Buenos Aires

Cannes 2011: What to See from the Best Festival in Years

Early Cannes Report: Troubled Parents, Troubled Kids Aplenty

Suspect In Kathleen Horan Murder Posed As Utility Worker

​Police are seeking a suspect in the murder of Kathleen Horan last Friday at her Russian Hill apartment. It is believed the man responsible posed as a public utility worker to enter the secured building. As announced at a Hall of Justice press conference this morning, the white male carried a tool ... More >>

Kathleen Horan Found Dead in Russian Hill Home, Homicide Suspected

Kathleen "Kate" Horan​The woman found dead in her home on the 900 block of Chestnut Street over the weekend has been identified. She is Kathleen Horan, a 45-year-old San Franciscan. SF Weekly has learned that Horan returned with her mother from a trip Buenos Aires on Friday afternoon. She was foun ... More >>

That's My Jam!: El Remolón's Electro-Cumbia Groove

El Remolón​I recently learned what exactly makes a cumbia rhythm, and it's basically a slow-grooving shaker making a simple rhythm like "CHK-chky CHK-chky CHK-chky CHK" and so on. "Basta Ya," a stellar track from ZZK stalwart El Remolón, is officially a bit of electronic cumbia&nb ... More >>

The Week in Gay: Argentina! Clay Aiken! Toilet Water!

In Argentina, homosexuals can now tango and marry​This week Argentina's senate voted 33 to 27 in support of marriage equality and now it's legal down there. Frankly, I don't know a lot about Argentina. Apparently, it's winter there now. Isn't that fascinating?

"Love Ranch"

The worst little whorehouse movie in Nevada

What to Have for Lunch: Choripan with a Side of Soccer

Stefano C./YelpChoripan ($6.50)​Monday, June 14, 2010Last week when we visited Tanguito, the Argentinian food truck on Fisherman's Wharf, the sun was brilliant, the tables permanently installed next to the truck were packed, and the owners were tuning the flat-screen television they'd hooked onto ... More >>

SaltShaker Lists Underground Dining Spots in S.F. and Beyond

TastyTwosome/FlickrNotes from underground: Blair Warsham of S.F.'s graffEats.​The Internet often makes our world seem as tiny as a quinoa pearl. A native New Yorker (he eats, he writes, he cooks) sequestered in Buenos Aires also runs a Web site offering a thorough, immensely tantalizing rundow ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: DJ Oro11 (Tormenta Tropical)

​DJ Oro11 moved from the Bay down to Buenos Aires, and when he came back here, he had a hard time letting go of Argentina. So he hooked up with another local ex-pat he'd met down south, DJ Disco Shawn, and together they started a label (Bersa Discos) and a club night (Tormenta Tropical) that grab ... More >>

Congratulations, San Francisco -- Tens of Thousands of Out of Towners Feel We're 'Happy'

Can you see the happiness? ​If ever there were an inane list of cities that place well in inane lists -- San Francisco would, inanely, make a hell of a showing. And there's something seemingly even more inane than normal about the latest elite list the city has found itself on -- apparently, D ... More >>

Francis Ford Coppola talks film, critics, and marriage

Can you see the happiness? ​If ever there were an inane list of cities that place well in inane lists -- San Francisco would, inanely, make a hell of a showing. And there's something seemingly even more inane than normal about the latest elite list the city has found itself on -- apparently, D ... More >>

Papa Coppola returns, successfully, to the clan in Tetro

Can you see the happiness? ​If ever there were an inane list of cities that place well in inane lists -- San Francisco would, inanely, make a hell of a showing. And there's something seemingly even more inane than normal about the latest elite list the city has found itself on -- apparently, D ... More >>

Drinking Gallo

Can you see the happiness? ​If ever there were an inane list of cities that place well in inane lists -- San Francisco would, inanely, make a hell of a showing. And there's something seemingly even more inane than normal about the latest elite list the city has found itself on -- apparently, D ... More >>

Summer of Salvation

The film snob's guide to the best cinema the season has to offer.

Tonight: Tormenta Tropical's 1-Year Anniversary

Local DJs Disco Shawn (left) and DJ Oro11 have spent the past year bringing a bit of Buenos Aires to San Francisco. They're the masterminds behind the regular Tormenta Tropical club night, which mixes beats and cultures, throwing cumbia music into hiphop, electro, and techno tracks. They're celebra ... More >>

Cellar Rat: Week Seven at Unti Vineyards

Local DJs Disco Shawn (left) and DJ Oro11 have spent the past year bringing a bit of Buenos Aires to San Francisco. They're the masterminds behind the regular Tormenta Tropical club night, which mixes beats and cultures, throwing cumbia music into hiphop, electro, and techno tracks. They're celebra ... More >>

2008 Music Awards Nominees

Local DJs Disco Shawn (left) and DJ Oro11 have spent the past year bringing a bit of Buenos Aires to San Francisco. They're the masterminds behind the regular Tormenta Tropical club night, which mixes beats and cultures, throwing cumbia music into hiphop, electro, and techno tracks. They're celebra ... More >>

Dance Events to Check Out This Fall

Local DJs Disco Shawn (left) and DJ Oro11 have spent the past year bringing a bit of Buenos Aires to San Francisco. They're the masterminds behind the regular Tormenta Tropical club night, which mixes beats and cultures, throwing cumbia music into hiphop, electro, and techno tracks. They're celebra ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Disco Shawn

Local DJs Disco Shawn (left) and DJ Oro11 have spent the past year bringing a bit of Buenos Aires to San Francisco. They're the masterminds behind the regular Tormenta Tropical club night, which mixes beats and cultures, throwing cumbia music into hiphop, electro, and techno tracks. They're celebra ... More >>

We score an exclusive interview with the Olympic torch

Local DJs Disco Shawn (left) and DJ Oro11 have spent the past year bringing a bit of Buenos Aires to San Francisco. They're the masterminds behind the regular Tormenta Tropical club night, which mixes beats and cultures, throwing cumbia music into hiphop, electro, and techno tracks. They're celebra ... More >>

Art House

Local DJs Disco Shawn (left) and DJ Oro11 have spent the past year bringing a bit of Buenos Aires to San Francisco. They're the masterminds behind the regular Tormenta Tropical club night, which mixes beats and cultures, throwing cumbia music into hiphop, electro, and techno tracks. They're celebra ... More >>

Cumbia, My Lord, Cumbia

Local DJs Disco Shawn (left) and DJ Oro11 have spent the past year bringing a bit of Buenos Aires to San Francisco. They're the masterminds behind the regular Tormenta Tropical club night, which mixes beats and cultures, throwing cumbia music into hiphop, electro, and techno tracks. They're celebra ... More >>

A Petition: Cry for Justice: The Murder of Hugues de la Plaza

Local DJs Disco Shawn (left) and DJ Oro11 have spent the past year bringing a bit of Buenos Aires to San Francisco. They're the masterminds behind the regular Tormenta Tropical club night, which mixes beats and cultures, throwing cumbia music into hiphop, electro, and techno tracks. They're celebra ... More >>

Tormenta Tropical and Bersa Discos bring Buenos Aires cumbia to the clubs

Local DJs Disco Shawn (left) and DJ Oro11 have spent the past year bringing a bit of Buenos Aires to San Francisco. They're the masterminds behind the regular Tormenta Tropical club night, which mixes beats and cultures, throwing cumbia music into hiphop, electro, and techno tracks. They're celebra ... More >>

South American cumbia gets the remix treatment at Tormenta Tropical

Local DJs Disco Shawn (left) and DJ Oro11 have spent the past year bringing a bit of Buenos Aires to San Francisco. They're the masterminds behind the regular Tormenta Tropical club night, which mixes beats and cultures, throwing cumbia music into hiphop, electro, and techno tracks. They're celebra ... More >>

Bellavista: Back in Vue

Local DJs Disco Shawn (left) and DJ Oro11 have spent the past year bringing a bit of Buenos Aires to San Francisco. They're the masterminds behind the regular Tormenta Tropical club night, which mixes beats and cultures, throwing cumbia music into hiphop, electro, and techno tracks. They're celebra ... More >>

Don't Believe the Hype

Despite a nonexistent marketing campaign, Cuarón's latest is not to be missed

Into the Jungle

Despite a nonexistent marketing campaign, Cuarón's latest is not to be missed

Mall Ratty

A store clerk's tale is Lost amid a flurry of poor camerawork

Lost in the Male

When a Latin lover suddenly splits town, his ex-boyfriend goes postal

Crooked as They Come

Criminal swipes its story from a far superior movie

House of Tudor

Eric McFadden's got an ax to grind. The Clorox Girls re-invent '70s pub-rock.

Five Best Ice Cream Parlors

Eric McFadden's got an ax to grind. The Clorox Girls re-invent '70s pub-rock.

Insane Clown Posse

Opera, fun? Golden Gate Opera takes the stuffing out of I Pagliacci

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Opera, fun? Golden Gate Opera takes the stuffing out of I Pagliacci

The Sixth Annual Latino Film Festival

A special program of three films about the Jewish diaspora

Malambo

A celebration of the passionate dances of Argentina

United Nations

Week 2 of the San Francisco International Film Festival

ZOOM LENS

The Jewish Film Festival

The More Things Change

The Circle is a powerhouse of a film about women in Iran

What's Green and Black and Blue All Over?

Maybe Nader voters should be slapped around a bit; their leftist purity will likely bring us four very squalid years

Easy Does It

Italian cinematic obscurities inspire a groovy new club vibe

Stage

Italian cinematic obscurities inspire a groovy new club vibe

Night + Day

Italian cinematic obscurities inspire a groovy new club vibe

Stage

Italian cinematic obscurities inspire a groovy new club vibe

Savage Love

Italian cinematic obscurities inspire a groovy new club vibe

Riff Raff

Italian cinematic obscurities inspire a groovy new club vibe

Past Forward

For its 40th year, the San Francisco International Film Festival boldly goes where it has gone before

Night+Day

For its 40th year, the San Francisco International Film Festival boldly goes where it has gone before