Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Establishment Meets the Hip at the Geary Theater We know, we know: we always lead with an American Conservatory Theater production, if it's opening. Well, we like their photos. OK, we like how easy it is to
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's Economy of Art Labors on A mute boy in love with a blind girl! Marionettes! Butoh dancing! A swordfight! Attempted acting! Minnesotan hip-hoppers! Relentless artistic integrity! Sounds like another San Francisco film festival to us. The Foggy Eye
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Val's Restaurant & Lounge Amazing what getting in the wrong turning lane will do for you. After a movie at the Century 20 Daly City — about which theater, the less said, the better, but let's just note
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: New and Reinvented This week we bring you a crucifixion, ghetto Shakespeare and mean people in love. Because why get vanilla ice cream when you can get, say, caramel ice cream with fudge chunks and cookie
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches <i>Serenity</i> and <i>Mirrormask</i>; or: Why Weekends Were Invented Both are mandatory viewing, but we recommend ever-so-slightly higher, due to its having a bit more mass appeal. Romance! Intrigue! Stunning fight scenes! Sexy love scenes! Sparkly dialogue! Surprising fatalities! It's pretty much
Arts & Entertainment Serenity Now, Insanity Later "The screening is overbooked," hollered a media rep to a long line in the lobby. We'd estimate that about 200 people were waiting with free-sneak-peek passes; without blogger credentials, they were made to
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: A Smorgasbord This week we take you from Orinda to Fort Mason to the Artaud Building for Shakespeare, an Irish story and a reimagined Greek myth. at Bruns Amphitheater It's your last chance to catch
Arts & Entertainment The Role of a Lifetime. ...Deathtime. Whatever. Interested corpses may proceed relentlessly to Pier 48 and ask for "Boz," or call Elaine "Zelda" Krumlauf (whose fantastic name we will be endlessly singing over and over in our head) at 408-829-6545
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Bigger, Longer and Mostly Uncut at the Curran Theatre Cirque du Soleil isn't the only artsy circus company around, and unfortunately, for all the other companies like Cirque Eloize, they'll all be compared to those commercialized French-Canadians taking
Arts & Entertainment Wednesdays, the New Apocalypse Wednesday: Get all in the Wednesday SFist Reads mood with a cavalcade of options: Barbara Ehrenreich at Clean Well-Lighted (7:00), a Dr. Atomic discussion at City Lights (7 p.m.), Caroline Kennedy
SF News Cinema 21 Saved? Our friends over at SocketSite alerted us to a Sunday Examiner story regarding the fate of yet another of our besieged local movie theaters. The former Marina Theater (most recently known as Cinema
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Hurricane Relief Considering that these past few years haven't been economically kind to the arts, we want to applaud the companies that have stepped up to help the Hurricane Katrina victims. While many events happened
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>The Overcoat</i> Nope. It's all done by with dance-like movements, set to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. The result is that it's kind of like a silent film, kind of mime-y, and kind of a
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The San Francisco Fringe Festival Edition Get your running shoes, because it's time for the San Francisco Fringe Festival: 42 theater companies, 12 days and 7 venues. Started 14 years ago by the Exit Theatre, the San Francisco Fringe
Arts & Entertainment Go Nuts This Weekend Have we ever mentioned how much we love the Primitive Screwheads? Our infatuation began when we attended their final performance of , and we've been slavering to see what they'd do next. They'd mentioned
misc Win tickets to <i>Reel Paradise</i>! Our pals at Larsen Associates have come through again, giving us run of engagement passes for , which opens tomorrow at the Lumiere in here in the city, the Act in Berkeley and the
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The "I'm Not Going to Burning Man" Edition at Impact Theatre Yes, as in Nicky Hilton. You know, the one that's always upstaged by her big sister Paris? Well, this time she takes center stage in Elizabeth Meriwether's comedy. A hit
SF News Interview: Matthew Leutwyler We realized that we were living our rock and roll fantasy when we started getting chances to write about zombie movies. (What can we say? We're a simple person, and we have simple
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fashion Week: Opening Night The Beautiful People were out in full force at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater Wednesday night. We felt like we had really pulled a fast one as we picked up our media
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fashion Week: SFist Has You Covered All day long, our colleagues at our day job have been asking why we look so nice today. Ignoring what this implies about our usual appearance, and marvelling at what a difference a
Arts & Entertainment SFAFF: <i>Arahan</i> You can tell we were excited to see the SFAFF movie Arahan Friday night, because we crossed the Tordesillas Line of Market Street and actually ventured up to the (gasp!) Marina -- where
Arts & Entertainment Theater Review: <I>Blood Bucket Ballyhoo</I> Producer and director Russell Blackwood is an expert on stage blood. He knows how to make it dribble or spray, or flow from actors' mouths. He also knows how to poke out an
Arts & Entertainment SFAFF: Rice Rhapsody (<i>Hainan Ji Fan</i>) Dang, it was cold waiting outside the Four Star for the doors to open for the San Francisco Asian Film Festival's premiere of ! And can we just say, the movie that screened right
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Hot Theater in Small Spaces at Exit Stage Left Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: There’s this mad ruler, his country’s citizens hate him, and he’s totally hell-bent on invading other countries
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog the Musical at the Orpheum Theatre Based on the best-selling book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, Wicked makes its triumphant return to San Francisco, where
