Hour of Power!!! Gig Vol. 3 ~ 7:30 PM
The Coalition to Keep Live Music Tolerable proudly presents...
Hour of Power!!! Gig Vol. 3
Unity
Spa
Wifey (Cher solo!)
Doors at 7:00pm, Music at 7:30pm, Over by 8:30pm!
Three Bands, One Hour!!!
The Coalition to Keep Live Music Tolerable proudly presents...
Hour of Power!!! Gig Vol. 3
Unity
Spa
Wifey (Cher solo!)
Doors at 7:00pm, Music at 7:30pm, Over by 8:30pm!
Three Bands, One Hour!!!
Mickey Newball 7:30pm (in Tunnel Records)
Joe Kaplow 8:30pm
Kelly McFarling 10:00pm
Doors at 7:00 PM
Music at 7:30 PM
Tickets: $15
FRIDAY, MAY 10TH
Magic Fig (Album Release)
magicfig.bandcamp.com
Joel Robinow
instagram.com/joelrobinow
$12 ADV / $14 DOOR
Doors 7:00 PM / Music 8:00 PM
A plumber named Mario travels through an underground labyrinth with his brother Luigi, trying to save a captured princess.
All popcorn palace tickets come with a small soda and a child’s popcorn!
Comedy at the 4Star Kicks-off the Comedy Summer Series starting Saturday May 11th.
Headliner: Ben Feldman
"With a dry wit that was praised by Robin Williams himself, Feldman brings a cool East Coast charm to Bay Area stages. From a sarcastic rant to a subtle pun, his act is clever, playful, and delightfully provocative." - SF Weekly's Best Comic to Watch
"Feldman is an excellent writer whose sly and dry wit is delivered deadpan but kicks up a lively response." - East Bay Express
Ben Feldman is an established standup comedian whose acerbic wit is provocative yet playful, delivered with glints of absurdity as he teeters back and forth along the thick line between aggression and charm. Ben features regularly at the San Francisco Punch Line, Cobb's Comedy Club, Sacramento Punch Line, San Jose Improv, Seattle Comedy Underground, Rooster T Feathers and has worked with Norm MacDonald, Robin Williams, Richard Lewis, Todd Barry, Kyle Dunnigan, Dana Gould, Mike Birbiglia, Jake Johannsen, Chris Kattan, Tom Rhodes, Chris Porter, Robert Hawkins, Kirk Fox, Adam Ferrara, Jeremy Hotz, Scott Capurro, Chad Daniels, Ali Wong, TJ Miller, Jeff Dye, Dan Cummins, Henry Phillips, Rick Shapiro, Rick Overton, Dan Mintz, Brad Williams, and Bobby Slayton to name a few.
Ben was a finalist in a Simpson's writing competition with over 20,000 entrants. He performs regularly at SF Sketchfest and has appeared on the Santa Cruz Fringe Festival, KOFY TV20, NewsTalk 910 AM, KGO 810 AM, HGTV, Amazon Audible, and was a contributing writer for Rooftop Comedy, Joan Rivers Show, MSNBC, and eBaum's World.
Ben is a producer of Comedy Oakland, winner of 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, & 2021 "Best Place for Comedy '' by the East Bay Express. He also is a showrunner for the world-famous San Francisco Punch Line Sunday showcase.
Featuring
Jide Okonkwu
Jide Okonkwo is a Bay Area-based Comedian, Actor & Writer. Living through laughter.
With an international background, Jide brings a worldly (and sometimes otherworldly) perspective to the stage. Although based in the Bay Area, Jide has performed on many stages around the world, including at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. A lover of laughter and mangoes, his sweet tooth is the perfect foil for his sharp tongue. Catch him light up the stage with his smooth & cheeky style.
Shivaan Nadan
Shivaan Nadan shares his background of being Indian but born and raised in Fiji until the age of 10. Then his family immigrated to Daly City. A story as unique as his comedic voice. The newest member of the #HellaFunny comedy group, Shivaan is a hilarious rising star in the SF comedy scene , a regular at the Hella Funny shows,Cobb's Comedy Club and opened for Hannibal Burress at the Palace of Fine Arts. A comedian and a visual artist check out his art on stage with comedy and his art off stage with his drawings.
Shining
Shining is a bay area based comedian with beauty and brains to match. But don’t let her engaging smile fool you , her comedy comes with an edge as sharp as her wit. She has appeared at Punchline SF, Cobb's Comedy Club, and anywhere comedy is performed. You can also check out the podcasts ``Not Your Asian Woman” and “Criminal Race Theory”
Cj Koepp
CJ Koepp is a Wisconsin-raised & San Francisco-based stand-up comedian, improviser, and climate activist. She has performed at Oakland Pride, Cobb's Comedy Club, and Crockett Comedy Festival. In 2024, she received the 2024 New Voices in Comedy Writing Fellowship at Killing My Lobster SF.
Hosted by Celeste Winter
Celeste Winter is a Sacramento based comedian performing all throughout Northern California. Her comedy is unapologetically feminine with a balanced mixture of dry humor bordering on absurdist. Her material touches on the pitfalls of being a young woman, peppered with methodically calculated passive aggressive interactions with audience members. Audiences laugh, feel uncomfortable, laugh, feel true fear, and the cycle of abuse (nirvana) repeats itself. Sitting in the splash zone is highly advised!
A plumber named Mario travels through an underground labyrinth with his brother Luigi, trying to save a captured princess.
All popcorn palace tickets come with a small soda and a child’s popcorn!
Celebrate Mother’s Day with us by watching Santa Sangre!
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".
Annie Rose Malamet is an internationally recognized lesbian vampire expert, freelance film writer, and perverted aesthete. She is the creator of the popular podcast Girls, Guts, & Giallo, where she examines controversial and subversive cinema through the lens of queer leather and sex work history and sensibilities. Annie has lectured and presented work at festivals and colleges in both the United States and Europe. She has appeared as a cultural expert in the Shudder documentary Queer for Fear and on the PBS show Historian’s Take. Her essays and reviews have been in various publications over the last decade. She has published essays and audio commentary for special editions released through Second Sight, Severin Films, and Vinegar Syndrome.
PLAYING AS A PART OF CAUGHT ON TAPE
In a "live" broadcast on Halloween night, a BBC team investigate a reported poltergeist in an ordinary London home. During and following its first and only UK television broadcast, the film attracted a considerable furor, resulting in an estimated 1,000,000 phone call enquiries to the BBC switchboard on the night of broadcast.
Co-presented by Unnamed Footage Festival
VHS preshow curated by The Basement
Tape for screening provided by Digital Revolution
Western Neighborhoods Project (WNP) is celebrating its 25th birthday with a prom-themed event, featuring a must-see live recording of the “Outside Lands San Francisco'' podcast with drag legend Peaches Christ and award-winning SFGATE reporter Amanda Bartlett! We hope you’ll party with us like it’s 1999 at the Richmond District’s beloved 4 Star Theatre on Wednesday, May 15, 2024.
Peaches Christ (the alter-ego of Joshua Grannell) first presented the infamous Midnight Mass programs – a late-night movie series and drag spectacle – while working at the Bridge Theatre on Geary Boulevard in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Peaches has since appeared in many films and television shows over the course of her career, and currently co-hosts the cult movie podcast “Midnight Mass.” Amanda Bartlett, a senior reporter for SFGATE who recently published an article on the history of Midnight Mass, will co-host alongside Executive Director Nicole Meldahl; together they’ll chat with Peaches about her time in the Richmond District, the history of the Bridge Theatre, and the enduring legacy of Midnight Mass.
The doors of the 4 Star will open at 7:00pm. Once inside, you’ll get to mingle, browse an incredible selection of goods at Tunnel Records, and enjoy savory small bites or sweet treats available for purchase from the concession stand. The main program starts at 7:30pm and includes time for Q&A. All guests are encouraged (but not required) to wear prom attire for the evening, which will also feature a WNP birthday cake, decorations, fun prizes, and prom photos, so you can remember this night forever!
General Admission tickets are $75. VIP tickets are $125 and include the above plus:
Early access to the theater at 6:00pm to secure your favorite seats
A meet-and-greet with Peaches Christ and Amanda Bartlett
Complimentary beer, wine, and nonalcoholic beverages
Don’t miss this chance to celebrate WNP with a Peaches Christ-homage to prom! And, thank you in advance for supporting our nonprofit history work. All proceeds from the event enable us to keep our lights on and our history fresh with fun community programming like this.
Double Helix Peace Treaty
Julip
Arts and Crafts
Doors at 7:00pm
Music at 8:00pm
In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information.
After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.
Little Oil's Tape Release Show
with
Eli Utne
Crop Top
Doors at 7 pm, Show at 7:30 pm!
$15 at Door
$12 Adv
MEDIA MELTDOWN MOVIE MADHOUSE
The maniacal minds behind Media Meltdown (Piranha Psychotronica and Kafka X) bring you a new experience in cinematic depravity… Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse! Following their long running cult film series at the Balboa and 4 Star, Media Meltdown shines a light on an even stranger side of cinema. Prepare yourself to enter into a world of face-flaying forgotten and forsaken films… Made-for-TV, Direct-to-Video, VCR games, and more wiley weirdness than your minds can handle! So come to the 4 Star Theatre every 3rd Sunday and commit yourself to… MEDIA MELTDOWN MOVIE MADHOUSE!
Recommended for Adults Only
With the Immortal Universe heating up over at AMC+, what a perfect time to revisit one of the earliest Anne Rice film adaptations, Exit to Eden (1994)! Starring Rosie O’Donnell and Dan Akroyd as bumbling cops with a penchant for going undercover who need to infiltrate a BDSM sex island to take down diamond-smuggling criminal Iman, Exit to Eden is lightyears away from its source material but manages to be an extremely fascinating movie thanks to its wild premise. You’ll see butts and boobs galore, along with Akryoyd and O’Donnell in a variety of fetish gear! This screening marks Media Meltdown’s five year anniversary and we’ll be playing erotic games, performing sensuous readings, and having local drag icons dom our audience so head on out and be prepared to submit at May's Movie Madhouse!
Like movies and popcorn, jazz and poetry go hand in hand. On May 20, the 4-Star Theater tips its hat to both arts with a screening of The Connection (1961) and a live poetry reading from the 4-Star stage by Bay Area poets, Josiah Luis Alderete and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta.
The Connection is Shirley Clarike's classic cinema verite look at jazz musicians who are addicted. Clarke was a pioneer in found-footage film and also battled censorship upon the release of The Connection. Her filmography includes the Sam Shepard play, Savage/Love (1981) and Ornette: Made in America (1985).
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Josiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Spanglish speaking Pocho y left handed callejero de Aztlán who has been part of La Area Bahia’s spoken word scene for over twenty years. He is the curator and host of the long running Latinx reading series Speaking Axolotl and is the author of two books of poetry “Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos(Black Freighter Press 2021) and the chapbook “Fuchi Faces de los Estados Jodidos” (for The Pueblo 2023). In 2023 he was the Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence at San Francisco State. Along with his bookstore sister Tân Khanh Cao, Josiah tends the portal known as Medicina Para Pesadillas Bookstore y Galeria on 24th street in La Mission.
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta is a queer Jewish Nicaragüense anarchist, artist, poet, and sexual health educator from the lands of the Tongva people, who is a long term guest on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land. They are the author of "The Easy Body" (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2017) and "La Movida" (Nightboat Books, 2022), and have been at work on their third book of poetry, "Bleeder/Promise of the Red Decade" (the manuscript of which lives in an Esprit shoebox), for a really long time.
PLAYING AS A PART OF CAUGHT ON TAPE
Newspaper editor Arthur Sherwood is on a hunting trip when he accidentally stumbles upon a nudist camp in the woods. He is very much shocked by this and decides to send reporter Stacy Taylor to the camp so she can write an expose on the camp and have it shut down. An early film by Doris Wishman, one of the most prolific and iconic exploitation filmmakers of the 20th century.
Adults only screening. Anyone under 18 will not be allowed in.
VHS preshow curated by The Basement
The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.
A disgraced political journalist placed in the soccer section, Miss Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir to a powerful French family and a political novice. Troubled by this candidate, whom she has known to be less smooth in the past, Miss Pove embarks on an investigation that is as surprising as it is jubilant.
Tickets can only be bought through Eventbrite!
MOViES FOR MANiACS presents: A Genuine Tribute to William Lustig IN PERSON: ViGiLANTE (1983) + MANiAC (1980)
Director William Lustig will be IN PERSON to celebrate the 40th anniversary 4K restoration of his ruthlessly reverent riff on the DEATH WiSH-genre: ViGLANTE (1983) along with a gorgeous 4K restoration of his psychological horror masterpiece MANiAC (1980). Presented by MOViES FOR MANiACS and hosted by Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, a very special Q&A will occur between the double bill.
7:00pm - ViGiLANTE (1983)
Quentin Tarantino has spoken at great lengths about Robert Forster's performance in ViGiLANTE being a major inspiration for casting him as the lead in JACKiE BROWN (1997). Here, Forster plays a working-class New York City man who is forced to confront the dirt and slime of the garbage-ridden 1980s NYC streets. His casual intensity culminates in "the performance of a lifetime" and should be taught to every genre actor in the business.
This purely profound blue-collar ballbuster, reaches even grittier depths than most films made since. Shot in glorious Widescreen 2.35, look for Blaxploitation superstar Fred Williamson and the pioneering character actor Woody Strode (of John Ford's Westerns), whose performances should help inspire some wonderfully riotous post-film debates. Not to forget an amazing synth score by Jay Chattaway as well as some priceless Latin Salsa songs by the almighty Willie Colón, who also co-stars.
Widescreen 4K DCP courtesy of Grindhouse Pictures.
9:30pm - MANiAC (1980)
Close to 45 years since its sensational release, this surreally disturbing stalker masterpiece has not only accumulated one of the most devoted of cult following in exploitation cinema history, this nasty wonder deserves to be reevaluated along the lines of Abel Ferrara's feminist manifesto MS. 45 (1980) and William Friedkin's infamous queer time-capsule CRUiSiNG (1980).
Joe Spinell's personal and deeply sensitive character study combined with the psychotic grit of Tom Savini's relentless and jaw-dropping special effects, sets this film apart from pretty much every movie of the era. Showcasing Jay Chattaway's legendary synth score, this 4K restoration of the unrated 88 minute Director's Cut (complete with the entire hotel room sequence) will be presented from a gorgeous DCP, courtesy of Grindhouse Pictures.
Comedy Summer Series at The 4Star Theater - May 25th lineup
Headliner: Jerry Law
Jerry Law is a comedian based out of Oakland, CA that performs all over the United States. Jerry Law can be seen at numerous comedy clubs and festivals around the nation, and has been feature on CBS “Let’s Make A Deal” and many other platforms. He has a special titled “From the Cage to the Stage” where he displays his experiences and versatility as a performer. Jerry is very energetic on stage and his stories about being a first time father after spending over a decade in prison are real life situations, yet hysterical! He also tackles relationships and what life is like after finding his purpose.
Featuring
Miss K Kidd
Oakland native Miss K Kidd is a well known bay area comedian hailing from Oakland, CA. She touched stages from Cali to New York in her tenure so far. Opening for notable comidians such as Tacarra Williams, Damon Williams, Ray Grady among others. She has also been seen in movies on Tubi as well as HBO+. She also produces her own shows around the Bay Area. Definitely one of the hardest women female comedians out of the Bay Area. Keep an eye out for Miss K Kidd
Dan Guan
Dan Guan is a San Francisco based comedian originally from Boston, Massachusetts. With his wit, he draws his humor from his own growing up experience as one of the few American-Born Chinese kids in his New England town with his immigrant family. Dan performs at venues locally and across the country, such as the Punch Line San Francisco, Cobb’s Comedy Club, and Don’t Tell Comedy. He has also appeared at the Oakland Comedy Festival 2022 and the North Carolina Comedy Festival 2022.
Alisha Dillon
Alisha Dhillon is an up and coming stand up comedian based in the Bay Area, California. She’s known for her fun, yet blunt style on stage and ability to make people laugh at difficult topics.
Alisha is the current Roast Battle Champion of San Francisco. Her recent credits include JFL Vancouver, a 30 minute Comedy Invasion special, multiple appearances in SF Sketchfest, and opening for Akaash Singh and Julie Kim.
Nate Schwartz
Nate is a rising Bay Area comedian and 4 Star regular who’s performed at the San Jose Improv, Alameda Comedy Club, as well as Rooster T Feathers. His unfiltered takes on life will either leave you laughing or mortified… hopefully laughing.
Hosted By Karen Braswell
Rising San Francisco based comedian. Originally from New York, Karen left Wall Street to pursue a career in anything else, and now performs comedy on every stage, sidewalk and dive bar. With a fresh take on things like dating, dogs and growing up as a teacher’s pet, Karen turns expectations on their head with her irreverent style.
An orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley.
All Popcorn Palace tickets come with a small soda and a child’s popcorn!
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
An improvisational music project featuring Miles Lassi, Zekarias Thompson, and Skyway Man.
DJ Sets by Andy Cabic (Vetiver)
DJ at 8:00 PM
Shorts at 8:30 with an intermission between sets!
PLAYING AS A PART OF CAUGHT ON TAPE
Since 1981, Condit’s videos have created heroines whose lives swing between beauty and the grotesque, innocence and cruelty, youth and fragility. Her work puts a subversive spin on the traditional mythology of women in film and the psychology of sexuality and violence. Exploring the dark side of female subjectivity, her “feminist fairy tales” focus on friendships, age, and the natural world.
BENEATH THE SKIN (1981), 12 minutes
NOT A JEALOUS BONE (1987), 11 minutes
POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN (1983), 12 minutes
SUBURBS OF EDEN (1996), 16 minutes
OH, RAPUNZEL! (1996), 24 minutes
VHS preshow curated by The Basement
Every film but Oh, Rapunzel is provided by LUNCHMEAT. Oh, Rapunzel is provided by Digital Revolution.
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who’s working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
MOViES FOR MANiACS presents: 25th Anniversary of SLC PUNK! (1998) + AMERiKANA (2001) Double Bill w/ James Duval IN PERSON
Actor James Duval will be IN PERSON and writer/director James Merendino will be live via Facetime to celebrate the 25th anniversary 4K restoration of James Merendino's SLC PUNK! (1998) along with a very rare screening of their phenomenal follow-up feature: AMERiKANA (2001), which was the 13th Entry of Dogme 95. Presented by MOViES FOR MANiACS and hosted by Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, a very special Q&A will occur between the double bill.
7:00pm - SLC PUNK! (1998) - 25th Anniversary 4K Restoration
Based on the writer/director James Merendino's mid-1980s experience growing up in Salt Lake City, Utah, the film explores the hyper-kinetic daily life of a punk named Stevo (perfectly encompassed by Matthew Lillard), his best friend, "Heroin" Bob and a myriad of SLC tribes such as Rednecks, Heavy Metal guys, New Wavers, Neo-nazis, Punks and Mods.
Actors Michael A. Goorjian, Jason Segal, Annabeth Gish and James Duval are all quite memorable in their respective roles making this quintessential 1990s film -- about the 1980s -- a fascinating amalgamated time-capsule that has been begging for a cinematic re-evaluation. James Duval, who plays Frank the Bunny Rabbit in DONNiE DARKO will be IN PERSON, and writer/director James Merendino will be live via Facetime to celebrate this 25th Anniversary 4K screening! Rated R. 98 minutes. 4K DCP courtesy of Sony.
9:30pm - AMERiKANA (2001)
This extremely rare screening of writer/director James Merendino's follow-up to SLC PUNK! pits James Duval and Michael A. Goorjian as a pair of best friends who take an EASY RiDER-esque road trip across the plains from South Dakota to Los Angeles in a vespa.
The film is a hilarious yet devastatingly honest look at friendship, which makes perfect sense when realizing it was the thirteenth official Dogme 95 release. This often breath-taking and profoundly moving flick has been underrated and overlooked for far too long. James Duval, will be IN PERSON along with writer/director James Merendino who will be live via Facetime to discuss this lost mini-masterpiece. Unrated. 95 minutes.
Shrek has rescued Princess Fiona, got married, and now is time to meet the parents. Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father. But not everyone is happy. Shrek and the King find it hard to get along, and there's tension in the marriage. It's not just the family who are unhappy. Prince Charming returns from a failed attempt at rescuing Fiona, and works alongside his mother, the Fairy Godmother, to try and find a way to get Shrek away from Fiona.
It ain’t easy bein’ green – especially if you’re a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot – a wisecracking donkey.
All Popcorn palace tickets come with a child’s popcorn and a small soda!
The daughter of an Imperial scientist joins the Rebel Alliance in a risky move to steal the Death Star plans.
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.
Sour Widows and 4 Star Present:
Cherish Music Video
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Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke!
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.
6:00 PM - DJ Three6Sasha
7:30 PM - Movie
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.
Drawing from 40 years’ worth of film footage and tape recordings her father sent to family members in India, filmmaker Sandhya Suri crafts a personal history that also explores the experiences of Indian expatriates. After moving to Great Britain in 1965, Yash Pal Suri chronicled his discoveries about his new home along with his feelings of alienation. The fruits of his labor appear in this film that received a Grand Jury Prize nod at Sundance.
When Branch’s brother, Floyd, is kidnapped for his musical talents by a pair of nefarious pop-star villains, Branch and Poppy embark on a harrowing and emotional journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd from a fate even worse than pop-culture obscurity.
All Popcorn Palace tickets come with a child’s popcorn and small soda!
There was no one like the American singer Willy DeVille. From CBGB Latin punk to New Orleans soul singer to the premiere voice of American roots music on the continent of Europe for three decades, he was arguably the most original, most romantic artist of his time, writing and performing the Academy Award-nominated theme to the movie The Princess Bride. No one inhabited as many musical styles and personas, and everything about him was a work of art.
DeVille sold over a million records and was deeply respected by his peers, from Ben E. King to Bob Dylan, for peerless playing and songs that were anthems to the heartbroken and the downtrodden. Yet almost no one knows anything about him, where he came from or who he loved. How could he fly under the radar for 35 years yet leave so much we do know in his path? That is the mystery of Willy DeVille.
When Branch’s brother, Floyd, is kidnapped for his musical talents by a pair of nefarious pop-star villains, Branch and Poppy embark on a harrowing and emotional journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd from a fate even worse than pop-culture obscurity.
All Popcorn Palace tickets come with a child’s popcorn and small soda!
All they wanted was the freedom to party. The State saw them as the enemy within.
This DIY indie film follows the birth of the UK’s free party movement in the late 80s and early 90s and the social, political and cultural impact it's had on our present times. For Conservatives, the movement's DIY, anti-consumerist lifestyle, prophetic environmental concerns, radical direct-action, anti-road protest and animal welfare ethos threatened the foundations of the State. The film explores the inception of the movement, a meeting between urban ravers and the new age travellers during Thatcher's last days in power, and the explosive years that followed, leading up the infamous Castlemorton free festival in 1992 - the largest ever illegal rave, which provoked the drastic change of the laws of trespass with the notorious introduction of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994.
Eschewing tired formulaic filmmaking styles and tokenistic big name DJ sound-bites, this exhilarating modern day folktale is told exclusively by those who were in the thick of it and features interviews with members of Spiral Tribe, DIY Sound system, Bedlam and many others.
Born Innocent makes the case for Redd Kross as the seminal West Coast band of the last half century. Their influence reaches across the genres of punk, college rock, grunge, metal and indie rock. Long a “secret handshake” favorite of true music fans, it’s time for the world to discover the joyful and irresistible music of The McDonald Brothers.
Set against the backdrop of 9/11, this documentary tells the story of how a new generation kickstarted a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world.
Walt Disney’s timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again.
All Popcorn Palace tickets come with a child’s popcorn and a small soda!
A documentary on the once-promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols, and the friendship/rivalry between their respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor.
* Joel Gion will be doing a Q&A!!!
Walt Disney’s timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again.
All Popcorn Palace tickets come with a child’s popcorn and a small soda!
Sophia Garrow
Originally hailing from New York, Sophia moved to San Francisco in 2022 to lock in a tech husband and quit her day job. While only one of those things has happened she has performed around the Bay in the meantime, delighting audiences with witty stories of her immigrant family and what it’s like being a sturdy girl in a skinny girls world. With a mix of personal anecdotes, a dash of self deprecation, and an eerie similarity to Rosie the Riveter, Sophia will make you feel like you’ve been best friends all along.
Lester Ransom
My name is Lester Ransom. I am a bilingual African American comedian and actor. I was born and raised in Oakland, CA but just recently moved back to the USA from Santiago Chile(South America). I lived there for 14 yrs where I worked in tv, cine, theatre, modeling and standup comedy for 11 yrs in full Spanish mixed with some English.
Host: Chris Beasley
Chris Beasley is a Bay Area Comic originally from Dallas, Texas. Drawing on personal anecdotes and a sharp eye for societal absurdities, Chris's brand of comedy is both hilarious and introspective. Chris can be seen at 3 of his local clubs, San Jose Improv, Rooster T Feathers & Alameda Comedy Club. He has been invited to perform in the Inaugural Riot Comedy Festival, the Sac Town Comedy Festival and the World Series of Comedy.
David Rodriguez
David Rodriguez is a Chicano Stand-up Comedian from Southern California who turns his unusual life experiences into comedy gold! He travels all over California to joke about his personal life and observations on the world. He has won 2 comedy competitions at Laughs Unlimited Comedy Club in Sacramento and is a frequent performer at Sacramento Punchline Comedy Club.
Amy Thompson
Amy Thompson is a Sacramento based comedian who started comedy in March 2022 with a humor style that's been described as whimsically dark. You'll find Amy open mic-ing or giving her best at a showcase near every single day of the week. Amy said, "I used to have no life, and was just a bored & lonely bitch. But now I have comedy. Comedy is hella dope."
Tickets:
- $20 Advance
- $25 at Door
Society of Rockets (record release!!!)
Amores Vigilantes
Kids on a Crime Spree
Tickets: $15!
Doors: 7:00 PM, Show: 8:00 PM!
The never-before-told story of folk-rock icon Judee Sill, who in just two years went from living in a car to appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone. The documentary charts her troubled adolescence through her meteoric rise in the music world and early tragic death. Featuring Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Fleet Foxes, David Geffen, and more.
WITH LIVE MUSIC PRE-SHOW FROM
FREE KEY CHOIR
https://freekeychoir.webflow.io/
https://www.instagram.com/freekeychoir
MUSIC 7:30 PM | MOVIE 8:00 PM
The never-before-told story of folk-rock icon Judee Sill, who in just two years went from living in a car to appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone. The documentary charts her troubled adolescence through her meteoric rise in the music world and early tragic death. Featuring Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Fleet Foxes, David Geffen, and more.
WITH LIVE MUSIC PRE-SHOW FROM
SILVERWARE
Silverware is ethereal Appalachian sad pop from San Francisco artist Ainsley Wagoner. For fans of Sybille Baier, Weyes Blood, and Joni Mitchell - Silverware revels in a wide palette of vocal textures and sparse, dynamic instrumentation.
MUSIC 7:30 PM | MOVIE 8:30 PM
When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.
UPDATE: We are now completely sold out for this event— thank you! There may be a few movie tickets available at the door, but no guarantees.
Local baker Francesca of Fear the Feast will be joining us to serve up some beautiful slices of their specially themed Howl's Moving Castle cake (chamomile cake, saffron syrup soak, sage custard, wildflower honey buttercream, candied ginger.) Have your cake and watch it too! A limited amount of slices will be on sale day-of for $12 to ticketholders while supplies last.
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares to do battle with the First Order.
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
When teen Sarah is forced to babysit her half-brother Toby, she summons Jareth the Goblin King to take him away. When he is actually kidnapped, Sarah is given just thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue him.
All Popcorn Palace tickets come with a child’s popcorn and a small soda!