Perhaps due to the many squares of acid or complete the lack of sex, we don't remember UC Santa Cruz demigods coming down so hard on 4/20. But SFBG's crusty-but-benign (and victorious!) Bruce Brugman has word that UCSC officials have pulled a Bevan Dufty, more or less shutting down the campus this Sunday, 4/20, on the sacred day where people get baked. Really, really, reeeeeaaally baked. University of Santa Cruz Executive Chancellor David Kilger's......

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Hey, a local 12 year old from Foster City just won the world chess championship for the boys 12 and under age bracket. Champ Daniel Naroditsky won 9 games, lost 1, and played to a draw with the previous number 1 ranked preteen male. The Chron was unable to talk to him because of the time difference in Turkey (where the championships were held), but Daniel's proud father reports that Daniel's first question after......

-- Barry Bonds: your San Francisco diva. [SFGate] -- Halloween in SF was a "a dead zone" [Examiner, SFGate] -- 19th Avenue -- now less deadly. [SFist] -- SF hotel bars. Which one is your favorite? (Hint: St. Regis) [Gridskipper] -- Ban rent control? [BeyondChon] -- Doc 420, the medical marijuana doctor. [ABC7] -- Awesome: the "SWL 337" Planning Challenge. [Curbed SF] -- Eeeeeeeeee! Can you feel it in the air? Hannah Montana has......

SFist interviews Bobby of Monster Bobby who is opening for the Pipettes tonight' at Bimbo's ...

Pelli Clarke Pelli's Transbay Terminal vision "Although there's no guarantee that any of the towers will be built," John King and Jonathan Curiel at the Chronicle report that three crazy-tall and skyline-altering designs have been nominated to be our new Transbay Terminal. Or not. And it should be finished sometime by 2014. Again, or not. Pointless, informal poll time! Which is your favorite? Since it'll be hung bigger than the Transamerica Pyramid, commoners should......

Everyone else is getting their swerve on (dang, that light IS bright!) so we're jumping on the bandwagon. Here's where to go for the steamy haps tonight: Singles events are always awkward, but you've got it easy tonight with a killer line - Did you ride your bike to work today? Head over the supperclub for Date My Friend where the only (mandatory) catch tonight is that every attendee is single. $10 will get you......

In honor of today being "420," here's a little thing to put you in the mood-- it's a YouTube clip of a Pink Floyd laser show.......

Here's todays news stories...

It's never just me, myself, and I when you've got SFist Jenna on your side! Ask the Cube Expat!: Are you plotting ways to escape yet another dreary staff meeting right this minute? Dragging out your coffee breaks? Itching to ditch your day job but don't know where to start? Then you should make the trek over to Sausalito tonight and check out freelance writer and editor Michelle Goodman as she lays down a blueprint......

Last night, SFist went to see RiffTrax Live at the San Francisco Sketchfest. It was really funny, everyone laughed, there were no awkward silences, and the topic of Mormonism didn't come up once. In all, it was a great show and we really liked it. The end. What? Isn't that enough? Fine.......

Sofia Milos works the red carpet at the Golden Globes, wearing a dress that looks straight outta 1999. Praise Xenu! By SFist Elaine......

The Govenator, as we know him best. By SFist Elaine......

In the 49ers' final game of the 2006 regular season, the team will have something more important on their mind than football. * San Francisco vs. Denver Sunday, December 31, 2006. 1:00 PM, PST. Week 17 The Battle Of Remembering #72 Last time the Niners were in Denver was Week 2 of the 2005 preseason. At the end of the game, 49er offensive lineman Thomas Herrion collapsed in the visitor's locker room after running......

Well, it's official, or at least as official as official gets-- the A's are moving to 'the Burbs. Tuesday they held a press conference with all the official types and even unveiled a logo because as we all know, Cartesian marketing philosophy states that nothing in this world exists without a logo. The A's even dragged out Bud Selig and there's nothing like a speech by Bud Selig to make everyone all shiny and happy. ...

Niners 9, Vikings 3-- In all honesty, we didn't watch any of this game. We went to see Borat instead. And you know what we thought of the movie? It was fine but we're a little concerned in that for the next month or so ,everyone will be going around saying "high five" or "very nice" or even "va-GINA" in that faux-accent of his. Fear it. You want to know why we think David Chappelle went crazy? Because everywhere he went, every white guy would go up to him and either say "I'm Rick James, bitch" or the L'il Jon impression. It would drive anyone crazy. We're pretty sure the Bush administration uses it at Guantanomo....

SFPD not surprised that a member was off doing kiddy sex junkets in Asia as they sort of knew it for years. -Caltrain board approves plan for Wi-FI on Caltrains. Thousands of commuters jump for joy. ...

SFist interviews Dick Valentine, frontman of Electric Six. ...

So, there's a new Caffe Trieste location, right smack dab on Market Street (1667 Market, at Gough). This represents the company's fourth location, but its second here in the city . . . the other one being the original North Beach location. Which we dig quite a bit. So how does the new location compare to the old? Let's break it down....

We here at SFist don't have that much bad to say about Craigslist. We've found housing, bought and sold things which we never thought possible and maybe even watched a movie about it. Yet, sometimes the dark underbelly of Craigslist rears its ugly head high enough so that it punctures the little dream clouds we are floating on. First, Craigslist gets sued because people are posting clearly discriminatory housing ads. Unfortunately, the mainstream news media......

The creative team behind J.T. Leroy should send James Frey flowers, since his little revelations have given the J. T. Leroy hoax story a sort of also-ran quality. However, we were pleased to see the San Francisco Chronicle finally pick up the story and give it a well-sourced local angle. First up: the local literary Who's Who with regard to who was sucked in: Dave Eggers, Susie Bright, David Wigand, Michael Ray, Michael Chabon......

SFist interviews Brendan Benson...

You don't have to lose at Monster Park to be a Niner -- it's almost time for the Third Annual City Guides' Scavenger Hunt, and it's got a Gold Rush theme this year! City Guides are the volunteers who lead walks through historic sights and sites in San Francisco -- like the Barbary Coast, the murals of the Mission, and the remnants of the 1906 Earthquake -- so you know anything they plan's going to be city-centric and fun to boot. So strap on your mining cap and bring your patty pan as you scour the city for the answers to the Gold Rush themed clues that City Guides will provide -- you don't need to know city history to play, and they promise that all clues are located within three blocks of a MUNI line (City Guides provides the tokens. Watch out, Chris Daly!). Further adding to the wacky -- certain clues will require you to interact with City Guides playing historical characters at designated spots to figure out what you're looking for. Is that you, Clementine? The scavenger hunt takes place on Sunday October 16 -- but register before Friday the 30th to secure your spot! (Prices go up after the 30th, and go up if you register on the day of). Either organize your own team or be assigned to one! The team who gets the most clues right wins the whole shebang. And FYI -- a friend of SFist is in fact the reigning champion from last year's scavenger hunt, and we know she's the one to beat! ...

We swore we were done writing about the how droll it was that this Spring's rain would never say goodbye. That was a weather beat some other grumbler bigger than us would have to cover. And here it is two weeks from summer and all we have to tell you is that rain was crazy. We've never seen anything like it before and we're not being dramatic. In the last 155 years of area......

When we asked about asparagus season, the bustling woman with farmers' hands working the Zuckerman's stand gave us a quick answer, "We're three weeks in with 12 to go." The thin, long wands are still just at one or two stalls in the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, but we're sure they'll be everywhere soon enough. That's fine with us; we love the distinctive green stalks with their grassy taste, and we're happy to pretend......

In 2000 when the Examiner and Chron merged and the Examiner was sold off, everyone was sure that the Examiner was not long for this newspaper world, especially after its disastrous beginning. Now, almost five years later, the Examiner is way past not dead yet. In fact, the Examiner has sired a spawn. In February, Washington D.C. will have their very own version of the Ex, as the brand-spanking-new Washington Examiner will debut. ...

Tough day at the office, and no time to even read the sports section. So when we finally hopped the Muni home, we were happy to see on the bottom half of the inside page a story detailing the journey of Bruce Schwab aboard the Ocean Planet. Though he is thousands of miles behind the leader, if he returns to France without landing or needing any help, he will become the first American to......

Ever since the election, there's been a lot of grumbling about our misfortune in being attached to the rest of the country. Finally, somebody did something about it: posted the Web site USoutofSF.com. As the site says, "that's right, America, we here in San Francisco are officially sick of your s*** and we're not going to take it anymore." Included are links to an online petition calling for California to secede from the Union......

The Oakland Raiders manhandled the Buccaneers, beating them far more mercilessly than the 30-20 score would indicate. This was obviously a payback game for the humiliating loss they suffered at the hands of the Bucs in Super Bowl XXXVIII. The game was marked by moments both bitter and sweet - sweet to see longtime Raider Tim Brown catch his 100th touchdown in Oakland, bitter when former league MVP, Quarterback Rich Gannon, went down with a......

The Richmond’s 4 Star Theater (phone 415.666.3488) is one of our favorite places to see movies in San Francisco. We’ve spent many a night gorging ourselves at one of the zillions of great places to eat up or down Clement Street, then staggering up to Clement at 23rd for great alternative and world movies....