For a thorough sampling of the current Bay Area rock/indie/pop/folk scene, look no further than Penny Arcade, a monthly, semi-acoustic showcase hosted by one of the cities most likeable citizens, Raul Sanchez. For the past two years, Raul has regularly packed various venues, such as the Make-Out Room -- now the event's permanent home, Bottom of the Hill, and The Hotel Utah with bands and fans alike. Tonight, come celebrate Penny Arcade's Two-Year Anniversary at......

Did we miss an episode? It seems like forever since we've talked "Survivor" and the fate of local contender Yau-Man. How is he doing, anyway? Previously, he survived another tribal council because of Rita's yammering. Will another annoying female be his saving grace? Post-Tribal Council, and Yau-Man realized he was very lucky, although he also realized if the tribe starts kicking off members based on their weakness, then he might be next. Reward Challenge,......

Here in the labs, we're not above passing along a bit of Corporate Advertising as if it were genuine tech news. So we'll tell you that Apple is running a Billion Songs Countdown promotion for its iTunes Music Store. Every 100,000th song downloaded gets a free iPod nano and a gift certificate, and the recipient of the billionth download gets an iMac, a $10,000 gift certificate to the iTMS, and ten (10) 60GB iPods.......

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 can take or leave most of the email we receive, but we never fail to get a little thrill when we get that email from the San Francisco Public Library letting us know that our online reserve is in. We're not quite as thrilled when we get that note about how irresponsibly high our fines have gotten, as that keeps us from blowing our extra dough at one of our fine local independent bookstores....