The San Francisco 49ers are headed to Miami to face the Kansas City Chiefs come Super Bowl LIV on Sunday, Feb. 2 – featuring Jennifer Lopez and Shakira at the halftime mark – and that means you the Faithful are, too. You’re gonna need a place to sleep in the Magic City, and you’re also gonna […]
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The Joaquin Phoenix Moment
He’s won the Globe. He’s won the SAG. He’s probably gonna win the Best Actor Oscar for Joker, too. Not bad for a guy who, not a decade ago, had quit acting to focus on a rapping career, of all things, while sporting black sunglasses on a full face o’ scraggly beard and wearing $3,000-dollar […]
A Postcard from the Castro, Honey
What a great night for the cast of The King of Comedy. Robert De Niro received the 2019 SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Award down in L.A., while SF Sketchfest saluted Sandra Bernard and her career in comedy, in situ at the Castro Theatre here in San Francisco, before a special screening of the 1982 Martin Scorsese film, in […]
Royal Fave for $1200
You can get donuts and meet your neighbors and watch “Jeopardy!” on a Saturday evening here. (Or get donuts on a cold, rainy day…. But not on Tuesdays!) What is Bob’s Donuts?
Time to Ballet, #SanFrancisco!
The San Francisco Ballet is about to kick off its 2020 season by kicking off one the most famous shoes on the planet. Nah, not really. There will be no glass slipper in this SF Ballet production of Cinderella, which Christopher Wheeldon (An American in Paris), the English international choreographer, has updated with stunning style, charming […]
Time to Eat, #SanFrancisco!
San Francisco Restaurant Week is almost here, so mark your calendars for Jan. 22-31, #SanFrancisco, and find out which of your favorite spots is among the 130 restaurants participating in this showcase this year. I see you, Absinthe…. Imma try you, Cafe Zoetrope. Presented by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, #SFRW is a great, fun, […]
Here She Comes, Miss Americana
Taylor Swift is following up her late-2018 Netflix reputation Stadium Tour concert film with the 2020 Sundance Film Festival-bound Miss Americana, a bio-doc that’s set to premiere on the streamer this spring. Produced by the team behind the Oscar-winning 20 Feet from Stardom and helmed by Film Independent Spirit Award-nominated documentary director Lana Wilson (The […]
All Fears Included
I did not know they were remaking TV’s Fantasy Island with a horror twist for the big screen…. Well, I do now. Ant-Man scene-stealer and Cesar Chavez star Michael Peña leads a young ensemble cast as the enigmatic Mr. Roarke in this iteration of the franchise directed by Jeff Wadlow, the man behind Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare (this […]
Gone for the Weekend
Not really, but the eagerly awaited sixth season of the Emmy-nominated Grace and Frankie, starring the indomitable Jane Fonda and the one-of-a-kind Lily Tomlin, is live on Netflix now, today, so….
So Does This Count as a Double Touchdown?
Miami is the place to be this winter (or any winter, really). A few days ago during the weekend, a Lyft driver who was taking me to the Mission told me that the San Francisco 49ers were playing later that afternoon, and that they had a good shot at winning the NFC Championship and thus, […]
