Temescal's summer film series returns - this Thursday, June 9
Article by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Tue, 7 Jun at 12:46am.

This Thursday, June 9, is opening night for the Fourth Annual Temescal Street Cinema - a free outdoor movie series featuring films by Bay Area artists in the heart of the Temescal business district.

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New black independent film, 'I Will Follow,' starts this week in Bay Area
Blog entry by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Wed, 23 Mar at 5:25am.

We received an email from Rocky Seker of AFFRM - the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement - asking that we share information about a new black independent film called "I Will Follow" that's showing in the Bay Area for one week, beginning Friday.

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Will the New Parkway end up in North Oakland?
Article by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Fri, 25 Feb at 6:47am.

J. Moses Caesar and the New Parkway crew - who had been trying to lease the former New Parkway Theatre from the original owners without any success to date - have been looking at he former Audi dealership at 2345 Broadway (Auto Row) and at the former Omni Nightclub at 4799 Shattuck Ave. in Temescal.

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Casting call is this weekend for Matt Damon movie in SF: You going?
Blog entry by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Fri, 28 Jan at 9:36am.

Matt Damon's production company has put the word our they need extras for scenes in his new film, Contagion, being filmed in San Francisco, Feb. 9-19, 2011. 

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Oct 28--Special Free Advanced Screening of For Colored Girls at Jack London Cinemas
Article by Niema Jordan.
Last updated at Fri, 29 Oct at 4:09am.

Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls hits theaters November 5, 2010 and has been of the most talked about films as of late.

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Rap icon Ice Cube plays Uptown this Saturday
Article by Eric K Arnold.
Last updated at Sat, 25 Sep at 4:33am.

O’Shea Jackson – better known by his rap name Ice Cube – is as iconic a figure as exists in rap today.

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Oakland Underground Film Festival returns this week--will you be there?
Article by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Wed, 22 Sep at 5:38am.

The Second Annual Oakland Underground Film Festival is happening this week, starting Thursday night, September 23. What's better on a Monday morning than to find out that another weekend of amazing films and the partying they clearly require is about to kick off in Oakland, courtesy of OUFF?

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OMCA Pixar party celebrated animation--and East Bay inspirations for the films
Article by Jennifer Inez Ward.
Last updated at Wed, 11 Aug at 6:06am.

Fans of animation and movies like “UP” and the “Toy Story” trilogy gathered for a hero’s homecoming July 31 to recognize Pixar and celebrate the unveiling of the animation studio’s retrospective exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California.

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