If you can’t make it to the SF/Bay Area July 24 – Aug 9th, here’s my greatest hits list for your Netflix queue. As always, this diverse lineup promises to astound you with fantastic performances not likely to ever be seen at a theater near you. If you just have time for one film, pick…
The gorgeous county of Monterey boasts 99 miles of prime Pacific coastline, the 5,312 sq. mile National Marine Sanctuary and the nation’s top-ranked Monterey Bay Aquarium. Now, there is a new addition. Set for August 25-29, 2010, the 2010 Blue Ocean Film Festival & Conservation Summit is a global ocean-focused event that will wet everyone’s…
Check out the work of local artists at the Summer Art Walk on Saturday, July 17 from 12 Noon to 5pm. This free , self-guided, and public event aims to inspire the Bay Area public to explore the arts community offered by the galleries surrendering Union Square. With over a dozen galleries collaborating on this…
Now that commercial Kombucha has started to disappear off store shelves after questions of alcohol content, what’s a kombucha fan to do?Rancho Parnassus to the rescue. The first retailer to provide kombucha on tap. There are also bottles to go. There’s the custom grilled panini, obscure beverages, awesome Thanksgiving Coffee from Fort Bragg and crazy…
An oasis amongst the summer film dreck, Mother & Child, is another fine offering by Rodrigo Garcia , (Nine Lives), who just happens to be the son of famed author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This is no mere chick flick, which it is, but it’s so much more. The film introduces us to three diverse women…
Thanks to the fantastic San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, preview screenings currently in progress, I was treated to a great independent film, sort of a romantic comedy for the hip urbanite. Daryl Wein & Zoe Lister-Jones, a real life New York couple, wrote a fictionalized version of a point in their relationship when they tried…
Film Review: I was lucky enough to catch a screening of “Soundtrack for a Revolution“, an incredible story of the American civil rights movement. This is no dry PBS take, the Executive Producers, including actor Danny Glover, took great pains to make this doc accessable to the younger generation through the use of freedom songs…