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Just some random scribbling on a game that is still reverberating through our hungover, overstuffed brains....

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-- Carmen Jones: Based off of Georges Bizet's famous French opera Carmen, the adaptation was made into a successful Broadway musical, and then a '50s film staring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and Pearl Bailey. Now, see it again on stage right here in SF. The curtain goes up tonight at the African-American Art & Culture Complex (762 Fulton); $15.

The season premiere of "Friday Night Lights" comes to NBC tonight at 9 p.m. and since it first aired we've hoped that it would eventually get moved to Fridays. Not because we think it's a good night for the show (or any show, for that matter) but because we're slightly anal and it annoyed us that a show with "Friday Night" in the title did not, in fact, air on Friday nights. But we're going to admit something else here: we aren't actually big fans of the series. Yeah, yeah, it's basically blasphemy to admit that since almost every TV fan or critic out there were basically falling all over themselves with praise for it last season. So let us explain. Firstly, the show is shot in an exceedingly annoying jerky-cam style that they tried to pass off during the first episode as being the result of a "documentary film crew" following the football coach around all year; they basically dropped this notion by the second episode, and yet, the shaky-cam remains. And it remains extremely distracting.

Spring is when we get busy here in the Ist-A-Verse. Very busy. But, after staying bundled-up indoors all winter, it's nice for us to be out, about, and collecting things to write about for you. Here's a glimpse at what's been keeping your favorite citybloggers busily away from home and out of bed.

Special Friday Night Lights edition

Theatrical Releases March 30th, 2007

Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of "Friday Night Lights" production to New Mexico.

If there’s one thing we love, it’s the nightlife. There’s nothing better than slathering on some silver eyeliner, donning your black spiky boots and strolling out on a ripe Friday night a long week to get down with other eager, boozy people. If you aren’t up for Ruby Skye but want a little more than your average dive has to offer, shake your moneymaker at one of our top picks for the weekend.

It's Tuesday, so what better night to premiere a show called "Friday Night Lights"? Yeah, we think it's a pretty boneheaded move on NBC's part, but the networks seem terrified to schedule anything of real quality on Friday nights because they think people don't watch TV on Friday nights. Have they ever considered the notion that people don't watch as much TV on Friday nights because there isn't anything GOOD ON? "The Ghost Whisperer"? Come on! (Of course, that will change slightly this Friday with the premiere of "Battlestar Gallactica." But we'll talk more about that later.)

Good god, has it been a year already? Here we are again, telling you to drop every damn thing for the next two weeks of your life, so you can get out to the Castro, Roxie, and the Women's Building to see some of the best, freshest, and freakiest movies you'll lay eyes on all year. That's right, it's IndieFest time again, hooray!

What to watch on screens in the Bay Area.