Benjamin Button and Salt will jack up your Monday commute in Oakland tonight. And we couldn't be happier. (Glitz! Glamour! Celebrities! A-list celebrities! Chiseled bone structure!) See, Brad Pitt's latest cinematic effort, Moneyball (based on the Oakland A's 2002 season and how General Manager Billy Beane took a team with no winners and... zzzzzzz) premieres this evening in Oakland. Expect heavy traffic congestion and possible street closures around the Paramount Theatre (2025 Broadway) this evening beginning around 4 p.m.-ish. more ›

On the third anniversary of their mother's death, Angelina Jolie and her creepy brother James (remember that weird kiss?) have released this tribute video to YouTube. It features some lovely shots of the young family in Hawaii in 1981, when Angelina had no idea what an enormous piece of tabloid bait she'd one day become. [via TMZ] more ›

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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 more ›

--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. more ›

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. more ›

-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. more ›

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. more ›

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. more ›

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. more ›

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. more ›