Starring Potrero Hill
Jim Van Buskirk Potrero Hill has starred in dozens of feature films, television shows, and commercials over the last fifty plus years, capturing our photogenic corner of the City, as well as inadvertently…
Jim Van Buskirk
Potrero Hill Residents Contribute to DocFest, Frameline Film Festivals
“I moved here because I had a friend who had a spot open up in the house she was living in, and it seemed like such an amazing neighborhood and…
Museum of Craft and Design Showcases Pavilions
For six months, the Museum of Craft and Design will be transformed into “an immersive architectural environment” as part of Architectural Pavilions. The exhibition will be among the Museum’s longest,…
Armistead Maupin Featured at Queer Film Festival
Frameline 41, the world’s longest-running and largest showcase of queer cinema, opens on June 15 with the West Coast premiere of The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin. Maupin described the…
Circus Kid
“Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth, and you add a little curlicue at the end.” ~ Sid Caesar So begins Circus Kid, Lorenzo Pisoni’s poignant…
Trapped Reveals Barriers to Choice
Dawn Porter, who lives on the 300 block of Missouri Street, has directed several award-winning, social justice documentaries. Gideon’s Army (2013, HBO) recounts the personal stories of three young lawyers,…
A Place to Chat About Death
Death is in the Zeitgeist. Everyone’s talking about it, or not, as the case may be. One place to discuss the generally taboo topic is at a Death Cafe, an…
Playground Takes over Thick House
Thick House opened in 1996 in the Goodman 2 live-work building. In the two decades since, the 78-seat, simple, unadorned performance space, owned by the nonprofit Art Space Development Corporation…
Hill Resident Judy Baston Expert at Tracing Family History
Longtime Potrero Hill resident Judy Baston’s passionate commitment to Jewish genealogy earned her the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, awarded at the Association’s annual…
Film Reveiw: Beyond Measure
“You can’t put ten, twenty, sometimes forty kids in a room and expect them all to learn the same material, at the same pace, with the same structure. Everybody has…
Karen Larsen: Potrero Hill’s Publicist
Calling long-time Potrero Hill resident Karen Larsen a publicist is “both accurate and absurdly insufficient,” wrote film critic Michael Fox, in a 2011 online profile. Fox’s sketch of Larsen, prompted…
Summer Film Festivals Offer Fun for the Whole Family
San Francisco’s vibrant film scene, which offers a rich and diverse “ecosystem” of independently produced movies, can require as much creativity by viewers in search of a good, or provocative,…
Potrero Hill Exhibit Marks 60 Years of Art
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Potrero Hill Artists’ Exhibition, reputedly the oldest annual art show in San Francisco. Various news accounts suggest that the show emerged sometime…
Thrillpeddlers Latest a French Jewel
On March 19 Thrillpeddlers opens its 2015 season with Jewels of Paris: A New Original Parisian Revue. According to the company, “Inspired by the artistic revolution erupting in Paris nearly…