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Someone please tell us what this means! We neither speak nor understand Mexican. Helpo! It seems that these have been found up and down Howard Street today, and we're flummoxed. What secrets do they hold? How to find the Maltese Falcon? On which corner the strongest tar is available? The new editor of the Chronicle?

Phillyist prepared to party by doing the hustle, lighting the lights, shopping up a storm, and... visiting Khrushchev?

The new Maltese Falcon at John's Grill is less "pigeony" ().

Negative portrayals of Asian-Americans and gays aside, we do still love Humphrey Bogart in the Maltese Falcon -- so you know we're avidly following the news that someone has stolen the famous jewel-stuffed bird from the John's Grill restaurant on the edge of the Tenderloin, where Dashiell Hammett used to hang out. There's a $25,000 reward for the bird's return. (We're just giving this story to you straight because, while the Chron's "hard-boiled" writeup of the story is pretty funny, we found it next to impossible to actually glean any actual information from the article as a result.)

It takes a very open mind indeed to look behind the unnecessarily gaudy covers, trashy titles and barely acceptable advertisements and recognize the authentic power of a kind of writing that, even at its most mannered and artificial, made most of the fiction of the time taste like a cup of lukewarm consommé at a spinsterish tearoom.

Y'all know that the first thing on your movie plate this weekend should be the San Francisco International Film Festival -- that's pretty much all we got going on. So many great movies this weekend and beyond, do youself a favor and break out of your usual routine and hit some of these fantastic shows and events.