Bernal Heights Resident Facing Eviction Accused Of Starting Fire In Home

Bernal Heights Resident Facing Eviction Accused Of Starting Fire In Home

A Bernal Heights resident faced with eviction proceedings was arrested Tuesday night in connection with an alleged arson in his home, according to police. Firefighters…

Police Arrest Suspect In Slaying Of Ice Cream Vendor Last Month

Police Arrest Suspect In Slaying Of Ice Cream Vendor Last Month

Oakland police on Tuesday arrested a suspect in the slaying of an ice cream vendor last month, a police spokeswoman said today. Joevan Lopez, 23,…

Appealing TV: Supergirl, The World Series (Who Cares The Giants Aren’t In It), And Ash Vs. Evil Dead

Appealing TV: Supergirl, The World Series (Who Cares The Giants Aren’t In It), And Ash Vs. Evil Dead

So, what else is on? Monday, October 26 Supergirl (8:30pm, CBS, series premiere) Supergirl is Superman’s cousin, but best believe we’re not going to be…

Weekend Watch: Rock the Kasbah, The Last Witch Hunter, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension

Weekend Watch: Rock the Kasbah, The Last Witch Hunter, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension

The Last Witch Hunter Vin Diesel is a huge nerd who plays Dungeons and Dragons and that’s really, sincerely great, and this movie (where Diesel…

Weekend Watch: Pan, The Final Girls, And He Named Me Malala

Weekend Watch: Pan, The Final Girls, And He Named Me Malala

Pan The Peter Pan mythos is the latest to take the prequel/reboot with a kid Peter Pan being drawn to Neverland, while teaming with a…

Appealing TV: The CW’s Season Starts, American Horror Story: Hotel, And The Walking Dead

Appealing TV: The CW’s Season Starts, American Horror Story: Hotel, And The Walking Dead

So, what else is on? Monday, October 5 Halloween Baking Championships (9pm, Food Network) Halloween is really just Nightmare Before Christmas hoodie season for disaffected…

Weekend Watch: The Martian, The Walk, And Hell And Back

Weekend Watch: The Martian, The Walk, And Hell And Back

The Martian Matt Damon sciences the shit out of Mars, in what can be described as Apollo 11 meets Castaway, replete with a good looking…

Appealing TV: Peak TV Is Here To Stay 2K15 To Infinity

Appealing TV: Peak TV Is Here To Stay 2K15 To Infinity

So, what else is on? Monday, September 28 San Francisco 2.0 (9pm, HBO) Alexandra Pelosi (Nancy Pelosi’s daughter) helms this documentary about the terraforming San…

Weekend Watch: The Intern, The Green Inferno, and Sicario

Weekend Watch: The Intern, The Green Inferno, and Sicario

The Intern Robert DeNiro and Anne Hathaway star in this light lifestyle movie that largely just seems to want to assert that baby boomers still…

Appealing TV: It’s The 2015 Fall TV Season Spectacular!

Appealing TV: It’s The 2015 Fall TV Season Spectacular!

Run for your fucking lives, it’s the 2015 Fall TV season! So, what else is on? Monday, September 21 New Series Premieres Life in Pieces…

Weekend Watch: The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Black Mass, And Everest

Weekend Watch: The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Black Mass, And Everest

The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Poor Maze Runner, the young adult labyrinth foot race franchise that couldn’t quite catch fire like another certain famished…

Appealing TV: Doctor Who, The Mindy Project, And The Emmys

Appealing TV: Doctor Who, The Mindy Project, And The Emmys

So, what else is on? Monday, September 14 Monday Night Football (4pm, ESPN, season premiere) Nobody is ever ready for football, especially people who tweet…

Weekend Watch: The Perfect Guy, The Visit, Rosenwald

Weekend Watch: The Perfect Guy, The Visit, Rosenwald

The Perfect Guy Thriller about a professional woman who, upon breaking up with her boyfriend, gets together with a seemingly perfect guy. And as movies…

Appealing TV: You’re The Worst, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, And Ferrell Takes The Field

Appealing TV: You’re The Worst, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, And Ferrell Takes The Field

So, what else is on? Tuesday, September 8 The Awesomes (Hulu, season premiere) Seth Meyers’ animated superhero satire puts back on the tights for another…

Weekend Watch: The Transporter: Refueled, A Walk In The Woods, Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine

Weekend Watch: The Transporter: Refueled, A Walk In The Woods, Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine

The Transporter: Refueled This reboot of the franchise originally helmed by Jason Statham looks incredibly unnecessary, and more importantly, incredibly European. Ed Skrein is the…

Appealing TV: Awkward, Hand Of God, The Great British Baking Show

Appealing TV: Awkward, Hand Of God, The Great British Baking Show

So, what else is on? Monday, August 31 Big Blue Live (8pm, PBS, series premiere) If you wanted to see a convergence of scientists, filmmakers,…

Weekend Watch: We Are Your Friends, No Escape, War Room

Weekend Watch: We Are Your Friends, No Escape, War Room

No Escape Released on Wednesday, Owen Wilson moves his family (wife played by Lake Bell) to Southeast Asia only to land in the middle of…

Appealing TV: Narcos, Mr. Robot, and Hannibal

Appealing TV: Narcos, Mr. Robot, and Hannibal

So, what else is on? Monday, August 24 Murder in the First San Francisco-set murder police show Murder in the First wraps up its second…

Weekend Watch: American Ultra: Hitman Agent 47, and Sinister 2

Weekend Watch: American Ultra: Hitman Agent 47, and Sinister 2

American Ultra Under all the trapping of the Bourne series of secret sleeper agents and government intrigue was really the story of a small town…

Appealing TV: Fear The Walking Dead, Blunt Talk, and Documentary Now!

Appealing TV: Fear The Walking Dead, Blunt Talk, and Documentary Now!

So, what else is on? Monday, August 17 Rachel Ray’s Kids Cook-Off (8pm, Food Network, series premiere) Only by pitting our future (according to Whitney…

Weekend Watch: Straight Outta Compton, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., People, Places, Things, And Fort Funston

Weekend Watch: Straight Outta Compton, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., People, Places, Things, And Fort Funston

Straight Outta Compton At this point, Straight Outta Compton won’t be know as the biopic of the rise and fall of the world’s most dangerous…

Appealing TV: Show Me a Hero, Rectify, and Startup U

Appealing TV: Show Me a Hero, Rectify, and Startup U

We still miss you, Robin Williams. Tuesday, August 11 Hard Knocks: Training Camp With The Houston Texans (10pm, HBO, season premiere) Come see how football…

Outside Lands 2015 Day 3: The Big Got No Chill

Be sure to check out our day one and day two coverage of Outside Lands 2015 right here on SF Appeal! The event staff near…

Outside Lands 2015 Day 2: Edgy, Gritty, Dark, Goth, Psychedelic

"edgy, gritty, dark, goth, psychedelic." – Someone on this bus must be thinking of rebooting Small Wonder for television. #outsidelands — SFAppealOutsideLands (@SFAppealOL) August 8,…

Outside Lands 2015 Day 1: Positive Vibes Only

It’s that time of year to hold your wine glass up and wave it in the air as you talk into your phone as you…

Appealing TV: Playing House, The Daily Show, and Oh, Goddammit True Detective

Appealing TV: Playing House, The Daily Show, and Oh, Goddammit True Detective

So, what else is on? Monday, August 3 Significant Mother (9:30pm, CW, series premiere) I couldn’t tell if the premise of Significant Mother (twenty-something finds…

Weekend Watch: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and Vacation

Weekend Watch: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and Vacation

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Tom Cruise grapples a plane and other assorted, boisterous stunts in the fifth film in the Mission: Impossible franchise. Jeremy Renner,…

Appealing TV: Review With Forrest MacNeil, Wet Hot American Summer, and We Bare Bears

Appealing TV: Review With Forrest MacNeil, Wet Hot American Summer, and We Bare Bears

So, what else is on? Monday, July 27 We Bare Bears (6:30pm, Cartoon Network, series premiere) We Bare Bears is based on the webcomic of…

Weekend Watch: Pixels, Paper Towns, Southpaw, and The Vatican Tapes

Weekend Watch: Pixels, Paper Towns, Southpaw, and The Vatican Tapes

Pixels Pixels assaults your eyeholes with a bunch of “hey remember this, the 80’s were so cool, we get it, we remember” imagery. It’s a…

Appealing TV: Oh Hell No, Sharknado 3, I Am Cait, And White People, Amirite?

Appealing TV: Oh Hell No, Sharknado 3, I Am Cait, And White People, Amirite?

So, what else is on? Monday, July 20 Degrassi: The Next Generation (9pm, Teen Nick, summer season premiere) The long-running teen drama makes its summer…

Weekend Watch: Trainwreck, Ant-Man, Mr. Holmes

Weekend Watch: Trainwreck, Ant-Man, Mr. Holmes

Trainwreck Breakout sensation (and target of shade think pieces from people who haven’t even seen her work) Amy Schumer not only stars in but wrote…

Weekend Watch: The Gallows, Minions, Self/Less, and Amy

Weekend Watch: The Gallows, Minions, Self/Less, and Amy

The Gallows The marketing campaign for horror movie The Gallows consists of trying to position its killer, Charlie Grimille (and his weapon of choice, a…

Kim Kardashian Speaking Tonight at Castro Theater About Commodification Of Women

Kim Kardashian Speaking Tonight at Castro Theater About Commodification Of Women

The name ‘Kardashian’ has become synonymous with ‘kneejerk lazy critique of society and media’ from vape pen smoking marks around the world who still have…

2015 Outside Lands Comedy Line-Up Announced

2015 Outside Lands Comedy Line-Up Announced

Last year’s Outside Lands comedy tent at the Barbary was a sanctuary for vaguely introvert baiting, borderline shut-in types trying to find refuge away from…

Weekend Watch: Ted 2, Max, and Magic! Mike! X! X! L!

Weekend Watch: Ted 2, Max, and Magic! Mike! X! X! L!

Ted 2 Ted 2 is so committed to the bit of wanting to recognize the personhood of its titular teddy bear that they’ve posted a…

Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green Wears Custom Made WWE Heavyweight Championship Belt

Touggghhhhh @wwe world champions #dubnation A photo posted by Draymond Green (@money23green) on Jun 22, 2015 at 5:12pm PDT To only further the theory that…

Remember The Bold Italic? They’re back! If only in POG form.

Remember The Bold Italic? They’re back! If only in POG form.

Which one of yall made the Faustian bargain to bring back Bold Italic in exchange for taking Hannibal off the air? In what is probably…

Appealing TV: Mr. Robot, Another Period, and are you Tough Enough?

Appealing TV: Mr. Robot, Another Period, and are you Tough Enough?

So, what else is on? Monday, June 22 The Woodsman (9pm, History, series premiere) Reality series about a bunch of Brawny Towel looking mascots living…

WWE Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins Predicted Golden State Warriors Victory in Cleveland on Monday

WWE Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins Predicted Golden State Warriors Victory in Cleveland on Monday

The buzz and excitement of the Golden State Warriors’ first victory in forty years is still fresh in the air, and on the morning of…

Weekend Watch: Inside Out, Dope, Eden, and The Wolfpack

Weekend Watch: Inside Out, Dope, Eden, and The Wolfpack

Inside Out Those humanity nerds at Disney Pixar are at it again. And this time they’re here to make you weep openly at the happiness…