Either under the table for protection or hiding from someone sporting a fiendish fannypack-khakis combo, Catherine Kilkenny of San Jose's Willow Glen looks scared as all hell, doesn't she? Many people were. Last night's 5.6 earthquake, which we didn't feel but hear the majority of you did, tore nerves to shreds, shook the ground, and sent magazines flying to the floor. In a little over 12 hours, it managed to cause quite the stir.......

In today's world of Xtube and the like, Dennis Saunders -- Healdsburg's very own convicted peeping Tom, whose stash was confiscated by the police -- now wants his pornographic material back. And as one commenter pointed out on SF Gate, "Who in their right mind will pay for porn this day and age?" Really, who would nowadays? And more to the point, who prefers videos and magazines to the clean and ease of blue......

Everybody dance now! Take in a "thought provoking" dance/theater performance with CounterPULSE's Under the Radar tiny caberet featuring an international cast of disabled and non-disabled performers. Consider what it means to be normal. Jess Curtis directs, and the performance takes place at 1310 Mission (at 9th Street). Since it's the first week, tickets are only $10 - 15. Reservations and info, call 415-435-7552 or email info@counterpulse.org . Spot Francis Ford Coppola, maybe. We'll take......

From yesterday's Chronicle article about Newsom stalker Han Shin: Inside [Shin's car], police found a map of San Francisco with the location of the mayor's building highlighted and a line following streets from the building to the Bay Bridge. Also found were a cutout composite photograph of the mayor, Shin and Shin's father, magazines with articles about Newsom, a laminated photograph of Newsom, three purple latex gloves and a cassette tape titled "President Newsom." Now,......

We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he's working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur,......

We hope you already know that two of the best craft and DIY magazines available right now are born and bred in our lovely backyard. Don't worry, we'll forgive you if you weren't aware that ReadyMade and Craft are both products of Northern California, but you've got no excuse if you don't make them both part of your regular magazine reads. ReadyMade, who recently moved its headquarters from Oakland to Berkeley, has had a spot on our bookshelves long before we started seeing copies of it for sale in Urban Outfitters. In classic magazine format, it features music and book reviews, eco friendly tips for you and your home, and pages of projects to build. Each issue is clearly themed, although recycling and reusing have been common threads throughout ReadyMade's life span. One of our favorite sections is the Macgyver page, which asks readers for suggestions on breathing new life into items you may be ready to toss. The most creative entry wins and is pictured in the magazine. ...

SFMike from Civic Center's had a very cultural week! From the symphony on Friday to the SF Ballet opening gala last night -- and for the standing-room ticket price of $20! The evening started out at a gala Spanish-themed reception at City Hall and the Chron breathlessly reports that "[t]his was the most dressed-up Ballet gala in history. If the ladies pulled out all the stops for the 74th anniversary [this year], it will be......

Our New Year's hangover (too much to drink, too much noise, too much fun) has just about abated, and catching a movie is about what we're up for tonight. At ATA (992 Valencia at 21st) there's Czech Dream (Ceský sen), a documentary about the largest consumer hoax the Czech Republic has ever seen. The filmmakers, Filip Remunda and Vit Klusak, set out to explore the psychological and manipulative powers of consumerism by creating an ad......

Winter's deep chill has arrived, and you can expect it to stay here for a few months. Forget salads for dinner; our bodies need food that coats our bellies and warms our hearts. And few dishes heat us like cheese fondue, the perfect dish with which to greet cold friends coming to your home for dinner. When was the last time you dunked bread cubes into a simmering soup of liquid cheese? Fondue went......

SFist Mary Ladd, contributing. We like what we saw and heard from Fog City News owner Adam Smith and suave Chocolatier Michael Mischer today on our lunch break. Fog City News is a nice, clean space on Market Street offering high quality chocolates and confections with a vast assortment of worldly magazines. Today's event was the first in a series of Friday afternoon visits (12 noon to 2 p.m.) from well known chocolatiers, and happens......

Tonight, our friends at Hyphen Magazine are having a party at 111 Minna (111 Minna at 2nd), celebrating their newest issue (#10--The Music Issue) with some of their favorite local Asian American musicians: native guns, marque, mud and lovelikefire, and DJs, kero one, politik and modest mark. (9p - 2a) Saturday, it's that time again - time for Miss Trannyshack Pageant 2006 at the Regency Center (1300 Van Ness at Sutter) with performances by......

Were these guys a bunch of "assclowns" for making a musical based on the hit Tim Burton film?...

We regularly try to come up with a clever title that sums up our event picks for the day, and today's Tonight events seem to comprise a number of the big trends fueled by internet-land. Food activism - New College (766 Valencia St. near 19th) hosts "Eating Locally, Thinking Globally," organized by Christopher Cook of the Grotto. Join food experts, activists, and San Francisco city supervisors for this evening of education -- and action......

As part of its upcoming literary arts festival, Litquake is throwing a big and-- dare we say it-- bad Between the Bridges opening night to-do this Friday October 6 at 8 p.m. The rockin' fun will be at the Regency Center Grand Ballroom, 1290 Sutter Street (Van Ness at Sutter). And we've got two tickets to give away! ...

Money Magazine has published its annual list of "Best places to live" in these here United States, with the highest ranking Bay Area city coming at number 31. While we've never visited the winning city of Fort Collins, Colorado, we have read that Thomas Frank book, and we're highly skeptical that Overland Park, Kansas (#6) is somewhere we'd like to call home. And weather wimps that we are, Boise, Idaho (#8) and Eden Prairie, Minnesota......

OK, so you know, we don't know who this is (maybe we'll hit Ireland's 32 on May 18 and find out!), we never recieved a demo from this person, and we got this one three times in the editors' box, and twice in our own. An embarrassment of riches, indeed. Hi there. Just wanted to introduce myself. I sent a demo in to you a while ago. wonder if it was listenned to. whatever.......

Recently, a lot of discussion has been going on about Craigslist design. From magazines to blogs, blogs, and more blogs, people have been weighing in with on question of whether Craigslist design is Hot or Not? The impetus for most of this discussion is due to a new design that was the result of a forum, entitled "Design Eye for the List Guy" at South by Southwest. Guess they really do everything at SWSX now,......

We finally paid off all our late fees accrued during an unfortunate incident invloving a badly overdue book under the passenger seat of our Civic. Now we're free to make online reserves again! Of course, our independent bookstore purchases have been picking up the slack -- but we're far more likely to reserve books we're not so sure about (like, say Everyone Worth Knowing) than to buy them. We're just frugal like that. SFist Jer......

A case of the vapors has put the column's proprietor on injured reserve (likely story, we know). In a statement issued by his spokesperson, he hopes to "[M]ake as many appearances at third base as his rickety constitution allows, and be in prime fettle by the playoffs." By all accounts, the team should continue as a league juggernaut. CityMama is pretty fun, and does a nice Friday link roundup (hint, hint). SF Mike is......

We just got this new purse, and we're just so happy -- looking over at it we can see that we've managed to shove in two magazines, a catalog, a VHS tape, a library book and all our usual pursey crap. The fact that we can tote a hardback book and still look cute might herald in a new era of online reserve consumption, or at least get us to drag around more of our......

As avowed book lovers SFist was thrilled to see Kepler's com back and they're (almost) better than ever. We'll remove that bracketed condition when they open online ordering because we always get our book jonesing while we're stuck at our desks and they can't yet take advantage of that. But what we think marks the real return of Kepler's is the slate of author events they have booked in the coming months. Saturday night......

ESPN the Magazine (as opposed to ESPN the occasionally showing sports TV channel, ESPN the Web site, ESPN the restaurant chain, and ESPN the movie studio) recently decided to put together a poll that ranks every franchise of the Big Three sports (hockey isn't included as it wasn't playing last year). The ninety-two teams are ranked based on online survey questions and the magazines' own research and are based on things like
wins, management, fan relations, and cost. The top five franchises? The Spurs, Pistons, Steelers, Colts, and the Anahiem LA Angels. So much for sports life in the big cities. The worst five teams? The Knicks, Trail Blazers, Vikings, Bobcats (still too young of a franchise to decide) and coming in last, the poor homeless N'Awlins Saints. So how did our local teams do? In short, meh (we would link to the article in question, but for whatever reason, IT"S NOT ONLINE! This is the 21st Century-- everything should be online. We mean, we can find naked pictures of Natalee Holloway out there, but we can't find a damn ESPN article? What's up with that?) As befitting our no longer regal status in the sporting universe, most of the Bay Area teams came in somewhere in the middle with the Oakland A's deemed the best Bay Area franchise, at 42. Praise was given for it's inexpensive tickets, players (12), and value (17) but were given demerits for management (too cheap) and locale (the dumpy Coliseum, or the Stadium Al Ruined). ...

It's cold out, and all we want to do is snuggle under a blanket and read. On our coffee table right now: a big cup of coffee, some magazines, and several books we reserved online from the San Francisco Public Library. That's where we'll remain until the pressures of holiday shoppping get us off the couch and into one of our fine independent bookstores. SFist Cedric recently read What's the Matter with Kansas by......

This morning we were thinking about how our life would change if we got fired. Besides finally having time to work out, we'd finally be able to read our online reserves as quickly as the SFPL makes them available to us. Then again, we suppose those paychecks are what makes us able to go buy books from our fine independent bookstores so it all works out in the long run. SFist Eve has such......

When the Virgin Megastore on Market opened, the top floor contained a restaurant we spent hours in. Overlooking Market and Stockton streets, we sat there with our textbooks (while frequently reading magazines, don't get us wrong) swilling coffee and taking in the view. In fact, some of our first dates with our now life-partner took place in the Virgin Cafe, back when our lives weren't dominated by local-interest websites and Citizen Kane. And then......

Our TiVo runneth over, we haven't touched our Netflix in weeks (damn you, Sahara! You've paralyzed us with your crappiness like a bug in amber), and you do not even want to see the tower of unread books and magazines next to the bed. But will we stay home and catch up on our leisure-time entertainment? No, there is no rest for the 'Fisted, and we will be out at the theater this weekend......

Local theaters help out with hurricane relief....

Because there's so much going on with Herr Governator, we thought we'd need to turn it into a weekly feature. Yay? First last week's big story about the mistress and payment and the hush money that we were totally saving for the inevitable press circus that never came. Guess that's what happens when somebody isn't killed or doesn't disappear in a Caribbean country. -It was reported last week by the L.A. Times that before the......

You know how all those 'hott trends' seem to start in New York, and float out here fanned by the butterfly wings of fashion and lifestyle magazines? Well, this summer, the 'buzz' isn't about hemlines or heel heights -- no, it's about the must have epidemic, West Nile virus! And now San Francisco has finally joined the club. We lived in Brooklyn during the summer West Nile fever gripped New York City, and let......

The books we got this week from our online reserve list were dull, dull dull -- we're so happy that we hadn't gone out and bought them from one of our fine local independent bookstores, as we're sometimes tempted to do. We're relying on our thick stack of magazines to get us through the rest of the week, and apparently we're not alone! SFist Isaac is (eruditely or ironically, you decide) catching up on......