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(By Joe Kukura)

Hey, did you find a notebook carrying proof that the Lord above exists? If so, Ken would like it back. If you have said book of miracles, find Ken's East Bay based number here.

Ten-year-old Mireya Zapata was reported missing from her home in the Tenderloin District at about 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning. She was wearing a black jacket with gold lettering that either says, "South Park" or "South Pole," black jeans, red and black sneakers with a heart print, and she was carrying a pink backback. She has a small black freckle near her mouth. She is about 5 feet tall, weighing 75 pounds.

• UndergroundfilmMaker Festival: It goes a little something like this, "In an era where filmmakers are called 'users' who 'generate content,' [Hey now! -- sfist] Undergroundfilm wishes to put the spotlight back where it belongs: behind the camera." So far the festival has had three rounds. The portfolio submission, filmmaker interview, and finally, new projects. Now, the filmmakers have been narrowed down to six and-- sigh. Okay, this is starting to sound a bit convoluted. We'll break it down for you the only way we know how: it's an American Idol-ish movie contest, and its season finale is tonight. Got it? The festival starts tonight at 8 p.m. at the Roxie; $10.
• Bill Haley's Original Comets: One of the first ivory outfits to bring rock to the masses -- with such boomerific covers as "Rock Around the Clock" and "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" -- they still perform today. Come catch these Wonder Bread legends of rock tonight at the Red Devil Lounge at 8 p.m.; $20.
• Season premiere of Lost: Yeah, yeah, we screwed this up yesterday. (One might say we too were a bit...lost. Har.) Anyway, the "two-hour" premiere starts at 8 p.m. on ABC. But! ABC's trying to make it sound like it's gonna be a two-hour show, but they're gigantic liars. You see, the first hour is a recap episode and the second hour is the premiere. So...there you go.

In terms of propositions this year, especially SF propositions, it's a pretty lean year. Both A and B, in fact, seem to be so non-controversial that neither the SF Republicans nor Starchild appear to object. Then there's Proposition C.

This week there's a recommendation every night at a different venue - talk about a great week of music. Starting with Monday, MGMT, the super-hyped duo from Brooklyn, will be playing Bottom of the Hill. MGMT is: Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, two psychic pilgrims whose paths first intersected in the green pastures of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, circa 2002. After a post-college "existential crisis" they decided to create their masterpiece, Oracular Spectacular, released last week. (Check out the video, here.)

• Let's Get Lost (1988): Bruce Weber followed around jazz trumpeter and heroin addict Chet Baker on a year-long excursion, "from the West Coast, to the East Coast, to Europe--including a stop at the Cannes Film Festival--with interviews with Chet, colleagues and friends, including dueling insights from his third wife, a former British show girl, and three children in Oklahoma, and from old flame Ruth Young, a sardonically throaty torch singer." Screens tonight at 7 p.m. and 9:20 at the Castro Theatre; $6-9.
• Circle Jerks: Hermosa Beach-based punk outfit named after a homoerotic act of mutual sexual self-gratification--and formed by Black Flag's original singer, Keith Morris, and future Bad Religion guitarist Greg Hetson--return tonight to show the youngins how it's done. They perform along with Hit Me Back and the Last of the Believers. The ear-splitting sounds start at 8 p.m. at Slim's; $17.
• Mary Lynn Rajskub: read more about tonight's show here.

Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar.

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Pocket Gophers in Golden Gate Park

-- Chapel/Chapter: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's modern, intricate dance revue. Starts at 8 p.m. at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum; $38-50.

The dude who plunked down $752,467 to get the home-run ball that is #756 has decided to put it up to an online vote as to what to do with it

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-- Did you call your district supervisor to halt the Blue Angels today? Neither did we. [IndyBay]

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(Tony's trips to dangerous countries).

Well, it was no thrust shy hippie college student, Will, directly into the battlefront of a neverending war between the vampires and their sentry slayers.

Curse you, Eve Batey! Our former co-editor is a huge horror/fantasy flick maven, and when she left SFist for greener pastures last October, we knew we'd have to watch some movies at the Indiefest Hole in the Head moviefest for her this year.

Ever misplaced a grocery or to-do list? Your lost note could appear in Lost and Found in the Mission, a play based on true stories salvaged from scraps of papers found around the Mission District. The production, by Boathouse & Co., includes songs, dancing, beat-boxing and mass hallucinations. Tickets are available on a sliding scale ($15-$25), here, show starts at 8pm. Mama Calizo's Voice Factory in the Jon Sims Center for Performing Arts, 1519 Mission St.,SF.

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It's Bay Area National Dance Week! Dance studios across the city are dramatically flinging open their doors for free events all week. The one that jumped out at us for tonight is a free introduction to fire hoop dancing at the Temple of Poi. There's a 6:15 class and a 8:00 class, and the Temple is located at 953 Mission, Suite 11. Check out that YouTube clip of the Temple of Poi founder hula-hooping away! If that's not your thing, though, there's plenty of other free dance events tonight too, including samba lessons, tango lessons, and belly dancing lessons. Get that swerve on.

In our ongoing effort to bring music to your ears, this week we're giving away two special prize packs from a long-standing Bay area band, The Mother Hips. Formed back in 1991, it's been six years since the band last released a full album. They're back with a new studio record on April 3rd called Kiss the Crystal Flake. Said singer/guitarist Tim Bluhm: "It is very different from anything we recorded in the past. You know that saying about wishing you knew then what you know now? Kiss The Crystal Flake is that coming true." To celebrate, the band is playing two record release shows - on April 6th and 7th - at The Independent. We're giving away two prize packs, each with one pair of tickets to one of the record release shows, plus a copy of the new CD and the accompanying DVD. Listen to The Mother Hips' "Time-Sick Son of a Grizzly Bear" and enter to win below (contest ends 4/4; winner will be notified via email.)

Self-described as a print magazine of meat culture, Meatpaper celebrates the launch of Issue Zero at Sugarlump coffee lounge tonight in the Mission. Tastings and demonstrations by local restaurants and meat companies like Incanto and Prather Ranch serve up festivities (non-carne nosh will be available for the veggie crowd); drinks will be provided by Trumer Pilsner , Sonnema VodkaHerb and others, along with a gallery of meat-inspired art to feast your eyes on. Adding to the festivities, there will be demonstrations by . A suggested donation of $5-$15 encourages the production of future issues (and future tasty launch parties). Drop by sometime between 7 and 10 at the Sugarlump coffee lounge, 2862 24th Street (between Bryant and Florida).

Due to a betrayal by TiVo, which decided we'd rather watch a rerun of "My Name Is Earl" than "Survivor: Fiji" we had to try and watch the first 20 minutes of last week's episode online. Which isn't so bad normally, but we had a very finicky connection that would freeze every few seconds and tell us the video was loading....80%.....and play...and freeze....and loading....66%...85%...90%...and play...and freeze....and loading....67%....and then we slammed our heads against the wall and said "Screw it!" So, you won't get to read about how the first challenge went. Like anyone besides us really cares.

It was about a year and a half ago when we interviewed a colorful local eccentric about his plans to rip off and then go to the moon. Since then, things have been kind of quiet; but imagine our delight when we got an email, late last night, notifying us that a trailer for the film is finally available. Which is pretty impressive, since filming hasn't started yet.

It looks like the Chronicle's two BALCO reporters, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, will not be joining Josh Wolf in prison as they're no longer on the hook. The main reason being the source who they were protecting finally came forward to admit that that he was the leak. The person in question was the lawyer for Victor Conte and BALCO vice president James Valente, Troy Ellerman. Ellerman is being charged for handing court transcripts over to Fainaru-Wade and Wiliams. In a perfectly oily move that gives lawyers the reputation they have (sorry SFist Rita!), Ellerman was busy complaining to the judge about leaks all the while being the one who was leaking. Of course, it could have all been his master plan. After all, who would suspect the guy complaining the most about leaks?

If SFist were to have a dream job, it would be in one of those think tanks that puts together all those studies that are so amazingly obvious that even six year old children could figure out as true. Like all those studies saying that people talk a lot about the Super Bowl. Or that people spend way too much time on the Internet at work. Today, we get news on two studies of similar dimension.

Cold? This?! Quit complaining. It's not so cold out there. At least you're not being chased by pissed-off giant insects on a ruined planet that's colder than ice-cold. Capcom's Lost Planet: Extreme Condition drops today for Xbox 360, bringing its third-person alien-cappin' happy fun time to y'all.

Since I can't remember half the stuff I spewed out this year (I barely know what I'm writing half the time anyways), here, instead, is a few of my favorite things. Best TV Show (drama)- "Battlestar Galactica" Why I like this show is because it thinks big-- big themes, big action, big drama, big story, big music, big everything. At times (like the episode where they finally get off New Caprica) the show feels almost movie big. But the best part of it is that it's also small in it's way. Shows like "24" or "Lost" might have interesting characters, but for the most part, the characters react to the action. That's not necessarily true on "BSG" because often the action comes because of the characters. For instance, the driving force in the Cylon's occupying New Caprica was partly because a few characters discovered what love means. Which yes, sounds kind of lame until you consider that the whole occupying thing was kind of nasty and that one character plotted the destruction of mankind, another shot Capt. Adama, and the third blew herself and her ship up with a nuclear warhead. Awesome.