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Brock Keeling — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:58:00 GMT

Our final image of 2009 comes to you from Generik11.

2009: The Year In Whatever, Huh, Awesome & Pft

Brock Keeling — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:50:40 GMT

There was plenty to love this year, sure. But for now, join us as we turn into a pillar of salt by looking back and taking the piss out of the whimsical / iffy moments of 2009 in the Bay Area.

Users stopped talking about Twitter on Twitter. Just as the mirror couldn't care less what you think of its reflective qualities, no one cared to hear how amazed you were with writing 140 characters or fewer. People finally started using Twitter for its intended purpose.

Like a recessionista article come to life in gastronomic form, San Francisco navel gazers soiled themselves silly over food from an automobile or cart. The trucker baseball cap didn't die; it transformed into Mission Street Food.

While Gavin wasn't able to make it all the way to Sacramento (not yet, anyway), he had a banner year: his wife, Jennifer Siebel, pooped out a beautiful baby girl, he got a great seat at the inauguration, and he returned to being our icy yet affable mayor. After all was said and done --- the talk of life coaches, trips to Hawaii, finger wagging at CBS 5's Hank Plante -- it was nice to have him back.

For better or for worse, Oscar Grant, who was killed on New Year's Day at the Fruitvale Bart station, became a household name.

Graduate school journalism students and authentico journos scribbled on the world wide web, complete with people-on-the-internet-are-mean posts and other aggressively thoughtful nuggets. Sure, most of them still don't know what a "meme" is -- inexplicably, everyone from local bloggers to local politicians considered themselves a meme in 2009 -- but they did learn the magic of hyperlinking. Finally.

Hey, What's Going on for New Year's Eve?

Brock Keeling — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:53:42 GMT

While SFPD announces their annual, benign "No Tolerance" enforcement policy against New Year's Eve mischief (no public intoxication, sexual assault, groups of teenage boys, drugs, etc.) and fireworks will go off at the Embarcadero at midnight, surely you know of something more titillating going on, yes?

If so, let us know. Please. Because SFist will post a NYE event listing that will keep you hungover well into 2009. Things like dive bars fetes, choice dance club DJs, interesting themes, dork gatherings, and clean-and-sober NYE events are all very much welcome. The curiouser, the better.

Feel free to contact us here with your NYE parties, or just go ahead an post them in the comments.

Straw image by Darwin Bell.

Halloween In the Castro Cancelled Forevermore?

Brock Keeling — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:13:38 GMT

Our sources tell us that Halloween in the Castro as we knew it is now dead. Long live a dull and tedious San Francisco.

Although supervisors promised us that Halloween in the Castro would return for 2008, it turns out that it will not make a spooktacular comeback; in fact, it won't return at all. The event is no more. Dead. It seems that the Entertainment Commission -- whose job, it seems, is to prevent entertainment from happening within the 7x7-mile radius of San Francisco -- has come up with the brilliant idea that the bombastic and very San Francisco holiday, Halloween in the Castro, will be finished.

So, will the Castro be on lock down every Halloween? We're dying to find out. And we're disgusted. How about you?

To recap, last year Halloween in the Castro was canceled, which saw all of the neighborhood's bars and clubs close down as the predominately queer neighborhood tunned into a police state for the night. (To re-live the non-drama, visit SFist's live-blogging coverage of Halloween 2007 here.)