Neil Young Tour

SF Show Biz News

• TOUR DATES & REVIEWS: Neil Young & Crazy Horse 
• Painting the Neil Young & Crazy Horse tour at Acme
• Moscone Center expansion plans unveiled by travel association
• San Francisco Ballet lights up London
• Valuable stolen cello found propped against San Francisco opera house door
• 'The Normal Heart' review: Beats with new life
• Larry Kramer’s ‘The Normal Heart’ plays the American Conservatory Theater
• Assembly speaker to perform in Prop. 8 play '8'
• Google to play role in Vince Vaughan film

The Mill Valley Film Festival opens with screenings of "On the Road," the first movie based on Jack Kerouac's Beat classic.

• 'On the Road' director's complex path
• Mill Valley fest shapes films, careers
• Mill Valley Film Festival To Celebrate 35 Years Of A New Hope
• Hoffman, Thornton, Affleck coming to 35th Mill Valley Film Festival
• Sam Riley: the beat goes on… Having stunned us as Ian Curtis in Control, Sam Riley is now starring as Jack Kerouac in On the Road. Could he get any cooler?

Politics - 

• Look, I See Some Pigs in the Air!
• Is Yee Headed for Victory in D7? 
• If District 7 supervisor candidates Norman Yee and Michael Garcia slug it out, will FX Crowley (above) benefit? -

Get Involved - "First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks. Evidently had a low opinion of Philadelphia." - W.C. Fields (originally William Claude Dukenfield, was born on January 29, 1880, in Philadelphia.)

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Only in San Francisco -   "The way to be cool wasn’t to look like a television star: it was to look like as though you’d never seen television." — Matt Granfield, HipsterMattic

• We're only number 9, what? Hipster Neighborhoods Of US: Top 10 Hipsterhoods (PHOTOS)

The Master Breaks Records

SF Show Biz News

• 'The Master' Breaks Art House Box Office Records
• Disney to write down $50 million at movie studio
• Tragic consequences in a shadowy light
• San Francisco Ballet Programme 1 – review - Sadler's Wells, London
• American Conservatory Theater Production of The Normal Heart Begins Limited Run Sept. 13
• Paul Thomas Anderson on 'The Master'
• Paul Andersons Rule Box Office With ‘Resident Evil,’ ‘The Master’
• Review: The Year's Best Movie So Far, "The Master" Is A Triumph Of Grandiose Yet Intimate Storytelling
• Peter Travers: 'The Master' Is 'The Best Movie I've Seen All Year'
• 'Taken 2,' 'Chasing Mavericks' Will Be Heard in Dolby Atmos
• Woody Allen San Francisco Movie: Visit Brings High Hopes For Local Film (PHOTOS)
• Woody Allen worries over film reality
• Hoping to Run Into Google Interns Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson This Week
• Will Ferrell-Vince Vaughn-Owen Wilson Comedy Shooting on Google Campus

Member News

• From film sets to plein air landscapes, artist Jennifer Clinard sets the scene

Politics

• Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom became the third San Francisco Mayor to endorse FX Crowley for Supervisor, joining U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and former Mayor and Police Chief Frank Jordan.
• Nancy Pelosi: 'Everybody Knows' Mitt Romney Won't Become President

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Only in San Francisco - “I’ve seen dozens, most likely over 50 shoots, in the vicinity of 19th and Texas, which seems to be a view magnet for location agents,”  Ed Lortz, Potrero Hill resident
Potrero Hill an (Unpaid) Television and Film Star

SF Opera 90 Years old

SF Show Biz News

• At 90, S.F. Opera is a cultural treasure
• San Francisco Opera puts on a rousing ‘Rigoletto
• S.F. Opera opener always a high note
• Dance show of the week: San Francisco Ballet, Sadler's Wells, London EC1 
• Casting Complete for San Francisco Elektra With Olympia Dukakis
• Woody Allen project gives San Francisco filming a boost
• Joaquin Phoenix, Anderson Win Venice Trophies for ‘The Master’
• ‘The Master’ Star Philip Seymour Hoffman: ‘It’s Not a Scientology Movie’
• Joaquin Phoenix takes unpredictable path in 'The Master'
• ‘The Master’ considered too masterful to win top prize at Venice Film Festival
• Paul Thomas Anderson's 'The Master' On 70mm Harkens Back To Hollywood Epics 
• PHOTOS: Apple Wraps A Theater For The Next iPhone
• Colorful banners for Sep 12 Phone 5 Apple Event now going up
• Jack White, Guns N’ Roses to play Neil Young’s Bridge School Benefit 

Politics

• Diane Feinstein endorses FX
• James Hoffa, Teamsters President, Says Romney 'Wants To Annihilate Organized Labor'
• I talked to a bunch of people who didn't get a chance to enjoy every moment of the Republican Convention in Tampa. Here's what you missed if you were one of them. This Modern World - Crazy Never Sleeps - by Tom Tomorrow

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• 'Register to vote' Google searches double after Obama speech

Only in San Francisco - Dilbert: My phone says we should take 880  Alice: What?! Is it crazy? We are not taking 880!

This just in ... Dilbert lives in the  Bay Area

We're Number 2 ... Most And Least Diverse Cities: Brown University Study Evaluates Diversity In The U.S.

The San Francisco Waterfront Strike of 1901

• Labor Day Special: The San Francisco Waterfront Strike of 1901
• S.F. Labor’s First Fight For 10-Hour Day

SF Show Biz News

• SF Opera replaces Rigoletto's Lomeli with Demuro and Chacon-Cruz as the duke
• Indie films shot in Bay Area show promise
• What Gerard Butler Learned From Near-Death Experience 'Chasing Mavericks' Actor admits he tried to learn surfing 'on the biggest waves possible.'
• Chasing Mavericks Trailer
• Venice: Paul Thomas Anderson Says 'The Master' Is A Love Story & More From The Press Conference
• Venice Review: 'The Master' Is Paul Thomas Anderson's Most Complex And Distinctive Film To Date
• New 'Master' trailer: The rhythm of the saints ... and sinners
• Interview: La Repubblica
• Latest On The Road Trailer Rolls In 'The ones who are mad to live...'
• Cool, calm and out of control On the Road was the book that got Kristen Stewart into reading. Now her role in the film brings a new realism.
• Journey to play Romney fundraiser for $500,000
• Lori Harrison, S.F. Opera prop master

Not San Francisco but worth checking out

• Finding Drama in Newfangled Filmmaking
• ... And in Eternal Stagecraft

Politics

• Elsbernd said he fears that a District Seven win by either labor leader F.X. Crowley or school board President Norman Yee - among the leading contenders - would be a big blow for the moderates, not just in the district, but citywide.
• RNC 2012 - The Road to Jeb Bush 2016 - Republican Time Travel - The Daily Show

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Only in San Francisco - People in motion there's a whole generation With a new explanation - John Phillips

• Scott McKenzie's ode to city helped beckon the weird and the wonderful
• Scott McKenzie, singer of "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)," dead at 73

San Francisco Opera 90th Season

SF Show Biz News

• San Francisco Opera Opens 90th Season with Verdi’s Rigoletto Conducted by Music Director Nicola Luisotti September 7-30, War Memorial Opera House
• Woody Allen: grumpy in San Francisco
• ‘The Master’ Has A New Mysterious Poster Unveiled
• Secrets of ‘The Master’ - Inside director P.T. Anderson’s ‘Scientology movie.’
• Paul Thomas Anderson Talks THE MASTER; Unused Scenes from THERE WILL BE BLOOD Were Reworked for the Film[Updated with New Clip]
• The Walt Disney Family Museum Presents Special Exhibition on Stop Motion Animation
  

SF Politics Edition

• Incidentally, the Mirkarimi case is already starting to play out in the upcoming San Francisco supervisorial races. Last week, District Seven candidate F.X. Crowley shot off a letter to supporters, urging them to tell the supervisors to bounce the sheriff for good.
• Romney donors in liberal S.F. neighborhood
• Hungry for Obama Dinner Parties Go Viral in San Francisco
• Five Guys is headed to San Bruno as Obama’s favorite burger chain lurches closer to San Francisco
• Willie Brown Gives Barack Obama Surefire Winning Debate Strategy 

Only in San Francisco - "She was a very strong and opinionated woman with a very soft heart..." - Mikhail Baryshnikov

• Rice-a-Roni, Armenian Rice Pilaf, Armen Baliantz (Jeanette Etheredge's Mom,) Tosca's and the Kitchen Sisters - Who knew?
• Tosca, amid eviction notice, seeks angel
• North Beach hangout may be stripped away
• Tosca Landlord Just Wants A Less Surly Bar Owner
• Tosca Cafe gets eviction notice, but landlord seeks new owner to keep it Tosca