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SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom mea culpa-ing over his Hawaiian getaway during the oil spill, and double-decker buses hitting the streets of San Francisco. Oh, and some baseball player named Barry Bonds is a liar whose pants, it seems, are totally on fire. LAist continues to cover the...

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. A handy list for frequenters of fast food restaurants like ourselves: The 88 Fast Food Items Most Likely To Kill You. We're pleased to say that most of these are from places we don't ever go to. But we're depressed to see McDonalds' fries and Burger King's chicken fries included. We love those! (Via Sarah) And speaking of unhealthy foods, how about some...

3:10 to Yuma is another entry in Hollywood's current favorite genre: the remake. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, depending on how you look at such things), I can't compare it to the original, as I've never seen it. But I have seen this film, and it's about a down-on-his-luck fellow named Dan Evans (Christian Bale) who's trying to hold onto his ranch, even though a powerful local businessman is trying to drive him off the land so it can be sold to the railroad (a favorite plot device of Westerns). Evans has a bum leg from the Civil War, and a family that includes an older son who doesn't respect him (Logan Lerman), a younger son who looks up to him as a hero, and a lovely supportive wife (Gretchen Mol). As he sees it, they're all counting on him to protect them, to be a good role model, and to give them a good home and good life, and he's failing. So of course he agrees to come along when local lawmen need another man in their posse (which includes Byron McElroy, played by Peter Fonda, and Doc Potter, played by Alan Tudyk of Serenity fame) to help them transport the infamous, vicious killer and robber, Ben Wade (Russell Crowe), to the train that will take him to the prison at Yuma. The job will pay Evans the money he desperately needs to keep his ranch, and it'll make him look like a hero to his kids. The problem is, Wade's gang, now led by his loyal and brutal second-in-command, Charlie Prince (Ben Foster), is determined to rescue him before the train can take him, and they'll kill anybody who gets in their way. And Wade himself isn't exactly a peach either.

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Museums are cool, but they're even cooler when you can get into them for free. And that's what's happening on Museum Day, which is this Saturday, September 30th. Museum Day was started by the Smithsonian Institution, and used to be for subscribers to their magazine only, but its now open to the general public and celebrated by museums across the country, including many in the local area, like the African American Museum in Philadelphia, the Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia, the Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Franklin Institute (you can get the full list of participating museums in your area here). To get free general admission for you and a friend to one of these museums on September 30th, all you have to do is print off this Museum Day card and bring it with you. You'll have to print out one card per museum that the two of you want to go to, but that seems like a small price to pay for free admission.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer has been around for a while, but don’t take our word for it, just check out their coverage of the Civil War. That’s right, they were around all the way back when those dumb-asses thought it was a good idea to stand 30 feet apart and drill each other in the face with crude lead bullets. Luckily for history buffs (and the infantry), technology and military stratagems have come a long way since then and the paper’s full coverage of the war is now available on-line.