Everyone's favorite hairy-footed friend, Elijah Wood, is coming to San Francisco next week. However, instead of reprising his notable role of hobbit Frodo Baggins in the recent film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's work, the 5' 6' celebrity will be performing in another manner altogether — as DJ.

The actor has for some time been running his own record label, notes the Chronicle, and five years ago he started spinning vinyl with established Los Angeles DJ Zach Cowie under the name Wooden Wisdom. The two are booked to play a set at San Francisco's Harlot on Friday, January 15.

If you're inclined to throw down for a $30 ticket to catch the duo in action, don't expect Wood to sign any Lord Of The Rings memorabilia that you bring along.

"I suppose most people are familiar with me from the work that I do in films," celebsplained Wood to the Chronicle. "I guess sometimes when we play there are a certain group of people who come for that reason, but the hope that I always have is that they walk away having let go of that sort of preconceived relationship, from what they're familiar with, and kind of take away the musical aspect of what it is that [Zach and I] do together."

The performance is the penultimate stop in a five-city tour for the duo. As to what you should expect to hear should you attend the show? Wood explained to the paper the one element connecting everything they play.

"It's not easy to quantify," he noted regarding his artistic vision. "I think the sort of major through line to anything that we play is that it has to be danceable. That's the only consistent thing."

Related: Video: 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' Preview

Bless you, Drew Altizer, for your always-fun pictures of the local celebs in town! We wish we were Vegasist, so you'd have some pictures of Britney Spears's flabtastic performance at the VMAs last night. (aaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!)

Anyhow, so Paris Hilton was in San Francisco earlier this week, at a Macy's event, and friend of Jennifer Siebel Molly Sims was at Cartier (after the jump).

Drew's got the pics! Enjoy.

It's the third annual San Francisco Notable Portrait Auction, to benefit Creativity Explored! We love this event. Creativity Explored is dedicated to promoting works by local developmentally disabled artists, and they invite a group of local celebs to sit for portraits by their artists, and then auction them off with the celebs in attendance. Jonathan Richman (!!!!) will also be playing.

The event is this Thursday, April 12 at 111 Minna, and you can buy tickets here ($50).

This year's portraitees include Alice Waters (pictured above), SF Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White (after the jump), Stanlee Gatti, Beth Lisick, and Channel 2's Dennis Richmond, among many others. Next year: we hope they get Dan Noyes!

More portraits after the jump. Picture of Alice Waters by Kevin Roach. All pictures courtesy of Creativity Explored (thanks!).

There's no question that getting fired, canned, axed, rif'ed, or booted SUCKS. We were back at one of our favorite SF theaters, the Roxie, for the SF debut of Annabelle Gurwitch's at Docfest on Friday night. It turns out that there were so many eager sympathizers, a second show had to be added. We stood in line near Gurwitch, and Robert Reich, former Clinton Labor Secretary, who has a cameo in the film and whom one of our friends kindly pointed out to us, while we waited somewhat anxiously for San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi to wrap up the Q&A in his recent documentary, The Slanted Screen (it seemed like it took forever).

Fired! was inspired by Gurwitch’s (who you may remember her from Seinfeld and/or TBS’s Dinner and a Movie) experience getting laid off from a Woody Allen play. The first half of the film was the most entertaining, watching plucky, sarcastic Gurwitch interview other Hollywood celebs about their experiences getting canned. Anyone who’s had a job in retail or the food service industry can clearly relate. We also loved Gurwitch’s numerous reminders that Woody canned her because she was “retarded.” (We still find it amusing even after learning at the post-film Q&A that Gurwitch’s firing scene was staged and that she was really canned by a friend of hers and member of Woody’s staff).

The second half of the film, in which Gurwitch immerses herself among blue collar auto workers in Michigan, didn’t quite work for us. It was like Gurwitch changed focus midstream, and the obvious disconnect between a celeb fired from a play and the folks in Michigan whose livelihoods depend on their jobs in the auto industry, was never quite bridged by Gurwitch’s humor or her more serious attempts to make a point regarding the current threats faced by the American workforce.

SFist Wendy, contributing.

Our interview adventure began as we tracked down the tour handler, Freekshow (that’s not a typo, really, that’s what he likes to be called and how he spells it). Freekshow proceeded to hustle us into the back of an unmarked white van. The band was still unwinding from their set so we sat in silence as we drove into the bowels of Shoreline Amphitheater. The only excitement came when the band spotted some “fuzz” and the driver assured them that he was “on it”. At long last we joined the band in their trailer. We were hoping for something pimped out with all kinds of food and bevs (hello, we read the The Smoking Gun, we know what kinds of things go on in there) and were disappointed that there was only a Saran-wrapped plate of veggies that never got touched. As Freekshow left to procure some beer and hash, SFist began the interview.

SFist: Would you like the hard or easy questions first?
Matt: The hard ones.

SFist: Ok, but they’re pretty probing
Darren: Probing?! You’re going to probe us? Where? How? We like being probed.

SFist:: You’re definitely in the right area for that but no. The question is which member of Ambulance Ltd. is most expendable, and why?
Marcus: [Stunned Silence]. Are you serious?

Photos by Rebecca Gholdston