Not content with just one opportunity today to get free movie passes? Well, you're in luck! We've got free passes to the new John Cusack movie 1408 tonight! John Cusack!!!! Sigh, If you want to go, send an email to VIPTickets@alliedadvpub.com and you'll get back a pass for you and a friend! Email ASAP, though, they've only got a limited number of seats to give away. 1408 is about a cursed hotel room that Cusack's......

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with......

She's going out like Jay-Z, Michael Jordan, and Stephen King -- after her erstwhile "retirement," former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's coming back in the game. The former Justice is (.pdf) sitting by special designation on the Ninth Circuit appellate federal court in San Francisco this week. She was on the bench today and will be there again on Friday. O'Connor's doing a tour of the country -- she also recently sat on the......

Heading into 111 Minna on Friday for the West Memphis Three benefit auction, we were excited at the prospect of seeing some of our punk rock heroes in attendance. Lo and behold, once past the five foot tall photographs of the WM3 staring mournfully at us as we entered, stood Henry Rollins casually chatting with about six or seven adoring kids and clutching a cup of coffee. Could this be? After all, Rollins has......

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......

As regular readers of this column know, this is the little intro section where we talk about using the San Francisco Public Library's online reserve system, but our dear Friend of SFist Christine gave us an important message to pass on to all of you. Our regular book discussion can be found upon expansion, but for now please give all your attention to Christine, and follow her bidding: Due to your numerous mentions of......

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......