What's Disney commercialization of a beloved local landmark and why does it -- what's that word again? Suck. Yeah, anyway, we're a bit late getting around to this Anaheim-based copycat of local treasure Palace of Fine Arts. Local blogger (and SFist commenter) MrEricSir noted the shocking similarities between the local landmark and the new Little Mermaid ride at Disney's California Adventure. (Aside: we can't wait to check it out during our next trip behind the Orange Curtain! Eee!) more ›

Patton Oswalt, the comedian who lent his voice to Remy in Ratatouille (to us, though, he will always be Spence Olchin), sent out the following Twitter update: "On August 19th of next year, I'm on a postage stamp. Sort of." And he's right! He sort of is! And here they are! more ›

SF Citizen has word that the (controversial) Walt Disney Family Museum will open to the public on October 1. more ›

Fantastic news: Morton's -- the steakhouse that eschews infusions, Amy Winehouse-looking hostesses, cramped seating, and square and small plates -- is officially taking over the now-closed Disney store on Post and Powell. Eater reports that "[t]he new space will double the steakhouse's seating and become the main dining room, leaving the current one for overflow." Also, Morton's will celebrate its 30th anniversary by handing out free mini sirloin burgers this Sunday from 5-6 p.m. Mmm. more ›

It's debatable whether Walt Disney ever really did meet with Adolf Hilter in 1935 -- but what if they did? What if he met with Leni Riefenstahl and Joseph Goebbels and they talked about making fascist cartoons? more ›

Due to the "unusual and extraordinary" Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo -- which resulted in the mauling death of 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. and wounding of Paul and Kulbir Dhaliwal -- a three-member tiger team formed by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums has been called in to examine the zoo's big cat grotto. While the investigation and renovations are underway, the tigers and lions are currently kicking it indoors. What's more, according to zoo director Manuel Mollinedo, the cats have been subjected to the wonderful world of Disney: more ›

OMG! It's the Nicole Ritchie of laptops! (Ritchie before she got fat and pregnant, that is.) more ›

Everyone's behaving a little bit funny this weekend, and it's throwing the city's transit into a tizzy. An absolute tizzy! We haven't been this tizzied in MONTHS. more ›

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Photo of protest by Filipino-American's at the Disney Store. more ›

Have you heard all the rumors about how friggin WEIRD the next Pixar movie is going to be? Weird good, of course. Just look at the mind-bendy marketing they're doing for it. And IMDb says that Ben Burtt -- the guy who composed R2D2's beeps -- will be one of the film's voice actors? more ›

-- The Arcade Fire: LCD Soundsystem and Wild Light open for this white-hot -- that's right, white-hot, or so we hear -- Canadian indie-rock band. Music starts tonight at 7 p.m. at Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View; $19-40. more ›

-- Avenue Q: This tee hee-inducing musical features un-Seaseme Street-like puppets (e.g., a closeted homosexual republican, for starters) and an ode to racism. What's more, the indie production won a surprise Tony Award for best musical, as well as best score and book, beating out Disney's Wicked. It opens tonight at 7 p.m at the Orpheum Theater, 1192 Market; $25-$90. more ›

Arizona recently executed their first prisoner in over seven years, Robert Comer. Comer was sentenced to death for murdering someone in a campsite and was also charged with rape and kidnapping. He was killed using lethal injection. 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 ›

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A group at UCSF estimates that tobacco products in general-admission films are raising a whole lot of new, young smokers. The solution: slap an R on any film in which smoking is portrayed as having zero health consequences, since kids aren't mature enough to understand the real-life dangers of tobacco. more ›

Yesterday was the first day of spring so we decided to celebrate a day late with a YouTube clip of Tchaikovsky's Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" from Disney's Fantasia. Then we realized that's the boring one where all the dinosaurs die and who wants to watch dinosaurs die? So we found this instead, Amilcare Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" featuring the dancing hippos. What says spring more than dancing hippos? Besides, who doesn't love dancing hippos? And alligators. more ›

The Bay Area is home to many intriguing small businesses. Still, color us surprised that we've found in Juno Baby a local purveyor of high-quality children's educational products that manages to encapsulate what we like best in a company. more ›

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Who's that being spotted Hollywood clubbin' with Giants' curveballer Barry Zito? more ›

t's looking like Spocko the Blogger's little stunt he pulled on KSFO is working. Both Bank of America and MasterCard pulled either all of their advertising or some of their advertising from KSFO. Others are expected to follow suit. more ›

MacWorld. Keynote. It's Steve's time. more ›

Now that Netroots have slowed down on the Tauscher hating, they've moved onto another subject to which their ire is drawn, KSFO. One of the diarists on Daily Kos is telling the story of poor Spocko the Blogger. Spocko had a thing about KSFO for whatever reason and decided to record bits and pieces of various shows with the hopes of capturing of something truly appallingly in bad taste and full of invective. Our guess is that he probably spent a good ten minutes or so before he had enough damning evidence. With recorded bits and pieces of the shows. Spocko the Blogger turned some of the quotes into mp3s and sent them to various sponsors of KSFO shows as well as their corporate overlords. The obvious reason, of course, is to show those holding the purse strings just what they are spending money on. more ›

So here's how the story goes: plucky, fresh-faced tech geeks put together some new web gizmo that quickly becomes one of those things everyone loves. Plucky, fresh-faced tech geeks quickly make a lot of money for doing something that doesn't make a lot of money, but is based on their potential for money. But since plucky, fresh-faced tech geeks run the company themselves with no affiliation to any of the Big Boys, Big Boys slowly lick their chops and move in for the kill, either by buying them out or by competing against them. Say goodbye to plucky, fresh-faced tech geeks and say hello to evil media conglomerate. Why do we bring this up? Because it's happening to YouTube. more ›

If last week was a downer in terms of new movies, this weekend is definitely not. Basically, this is start of the big run of movies for Christmas/Oscar season so we'll start seeing the big, serious movies. Good thing it's going to rain. more ›

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for? more ›

Since we have to lead with anything Journey here at SFist, check out the YouTube clip of the ad for Atari's "Journey Escape" we found on Kotaku. Avoiding (pixelated representations of) crazed fans and manipulative music industry types never looked so fun! Buy it now! If espionage is more your game, then the cloak-and-dagger shenanigans at HP should be up your alley. Even reporters were entangled in the web of lives spun to discredit a board member who once wed John Traina's sloppy seconds ex-wife Danielle Steele. more ›

It's been a while since we published a tech roundup. But the Internet turned 15 last Sunday, we got a new laptop from an entrepreneur and friend who'll be enabling this 'Fister's addiction to blogging, and SFist Chuck, whom we dearly miss, was kidnapped by Disney, who force him to Imagineer at gunpoint. All the while, you've been lost in the unmapped multiverse, wondering who Supr.c.ilio.us and TechCrunch are, and which is the hipper one to name drop when asking your IT department for help (Supr.c.ilio.us); anxious about the hygenic example set for the children by superstar CEOs in the valley (they're terrible); and, dude, what's up with MySpace? 'Cuz there's, you know, awesome bands and some serious hotties, which are cool, but there's also, like, ads that install viruses, and that Tom guy, who's totally creepy. more ›