Why, look! It's Brad Pitt. As we mentioned earlier today, Pitt and his special lady friend, Angelina Jolie, are in Oakland today to attend the premiere of the former's latest cinematic effort, Moneyball. Ben Platt was there to snap this shot of the actor posing with Billy Beane (left, the A's general manager Pitt portrays) and Eric Karros. Exciting, yes? Yes. more ›

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 ›

• Rickie Lee Jones: Easy listening-ish jazz and pop/R&B songstress ("Chuck E.'s in Love") sings tonight at 8:30 p.m. at Cafe Du Nord; $30. SOLD OUT
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007): "An action western surrounding the private life and public exploits of America''s most notorious outlaw, Jesse James," starring pretty boys Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck, and the best actress in the entire stratosphere, Mary-Louise Parker. Screens at 8 p.m. at the Red Vic; $5-8.50.
• Tonight's fanboy-littered Macworld parties.

Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily Allen discovered when she was barred entry to the US. The British mapping agency caused further bad karma, by blocking a 3-D representation of London in Google Earth. But the smiles returned to Londonist's faces as they interviewed Baroness von Reichardt, who has completely covered her house in mosaic tiles. more ›

Just because this year's IndieFest is over doesn't mean that those IndieFest folks are coasting on their successsful 'Fest glory. In conjunction with Drunken Monkey, you can see tonight at the good old Cat Club (1190 Folsom at 8th). Doors open at 9 for the free screening, the movie (did we mention that it's free?) starts at 10, and there's a DJ until the (in SFist's opinion) too-early close of 2 a.m. more ›

We're only getting to this story now because it takes four days for magazines to travel across our great lands to us yokels out here in the Western hinterlands -- the New Yorker deigns to focus its little monocle on the far end of Democrat-Blue America and presents a rather one-sided hagiography of our boy wonder mayor, Gavin Newsom. more ›