ACT Offers Fun, Whimsy in Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest”

BeyondChron.org (Arts & Entertainment) 9/28 4:13A Ariel Feingold-Shaw

I attended last week s premiere of the American Conservator Theater s North by Northwest. I loved it. I was then surprised to read the San Francisco Chronicle review ripping the play and giving it the lowest possible rating. The Chronicle felt br...

Reviews From Re-Vision 2026

BeyondChron.org (Arts & Entertainment) 9/21 4:12A Peter Wong

The newest film festival to grace a San Francisco theater screen is Re:Vision.   Running from September 24-27, 2026 at the Roxie Theatre, this festival of restored and rediscovered films comes to viewers courtesy of the San Francisco Film...

What it was like leaving Medium for Ghost

The Bold Italic San Francisco 8/4 2:29A Saul Sugarman

The Bold Italic is a scrappy website that launched at the end of the 2000s. The iPhone only existed for two years at that point, so modern video watching, Instagram, and mobile-forward websites had...

Clint Reilly, Political Consultant and Newspaper Owner, Dies at 79

The Bold Italic San Francisco 7/20 9:45A Saul Sugarman

I never met Clint Reilly, but knew him vaguely as that person who fired me. It was 2021, and he had just acquired the SF Examiner and SF Weekly. Through his proxies, Reilly shuttered the Weekly, then...