Reporting from the snow-dappled streets of Chicago, it's your American Football Spectacular preview for this Saturday night's battle at The Stick as The Queen City's feline football franchise comes to town.
American Football Spectacular: A Level Of Sadness Akin To Elliott Smith
SFIFF: Peter Morgan and The Deal
, Morgan's movie for the BBC about the unusual power-sharing arrangement and strained friendship between Tony Blair and chancellor of the exchequor Gordon Brown to let Blair lead the Labour Party first, and then hand it off to Brown next.
Day Around the Bay
We'll get to L'Affaire Newsom in a bit....
-Teacher in library stand off says she wanted to do something about bullying-- by keeping kids in a library and using one as a shield
Day Around the Bay
-The Oakland Tribune starts a three-part series on how all this Global Warming stuff is beginning to affect us locally.
Day Around the Bay
-Investigators set off to Yale to continue their investigations into Gleegate.
-The Kim family ended up on that little used logging road after taking the wrong turn. Report also says search and rescue team didn't do that good of a job.
And the Winner Is....
The San Francisco Film Critics Circle announced their season ending yesterday, something of which we are constantly told could mean something when it comes to the Oscars. The idea, we guess, being that these awards are like the NCAA brackets: Movie A wins the SF Flim Critics and movie B wins the LA Film Critics award, then they go off to meet the winner of the New York Critics Awards with the winner being the front-runner for Oscar gold. Or something like that.

