Academy Awards

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Let's Take a Moment To Celebrate Oscar-Nominated Animated Short "Fresh Guacamole"

By now you've probably seen the brilliant, stop-motion short film "Fresh Guacamole" by director PES. It was up for an Academy Award last night in the best animated short film category, and though it didn't win, we still haven't gotten tired of watching everyday objects transformed into deceptively d ... More >>

Top 10 Songs From This Year's Oscar-Nominated Movies That Don't Suck

By CORY SKLAR It's Oscar season again, which means close to nothing to music nerds. Most of the time, of course, the Oscars bring very little to the table in terms of great music. Sure, they have their Best Original Song and Best Score categories. And sure, sometimes Three 6 Mafia, Trent Reznor, or ... More >>

Speed Rack: Cocktail Challenge for Breast Cancer Charity

This Sunday the Oscars aren't the only show worth watching. Go cheer your favorite nominees for leading female bartender in a bar drama at the second annual breast cancer fundraiser Speed Rack. The competition is the first nationwide competition designed to highlight up-and-coming women in the cockt ... More >>

The 2013 Esseffies: Our Film Awards of Dubious Distinction

Step It Up

Joie de Vine

Three 6 Mafia: Show Preview

James Beard Finalists Announced Today: Here Are the Locals

​Today, the James Beard Foundation announces the finalists for both its restaurant, book, and journalism awards, often called the "Oscars" of the food world. (Semifinalists for the 2012 restaurant awards were announced on February 21). The foundation is tweeting out the results as we type, so SFoo ... More >>

The 84th Academy Awards: a Timeline

​ People plan parties around this stuff, so we assume you probably watched too. But just in case you didn't, here's a timeline of the 84th Academy Awards ceremony. They make it this long just to mess with us all, in case you didn't know...

Shrimp is Killing Everything, Babycakes is Coming to San Francisco, & Vegan Caramel Invades the Oscars

​ •Let's lead with the most important news: I'm totally at the Oscars! Actually, it's even better than the Oscars because that's just some wack-ass, rigged, masturbatory television program. I'm at the Oscar Swag Bag Lounge, where celebrities come to get hella free shit for being rich. I know, it ... More >>

Dress Up and Watch the Oscars at Two S.F. Neighborhood Theaters

It's the time of year when Hollywood shines the spotlight on itself, and the Balboa and the Roxie theaters bring the red carpet to San Francisco on Sunday evening by showing the Academy Awards telecast on the big screen. Writer and performer Reed Kirk Rahlmann returns to the Balboa this year as mast ... More >>

The Top 10 Worst Film Performances By Musicians

By DAVE GIL DE RUBIO Rock star, singer-songwriter, producer, interior designer -- now we should add thespian to the many creative hats sported by Lenny Kravitz, who performs tonight (Feb. 14) at the Fox Theater in Oakland. In keeping with the family business -- his mom was the late Roxie Roker, a.k ... More >>

Five Songs That Should Have Been Nominated For an Oscar This Year

​Really, Academy? Only two nominations for Best Original Song this year? And they're both from children's movies? Because there were so many songs on your shortlist (39, to precise), and because only songs that score an average of 8.5 out of 10 from your voters can get nominated, you basically jus ... More >>

The 13 Worst Songs to Listen to While High

In the world of random audio hallucination, there's the shit and then there's, well, shit. While I own some terrible stoner tunes, mere good taste, as everyone knows, goes for little in a world of thin walls, car audio, American Idol, and an ongoing '90s revival. Drunk or sober, bent or straight, l ... More >>

Tough Guys and Long Legs

Good Food Awards Brings a Beer Garden to the Ferry Building

The Good Food Awards is kind of like the Oscars, only a touch less glamorous and a lot more focused on cured meat and pickles. This weekend, awards will be given out in categories such as charcuterie, cheese, coffee, and chocolate. If you ask us, those are a lot more exciting than Best Costume Desig ... More >>

This Weekend's World Veg Fest is Guaranteed Bananas!

Tamara PalmerOCD Sweet's Caramel 'Not' Corn for your face.​What: 12th Annual World Vegetarian Festival Where: San Francisco County Fair Building When: Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 1 & 2, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $8 suggested donation The rundown: Gather round, ye hippies and bleeding hearts, it's ... More >>

Refuge in Refuse

Glee to Get Its Own Music Awards Show; Suicide Rate Likely to Increase

Yesterday, Perez Hilton announced (in his usual fawning, sycophantic way) that this year -- on May 31, to be precise -- there will be a Glee music awards show. We now officially feel like the cast of that show is so damn ubiquitous, its members might as well be breaking into our homes at night and ... More >>

Idol Worship

"The Eagle": A Neophyte Roman General Leads a Boy's Adventure

Showcasing Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2011

Sundance dominated by cults and the uncertain future

(100) Days of Summer Movies

Horror Business

Oscar Wild: The Academy Awards bring the crazy

It’s an Honor Just to Be Aggravated

Police and Thieves

Cunning Linguists

Moving the Dead

Star Power

The Elusive Happy Ending

Creativity Explored 25th Anniversary At Foreign Cinema

You Should Explore Your Own

Up Yours

2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films at Embarcadero Center Cinema - Today's Calendar Pick

Good Luck, Philippe!

Saint Nic

Harvey Milk Biopic to be filmed in SF, Mayor's Office Announces

Small Packages

Repertory Film Listings

Tranny Get Your Fun

Colorful parties, curious panel discussions, and lots and lots of movies

Movie Meals

A strategy for eating near the San Francisco International Film Festival

Best Place to See a Movie and Drink Beer

The Parkway Theater

Best Movie Memorabilia

Show Biz

Up the Academy

The Oscar telecast has, for a decade, been Gil Cates' golden moment

Reel World

Freedom on My Mind and Never Fear

Big Night

Night+Day