It seems that Disney is putting more eggs into the digital animation basket here in the Bay Area: they're setting up a studio in our neighbors to the north, Novato. Teaming with director Robert Zemeckis (the genius behind Back to the Future and now the Angelina Jolie animated nudie flick, Beowulf), the pair is forming ImageMovers Digital—a digital animation studio focused on the "Is that really animation or isn't it?" type of filmmaking. Disney......

The dude who plunked down $752,467 to get the home-run ball that is #756 has decided to put it up to an online vote as to what to do with it...

--As you may have heard in the comments to the latest Oh No, Ed Jew! column, MUNI is thinking about having the N go out to the Caltrain station again. Yay! We may cover this again on SFist later too. --It's BART's 50th birthday!! Oddly enough, it's soy sauce maker Kikkoman's 50th birthday too. Also turning 50 today: John Treacey, Irish athlete. (Today is also Angelina Jolie's birthday, but she's not turning 50.) --SFMike......

You all ready for a new "lawyer in San Francisco" show? There was that one a few years ago by David Kelly with the three nice looking young ladies, "Girls Club." Lasted for a very few episodes in 2002. Well, there's a new pilot that may have a shot. See, this time there's a new pilot with a San Francisco attorney that has an angle. It could maybe have been called "The Court Whisperer," or maybe "Joe of Arcadia." This new show is called "Eli Stone," and the title character may be a prophet....

-The NBA's 2007 All-Star Game is tonight in Las Vegas. Excitement aplenty, to be sure. Yet there're no Golden State Warriors on the West All-Star team....

He's in New York! Tuesday he took off to the Big Apple to attend a three day event for the Clinton Global Initiative conference. That's Clinton as in Bill Clinton, not George Clinton. The Clinton Global Initiative is some big huge three day conference in which various political and governmental big wigs gather to discuss the environment and helping the poor people and Africa and all that stuff that George Clooney and Angelina Jolie talk about. ...

SFist spent the weekend in the motherland which always gets us to thinking about immigration. It's a tough haul to make it through the bureaucracy to become an American citizen, and that doesn't even touch on some of the experiences that those in refugee situations have been through before even putting pen to paper. The International Institute has nearly 90 years of experience in helping immigrants to the U.S. through the process - both......

After being blamed for the re-election of W., made a virtual pariah in the Democratic Party, and befriended by Angelina Jolie all for letting a few gay people marry, you would think that the Gavster would go quietly into that good night on the issue. After all, there’s nothing the Democratic Party hates more than some Democrat standing on principles and scaring off all those Red State types. Turns out he’s not going quietly. In fact, he has been pumping up both the jams and the volume on the issue. In the past week, he gave a speech at Harvard where he called out his fellow Democrats and yesterday, totally dissed New York Mayor Bloomberg over Hizzoner’s little problem with the issue....

In this week’s Girl Interrupted Angelina Jolie department, a woman at a Los Gatos mental institution was shot in the stomach by the cops for attempting to stab another woman patient at the hospital. A man died after falling off the Ocean Beach cliff Sunday morning, a little bit south of the Cliff House. Rescue efforts were impeded by the early morning fog and the steepness of the slope. A criminal investigation has been opened.......