SFist Sara says to see the second screening of this movie TONIGHT! 9:30 screening at the Roxie! From the look of it, you'd think the Indiefest Another Hole in the Head movie Blood Car was made using the "First Feature for $10,000" model, and the guys responsible are more than happy to have you believe it. But with a premise that begs slogans like "No Oil, just Blood," you'd have to be daft not to......

Culinary legend James Beard has some prestigious awards named for him, and announcements of the winners are slowly being revealed. The winners of the Journalism and Broadcast Media awards have been announced, and the Chron came up big. Seriously, I know we're like the San Francisco Chronicle cheerleading squad lately -- but that paper won several awards and we're big fans of the winners: the Food Section itself won (section F, take a bow), while Janet Fletcher won for "Newspaper Feature Writing With Recipes" for this article....

We're positively reeling from anticipation of all the fun and excitement promised by this weekend's events. Not since we spent Halloween weekend in Las Vegas a few years back have we done so much reeling - though that was mostly due to our alcohol consumption and our difficulty finding an exit out of the New York New York casino. Tonight Hey, it's Halloween weekend, how about a creepy movie: Street Trash, described as "Eraserhead......

Tonight (well, axctually, all weekend) we're seeing movies, movies, movies. The 10th Annual Arab Film Festival runs at the Roxie from tonight to next Thursday. Tonight's film is Zozo, "a Swedish-Lebanese film chronicling the coming of age of a Lebanese orphan in Sweden." Not tonight, but tomorrow morning at 11, hit the Balboa for their first screening in the Global Lens Film Series, which runs until September 24. Saturday's film is the Chinese production Stolen......

Ah, IndieFest. Was it just two weeks ago that we were swearing that we'd never, ever go see another screening at the Women's Building? But while we've been recovering, the tireless IndieFest staff has tabulated all those little ballots y'all filled out, and determined the 2006 IndieFest award winners -- after all, what's a film festival without awards? Best Feature: Great Yokai War Best Doc:aka Tommy Chong Best Short: Spin Best Animation: Blood Tea......

Today we visit with an actual professional in the world of blogging, Eric Lin, who writes for Phone Scoop, the place to go for the latest and greatest news in the world of cell phones. Eric managed to carve a nice niche for himself with his mobile phone fetish when other techies we're all about PDAs, which might have helped him survive the dot-bomb in one piece. Eric has also written for Engadget and......

So there we were, on craigslist again, when we came across this ticket out of obscurity: NEED: Interior Designer who POPS on TV (SOMA / south beach) Are you a working designer or decorator who wants your own television show? HGTV is your answer: "Design Star" is a new show committed to bringing the best designers to the small screen. Head to WWW.HGTV.COM, click on "Design Star" and apply to be discovered! You'll need......

The Asian-American civil rights community has lost a hero with the passing of Fred Korematsu yesterday in his daughter's home in Marin. Korematsu, an American citizen and Bay Area resident, was 22 years old when FDR ordered the internment of all Japanese-Americans on the West Coast after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Reluctant to leave his Italian-American girlfriend, Korematsu refused to go, and was arrested. He then sued, claiming that the internment camps violated his right to equal protection under the law. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, and established, in Korematsu v. United States, the principle that lasts until today, that the government must provide a compelling reason before race-based classifications will be upheld. Ironically, despite the strong language, the Supreme Court found that FDR's justification of a possible threat by the Japanese was in fact a compelling reason to justify incarceration of over 100,000 American citizens. The Korematsu decision is widely considered an embarrassment of American jurisprudence, and most recently, has been cited as a cautionary tale by the Muslim-American community in the wake of 9/11. In 1983, Korematsu, through the Asian Law Caucus, sued in San Francisco federal court to reopen his case and clear his name, and won. He spent the rest of his life dedicated to ensuring that injustices like the ones he faced would never happen again. We'll keep his memory alive. Picture of Fred Korematsu with Rosa Parks by Shirley Nakao and Asianweek ...

SFist is pleased to see native son Clint Eastwood garnering so many Academy Award nominations for Million Dollar Baby, the best women-in-boxing film since Against The Ropes. (We're kidding, Hilary, please don't kick our ass.) We have to admit disappointment that The Incredibles, product of local wunderkinds Pixar was overlooked in the nominations for Best Picture, and instead received nods for Best Animated Feature, Original Screenplay, and Sound Editing. We thought it was going to......

Week in food literature review....