The Library Tower (AKA the U.S. Bank Tower) in Los Angeles could soon be the second tallest building west of the Mississippi thanks to San Francisco's proposed Transbay Terminal. While the Library Tower, located in downtown Los Angeles, stands at an alluring 1,018-feet tall, the Transbay Terminal is primed to win the measuring contest at 1,200-feet. You know, we're just saying. Not to brag or anything. Anyway, our tallest skyscrapers so far are as......

It's almost Academy Awards® time and whether or not the writers will still be on strike, it seems that each year the movies are less and less relevant to the show itself. Between the Valentino dresses, Armani suits and pregger rumors, we feel Oscar® (or at least media coverage) has lost its focus. Enter Magnolia Pictures and Shorts International and their Indie Movie-loving glory: they're teaming to showcase this year's Academy Award nominated short......

A photo of the FiDi at night with holiday lighting...

-- Aimee Mann's Second Annual Christmas Show: Paul F. Tompkins, Sean Hayes, Chuck Prophet, and Morgan Murphy join the delightfully blond songstress for a night of holiday warm fuzzies. Because X-Mas is coming and there's no way around it, come catch this wonderful singer/songwriter during the, um, recording-a-holiday-album period of her career. Show starts at 8 p.m. at Bimbo's 365; $35.50. -- Margot at the Wedding: Fantastic movie. Just great. And whatever. It totally......

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......

The International Animation Festival starts tonight, kids. And speaking of them, don't bring yours to tomorrow night's wonderfully smut-filled orgy of animated shorts, Top Drawers. What's more, one lucky soul will get a free pair of tickets to tomorrow night's screening. You will have the chance to see such "playful, sexy shorts" as Signe Baumane's Teat Beat of Sex and Kelly Sears's Drift. So, the fifth person to send us an email to editor......

A reader asked: "Hey guys I was wondering what is the best gym to go workout at in San Francisco? Which offers the best amenities and a friendly staff? What gym should I avoid at all cost?" We think he may have left off a word, but that's okay, we get the idea. Much as with our search for a good Italian joint for a reader the other day, we'll offer one quick opinion then open it up to the brain trust of our readership, who probably a hell of a lot more about this than we do....

Hey, wanna see The Ten? No, not the LA freeway, a movie of ten short films illustrating each of the Ten Commandments, featuring such of-the-moment actors as Jessica Alba, Paul Rudd (yay!), Adam Brody (pictured above; we have no idea what commandment it illustrates but the picture's funny), and The Daily Show's Rob Corddry, among many, many others, and directed by the guy who directed Wet Hot American Summer. Well, you can if you......

What do Broken Social Scene and Peaches both have in common? Leslie Feist! The Canadian singer-songwriter performs at the Fillmore tonight with Grizzly Bear. 1805 Geary St., SF. If you can't score tickets to the show, head over to Bottom of the Hill and check out NOMO, an Afro-beat band from Detroit for $10. 1233 17th St, SF. Calling all PSP fans! Head over to the Sony Playstation store at the Metreon to celebrate......

It's that anti-war protest time of the year again! Traffic in the city will be tied up tomorrow as your favorite scruffy kettle-drum wielding and peace-flag waving World Can't Wait-ers march up and then down Market Street at noon. Oh, we love The World Can't Wait folks -- remember Bush Ter Down? This is part of an international 190-city protest against the Iraq War (with 70 of the cities are in states that voted for......

Hey, time to fuel up that ol' SUV and drive with the freon-leaking A/C on to see local filmmaker Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, opening on Friday at the Embarcadero Center (and at the Sequoia in Mill Valley). MoveOn.Org is asking people to buy tickets in advance to pump up the buzz, and Paramount has announced it'll be donating 5% of the profits to the Alliance for Climate Protection. Thanks, Green Party, for making it......

SFist has passes to a sneak preview of Shopgirl, the new film based on Steve Martin's best-selling novella. (Yeah, Steve Martin is an author too, go figure.) The movie stars Mr. Martin as a rich fiftysomething who sweeps shopgirl Claire Danes off her feet, until floppy-haired bachelor Jason Schwartzman enters the picture and wacky hijinks/poignant moments ensue. Enter to win a pair of passes to a sneak preview screening at the Landmark Embarcadero Cinema at......

Wednesday nights at the Beauty Bar features Hip-hop and Dancehall at "Flavor in Ya Ear." Come for the music, stay for the $2 Cuervo shots and $3 rum-and-cokes, and leave nauseous. 'Indie' more your thang? It's DIY DJ night, "Indie Circus," at the Hush Hush -- bring a CD or an iPod and spend fifteen minutes looking for something besides the Bloc Party and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah that everyone else also thought......

SFist welcomes some new members of the family -- in English and in French (anybody want to contribute in Mandarin?). Oh, and Rehab the Crab! This is what happens when you introduce a conservative political columnist to postmodern critical theory. Though we admit, even we have a few pet conspiracy theories. Gerardo Sandoval owes Duane Baughman $15,000 -- a little more than a month's pay if he were the Assessor Recorder and made as......

Today is Bastille day, the anniversary of the French revolution of 1789 and France's 4th of July. Except in San Francisco, where it is Embarcadero Center Cinema Day, as declared by the mayor. Thanks for nothing, Gavin, next time you guys have a revolution, Lafayette will stay home. Anyhow, there are plenty of reasons to celebrate: Parisist has opened for business this week, and in all likelyhood, Lance Armstrong will finish today's Tour de France......

No word yet on if they'll be suspending mail delivery or if we don't have to go to work tomorrow, but July 14, 2005 has been declared "Embarcadero Center Cinema" Day in San Francisco by your Mayor Gavin Newsom. The theater is turning 10 years old (appropriate gifts for this age might include a Choose Your Own Adventure book or a science set) this year (hence the holiday), and for only 15 bucks you......