Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>The Future of Pinball</i>/<i>Buffet</i> Our usual movie companion loves pinball with a burning passion. A burning passion! So all week, it's been like, "When do we get to see the pinball movie? When do we get to
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Pizza! The Movie</i> Whatever you do, don't go see hungry. Boy were we glad we'd had that burrito (but we must admit, that didn't prevent us from stopping off for a slice after the film). Even
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Diameter of a Bomb</i> And then, about three quarters of the way into the movie, we started to understand what the movie is about. In one sense, yes, it's about how awful terrorism is, but there's more
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Crossing Genres at the Magic Theatre Christmas, in May? Well, yeah. The Magic Theatre rearranged its season a bit. But The Long Christmas Ride Home may be worth the wait. Penned by Paula Vogel as
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Of War and Blood at Traveling Jewish Theatre FoolsFury packed Traveling Jewish Theatre on Sunday night with friends, funders, foreign consulates and, of course, the press for anticipated opening night of its world premiere English translation of
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Drawing Restraint 9</i> While mainstream America's attention has been focused on TomKat's recent offspring and Brangelina's pending progeny, we joined San Francisco's arthouse hipster crowd at the Kabuki late Wednesday night for the local unveiling of
Arts & Entertainment Reel SF: Take the Money and Run For those not up on their Woody oeuvre, Take the Money and Run, a mockumentary about notorious criminal master mind Virgil Starkwell (he, unfortunately, never made the FBI's Most Wanted List because, as
SF News Castro Car Fires Wow, this is pretty awful. Yesterday around 6:30 p.m., a guy running the red down the Castro hill across Market drifted into the northbound lane and slammed into a BMW turning
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Runners High</i> celebrates the growth and accomplishments of four of these students, three of whom ended up completing the LA Marathon. We watch the students ramp up both their training and their mental discipline, with
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Geary Street at the Curran Theatre Spend any amount of time in a Muni or BART station and you'll find that you can't escape the ads for Martin Short's new musical, a pre-Broadway world premiere
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Cockbyte: Masters of Machinima</i> Sorry to be crude. "Red vs Blue," if you're not familiar, is sort of sketch-comedy series made by dubbing dialogue on top of pre-scripted game footage. We'd estimate that Sunday night's screening was
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i> Viva Cuba</i> Because we are short and had a less than ideal seat in the packed theater, we are still wondering about much of the dialogue in . We didn’t need to be able to
SF News Beer And Movies Eventually At The Red Vic The Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi-penned ordinance goes into effect immediately, but the Red Vic still had several hurdles to leap. We spoke to the Red Vic's Martha Beck, to see if we could be
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Send in the Divas DivaFest at Exit Theatre Exit Theatre's DivaFest features female artists who actually have talent to back up their diva title. (Though you may find a transvestite in the mix.) Leading the festival is
Arts & Entertainment Reel SF: <i>San Francisco</i> There's something vaguely weird in reviewing a movie that came out in 1936 (Who this young rising star Clark Gable? He's going to go far!), but we had a great time at the
Arts & Entertainment So You Think You Know The Reel San Francisco? Sure, we've seen a lot of these movies before, but this is our chance to see studio archive prints of these classics in a big-screen theatre setting. DVDs just can't compare! Some of
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Solo Shows at The Marsh Baloney is usually something to be avoided at all costs--unless Dan Piraro is involved. Yep, that Bizarro cartoonist has his own solo show, and he's thrown in just about every
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Berkeley Edition at Berkeley Repertory Theatre We don't know what's bigger news: the fact that Rita Moreno stars in The Glass Menagerie, one of the greatest plays in the American canon, or the fact that
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Something for Everyone, Again at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Who said interactive theater is uncool? One of the coolest things about Culture Clash's production of Zorro in Hell is that you can download your very own Zorro mask
Arts & Entertainment Bar of Contemporary Art Opens with New Works from Nathalia Edenmont The atmosphere inside was pleasant enough albeit a bit stark, but what won us over was the stunning large-format photography of Nathalia Edenmont. Strikingly brilliant in color and equally unsettling in imagery, Edenmont’
SF News Kabuki Theatre Sold to Sundance Cinemas Expected to become "a state-of-the-art independent movie house", Sundance plans on beginning renovations to the theatre in early May, following the San Francisco International Film Festival. This fall it'll reopen as the "Sundance
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Birds and the Trees Matthew Bourne's at Orpheum Theatre Not since Mark Morris's The Hard Nut or the antics of Les Ballets Trocadero de Monte Carlo has the Bay Area seen anything quite like Matthew Bourne's all-male
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
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Something for Almost Everyone at Theatre Rhinoceros Touted by Theatre Rhinoceros as "the real Transamerica," diva Veronica Klaus was named Best Chanteuse in 2004 by the Bay Guardian and has been a regular fixture on the cabaret
misc The Winner Is Deceitful Above All Things We have a winner in our Fake Tales of San Francisco contest! As you may recall, we're giving out "The Heart Is Deceitful" movie swag to the person who came up with the
