(By SFist MiHi Ahn) The Kinsey Sicks is one of those San Francisco acts we've been hearing about for years, but never managed to see in-person. Alas. But much to our delight, The Kinsey Sicks: Almost Infamous gave us the opportunity to see them on the big screen, and made us regret not seeing them sooner. Let's back up a bit: back in 1993, five friends--mostly lawyers and buttoned-up, white-collar, professionals--dressed in drag for......

(By SFist MiHi Ahn) Eleven Minutes follows Project Runway--season one winner Jay McCarroll for an entire year as he attempts to become a real fashion designer and not just a reality TV star. A difficult feat to say the least. (McCarroll reportedly declined the Project Runway cash prize of $100,000 and a mentorship opportunity at Banana Republic because the contract required him to sign away 10% of his professional earning in perpetuity. You go......

(By Joe Kukura) Ready? OK! Hey! Is that Michael Emerson up there on the right, who plays the sinister creep cult leader Ben Linus on LOST? And is that Carrie Preston on the left, whom we recognize from Transamerica and Desperate Housewives? And is that Chester in the middle, the lovable sexual predator of the burlesque cheerleading troupe The COCK-Ts? “Like, totally for reals!” on all three counts… as Frameline 2008 had an enormous......

(By SFist MiHi Ahn) XXY We're suckers for coming-of-age movies, so we hunkered down with a cup of coffee and bag of popcorn last night at the Castro Theatre to see back to back Frameline Festival movies about young adults. The first movie, XXY by first time director Lucia Puenzo is a quietly riveting film about an intersex teenager going through puberty in a small seaside town in Uruguay. Fifteen-year-old Alex has lived life......

Were you snoring next to SFist Wendy at the movies the other night? Our fellow SFisters weren’t alone in the lyrical department this week. We signed on for the SFIFF's In the City of Sylvia, a film described as “simple” and “classical.” More importantly for us – since we love all things French (or almost) – the film was set in Strasbourg. It wasn’t until we already had our ticket and were ready to......

Every time we see an Errol Morris film, we're always astonished by his subjects' self-incrimination and displays of delusion. We had suspected that Morris is drawn to delusional people as subjects, or at least, the unusually obsessed. With Standard Operating Procedure, screened at the SFIFF on Tuesday, April 29th, Errol Morris once again attempts to answer the question that recurs in many of his movies, "What were they thinking?" In a pre-screening chat with......

Wednesday night's production of Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class at A.C.T. was top notch, with supurb acting, writing, directing, costumes, set design, and props. The packed audience was delighted to be there, and most of us were classy enough not to wear jeans. (Our spouse set us straight about wearing our "dressy" jeans, and it appeared that several audience members could have used that same advice.) Curse of the Starving Class, directed by......

What we love most about watching films at SFIFF is being able to experience something different than your own life. Take for instance, Just Like Home. How else can one know what it's like to live in a small Danish town consumed by the mystery of whom, exactly, is wandering the streets naked? That is the central premise of Just Like Home. A man is seen walking around at night nude and the repercussions this......

Psst! Anyone out there holding onto one of the sacred 1000 journals? If so, add to it already and pass it on! Or send it back to Someguy. Inquiring minds across the world want to see these 1000 journals! SF Int'l Film Fest's screening of 1000 Journals at Kabuki on Saturday was very warmly received by a large audience, and questions abounded at the Q&A with filmmaker Andrea Kreuzhage and Someguy, the creator of The......

Last night's screening of Wayne Wang's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers on opening night of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival was a sheer delight. The film is based on Bay Area author Yiyun Li’s book of short stories. Wayne Wang was there to present the film to us, and then he and star Henry O answered questions after the film. Afterwards, everyone headed over to the Asian American Art Museum for......

We enjoy the following review -- although we're only using part of it for it devolves into anti-Hillary rhetoric, San Francisco's latest form of socially-acceptable sexism -- because a) it turns out that Yelp has an entire category dedicated to Gavin Newsom's hair, and b) it's pro-Gavin Newsom locks. (If you want to see some actual janky-ass hair, walk down Valencia Street or sit on a bench at Zeitgeist on any given day. Because:......

Sent to us by SFist reader Sean Yamamoto, today's Yelp review was penned by Beth S. (Please excuse the glaring nepotism.) She critiques Owen Bias, i.e., the "old dude with the sign," saying: I've fucked him. And it was awesome. He's surprisingly nasty, yet afterwards, incredibly tender. He likes to spoon. 5 stars... Wonderful.......

By Gordon Elgart Do you remember classic brainteaser puzzles like the one where you have to put wolves and chickens on rafts, but only in certain combinations? Or the one where you have to draw things without picking up your pen, and without redrawing a line? Of course you do. Now, there’s a video game that features all of these puzzles, all wrapped into a story of lost treasure, murder, kidnapping, and other mysteries.......

Well, this is amusing and slightly erotic. And, yes, kids, it's almost over a year old, but for your entertainment, foodies of the Bay Area, check out the Sunday Drinker Wine Review. Joanne Weir should totally have this guy on her show. It would be a good balance. (We love Joanne Weir for reasons we can't really explain or understand.) Anyway, be sure to check out more wine reviews here. And if wine isn't......

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The first of what will soon be many Cosco Busan reports...

As noted on Friday, we were super stoked to check out SF Sketchfest's "Fresh Faces of Comedy" show at the Mezzanine on Sunday night, hosted by Jon Benjamin and Eugene Mirman, with performances by Mike Birbiglia, John Lehr, Bob Odenkirk, Michael Showalter, Tim and Eric, and musical guest Zach Rogue of Rogue Wave. It was standing room only at the Mezzanine, and the place was already packed to the gills when we arrived fifteen minutes......

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It looks like several of you took our advice and joined us at the Kate Nash concert Saturday night. With lines almost around the corner, we thought, "Great, we'll be lucky to get a spot close enough to even see the stage." Looks were deceiving though - we entered and secured a spot on the second row (or so we thought). As we waited we were treated to some awesome indie tracks by DJ Nako......

Q.) What are theees "Queens Of The Stone Age?" A.) That'd be a band that makes hip-shakin' heavy rock 'n roll for adults....

Huge Chunk of the Bay Bridge sitting on a beach in Half Moon Bay...

Aaron Axelsen has been a major force in promoting local independent music with San Francisco's indie-dance party, Popscene and his Sunday night radio show on Live 105. (You can listen from 7-10pm. Check out what he plays, here.) We wanted to feature his top ten albums of the year to find out what he thinks rocked 2007. Here's the list: Aaron Axelsen, Live 105 Music Director's, Top 10 Albums of 2007 1. Great Northern......

Attention citizenry! The SFPD needs your help. Especially if you're a web designer. They're currently conducting a poll, with the help of a Massachusetts company called, ominously, the Public Safety Strategies Group. Do you like foot patrols? Do you know where your police station is? Have you been the victim of a crime lately? These and other exciting questions will be answered on tonight's episode of "The San Francisco Police Effectiveness Review"! Sadly, the......

We enjoy Yelp quite a bit. During our rare moments of free time, we often have fun slogging through the site's multitudes of oft-useful, oft-comedic opinions on local services, establishments, and especially restaurants (feel free to check out our vast [6] amount of reviews ). We were interested to hear more about the genesis of this community-based Web site, and wondered how Yelp's growth and evolution looked to those behind the scenes. The site's founders, Jeremy Stoppelman (who's the CEO, and talked to SFist once before) and Russel Simmons (the CTO), took a few minutes to answer three questions for us. Hey -- six answers for the price of three!...

Because we love nothing better than a "We're Mad As Hell And We're Not Going To Take It Anymore" story, we give you this story, about a local Bay Area woman who got stuck on a tarmac for nine and a half hours when her flight got diverted from it's point of destination. The flight she took was supposed to have been from SFO to Dallas (as in Dallas, Texas, not Dulles-- we always get them confused and boy, nothing says "we're an idiot" like getting on the wrong plane) but the flight was diverted to Austin because of tornado warnings in the Dallas area. And so her plane sat. And sat. And sat some more. For nine and a half hours. Finally, they were allowed to fly off and fifty hours after they left, they finally made it to their destination. Let's hope it wasn't for a long weekend. ...

It's the first Thursday of the month, the official "wine and cheese chaser" day to descend on downtown art galleries and people watch. A couple of highlights of tonight's receptions: ARTworkSF (49 Geary St., 2nd Floor) presents (sub) text: coded and deconstructedlanguage, curated by Matt McKinley and featuring three Bay Area artists, Maggie Malloy, Eric Bohr,and Judith Miller. In paintings and mixed media works, the artists demonstrate how each non-verbally communicates both message and meaning--the......

When compiling my "Year in Review" in my head, I thought, "Hey, I do get out of the house sometimes!" This year was a year of firsts for me. I saw some awe-inspiring bands, took some fun Bay Area trips, and became a regular at some tasty restaurants....

SFist Rita is on vacation, so we're guest-reading the weeklies for her this week. Plus, it's the last weekly week of 2006, so we will be tallying up this year's picks to anoint a Weekly of the Year at the end of this post. Last week's winner and in at 4th place for 2006 with 6.5 WotW points, the Metro: Gary Singh on Rudy Rucker's new book Mathematicians in Love. Cover: Year in Review for......

It looks like the Federal Government is finally going to investigate certain fishy aspects of voting machines. And no, we're not talking Diebold. We're talking about Oakland's very own Sequoia Voting Machines. Why? Because one of their investors is a group of wealthy Venezuelan’s thought to have ties to Venezuelan crazy guy Hugo Chavez. Cause remember folks, throwing U.S. elections is for Americans and Americans only. Oh, and Republicans too. ...

No, not Air America -- David Barsamian, the host of the Alternative Radio show on KALW, is hosting an evening of high-falutin' discourse at the Brava Theater with New Left Review commentator Tariq Ali (the author of Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope, on Hugo Chavez and Latin America), and music by the Kronos Quartet. The event is a benefit for the Media Alliance, which is celebrating 30 years of responsible left-wing media representation.......