Arts & Entertainment <i>American Fusion</i> Even though there's no film fests in town, we stopped by the movie theater and checked out American Fusion, which opened this past weekend at the Sundance Kabuki. This film totally reminded us
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The 2007 Bay Area Rhythm Exchange: Stepology (which we can only hope is very much like "Vibeology") presents tap stars Channing Cook-Holmes (Riverdance, Gangs of New York, Bojangles), John Kloss (Tap Heat)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- hey willpower at Glitterbox: At this "funk punk thrash electro discotheque" (what, no show tunes? Bah), local pop/R&B/dance band performs. DJs Javier Natureboy and Junkyard spin funk, punk,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Clueless and Mean Girls: Jane Austin's Emma interpreted via a mid-'90s Beverly Hills screens first, starring Paul Rudd (Eee!) and a pre-PETA Alicia Silverstone. Tina Fey's ode to high school bitches follows,
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the Bay Guardian: Tim Redmond asks why's everything got to be a public/private thing around here. Also, they hate the new Don Fisher museum. A poignant letter about the failures
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Film School, Pela, Union Trade: What's your flavor? Tell me, what's your flavor? (Damn you, earworming Popeye's Chicken commercial!) Windswept indie and psychedelic rock are served up beautifully tonight at this Potrero
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Trannyshack's Siouxsie and the Banshees Night: Trannyshack icon and Scissor Sisters [NSFW] star Ana Matronic returns home to help Heklina host tonight's Siouxsie tribute. Also, we heard a rumor that Ana likes
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Kelley Stoltz, Jennifer Gentle, the Dodos: Local folk-rock chap Kelley Stoltz performs in the Mission along with Jennifer Gentle and the Dodos. Show starts at 9 p.m. at 12 Galaxies, 2565
Arts & Entertainment Catch Some Short Film It's a grab bag of short films from here until Saturday -- the screenings are loosely categorized by theme ("But A Good Crazy" we think is our favorite, though "A Tragedy Called Love"
Arts & Entertainment Calling Local Filmmakers The conference features panels about the ins and outs of Bay Area filmmaking, how to get financing and funding in the area for your projects, getting distribution for documentaries, as well as panels
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Avenue Q: This tee hee-inducing musical features un-Seaseme Street-like puppets (e.g., a closeted homosexual republican, for starters) and an ode to racism. What's more, the indie production won a surprise Tony
Arts & Entertainment Bi-Coastal Banana Bag & Bodice Snags 3 New York Innovative Theater Award Nominations Rising Fallen was cited by NYIT for Outstanding Ensemble and Outstanding Production of a Play, and playwright Jason Craig was nominated for Outstanding Original Full Length Script. We are embarrassed to admit that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Death of a Party: Oakland art-rockers perform tonight in the Mission along with Social Studies and Master/Slave. Show starts at 10 p.m. at the Knockout, 3223 Mission; cover charge is
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City How 'bout them Cardinals? Ryan Adams was in town this week, and he evidently brought two very different moods to the San Francisco and Berkeley shows. We were at the Herbst Theatre show
Arts & Entertainment Happy Hour 3 = Film + Theater + Kookiness (Ticket Giveaway!) Do you like film? Do you like theater? Do you like film and theater mixed together? Also, do you like happy hours and after-parties? Then you might be inclined to check out Happy
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Theater Festival Breaks A Leg This past Sunday, under blazing blue skies in the City's snuggly warm SOMA bosom of Yerba Buena Gardens (YBG), there were no microphones, no stage lights, and no admission fees (and sadly no
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>My Fuhrer -- The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler</i> The premise of the movie is that a famous Jewish acting professor, Adolf Grunwald, sent to a concentration camp in World War II, is summoned by Joseph Goebbels to coach a depressed and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Cribs, Sean Na Na, and the Hugs: popscene presents a surprisingly not-so-greasy group of Britrockers, the Cribs, performing along with Sean Na Na and the Hugs. (Aw.) Show starts at 8
misc Blocker: 1500 20th St. Exploring San Francisco through the lens of individual city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. Blocker, No. 9: 20th
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Bad Faith (Mauvaise Foi)</i> Who woulda thought. . . . we weren’t the only ones not completely immersed in isolation with the final Harry Potter book this weekend... although we did see a couple books neatly tucked under the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Tegan & Sara: identical twins cum awesome rock songstresses with questionable haircuts play tonight in the Mission. Show starts at 8 p.m., Brava Theater, 2789 24th St.; tickets are $25. --
Arts & Entertainment Boost Your IQ In our quest to make you smarter without listening to Yanni, we suggest you consider the Mid-Summer Mozart Festival. It’s wall-to-wall Mozart, and it starts tonight in San Jose, tomorrow at the
Arts & Entertainment Merola's Cenerentola Schwabacher sadly passed away in the middle of last year’s edition, but the new kids (mostly in their 20s), they are all right. His legacy is safe and secure. We saw last
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: You Should Know About Dan Carbone Why? Because the stuffed-animal slinging, falsetto-singing, universe-weaving, Dada-referencing, Bay Area playwright and theater artist (and good friend and muse of seminal filmmaker George Kuchar) is all that -- and he's just been nominated
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Marke B judges a damp jockstrap contest come midnight at ‘70s/‘80s retro dance club “The Rod.” Damn perverts. All of them. Goes from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. at