Want a trip to the Wild West with your favorite masked hero? Or maybe a hilarious romp with Restoration comedy? Naughty puppets, anyone? You want it, they got it....

As our cab pulled up to the Castro Thursday night, our driver said "ANOTHER film festival? Don't we have one of those every week?" While a look at our email inbox indicates that he's not that far off base, dude, it's IndieFest! If IndieFest happened every week, we'd be in the hospital, rehab, or morgue, but we would have had a hell of a time getting there. Joining the crown filing into the The......

All the Fastraks in the world can't save you now, as Caltrans proudly announces that it expects weekend Bay Bridge traffic to be backed up for the next year. What? Why? How? Well, in September, they're moving everyone driving in from Oakland to that new bridge they've been building over on your right-hand side, and then they're closing off the SF Harrison Street offramp for the next three years. After that, over 2006, they'll be tearing down half of the upper deck, and therefore closing off most of the onramps. Caltrans will be paying for additional BART service on the affected weekends. .....but a fat lot of good all that BART service is going to do for you if you need to get to the South Bay! SamTrans is now refusing to pay for extra service down the Millbrae-SFO BART spur, so they're cutting back rush-hour service to the airport and Caltrain. Bummer, especially since they just recalibrated the Caltrain schedule to match up with BART. You'll be getting less frequent service and shorter trains -- so it'll be time to cuddle up with all those other people trying to lug four suitcases apiece to SFO. Boo Samtrans. Why don't you just make everyone trying to get to the South Bay take one of those Wild West pump car trains or something? ...