-- Avenue Q: This tee hee-inducing musical features un-Seaseme Street-like puppets (e.g., a closeted homosexual republican, for starters) and an ode to racism. What's more, the indie production won a surprise Tony Award for best musical, as well as best score and book, beating out Disney's Wicked. It opens tonight at 7 p.m at the Orpheum Theater, 1192 Market; $25-$90. -- Ask a Scientist: Are you none too bright? We sure are. Which is......

Conan, we hardly knew ya. Conan O'Brien's week in San Francisco came to a close today with his final taping at the Orpheum Theater, and the line to get in reached from the front of the theater, all the way down to the scary Carl's Jr., and then across the street and back up again so that those in the front of the line could wave to those at the end of the line......

Did you get your tickets? We are speaking, of course, about free tickets to "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" which will be taping a week of shows at the Orpheum Theater starting on Monday. So, seriously, did you get tickets? And if so, can you take us with you? Actually, we will be going to one show, on Monday, when the guests will include Dana Carvey and the Arctic Monkeys. But man, we'd sure......

Let's just get this right out of the way first-- we love Jesus Christ Superstar and we're not too proud to admit it (blasting it on our stereo, on the other hand...) We love the songs, we love the story, we love the lyrics, we love the singing, we love everything. Not only that, we think the songs rock. And if you don't believe us, go check out the Afghan Whig's cover of "the Temple" and see what we mean. We also think that the play's main riff-- that malevolent, bad-ass riff, the one played while Jesus is receiving the thirty-nine lashes, is one of rock's great unknown riffs. ...