"Orders bust of himself erected at City Hall," reports SF Citizen. Will advise of impending doom.......

*CLUB: San Francisco's 6th annual DJ Dreamteam lineup -- which consists of local legends Miguel Migs, Mark Farina, David Harness, Julius Papp, Taj, Rooz, Icon, Dirtyhertz, a-tn-nae, Smoove, Mancub, Kapt'n Kirk, M3, Aaron Jae, Shooy, and Motion Potion -- will have you up off your ass and busting out your choicest vogue moves on the dance floor. 10 p.m. // 1015 [1015 Folsom] // $15-$25 FILM: Cringe-worthy cult film heralded as "one of the......

Have you always wanted to appear on Spike TV? We have. We'd even be on Max-X, which is, aside from Intervention, the best show on TV. But there's a safer way to get on the testosterone -heavy network: the 2008 Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge. This year's SWFMC winners will air on Spike TV, so hop to it. Your movies should be under five minutes, frighteningly original, and make viewers flood their pants with......

Rejoice, space believers! For there is finally - yes, finally! - someplace you can go on l'Internet to read about such sci-fi-ness (excuse us, "science fiction-ness" for all of you purists) ranging from Samuel R. Delany to Joss Whedon to Small Wonder. Io9, a Bay Area-based blog care of Gawker, launched yesterday, and we couldn't be more thrilled. That is, until we read about their editor, Annalee Newitz. Newitz seems like a fantastic piece......

Well, it won't be destroyed so much as it will be sent into space. And then vaporized, or zapped, or something. Anyway, someone sporting a Chewbacca outfit handed over Luke Skywalker's original lightsaber prop to NASA representatives at the Oakland Airport today. Apparently it's all a part of Star Wars' 30th anniversary celebration -- this kind of fanfare will happen every five years, folks, so get used to it now -- and "NASA has......

Star Wars-ish stuff sometimes seems done to death, but we fondly remember this PSA. What we forgot, though, was the pillow talk at the very end of this anti-smoking propaganda. It's very moving. And kind of sad. (Thanks to Eve and the wonderful Tim for finding this for us!)......

--They took away the hazmat license of the company whose truck blew up the Macarthur Maze. We can't really disagree with that. --Oh no! Puddles the hippo has died. He leaves his bereaved partner, Cuddles, and 16 children. --There's a lot of geek conventions in town this weekend. --And speaking of which, check out this Star Wars post office in Marin. --Two-alarm fire in the Richmond this afternoon. --The Gap's still having problems. --Condoleeza Rice......

There's only one thing better than absorbing nerdy cultural texts, and that's becoming a nerdy cultural text of your own. Voting on the Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge launched today; over the next month, a ton of fan-made Star Wars films will duel to the death to attract the attention of our local birthday-beardo, George Lucas. Winners are announced May 27 on Spike TV (corporate sibling of Atom Films). We adore Chad Vader, of......

A movie about local filmmakers wrangling with local politicians? We are so there! The SF Int'l premiered the documentary Audience of One Thursday night in one of the big newly-renovated theaters in the Kabuki Sundance. Audience of One is about the Voice of Pentecost church, based in the Sunset on Ocean Avenue, and their charismatic pastor Richard Gazowsky, who saw his first movie at the age of 40 and then, in 1995, says he......

More mysterious criminal events in Fremont! This time, someone dropped a five-foot tall safe off a truck in the middle of the road. The safe had been pried open, revealing...... a collection of about 70 Star Wars action figures, still in their original packaging. Somewhere, a broken-hearted fan weeps. The yutz alert is on high after the horrific Virginia Tech tragedy: the UC Berkeley law student who posted a fake threat on a blog that......

With the sun out, the temperatures high, one can only think of one thing-- what's going on in the World of the -ist's? Bostonist dug deep to uncover Barack Obama's unpaid parking tickets, their Governor's latest ethical lapse, and a plagarizing sports writer. Chicagoist had everything in twos: two views on having the Olympics, losing two members of their Super Bowl team, and two music festivals. DCist put their noses in legal books as......

When we first heard about the show, "One Man Star Wars", we weren't sure whether it was the dumbest idea ever or the awesomest idea ever. After seeing it, we can say with great confidence that it's the awesomest idea ever....

From the Chron's Peter Hartlaub, we get word that the Castro Theater is going to be showing all three movies of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Yep, that's Fellowship of the Rings, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King back-to-back-to-back. And yes, that's a lot of movie watching but if you were going to watch like eight hours of movies, you couldn't do wrong there. Name another movie trilogy that's even as half good as these three, come on we dare you. The Godfather Trilogy? Godfather III. Star Wars IV-VI? Ewoks. American Pie I-III? Not even close-- hell, Tara Reid wasn't even in the last two. See, the way we see it is it'll be cold, the stores will be mayhem, we've already seen "A Christmas Story" over twenty times, and we have no life. What could be better than 559 minutes of Middle Earth-goodness? Show starts at 1:30. Tickets are $10...

And today’s prize is...The Warriors Girls 2007 Swimsuit calendar! It's even sixteen months too! No, just joking. Today's gift is much cooler. It's a one year subscription to Ready Made magazine and a Ready Made t-shirt. For those not in the know, Ready Made magazine is a bi-monthly magazine that helps you make stuff. Cool stuff. Like origami X-Wing fighters (that's a Star Wars thing). Or a doll playhouse. It also gives you info on where to shop for cool crafts. ...

Because you can never make enough money off geeks, Cinemax is promoting the playing of all six Star Wars movies in Hi Def by turning Union Square into a "Jedi Recruitment & Training Center" tomorrow. ...

Awww, we like the SFist sports coverage, even in District 6! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Fair And Balanced. We'll post anything that's entertaining (even if Daly calls us a "hack" later). Thus, an anti-Daly supporter going by the name "Tuckdick" sent along his old-school Star Wars negative ad, which we're posting for your viewing enjoyment! Send your Daly clips, pro and con, to us and we'll run the ones we unilaterally decide are funny.......

For those of you who don't watch the "Colbert Report", Stephen has been running a green screen challenge where he asked members of the Colbert Nation to add all sorts of computer effects to some dorky moves with a pretend light saber he did while standing behind a green screen (it was the intro of his "Better Know a District" bit with Lynne Woolsely, actually). Wednesday night, he announced the two finalists of the challenge, some woman from Torrance and a "George L" from Marin. The entire bit is the video posted above, but if you just want to watch just the entry, you can see it here. Well George, who flew all the way to New York to accept what he thought would be his prize, lost to the other entrant and left a little disappointed. So disappointed he later challenged Colbert to a light saber duel, which you can see here. ...

Hi, this is Jon and I'll be your new editor. Some of you might know me as the reactionary one, others of you might know me as the unsophisticated one, but most of you know me as the non-Rita one. I usually write about sports and politics with the occasional rant and review thrown in for good measure. As for where I sit on all the great social and cultural questions of the age, in an effort to show editorial transparency, I will admit that I go Christina over Britney, N'Sync over the Backstreet Boys, young Elvis over fat Elvis, Nirvana over Pearl Jam, the LoTR trilogy over the Star Wars trilogy, like both the English and American " the Office" equally, and think cats and dogs should just get along. Oh, and my favorite Beatle is John....

The baseball season is long. Very long. And because it's so long, it often takes awhile to get fully into it. Sometimes, like the 2000-2003 seasons, you're into the season from the get go. Other times, like the past two seasons, you can never quite get into it, turned off by mediocrity and losing. And sometimes, like this season, you don't really care that much and then, blammo, something happens to spark your interest and then manic depression catches the soul. It's like reading a long book that you're only kind of mildly interested in and then, one day, you put the book down and realize you can't wait to pick the book up again. Or like in Revenge of the Sith where you're kind of bored and once more irritated with Lucas until the last hour or so when the Jedi start getting wiped out and all of a sudden you wake up and start thinking "My God, here's the Star Wars movie I've sat through seven hours or so of crap to get to." ...

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and if the same goes for intellectual property theft and encroaching on other people's business, then a lot of people should be feeling very flattered this week. Pixar should be flattered by the attention they're getting from former owner George Lucas, who opened a computer animation studio in Singapore on Thursday. Rob Coleman, the new studio's animation and development director, name-dropped Pixar while describing......

Across from the homeless shelter on Capp street in the Mission District, at the Space180 venue, there was a cosmic convergence. The first ever (it should be held again) Lap-Pop event from Locus Arts, curated by Min Jung Kim was a smashing success of nerds, alcohol, wifi, digital photography, and blogging. Who knew that a live blog reading featuring bloggers of blog-worthiness, Ernie Hsung (of little.yellow.different.) and Glenda Bautista (of Agendacide), could be so......

You know we love us some pirates -- from the grog-guzzling type who sing shanties to the MPAA-headache-inducing types who post Star Wars. But especially we love pirates of the airwaves like our friends at She Said, She Said who cut through the bulls**t on your radio dial like a hot chainsaw through whipped cream. We first met LeE and Jon of Neighborhood Public Radio at a Southern Exposure show many months ago. So......

Apple switches to Intel; surprisingly, nothing goes to hell in an iPod sock....

Geeks around the world (pictured: Peruvian Star Wars nerd as Darth Vader) turned out for the final Star Wars installment, which premiered to the public at midnight (SFist, of course, had already seen it). Meanwhile, rebel h4xx0rs managed to get a message out from behind the Empire's lines, smuggling a work print from the Death Star aboard the BitTorrent Falcon, Han and Lando style. After the jump, reports of Star Wars fever from across......

Sci-fi geeks may have the upcoming Star Wars movie, but to political geeks, their Revenge of the Sith may just be this Friday when UC Berkeley hosts a discussion with New York Times' columnists Thomas Friedman AND Maureen Dowd. It's like the Sunday edition of the New York Times come to life except without the coffee and bagels. Seeing these two super-stud columnists together is like the "Real World/Road Rules Challenges" before they became overdone......

Saturday morning, around 7am, a line started forming outside the Metreon to see British playwright Tom Stoppard's new film, based on a late-70s film by a young experimental filmmaker from USC. By 9:30, the line stretched down around Jillians and up over the stairs, spilling into Yerba Buena Gardens -- about 1,500 people were estimated present. But these were small-scale nerds, not the type who camp out for weeks; as employees of the LucasFilm......

There was something vaguely unsettling about watching SFIFF’s presentation of Alfred Hitchcock’s silent film, Blackmail, with live accompaniment by the Alloy Orchestra. Alloy's gained some renown for composing and performing new scores for silent films, and a crowd of eager moviegoers started gathering at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater even before the box office staff was in place (much to the alarm of what few staff members were there). The audience loved the......

San Francisco's favorite but least read Q&A columnist, the Essefficist, answers a question about where to watch the new Star Wars movie....

SFist can’t remember whom the comedian or writer was, but we recently read something by someone about the nature of geekdom. What they were wondering is why if somebody spends endless amounts of time, say, debating the ins and outs of Star Wars, watching the DVDs, going on message boards, and camping out before movies, they are somehow total geek losers, their masculinity completely in question. If, however, they spend absurd amounts of time debating the ins and outs of NFL draft picks and studying the draft and an entire weekend doing nothing but watching the draft, they are considered not geeks or losers, but the very height of manly man. This despite the fact that Star Wars has way more explosions and cool-ass space ships. What we are getting at is that tomorrow is the NFL Draft Day and SFist has long felt that the NFL Draft is one of the most annoyingly over hyped, over analyzed sports event of the year. Heck, it even has a logo and it’s own coporate sponsor. Life is way too short to spend idle amounts of time contemplating the draft. Especially when we have a fantasy baseball team we have to take care of....

San Francisco's favorite but least read Q&A columnist, the Essefficist, answers a question about pet burial....