On the down side, it's raining (and will probably rain for the rest of the week). On the bright side, we managed to find an illicit YouTube upload of the Colbert Report episode where Stephen Colbert throws down a dance challenge to K-pop sensation Rain!! For extra self-referentiality, check out our own SFist Rain's take on Stephen Colbert's Rain challenge. We'll keep the video up on the site until we get a letter of......

Well, we suppose this is sort of like those Portraits In Grief type thumbnail portraits of murder victims we suggested to the Chron -- yesterday's paper featured a long article about Allan Broussard, a serial car burglar who was shot to death last month. He was shot clutching a car stereo he'd just stolen. A suspect has been arrested in the case, who has a long rap sheet of his own, but the cops won't......

Happy Memorial Day! Here's some stuff to do if you're not barbecuing. Hey, remember that interview that SFist Rain did with Mystery Science Theater 3000's Mike Nelson last week, about his new project, Rifftrax? Download an .mp3 of the MST3K folks and play it while watching its corresponding mainstream movie! GENIUS. Well, you can see Mike yourself at RiffTrax Live tonight -- they won't say what movie's going to be screening (all we've got is......

It's the A-Race-Ing Maze! (and not related, but SFist Rain, how awesome that the finale of Amazing Race All-Stars was in SF?) As promised, Caltrans's work around the clock paid off handsomely, with a triumphant announcement yesterday evening (.pdf) that they were reopening the W 80-S 880 connection (the lower level of the collapse) as of 5 a.m. this morning. It took them about a week to get it working again! And apparently, traffic's......

Yes, that was SFist on CBS 5 last night, hobnobbing with Phil Matier and thanks to SFist Rain, we finally have the clip of it. Watch SFist Jon pretend to be an expert on this newfangled YouTube thing! Thrill to him trying to come up with pithy things to say and fail! Watch his flop sweat! ...

With Rita's blessing, we bring you a brand new column called "We Read the Glossies." It's just like "We Read the Weeklies" only with monthly glossies. Here we review the February issues of Diablo, San Francisco Magazine, San Jose Magazine, and 7x7....

As we promised earlier, SFist MattyMatt was indeed on! NBC 11 News this evening -- in the sweet spot right before the weather! -- talking about his 33 MUNI bus video clip with the fare dodger that we featured as SFist's douche of the week. Thrilling!!! And here MattyMatt is on YouTube! (1:47.) The other exciting things we noticed in the segment -- besides how totally adorable MattyMatt was on camera, of course --......

Hello! Our usual TV correspondent SFist Rain is on vacation this week, so she graciously let us sub in for the week. It's not her fault we're not nearly as good at this as she is! First up: The Amazing Race. We've never watched this show before until this season, and now we are totally hooked. Go (local) Cho Bros! This week's episode sees our six teams flying from the island of Mauritius to the......

Forget PTA bake sales, a coterie of SF's movers and shakers are hosting "Hot for Teachers," a party to benefit projects in Bay Area schools, at Club Mezzanine (444 Jessie St. near 5th and Mission). Enticements include: gourmet mac & cheese, a Van Halen tribute band, and a chance to win live auction "Hot for Learning" packages like ... "How to be Mayor." As Gavvy-N is on the honorary host committee, we're thinking we......

Mondays are hard! We've scoured our inbox for invitations or event releases and came up empty handed. Hey, maybe we'll just go gorge ourselves at Little Star Pizza? Oh no, wait, they're closed, too! Damn you, Monday, for keeping us from drunkenness or gluttony! Damn you to hellllll! At trying times like these, we pull up our funcheap SF email for the week (if you're not on this email list, get on it!), but even......

We're assuming that SFist's token native San Franciscan, SFist Rain, will be at the San Francisco Native Jamboree tonight at The Patio Español (2850 Alemany Boulevard) from 5:45 pm to 11 pm. "A fabulous party bringing together native San Franciscans who share the common bond of being born or raised in the most beautiful city in the world," we're perversely hoping that SFist Commenter Kevin will hit the celebration just to shake s**t up. Tickets......

We're so pleased with ourselves for coming up with this other Us-Weekly-style tagline for Kimberly Guilfoyle's bump-belly watch! Baby splashdown date around September. Ladies (and gents), if you want to land Baby Boy Guilfoyle-Villency, better get started now -- SFist Rain's got week 2 of your How To Get The Guy tips. But don't get too excited to plan that bachelor/ette party just yet -- there is now no sex in the city's champagne rooms.......

Have you checked out the eBooks and eAudio at the SFPL? We're itching to try out the audio options, but they don't have anything that works on Macs or iPods. Boo! After a weekend double feature of In Cold Blood and Capote, both never seen before by SFist Rain, she got the urge to actually, finally, read the book that was (in a sense) responsible for both films: Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It......

In a shameless bit of self-reference, we will announce that it's our birthday, and we have therefore been the happy recipient of more than one Amazon gift certificate over the course of the day. We're not the kind of a**hole who complains about a gift (shut up, we're not!), but we did have a moment of crisis: how do we reconcile our sincere and public support of our fine local independent bookstores with the......

Hollywood is busy getting botoxed and tuxedoed in preparation for the Oscars this Sunday, and the host isn't the only thing that's changing this time around. In the past, viewers on the east coast could prep themselves beforehand with a viewing of "The Barbara Walters Oscar Special." Those on the west coast had to wait until the end of the ceremonies to catch it. But this time, Barbara's foregoing Oscar night altogether, instead bringing......

Folks are lining up for rabies shots in San Ramon, after a cute stray kitten turned out to carry the virus. Authorites estimate that about 60 people were in contact with the kitten, and that 35 people would have to get shots (including one person who was bitten). 26 other people are also getting shots as a precaution. One vet noted that the kitten had gotten a lot of attention because it was just so darned cute. "Everyone loves a kitten." Two pit bulls were euthanized in Concord today, after they killed four animals in a neighbor's yard last Friday. The owner had kenneled the two dogs but claims that they escaped when they got spooked by the thunder and lightning last week. The dogs killed their neighbors' two cats, a goat, and a bunny. Animal Control got to the scene right as the dogs were in the rabbit hutch, and they report that the dogs were so intent on the rabbit that they didn't even notice the fuzz. The dogs also killed four other animals in the neighborhood that evening. ...and we know we're stepping a little on SFist Rain's territory here -- but hey! New Animal Cops SF episodes just appeared on our TiVo! Starting next week! Yay, more Lieutenant Michael Scott! ...

Someone, please, adopt this dog! Just don't name him October. Did you catch some free theater this Thursday? Some local music? Or Bay Blogger MJ's event at Space180? Give Dubya the ol' na-na-na-na, hey hey hey, goodbye? Maybe you just stayed in and were inspired to cook like Julie and Julia. Well, you won't be checking out the live-action Buffy musical episode, anyways -- thanks, Fox. Best to drink those troubles away. In soberer news: we're still following the Pamela Vitale and Lashuan Harris cases. RIP, Bill King. RIP, Bay Area football season? And it was 16 years ago that SFist Rain's eagerly-anticipated Bay Bridge World Series Game 3 got rudely interrupted. And Muni? Still blows. ...

Did you follow Rita's advice and join up to do One City, One Book? Or maybe you just want a voice in what book is selected for the next go-round? The SFPL is soliciting and feedback for the next choice, so give it here! And don't forget that you can always get your book for this program in a variety of ways, including from the SFPL or from one of our fine local independent......

Our friends over at SocketSite alerted us to a Sunday Examiner story regarding the fate of yet another of our besieged local movie theaters. The former Marina Theater (most recently known as Cinema 21) closed in October 2001. Nearly 1000 residents expressed dismay at plans to convert the space into a Walgreens, but an apparent compromise has been reached between the property owner, the Marina Merchants Association and the Neighborhood Theater Foundation. According to......

Wow, so much interesting list stuff has hit our inbox this week that we've barely had time to read our online reserves from the SFPL. Well, we've learned that if we're running behind on our reading, that booksfree, (which should just give up and call themselves the Netflix of books, because that's what they are) is there to help save us from late fees on borrowed books. Then again, if we have some cash......

SFist Mary-Lynn gives us all the lowdown on Blogher, and SFist Rain gets the 'get' with Paula Kamen. There are places you can go for unverified rumors, anonymous vitriol and mysteriously funded local political news -- but only SFist offers you the vain popularity contests that you crave! Speaking of cravings, SFist Derrick shows us that money can't buy you good taste. The Office of the Ombudsman is closed until fall, but he leaves......

While SFist Rain vacations, SFist Eve does her best to fill the void. Come home soon, Rain! We've been cable-free since 2001, but when we reunited with our long-lost boyfriend TiVo (who left our lives about four years ago, along with a really great cat and a man on whom we will reserve judgment), we knew it was time to renter the Comcast fold. We're starting small, with the package that, when you go......

As the tsunami horn blew and we packed up the animals, we stopped to grab all our online reserves, as we didn't want to deal with the trama of trying to replace those books. The rest of our library could be easily restocked by visiting one of our fine local independent bookstores, but the shame and stigma of waterlogged or lost library books would be too much to bear. SFist Rain is reading The......

Some of our fondest childhood memories are those from our local library's summer reading club, which either makes you think that we are kinda sweet or total f**king nerds. Well, we're obviously not the only ones on staff who associate the warm weather with reading, because this is our biggest and best SFist Reads ever! Some of us reserved our books online, and others of us purchased what we're reading at one of our......

Our concert picks for the week of 5/12-5/18. Welcome, welcome, hordes of new readers who have recently discovered what our loyal readership has known for months -- that SFist.com is our fair city's Best Local Blog. (This will not be the first nor last mention of this honor bestowed upon us by SF Weekly). But enough with the self-aggrandizing babble. Onto the concerts! Tonight Ivy conjures their dream pop at Slim's in support of their......

Oh, crap, this doesn't sound good. Our Dad (who is never wrong) is the O-G Douglas Adams expert, so we asked him what his thoughts are on the upcoming Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy film. Here's what he had to say: The original HHGTTG, like Dr. Who had the essential quality of being very literate, yet very cheesy--an important and charming quality--not unlike the "B" films of the fifties and sixties. I think the......

We're a little anxious because our local branch of the SF Public Library is closing for renovations, so we will have to pick up our materials reserved online at a branch across the park from us. While we're over there maybe we'll hit Green Apple, one of our favorite local independent bookstores. When we last heard from SFist Jon, he was bemoaning the fact that he has yet to read War and Peace. Today,......

SFist Rain makes a good point today when she reminds us that our friends at the San Francisco Public Library have more to offer us than just the printed word. You can also check out or reserve CDs, DVDs, audiobooks, and VHS tapes (for the unfrozen cavemen lawyers among us) for those times when reading isn't your first choice. Needless to say, you can also find these types of items at our fine local......

SFist was out for drinks with some colleagues (good luck, Jillian!) when she heard herself start preaching the gospel of the SFPL online reserve system. Now we're sure everyone we work with thinks we're a total dork (if they didn't already). Maybe we should have encouraged everyone to shop their local independent bookstores, instead--does that sound cooler? SFist Matt fell in line and finished Blink. He asks "Did you get to the part about......

SFist is fine without cable, really we are. We're on the eight-at-a-time plan with Netflix, so we know we'll get to see all the good stuff when it comes out on DVD. Anyway, SFist Rain's TV column is better than being there. We're fine with the networks, PBS, and Univision. We're fine, that is, until someone starts talking about, like, "Law and Order: Shoplifting Diversion Program" or something. For cable-free SFists do not receive......