Summer is here! Well, almost. And by "summer" I mean "summer movie season," which kicks off May 4 with the arrival of Marvel's The Avengers. No fools when it comes to making a buck (or hundreds of millions of bucks), Hollywood crams in a few last small... »
Ver-sighs: 'Farewell, My Queen' The gargantuan San Francisco Film Festival opens this week after a particularly fraught year in which the San Francisco Film Society tragically lost two well-respected executive directors. But never fear! SFIFF is still ... »
Paprika Steen plays a star teetering on the brink in "Applause." photo courtesy www.applausemovie.com Guess how many movies are opening in the Bay Area Fri/13? Sixteen. Sixteen, y'all. That might be an all-time Ultimate Grand Supreme record. So in this... »
Two Flux Foundation founders, Rebecca Anders and Jessica Hobbs, with a model of their funded Zoa project. Guardian photo by Steven T. Jones It's been a tough year for Black Rock City LLC (aka the Borg), the SF-based company that stages Burning Man, par... »
Pretty Woman vs. Snow White: Julia Roberts and Lily Collins in "Mirror Mirror," out Fri/30. MIRROR MIRROR PHOTO BY JAN THIJS The truth is, The Hunger Games will still be raking in mad dough this weekend. (Even Julia Roberts can't step to Katniss Everde... »
Mark Duplass does not sleep. He waits. Courtesy www.imdb.com In a series of posts, Midnites for Maniacs curator-host and Academy of Art film-history teacher Jesse Hawthorne Ficks reports on the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Check out his first, second, ... »
Six locations, crackerjack website, and counting: How big does Good Vibrations want to get? PHOTOS VIA GOOD VIBRATIONS What will be the San Francisco-in-the-aughtteens equivalent of the creation of Good Vibrations in the Mission District in 1977? Let's... »
Bring the noise this MLK Jr. Day with events from Youth Speaks, MoAD, and Living Jazz. POSTER ART VIA YOUTH SPEAKS Use your national day of service wisely -- jump in one of of the day's volunteering fairs, take in a black history flick, catch some awe... »
