SFist interviews James Elkington of the Zincs, opening for The Sea and Cake at Bimbo's tonight. ...

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Another great weekend for movies here in the Bay Area! For example: SFist Rita went to see 2046 at a sneak preview last night (thanks, Larsen!), which was packed to the gills with Asians, fans of Asian art movies, or both. It's a beautifully-shot film, filled with gorgeously sad women and starring a morose-yet-suave Tony Leung Chiu-Wai. It's kind of a Nick Hornby High Fidelity of 1960s Hong Kong, as Leung reminisces about all......

Well, pretty much everyone who's anyone in indie rock this weekend (including your regular columnist and SFist's new music editor SFist Krissy) is in Austin for SXSW. The rest of us forlornly left behind can comfort ourselves with the following shows. Tonight, local country-folk rockers The Court and Spark are playing at the Hemlock. Get some dreamy twang with your smokers' lounge! There's an embarrassment of riches on Friday: Metal band the F***ing Champs play 12 Galaxies, Elephone brings their avant-garde electronica to the Bottom of the Hill, Xhibit plays the Fillmore (maybe if you ask nicely, he'll pimp your ride), and for those of you looking for cheap laffs, Mandonna will be bringing the cross-dressing pointy bras and headsets to the Great American (watch out for blood from the Ian Brown show -- FYI: SFPD has decided they won't prosecute but have encouraged GAMH to sue). On Saturday, for those of you who can't spend $24-42 on tickets to blues and soul legend Solomon Burke's Friday SFJAZZ show at the Palace of Fine Arts, he's doing a free show at Amoeba on Saturday. Show starts at 1:30 but in our experience, those free shows fill up pretty fast, so get there around noonish and do some browsing while you wait. (You may remember Solomon Burke also as the man who wrote the single that got Rob and Laura together in Nick Hornby's High Fidelity.) If you make it out alive from the crazed crush at Amoeba, stop by BotH later that evening and catch Nerf Herder, the guys who recorded the Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme song. Listings for the next work week, after the jump. Picture of Solomon Burke by Kathy Willens of the AP....

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