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......

Where we're from, we have a fine and vibrant Chinatown. Not huge, but you can certainly get anything there that you can get here (well, except in the produce department). Still, we drop by Chinatown every Christmas to pick up the kind of trinkets, doodads and gewgaws that you can get for less than five bucks and hand out to that friend you run into from high school that you totally forgot to get a......