Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Show Goes On It's either true commitment or sheer lunacy that Stage Fog comes to you this week, because we (that's we the contributor, not we SFist) are the sad victims of a major Comcast outage
SF News Hotel Labor Drama Friend of SFist Jason Schultz forwarded us a press release [PDF]. What do you get when you cross labor activism and theater nerds? Hilarity! Saint Francis, beloved patron saint of small animals and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Regretrosexual</i> We've grown to dread all those socio-political treatises that's all about empowerment and "taking something" back, usually involving some member of an "oppressed minority" hitting you over the head with how proud they
Arts & Entertainment Mekka-Lekka Hi, Mekka-Heine-Ho Have a grey suit? How about some cake make up? A red bow tie? If you do, then we recommend you turn out for tomorrow's Paul Reubens Day celebrations. That's right, fourteen years
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog 'Round the World From Milwaukee to Israel to Australia, you can visit them all from the comfort of your theater seat right here in SF. We've got three shows and one festival for you this week,
misc See <i>Gus Van Sant's Last Days</i> Tonight -- For Free! We've heard a lot of buzz about , a meditative account of a suicidal musician's final hours, inspired by the life and death of Kurt Cobain. You could read more about the film here,
Arts & Entertainment Every Day's a Holiday in San Francisco No word yet on if they'll be suspending mail delivery or if we don't have to go to work tomorrow, but July 14, 2005 has been declared "Embarcadero Center Cinema" Day in San
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Theater for People Who Hate Theater We met a guy at Thee Parkside after the ill-fated SFist/Wired softball game who asked us, "What's playing now that I should go see?" Now, when we meet people at bars and
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: A Little Something for Everyone For the last couple of weeks, Stage Fog has been rather thematic, which makes for a nice, tight column. But sometimes we just want variety. Mix those peas and carrots! Besides, the Shakespeare
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Bring-a-Blanket Edition San Francisco Mime Troupe's at Dolores Park What better way to show your patriotism than with an afternoon with the SF Mime Troupe, which has been skewering the US government for over 40
SF News Jan Wahl, Mad as a Hatter Oh man, is this rich. Eric over at Rangelife recounts the following tale of impassioned activism against the evil movie studios who are scared shitless that someone might make a crappy copy of
SF News Supremely Choadly Well, if you're trying to create the next generation of digital content distribution, put down that laptop. Maybe you're an industrial designer working on a piece of hardware that would make it easy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Theater: The Goat by Edward Albee But you have to sympathize with modern writers, faced with an increasingly open-minded audience. Fifty years ago, interracial relationships were the stuff of discord. Twenty years ago, it was homosexuality. What's left? Edward
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Ashland's Not the Only Theater Destination, You Know You've heard of tornado chasers, but how about tsunami chasers? Despite numerous aftershocks, this week we're actually heading north to the towns of Arcata and Blue Lake to catch the first-ever Ensemble Theater
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: The Lady in Question is Charles Busch As a young actor, Charles found it tough to get work as an impersonater of classic film stars. So he turned to writing, creating plays like "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom," which allowed him
SF News Frameline 29: <i>Crustaces et Coquillages</i> Okay, okay, the 'English' title (and the one on the program) is , but this is the first time we can remember that a distributor actually chose an alternate title in the same language
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: SFist has you Covered We're awash in trannies! Frameline, San Francisco's annual GLBT film festival, has decided to highlight the "T" portion of the acronym this year, but there's still plenty of G, L, B, and P
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: It's a Gay Play Buffet [After a too-long hiatus, Stage Fog returns with this entry, the debut of SFist Karen, whose blog is about the only one around that's devoted solely to Bay Area theater. You can find
misc SFist Raves: La Mission We're pretty inclusive when we say "The Mission." To us, it's anything from 16th to 24th, Dolores to Potrero. The Mission is one of the few places where we really feel like we're
SF News Wanted: New MUNI Boss Burns was hired from Philadelphia after the "MUNI Meltdown" in 1999. As much as we love to kvetch about MUNI, we do have to admit that it has gotten better since he took
Arts & Entertainment (Yet) Another Hole In The Head: Friday Night We moved to better seats and settled in for gory zombie fun.
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Alice Wu If the interview below isn't enough of Alice, make sure to check out her movie, Saving Face which you can check out beginning June 3rd at your favorite Landmark Theater. Heck, SFist liked
SF News Got Housing? First, there are several battles over the tearing down of old buildings to be replaced by condos. Among the buildings being fought over is an abandoned cottage, an old abandoned theater, and an
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>ScaredSacred</i> The line snaked down to Albion Street for the teensy Little Roxie theater's screening of Canadian film ScaredSacred for DocFest, filled with an odd mix of earnest well-scrubbed management consultants with expensive handbags,
Arts & Entertainment Impact Briefs 7: The How-To Show Last weekend, we hit the East Bay to witness SFist Cheshire's on-stage debut in Impact Theater's . There we sat in the basement of La Val's Subterranean (1834 Euclid in Berkeley) drinking our beer
