SFist Mihi kicked it Rotoscope-animated style at the SFIAAFF Friday night. We love a good Cinderella story and apparently so do a bunch of people on dates. Year of the Fish, a modern interpretation of a 9th century Chinese folk tale played at the Van Ness AMC 1000 on Friday night and the place was lousy with well-groomed couples holding-hands and making kissy faces at each other. Unfortunately, there's something about placing this Chinese......

First the heartwarming - George Mark Children’s House and UCSF Children’s Hospital present a sneak preview screening of the live-action remake of Charlotte's Web at the Loews Metreon Theater (4th and Mission). The screening benefits GMCH and UCSF, each of which offer unique contributions to the continuum of care for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families. The remake of Charlotte’s Web features an all-star cast including Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey, Kathy Bates, Robert Redford......

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...

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! ...

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......

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. ...

SFist always feels vindicated when our nemesis, the Chron's Mick LaSalle, disses a movie we're interested in. As we might have mentioned before, he is our Bizarro-self when it comes to films, as everything he feels we feel in exactly the opposite. This week's tiny triumph of the SFist spirit (and our Big Budget Pick of the Week)is his dislike of Closer, which we have been (uncharacteristically, since there aren't any car chases, zombies, or......