Even as we continue to enjoy the movie cavalcade that is our beloved Indiefest, we're also getting ready for the next big film festival coming to town: the SF Asian-American Film Festival! This is the 25th SF Int'l Asian-American Film Festival, and they're celebrating their silver anniversary this year with a special focus on Chinese-American film, a retrospective of the work of Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo, and a sing-along Flower Drum Song, among other special......

Some of you just can't get enough Gavvy Gav -- Berkleyist finds a picture of him and Sofia Milos (Newsom?) by Luke Thomas. Us, we can't get enough MC Hammer! This may be SFist, but we Hella Heart Oakland. Lots of other new blogs of note. Jon Swenson says Phil Zajicek is blogging his Tour of California ride. And just in time for spring training, El Lefty Malo finds a new Giants blog, Giants......

In case of Wednesday, this car will be unoccupied. Tonight! The group NetSquared is holding its monthly get-together at Varnish Art Gallery at 77 Natoma Street (at 2nd). NetSquared's mission is effecting social change through the Internet, and tonight's topic is how blogs can save the world (really!). 6-8 p.m., free admission, RSVP required. Thursday: We are so psyched for the Asian-American Film Fest this year! We're (seriously) thinking about taking the whole week of March 16-23 off from work! Help kick off the festivities at their launch party, running from 9-12 at 111 Minna. Music from DJ AJAX from NRG 92.7 and they'll be showing film clips. Oooh, show something from Chinese Restaurants!! $5 admission, free for Center for Asian-American Media members. and Friday: The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra is dedicated to free performances of chamber music for the public. Tonight's theme: "Valentines to a Cello." Acclaimed cellist Matt Haimovitz will be performing an unaccompanied Bach suite (you know, the famous ones, like Yo-Yo Ma played on the West Wing) and one of Schoenberg's last tonal pieces before he went all serialist screeek-schronk-schreek on us. Free! ...

The LA Times reports that American Media tried to pay off the guy who shot a movie of Arnie in Brazil for Playboy, called "Carnival in Rio." In it, the head of our state government is shown dancing ("badly," says Schwarzenegger's communications director), feeding a woman a carrot, and announcing that, "You know something? After watching the [dancers] shake it, I can absolutely understand why Brazil is totally devoted to my favorite body part: the ass." You're welcome to read that quote to yourself in your best Schwarzenegger accent as many times as you like. You know -- you can even say it along with him -- the Roxie is screening "Carnival in Rio" this weekend as part of the Found Film Festival. It's not you, it's me, mumbled redistricting advocates to our governor, as they informed him that they would be breaking up with him and his special election team to start their own "Yes on 77" committee. The Yes on 77ers are worried that redistricting will get dragged down to defeat if it's associated in any way with Arnold's flagging fortunes. And dude! You know you're unpopular when People Magazine (or was it US? We get them confused sometimes.) captions a picture of you rafting with your family with "well, he's up the creek -- but at least he has a paddle." (We cannot find a link of this, but we assure you that it actually exists!) Meanwhile, the governor's dinner at the Coralands Mansion in Hillsborough last night was -- you guessed it -- picketed by union members, some of whom were wearing pig masks. Second picture from the San Mateo Daily Journal...

Because there's so much going on with Herr Governator, we thought we'd need to turn it into a weekly feature. Yay? First last week's big story about the mistress and payment and the hush money that we were totally saving for the inevitable press circus that never came. Guess that's what happens when somebody isn't killed or doesn't disappear in a Caribbean country. -It was reported last week by the L.A. Times that before the......