The opening of Apple's latest Store...

Welcome back, little piggies, from your night of binge eating and sipping. (That is, if you were fortunate enough to do so.) Why not get up, out, and about tonight to work off that meal, hangover with the following: -- Kristi Yamaguchi Holiday Ice Rink at Embarcadero Center: Our Kristi, our Kristi, why hast thou forsaken us? Alas, although no longer branded with Olympic gold-medal allure, you'll still have a blast at the holiday rink......

How the church appeared on November 13. This Friday -- Black Friday -- Michaela Alioto-Pier's little neighborhood that thrives on ridicule will become a little more ridicule-less. At 9 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, on the day of November twenty-third, two thousand and seven, the store at 2125 Chestnut will open its doors. And at that moment? Apple will welcome in its third San Francisco store, completing the trilogy started by its flagship location on......

Scanning Some Life this morning, we see that the Stockton Street Apple Store caught fire on Sunday morning at around 11 a.m.-ish. Or at least something inside the glassy box was used for kindling. Or an alarm went off. Or none of the above. When we called the store today to confirm the small fire -- after waiting on hold, passed around, and spoken to in a hushed and somber tone -- they told......

We got these great pictures of the iPhone debut at the Apple Store in Union Square from Matt Johnson, a visiting staffer from our sister site Phillyist. Hope you had a nice time in San Francisco, Matt! The Chron reports that there were over 200 people in line, but you didn't actually have to wait in line to get one -- the last person in line got in a couple minutes before 6 and......

One of the best things about living in San Francisco is all the film festivals! We thought we were on top of them, and then we just found out this weekend that the SF Black Film Festival is starting later this week too. We can't keep up! The Ninth Annual Black Film Festival runs this weekend and next at the Theater Artaud and the African-American Art and Culture Complex, and is featuring African and African-American......

Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of "Friday Night Lights" production to New Mexico. Bostonist was happy they finally found an Anna Nicole Smith connection to their fair city and that an Apple Store was opening up. They were less happy that new rules have been established limiting underage shows and that their Governor is spending......

Vote no on C -- stop Wednesday's power grab! Today: Who knew they had events at the Apple store downtown? We picked up a flyer when we were (unsuccessfully) trying to get our iPod fixed. Today at 4, Todd Corleto demonstrates two-factor authentication with CRYPTOCard, and for those of you who still can't figure out how to use iTunes, there's a workshop about it at 5. The Apple Store's at One Stockton Street. Thursday: New......

Video geeks are descending on San Francisco this weekend for Vloggercon 2006 (or 'video blogger conference' if you're not a fan of tech neologisms). It was inspired by Webzine and the original Vloggercon in New York City last year. The daytime events at the Swedish American Hall are booked solid, but tonight there will be a "Meet the Vloggers" event at the Apple Store which is open to the public (likely followed by drinks......

Watching our pals over in Gotham City get all excited about the new Big Apple Store just left us feeling vaguely melancholy and nostalgic for when the opening of an Apple Store was a source of excitement here in the bay area. It also reminded us how Apple is the quintessential San Francisco company. The products are expensive. They're not quite as fast as the others, but make up for it with style. There's constant......

Fellow Apple jihadies [sic], unite! Today Apple announced more stuff for us to buy! The MacBook Pro has a new 17" model with a faster SuperDrive, an additional USB port, and the FireWire 800 port that's missing from the 15" version. So if you were holding off getting one of the new versions until they came out with a ludicrously large screen, or until that somewhat abrasive distant relative kicked off and left you......

Have you heard of Patrick Roddie? Such a talented photographer, (you can see his work at the Chronicle Books kiosk in the Metreon), and a really nice guy. Tonight at 7 p.m., Patrick's speaking at the downtown Apple Store: Photographing people shouldn't be intimidating for the photographer -- or the model. San Francisco based photographer Patrick Roddie explains how to put your subjects at ease, find the best light and come away with non-posed, expressive......

[Ed. Note: After shooting the Black and White Ball on a Canon D20, and seeing all the great photographs tonight, it's going to be hard going back to one megapixel point-and-shoots with 'Lil SFist. Sigh.] The photo event at the Apple Store was, in SFist's opinion, a smashing success. People crowded the presentation space -- many there from the crew at Bay Area Photologgers, others who were just interested shoppers, and at least one......

Matt Mullenweg is calling it the "Blogger" Harlem photo, and man, is that a bunch of beautiful geeks. We despatched one of the cuter SFists to the fete, but next time we'll have to give him a little media training -- lesson one: "How to elbow your way to the front of a group photo, babies be damned." Speaking of photography and blogging, local photobloggers are invading the Apple Store tomorrow at 6pm. Esteemed......

Kevin Rose, the cutie-pie techie on TV who moved to LA when Tech TV became the G4 network, has wiggled out of his contract and is producing a new show for internet distribution, Systm, and also promises to start producing new episodes of The Broken. As long as forties and Ramzi are on hand, we're sure it'll be a success. [via BoingBoing] Niall Kennedy is reporting that seven to eight pink slips have been......

In the forest of last night, we got an email from SFist's main man in Texas, Austinist Ben. Seems he's ginned up a widget! And not just any widget, but (after a few of our own modifications) an SFist headlines dashboard widget for the new Mac OS 10.4, codenamed "Tiger", which was released to much nerdy fanfare just last week. Check out Niall Kennedy's coverage of the madness at the San Francisco Apple Store......

Well, it seems that the laptop-carrying set at San Francisco's Academy of Art University are stuck for quick, handy wireless internet access. Around three weeks ago during the school's spring break, some h4XX0r managed to compromise network security. There aren't many details, as nothing has been made public yet -- we've heard that it was specifically an attack on the library servers, or that it may have been a WORM that happened upon the......

So anybody who followed our coverage of South by Southwest knows that after touching down in the Southland our selfless and peaceful PowerBook up and died on us. Granted, we've given that PowerBook something of a beating since we got over a year ago -- it's been dropped, scratched, smacked around and otherwise tortured. And when it died, we almost thought about looking into the market for a USB-powered crown of thorns. As our......

It's been a while since our last Get Ur Geek On, so we've got a lot of hottness today and will use a bullet list, power-point style, because our attention spans have begun to shrivel in inverse proportion to our abdomen's expansion: Dan Gillmor, the last top tech writer standing at the San Jose Mercury News, has decided to leave the Knight-Ridder corporate family to become a 'Citizen Journalist.' Is that a fancy term for......