FEATURES
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Elizabeth Pepin hopes to clean up with sewage doc
Spend enough time in and around the ocean, as surfer/photographer/filmmaker Elizabeth Pepin does, and you’re bound to see—or smell—something disgusting. For example, the beach at Rincon Point, the internationally known... more
NEWS
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SF Chronicle: Bay Area youth poets at Sundance
"Seven young poets will attend this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, to perform spoken-word poetry and to talk about environmental dangers to the planet," reported the Chronicle’s... more
SEEN
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Sun shines on the wardrobe shed during the Civic Center-based filming of Milk in San Francisco this past year. After filling the Castro Theatre for the month, the film is... more
BLOGS
Rocchi's Retro Rental: Donald Westlake, 1933-2008
Point Blank (1967) I know, I know -- I wrote about a crime film last week. And there's always the danger of turning this column into a constantly rotating memorial, where whichever notable...
[From SFGate: Culture Blog!]
Events
"The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins"--Oct. 13
San Francisco Art Institute’s Visiting Artists and Scholars lecture series brings Pietra Brettkelly’s fascinating Sundance-award-winning documentary, which followed international artist Vanessa Beecroft as she makes art and attempts to adopt children in the Sudan. More at SFAI.
10.13.2008