Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into......

Have you checked out the eBooks and eAudio at the SFPL? We're itching to try out the audio options, but they don't have anything that works on Macs or iPods. Boo! After a weekend double feature of In Cold Blood and Capote, both never seen before by SFist Rain, she got the urge to actually, finally, read the book that was (in a sense) responsible for both films: Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It......

There's going to be a second season of CBS's reality TV series "Rock Star," and this time they're searching for a singer to front Supernova, a new supergroup featuring Tommy Lee on drums, Gilby Clarke on guitar and the Bay Area's own Jason Newsted, formerly of Metallica, on bass. Get your leather pants and best rock caterwaul ready, because Jason Newsted will be attending an open-call audition today here in San Francisco: "Rock Star: The......

The Mavericks Surf Contest, held in the treacherous and icy waters north of Half Moon Bay, is the world's greatest big wave surfing contest. The on-again, off-again contest founded by Half Moon Bay surf legend Jeff Clark in 1999, in on again for tomorrow, February 7, 2006....

Last week's Pick of the Week, the Metro: The Metro wrote us all proud of their "download our issue in .pdf!" feature (thanks for getting in touch!) -- but guys! You don't have the latest issue up! We read the article about transgender Filipinos last week! So we'll make it a WRTW first and read the Metro in online form only. Prostitution in San Jose. A list of bad finger-related puns re the Wendy's chili incident. Cover articles: the South Bay restaurant scene (Wendy's article not included). And tweens act out scenes from Cesar Chavez's life. ....Man, it is just not the same reading a weekly online. We miss looking at the way everything is laid out! Next up, the East Bay Express. We have to apologize for missing last week's issue because when we finally got a copy (late), the cover article on people selling computer game assets on ebay was fascinating. Read it now! For this week, the dream cartoonist on trying to get your friends to make you a werewolf. Landlords who don't return deposits. Un-patenting DNA. Cover article: computer programs buying up tickets on Ticketmaster. And there was a lot of boobie at the Tommy Lee show. Savage Love: male chastity belts, incest?, and meeting people. San Francisco weeklies and the pick of the week, after the jump....