Friday, May 3, 2024

Tagged with: Comedy

Arts Forecast: A Camp Fire benefit that couldn’t be more San Francisco

ARTS FORECAST What happens when your family loses everything, almost in an instant? That's the horror event producer Daniel James Burke faced as the Camp...

Screen Grabs: Robin Hood, Spider-Verse, The Quake …

SCREEN GRABS There’s a rather large number of films we didn’t get (and/or want) to see in advance opening this week, including Once Upon...

Screen Grabs: Holiday zombies, wild Youtubers, Japanese classics…

SCREEN GRABS There was so much happening last week, we didn’t have room to mention two major series now already in-progress at Berkeley’s Pacific...

Arts Forecast: Drag Queens on Ice, Animal Collective, Dear Evan Hansen…

ARTS FORECAST What was your first introduction to "nice" restaurants? Not nice as in fancy, but nice as in somewhere warm and interesting, somewhere that...

Screen Grabs: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, Roma, The Favourite …

SCREEN GRABS This is no time for Christmas shopping, at least if you’re a film buff—not only is the genre festival Another Hole in the...

A rush of that ol’ razzle dazzle in ‘Crazy For You’

ONSTAGE Remember “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “I Got Rhythm,” “They Can’t Take That Away from Me,” and “Embraceable You”? Can you hear these Gershwin tunes...

Screen Grabs: Another Hole in the Head, Green Book, Shoplifters …

SCREEN GRABS As SF bathes in a toxic haze, with citizens walking around like the masked denizens of a dystopian-future movie, it might seem a...

Screen Grabs: The French Had a Name For It …

SCREEN GRABS Importation of foreign language films has reportedly been on the decline for many years because US audiences are growing more resistant to reading...

No men, no boats, no problem: ACT’s ‘Men on Boats’ is wild ride

ONSTAGE The first thing you notice about Men on Boats at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater (through December 16) is that there are no men and there are...

Arts Forecast: Absolutely Fabulous Live, Punk-Metal Flea Market, Crime 1978

ARTS FORECAST Hey, hey! Maybe you have heard that we released a little thing called Best of the Bay last week, with a whole section...