Michael Pollan: Come hear this foodie sensation talk about his latest book, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, in which he suggests that you should not "eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food." (Impossible. Also, yes, Michael Leaverton, we DO need to know the exercise logs of the fowl we plan on eating.) Catch him tonight in conversation with restaurant critic, Hayes Street Grill chef/co-owner, and local food celeb......

We're hugging SFist Franny tight (SFists Sniffy and Monkey are not big huggers), then running out to the Roxie to see the San Francisco SPCA and In Defense of Animals-hosted San Francisco screening of Dark Water Rising: The Truth about Hurricane Katrina Animal Rescues. The 75-minute documentary, shot by award-winning filmmaker Mike Shiley, shows the plight of more than 50,000 dogs and cats, who were left behind in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The documentary......

Got no plans this weekend? Go listen to some music or check out these other cool happenings. Tonight at Fort Mason, Stewart Brand will be speaking on the topic of "Cities & Time" as part of the Long Now foundation's Second Friday seminar series. Brand is responsible for publishing the Whole Earth Catalog -- their computer network, the Well, just celebrated it's twentieth anniversary. Ten dollar suggested donation. Friend of SFist Jess Barron invited......

In Defense of Animals, an animal rescue and advocacy organization based in Mill Valley, issued a news release on its website yesterday regarding our own UCSF....

One of Rush Limbaugh's pet pundits Michelle Malkin has been invited by California Patriots, the politically conservative campus group at Cal, to speak about her book In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror. Her talk is likely to focus on criticism of her book from the left, the role of racial profiling in our current War on Terror and her experiences as an author, New York Post columnist and television personality. Some readers may remember the heated exchange between Ms. Malkin, Chris Matthews and our own Willie Brown on MSNBC's Hardball, which Ms. Malkin posted about on her site. 1115.org has made their feelings known by featuring Ms. Malkin in one of their biting STFU pieces, and Ana Marie Wonkette has also weighed in on the issue. EssEffist also wants to point out that the children and grandchildren of interned Japanese Americans will have a hard time swallowing some of her arguments - and Muslim students at Cal, who by her own account should be viewed with suspicion as potential terrorists based on their ethnic background, are probably none too pleased with her appearance. EssEffist remembers reading Farewell to Manzanar in grade school and thinks the camps and their justifications were truly regrettable. We thought we were all clear on this when Reagan apologized for it, but Ms. Malkin disagrees. The speech will be tomorrow night at 7:00pm in 145 Dwinelle Hall on campus....