star Wars franchise will be available for digital download, starting April 10. The announcement comes today via Variety and elsewhere, and the
Arts & Entertainment Video: R2-D2 Rolls Around San Francisco, Looking For Love What is it about R2-D2 that makes him feel so human? Because, honestly, he's just a beeping trash can with wheels, right? But as every Star Wars fan knows, he's as "real" and
Arts & Entertainment Felicity Jones To Star In <i>Rogue One</i>, The First <i>Star Wars</i> Spinoff At a shareholders meeting in SF this morning, Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger made a few big announcements with regard to the Star Wars franchise, and fans across the internet are already
SF News Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Makes Plea For George Lucas's Still Homeless Museum After his plans for a $700 million illustration museum in the Presidio were spurned, Star Wars creator turned Star Wars destroyer George Lucas took off at lightspeed for Chicago last June. But there,
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bay Area Man Turns Christmas Decorations Into Massive Star Wars Tribute Thousands are flocking to a Bay Area home that mixes Star Wars and Christmas in a delightful way, as you can see in the video below. This is the second year that Tom
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Star Wars Vs Alien Will you be one of the people flocking to the AMC Theatres at the Metreon this weekend, mainly to catch the 88-second teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens? Well, good for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink George Lucas Suing NY Brewery For 'Empire's Strikes Bock' Beer A New York microbrewery learned never to underestimate the power of the Dark Side this week when the Sith Lords at San-Francisco-based Lucasfilm requested it stop hocking "Empire’s Strikes Bock" beer. We
Arts & Entertainment Here's Why You Need To Go To 'Star Wars' Day At AT&T Park I personally don't know what's going to happen if I don't get my hands on an official R2-D2 Giants beanie this season, but it won't be good. There will be tears. Oh, there
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Nice Jacket Guy in the gutter sporting Chewbacca (update: Teen Wolf?!) jacket snapped by Bhautik Joshi.
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Faux AT-ATs Snapped by Jay M, these cranes did not, as some believe, influence George Lucas's All Terrain Armored Transport walkers, i.e., the AT-ATs. But can always pretend they did. ("That's a myth," Lucas
SF News Disney-Lucasfilm To Release New 'Star Wars' Films Every Summer Starting In 2015 After Disney bought out Lucasfilm and acquired the rights to Star Wars, anticipation for the next installment of George Lucas' money-printing space epic shot way up among fanboys, fangirls, and merchandising opportunists. At
