'Crazy Wisdom' about a controversial Tibetan Buddhist opens in the Bay Area
Filmmaker Johanna Demetrakas first met Tibetan Buddhist Chogyam Trungpa in 1971 in Los Angeles when he gave a weekend seminar, “Thee Battle of Ego.” He was wearing a suit and speaking precise English....
View ArticleSpotlight on music at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Lexi Leban, the new executive director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, says this year they’ve made a special effort to lighten up. The 2012 festival, the largest and oldest of its kind,...
View ArticleRashida Jones''Celeste and Jesse Forever' opens in the Bay Area
In Celeste and Jesse Forever, Rashida Jones plays Celeste, a hyper competent trend spotter who runs her own media company. At the beginning of the movie, we see her in a seemingly perfect relationship...
View ArticleComedian Gina Yashere tapes DVD 'Laughing to America' at Brava Theater
When Gina Yashere, a British comedian with Nigerian parents, took some time off from her job as an elevator engineer to try out comedy, her mother, a teacher, was decidedly unimpressed. “You’re giving...
View Article'Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy' at the Asian Art Museum
This weekend particularly, what with Eventaggedon- Hardly Strictly Bluegrass! America’s Cup! Fleet Week! Giants and 49er games! Street festivals and parades! – you might like to go somewhere cool and...
View ArticleLitCrawl!! How the Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage
Caroline Grant looks forward to LitCrawl. The co-editor of Mama, PhD and the editor of LiteraryMama.com enjoys the challenge of competing with so many other events and readers in the Mission event...
View ArticleOakland filmmaker's documentary on Highland Hospital opens in the Bay Area
Health care has been one of the central political issues in the upcoming election. Oakland filmmaker Pete Nicks’ movie, The Waiting Room, opening Oct. 19 at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland and the...
View ArticleAsian Improv celebration at Yoshi's with Jon Jang
The late jazz critic Phil Elwood called Francis Wong, one of “the great saxophonists of his generation." But when he started out a couple of decades ago, Wong says he didn’t fit the profile of a...
View Article'Sister' opens at the Kabuki
In Ursula Meier’s first movie Home, starring Isabelle Huppert as a mom, Kacey Mottet Klein played the part of the little boy in the family. Meir was impressed by his naturalness as an actor and wanted...
View Article'Solar Mamas' screens at Main Library
Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the UN, said, "There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls and the empowerment of women. No other policy is as likely to raise...
View Article'Hear Me Now' - latest from First Person Singular
Joe Christiano thinks there’s a certain kind of exhibitionism going on when people have their private cell phone conversations in public.“It allows people in public to present themselves by virtue of...
View ArticlePerformer Charlie Varon premieres short stories in 'The Listener' at the Marsh
Playwright and performer Charlie Varon, known for his solo performances in pieces such as Rush Limbaugh in Night School, says he’s loving writing short stories. “I feel like a kid with a whole bunch...
View ArticleSean San José's 'Superheroes' at the Cutting Ball's Risk is This . . .
“We’re living through two epidemics – AIDS and crack. And not to be apocalyptic, but I’ve watched people perish from both of those things,” said Sean San José. “It’s affected who...
View ArticleSFJAZZ opens new center in San Francisco's Hayes Valley
Searching for spaces that were intimate, inspiring, and had great acoustics, SFJAZZ artistic director Randall Kline and architect Mark Cavagnero looked at churches when designing the Robert Miner...
View ArticleL. Peter Callender directs 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' at Af Am Shakes
Years ago I saw Richard III at the Thick House, a theater in Potrero Hill. There were only three actors playing all the roles. The actor who played Richard III (and an assassin) was on stage a lot, of...
View ArticleDocumentary 'West of Memphis' opens in San Francisco
Director Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) and his partner, screenwriter and producer Fran Walsh, found director Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil) to make the new documentary, West of Memphis, about the...
View ArticleCAAMfest opens March 14 in San Francisco
CAAMfest (previously the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival) opens March 14 with “Linsanity,” a documentary about basketball player Jeremy Lin, at the Castro Theater, and runs...
View ArticleKurt Bodden draws on own experience to create 'Steve Seabrook: Better Than You'
Kurt Bodden says sometimes after seeing his show, “Steve Seabrook: Better Than You,” people will come up and tell him that they found some of the stories he told as his character, a personal growth...
View ArticleCutting Ball extends 'The Chairs'
The Cutting Ball Theater will add an additional five performances of its current production of Eugene Ionesco’s tragic farce, The Chairs. The play is about an elderly couple living by the sea, playing...
View Article'The Clock,' a 24-hour video installation, at SFMOMA through June 2
While working on the silent video Screen Play in 2005, artist and composer Christian Marclay had to find footage of clocks.“I started thinking, ‘What if I could find every minute of day and night?”...
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