SF Citizen's Jim Herd caught the latest (and arguably the greatest) shot of Supreme Master Ching Hai cruising down Market Street on the side of a Honda. (A Honda? That saddens us.) Who is Supreme Master Ching Hai, you ask? Well, for starters, she's nuts. And she's the cult leader of Supreme Master Television. And she knows how to rock the blond hair as hard as the brunet. And she's a staunch vegan. And......

For reasons we still cannot understand, the American Family Association's OneNewsNow site started replacing the word "gay" with the word "homosexual" in any Associated Press story they run. (?) And while the internet has picked up on the sheer hilarity over the AFA's recent article about track and field athlete "Tyson Gay" incorrectly turning faggy (which has since been corrected), the funniest thing about this auto-replace comedy bit is that they're replacing one word with......

The above insert does not abide by power lesbian Suze Orman's commandant "People first, then money, then things." They're doomed. You see, in this morning's edition of the Chronicle, a nifty God-fearing inset came with your daily dose of quality Chronicle.reporting and humor. Since we fear the print pub and completely missed it, SFist reader Kate Horton sent word this morning by kindly scanning the above flyer. Behold: I thought I'd scan this and......

Photo: Whole Wheat Toast Well, this is unusual. (James 4:8)......

Speaking of backlash, the Mayhill Fowler assault is percolating at a gentle boil. You paranoid wheels-within-wheels political fans out there will be happy to know that, apparently, stellar journalist and master of the MP3 recorder Mayhill Fowler is totally ">out to get Obama. How so? Well, because she's wealthy, her husband's lawfirm knows a guy who knows someone who met someone who likes McCain, and she's the devil reincarnated. Or something like that. Don't......

You know how political fetishists are losing their minds this week over Barack Obama's kind of awesome but kind of classist statement at the Getty manse? You know, this: And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. The fundraising event on Billionaires Row, as most of you......

Since the Scientologists moved the day of celebrating their church's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, from last Saturday to this Saturday, due to last week's protest, there will be yet another rally against the CoS this Saturday. Ta da. Enturbulation.org has word that this protest will be "at the Hilton [at] 750 Kearny on the corners of Washington and Columbus" at 5 p.m. They'll be meeting on the Washington side iof the hotel near the......

Yesterday, it seems, was L. Ron Hubbard's birthday. Hubbard, as most of you know, is the author of the wildly successful Dianetics and founder of the Church of Scientology, a religion in which you achieve higher faith by giving them progressively higher dollar amounts. He would have turned 97 today. Born in Tilden, Nebraska, Hubbard served in World War I, attended George Washington University, was a member of the Explorers Club, and at some......

While it's not very Bay Area-ish, Jesus is allegedly in all of our hearts. And now look what happened? We blame the sodomites. And Code Pink. Read more about Rio de Janeiro's wonder of the world getting struck by lightning, or a nifty fit of photoshopping, here. Image credit: UPPA, via Daily Mail......

Let's Get Lost (1988): Bruce Weber followed around jazz trumpeter and heroin addict Chet Baker on a year-long excursion, "from the West Coast, to the East Coast, to Europe--including a stop at the Cannes Film Festival--with interviews with Chet, colleagues and friends, including dueling insights from his third wife, a former British show girl, and three children in Oklahoma, and from old flame Ruth Young, a sardonically throaty torch singer." Screens tonight at 7......

The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on annoying car alarms, a murder suspect used a fake Asian accent on the stand and a video of a man being beaten up by teenage girls on a subway shocked the city. And we interviewed soon-to-be-leaving-Gawker editor Choire Sicha, who said,......

-- "Punk Rock Karaoke": Damnit all to hell. We can't believe that we have to miss this: members of the Adolescents, Bad Religion, and NOFX perform live while "singers" drunkenly slur along, karaoke-style. But you shouldn't miss it! Starts tonight at 9 p.m. at 111 Minna Gallery; $10. -- Red Poppy Art House Holiday Exhibit & Art Sale: According to the Poppy, "this show will feature works from such artists as Addie Shevlin, Todd......

While not nearly as exciting as receiving top honors as the best city for tourists to walk slow on city sidewalks, or best city in which singles can hump, on Monday the FBI just awarded SF as the city with the largest reported number of hate crimes in 2006. According to Bay City News (via SF Crime): With a population of approximately 746,000, had a total of 94 reported hate crime incidents in 2006,......

Looks like we're in a heapin' load of trouble as those who like to get outraged at us are outraged again. Or, at least something the Archbishop of San Francisco did. Last weekend, while conducting mass, the Archbishop was giving communion when up came two people "wearing bizarre makeup and costumes, including one dressed in a parody of a nun's habit." Hmm…couldn’t that also describe the Pope? Anyways, the "offenders" in question, of course, were members of the Sister of Perpetual Indulgence. So Archbishop George Niederauer gave them communion. ...

"Cult Alert!" flyers garnished lamp posts on Third and Market Streets the other night -- a siren song if ever we've heard one. (It seems like forever since SF's been plagued with a jazzy, crazy-ass cult. No offense, L. Ron.) In case you missed them, or in case the quality of life sect tore them down, the missives cried out: Cult Alert! Please be advised: Youth With a Mission (YWAM) has been under investigation......

To celebrate 07/07/07, local modern Japanese theater troupe Theater of Yugen is presenting The Cycle Plays, an all-day festival of pieces influenced by Japanese Noh theater traditions. The performances use Noh theater conventions and imagery but present stories about figures of American pop cultural legend -- so there's a piece about Ted Kaczynski, a play about Helen Keller (pictured at right), and an adaptation of A Long Day's Journey Into Night. Plays start at 9:30,......

SFist interviews David Hyman founder of MOG, and online music community. ...

On time this week! Last week's winner: the East Bay Express. All pro-Wiccan letters except for one, which says witchcraft is not a religion. That's right -- it's a sandwich store! The mayors of Alameda and Oakland suck. Skating in the East Bay. Cover article: a local Burning Man DJ is popular, wants to get into hip-hop. That new movie by the Shawn of the Dead guys is pretty funny. Is payola coming back for......

A thoughtful reader sent us this link from racist Asianweek columnist Kenneth Eng's interview on Fox News with John Gibson. Can we just pass along the following quotes? ...Personally if I'm racist then so is Sofia Coppola. And more importantly I'd like to talk about the philosophy of "Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate," which tells a story about cyborg dragons fighting in the Middle Ages. [....]Well, I generally hate black and white people, but the [why I......

Update as of 10 a.m. 3/2/07: new link found in our quest to collect all the entertaining Kenneth Eng links on the Internet after the jump! This one quotes Maya Angelou! Also: why did the Chronicle's editorial page call him "Richard" Eng in the hard copy of the paper (corrected online)? At least Bad Reporter got Eng's name right. --- Okay, okay, we know we just put up a post about the Asianweek situation, but......

SFist interviews JL Aronson, director of Danielson: A Family Movie...

SFist reviews Comedy Death-Ray at SF's Sketchfest ...

From NWZCHIK, we get today's batty neighbor story concerning someone in San Mateo who is drawing ire from her neighbors for scribbling messages supposedly from God all over her house. And by house, we mean like the roof and the walls. And her car. Which also has signs on top of it. Not all of the postings are about religion too, some are about politics and the deeds of the government. The house, actually, looks like this shed we had by our High School in which everyone from the Senior Class wrote graffiti on it to celebrate their graduation. ...

For those of you who celebrated your winter holiday of choice with an elaborately-festooned evergreen tree: no matter what your religion or creed, we're all united in the same post-holiday question -- how do we get rid of it now? Well, you're in luck! The godlessness of the town of San Francisco is offset by its environmental zeal -- so if you've got a tree you need to get rid of, drag it to the......

Taking a break from getting elbowed in the face this week, SFist Nico opens up a can of whoops-ass and finds himself in North Beach to pass his drinky hours. So, um. We really want to like North Beach. It's got its fancy European panache, a tribe of passport-holding Italians and you can get a real cup of espresso, but sadly there are some that come and sully the mistiness we harbor towards it. Seriously,......

In Color 2 (2475 Third Street, Suite 251 at 22nd Street) The Ghana Youth Photo Project Opening Benefit Reception: Fri., Aug. 25, 6-9 p.m. Last October San Francisco Camerawork’s youth mentoring program First Exposures sponsored Jamie Lloyd’s trip to West Africa to bring a photography program to 11 youths in Ghana’s capital city of Accra. The children not only learned a new skill but were also given the opportunity to visually represent their country, culture,......

Ever want to take in some of the City's edgier theater offerings, but don't know if you should take the risk? Or, for that matter, even what some of the edgier shows are? That's where we come in. Orbit (notes from the edge of forever) at Intersection for the Arts Choreographer Erika Chong Shuch is one of the most exciting younger artists San Francisco has to offer, and has blown our mind with her......

"Papa, are you a terrorist?" We spent several very fun, yet dark weeks in Hamburg, Germany (when you don’t get up before noon in December there, you don’t see much light) with a friend who grew up there years ago. Watching the dim, gray aerial views and port scenes of what we found to be an ultimately beautiful city in the Hitchcockian style, Seeds of Doubt brought us back to those days. However, what followed was an unmistakable reminder that things have changed in Hamburg, as they have many places, in a post-9/11 world. We didn’t really know what to expect going into the film, whose German title Folgeschaden, we’ve been told translates into "damaging after-effects." The film showcases a young couple, presumably in their thirties, who’ve seemingly already acknowledged and encountered the issues inherent in sharing their lives with someone of a different ethnicity and religion. When Tariq is suspected of being a "sleeper" in a Hamburg terrorism cell, it becomes apparent that the couple only touched the surface of the difficulties their relationship will face in the days to come. It is clear that Maya and Tariq have discussed issues relating to their young son and his religious upbringing, but not much more. SFist Wendy, contributing...

We just discovered the Branch Library Improvement Program Bookmobile and we are IN LOVE. We're switching all our online reserves to the bookmobile, we're that excited. Seriously, some of our happiest childhood memories involve the bookmobile! (Mom, save your email. We have many excellent childhood memories, some of which involve the bookmobile, others of which involve the many other wonderful things you have done for us. Envy not the bookmobile!) But our crush on......

For those people feeling down that it's been weeks since the last good rally, cheer up, cause there's going to be a rally tomorrow in front of the Danish embassy. The Free Republic will sponsor tomorrow’s rally. The Free Republic? Yep, the Free Republic. As in one of the largest and most notorious conservative organizations in the land. As in an organization that has on its Web site a whole section titled "Pray for President Bush" and mean it in a completely sincere, non-snarky way. Do conservatives rally? Do they even know how to? Do they do drum circles? Will people hold up signs calling for the execution of Mumia? We thought they were too busy running everything to protest. ...