Scores of Hollywood folk came to Davies Symphony Hall last night to remember Paul Newman, who passed away recently, by performing a staged reading of "The World of Nick Adams," an adaptation by A. E. Hotchner of some of Ernest Hemingway's early autobiographical stories. more ›

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Thanks to our super-secret sources for sending along the Vanity Fair picture that we didn't have earlier, of Gavin Newsom moodily contemplating eco-friendliness with two fatter guys! We kind of want to draw a little thought bubble above him: "How ya like me now, San Francisco Green Party????" (unrelated musing: was it SFist Jackson who noted that every single Newsom initiative has the word "connect" in it? Can someone please arrange for a meeting between Newsom and three other people? We have the "Project Connect Four" post already all written in our head.) After the jump -- the Vanity Fair cover photo, with Julia Roberts dressed up like a tree! The Earth is our home! Picture from Vanity Fair by Art Streiber more ›

SFist Jon, on the East Coast this week, took a break from his family vacation to excitedly email us that our boy Gavin's featured in yet another national magazine photo spread. This time it's Vanity Fair! It's their Green Issue, featuring on the cover Julia Roberts dressed as a tree, and a very embarrassed-looking SF resident Al Gore at Julia's crotch level. Newsom's in a two-page photo spread of Mayors Who Support The Environment, one page after Ed Norton (who's a solar-power user) and 9 pages after Republican Governors Who Support The Environment, with girly-greeny man Arnold Schwarzenegger and a wan-looking George Pataki. He got the shout-out for promoting recycling. We'd show you the picture but it's not online -- so you'll have to look at it in the checkout line at Safeway. On the bright side, Gavin is the only mayor who doesn't have a potbelly. On the down side, he looks vaguely embarrassed about being in the picture at all. You can see him thinking, I'd much rather be lying on a carpet right now. Don't worry, Gavin, we here at SFist will make your dreams come true! So best! more ›

This past weekend we made our way down to Long Beach for the Abu Dhabi Combat Club Submission Wrestling World Championships. A competition between the best submission wrestlers, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practioners, and Judo players in the world, the combatants win by submission, points or referee decision. Drawing a diverse crowd, we found ourselves thisclose to BJJ fan and studentJoe Rogan, and we hear Julia Roberts fan and student Jason Patric was also in the audience. more ›

here's an interesting little morality play going on in Marin County involving health care and the treatment of the elderly. And yes, it's more interesting than it sounds. Last Thursday, a Marin County judge refused to allow the local sheriff from evicting an elderly woman who has spent the past year living in her hospital bed. That woman, Sarah Nome, 82, of San Alsemo, hasn't needed treatment since last January but has refused to leave and the hospital, Kaiser Permanante has been trying for the past year to evict her. more ›

Oh, dear. LaSalle liked Who Killed Bambi?, our other hotly anticipated film opening this weekend. And 23 Yahoo users have given the film a D+ rating, which bodes doubly ill for it. But it's playing at the glorious Castro, so even if this thriller about a drug-crazed doctor stalking a student nurse is crap, we feel primed for campy fun. more ›