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, […]
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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, […]
Her Feroshcity
I’m loath to bring her up again (no, I really am not), but you know Madame X…ahem…Madonna? She recently got to collaborate with another lady from Miami who’s killing it right now: American DJ/producer Tracy Young. As you may or may not know, Miami’s favorite DJ has a long history with the Queen of Pop, […]
The Pachamoment Playlist
Please, please, please, give peace a chance. The impeached orange hemorrhoid of a president with which we find ourselves stuck at the edge of the end of the world (or democracy – whichever tumbles first, I’m sure, his master would be pleased), is not America. He is not America, and we do not want war. […]
The Denim Diaries VII
“At the end of the day,” he said, “no one’s prettier than rent control in San Francisco.”
Join the Coven, #SanFrancisco!
Bay Area! This weekend brings the second annual Coven Film Festival, three days of film, Q&A sessions, and networking opportunities showcasing the work of women and non-binary filmmakers. The festival, which will be held at the landmark Roxie Theater in the Mission Jan. 10-12, recognizes that not everyone is young, white, middle-class, cisgender, or able-bodied. […]
Gone Verde
This was such fun, heart-warming news to learn: Hedy Goldsmith, one of the Miami’s most beloved pastry chefs, has taken over Verde, the restaurant at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). I met and interviewed and celebrated the Philadelphia native on numerous occasions during the aughts, when we both lived in the Magic City, for […]
