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Went out for dinner with a friend and found Midnight in Paris playing at the theater right across the street from the restaurant and had to catch it. Loved it. It's charming and magical, a most see for anybody into art, literature, Paris, and magic. Also just found out that a little bit of the movie is coming to life here in the bay. It so happens that the writer Gertrude Stein, who was raised nearby in Oakland, is one of the characters of Midnight in Paris, and apparently SF is the place for modernism this summer, with the exhibits Seeing Gertrude Stein showing at the Contemporary Jewish Museum and The Steins Collect showing at SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art). As an extension of the exhibit, SFMOMA is also recreating the Stein family's Saturday salon in their Paris apartment by inviting avant-garde artists and writers of this period to their Living Room . In keeping with the spirit of those informal gatherings, the artists, writers, filmmakers, performers