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Riff Riffs

Published June 9, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

As Sketchfest proves every year, stand-up comedians can do a lot more in a live setting than just rattle off a bunch of jokes. Events like Celebrity Autobiography, the Shit Show, and Game Show Explosion! have found comedians making the most of different formats that laugh outside the box. Earlier th ...

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Phlebotomy on Wheels

Published June 9, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

San Francisco ShEvil Dead is hungry. For the past three seasons, the roller derby squad has gone 1-12. That’s right: They’ve lost 12 matches and won 1. A record like that makes a skating zombie ravenous — ShEvil Dead, part of the B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls league, is all-girl, undead, an ...

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Food Fight

Published June 9, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

For some, the Giants County Fair is ironic: You’re 31 and in a bumper car? But that’s okay. Nobody can eat cotton candy after a ride in a Super Swing and not feel like the world has gone upside down just a tiny bit. But at today’s Urban Eats food competition, smirkless authenti ...

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Rock Steady

Published June 9, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Jamaican band the Skatalites started playing together as teenagers 46 years ago and never quit. Along the way, the group invented and popularized ska music — a mix of Jamaican folk, American big-band jazz, and New Orleans R&B — and laid the foundations for its successors, rocksteady ...

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Arthouse movie listings for June 9-15, 2010

Published June 9, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com ... Artists' Television Access ... The Inner Tour: Ra'anan Alexandrowicz's documentary about Palestinian tourists in Israel. Thu., June 10, 7:30 p.m. $6. "Experimental Films and Sounds from the Ba ...

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Worlds Apart

Published June 9, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

The U.S. Customs officer eyed Sang's well-traveled South Korean passport. "What is your purpose in the United States?" she asked. Sang said he was "on holiday" and would be going back to Korea in two weeks, yet agents still pulled him aside from the rest of the arrivals at Chicago's O'Hare Intern ...

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Kung fu hustle: “Karate Kid” remake is too cynical

Published June 9, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Like its predecessor, 2010's Harald Zwart–directed The Karate Kid begins with an uprooting. Young Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) and his mother (Taraji P. Henson) are introduced in the Detroit apartment he grew up in, now packed into boxes. Ralph Macchio shipped off to the Valley; Dre is g ...

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The Joan Rivers show: More than just a vulgar broad in a makeup mask

Published June 9, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Everyone thinks they know Joan Rivers. And they do. They know part of her persona and her performances, but they don't know Joan Rivers." ... Filmmaker Ricki Stern is talking about the documentary she directed with Annie Sundberg, called Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work , a frank look at th ...

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@sk Jamie Varon: Is there any privacy on the Internet?

Published June 9, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Dear Jamie, ... I heard about that girl from Harvard whose racist e-mails were forwarded, and now all my friends are pissed about Facebook and how we have no privacy. What's the deal? Can anyone forward my e-mails? Is Facebook allowed to have all my information? Do I have any reason ...

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Cash oils the city's political machine, even at its lowest levels

Published June 9, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Nancy Pelosi is easily the most powerful San Franciscan — the Speaker of the House of Representatives is, after all, third in line to the presidency. But hometown politics are not lost among her lofty concerns of state: Pelosi has a horse in the race for the local Democratic County Central ...

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