Well, this should be exciting, hateful. This Sunday at 11 a.m. at 701 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, there will be a protest over that religious sect those zany Hollywood types know and love so well. You know, the one where you can't take Prozac, or call you Jewish children, or....whatever. (For a map of the SF branch, go here.) It sounds like it will be a Sunday afternoon well-spent. Instruction are as follows:......

This Sunday is that football championship tournament known as the Super Bowl. And with it comes its array of advertising amusement. (Please, pray for no Burger King commercials. "People freaked" is the single worst ad campaign in this history of ever.) [SFGate]Hillary Clinton is in town; Sen. Ed Kennedy counterattacked with a stop in Berkeley as part of his Obama tour. [CBS5]The bay has temporarily turned into Marin's toilet. [Marin Independent Journal]Bad behavior on......

With the perpetual rebuilding process that is the San Francisco 49er franchise, every so often an old part of old successes will cycle back through SF. This Sunday, Gilroy’s second-most-favorite export returns to the Bay Area at the reigns of Chucky Gruden’s particular strain of West Coast Offense. You never should have been run out of town, Jeff....

What started out yesterday morning as a PG-13, innocent little fender bender has now turned into our very own R-rated environmental disaster. Smashing. Here's a summary of today's oil spill-related chaos, followed by volunteering and clean-up information. -- Today Gavin Newsom sent down word from wherever he's recovering from his hangover -- we kid. sort of -- that SF will get litigious on the agency or persons responsible for the 58,000 gallons of oil......

The good news is, it's a photograph-oriented flashmob. Yay! The bad news is, nobody's going to be made to take off their clothes. Boooooo. Clear your weekend calendar, because Cab-Driver-About-Town Brad Newsham is busy organizing all impeachment-minded San Franciscans for an art project, which is precisely the sort of thing that has had so palpable an impact on national politics. This Sunday (the 10th) at 10:30am on Ocean Beach, Brad's going to get a......

This Sunday, the time has come. This Sunday marks the most significant Northern California American football game of the 2006 season: The Battle Of The Bay is here. ...

Update: Day 439. Your Chronicle Watch Watch, where we mock the Chronicle's award-winning efforts to improve our neighborhoods one step at a time, is finally back! Okay, ChronWatch: You're on Day 867 of a Chronicle Watch? That's like two and a half years! ChronWatch is all like, "we've been reporting on these two broken pedestrian bridges in a Martinez park since August 2003!" Should you really be bragging about that? "Hey, we're a completely ineffective gadfly for neighborhood improvements! No one takes our constant badgering seriously!" The ChronWatch column itself is only three years old! Plus -- the update is that it's going to take another three or four months before work even begins! We can't wait for "Update: 1001 Nights" on this one. Other long-standing unaddressed ChronWatch concerns: in November, we hit day 894 of a dry fountain in Berkeley and day 685 of park upkeep in Potrero. No update on the status of those either. This Sunday's ChronWatch also featured the following enigmatic entry: "463 Days -- Statutes of Juan Bautista de Anza and King Carlos to be relocated by January." What, we're finally declaring our independence from Spain now? Why is this an issue again? (okay, okay, we looked it up.) ...

Have you ever had several hundred thousand people staring just slightly over your shoulder? It's freaking weird. This Sunday, we were lucky enough to score an invitation to march in the Pride parade, right next to a float that featured sexy nearly-naked dancers from Ruby Sky. Because that's just the kind of company we keep. The gyrating flesh certainly seemed to please the crowd, which is good news for Comcast, the float's sponsor. They......

SFist made a startling discovery this week. The Bay Area is a fame whore! How else can you explain there being eight (at least!) weekly TV shows named after our fair neck of the woods? How can one small area of this vast Golden State warrant that much coverage? How much TV time does the Bay Area really need? Do we really want to be seen as the Paris Hilton of Northern California? Well,......

SFist contributor and virtual TV pundit Rain Jokinen offers her Bay-area-centric TV picks of the week SFist does not deny that a lot of head-burying has occurred this week. Post-election blues lead to a lot of TV watching, much of it pure escapism. Nothing dulls the pain like a good episode of The Surreal Life. And if Flavor Flav and Brigitte Nielsen can find love with each other, perhaps there is hope for the country!......