It seems that NBC 11 caught Bill O'Reilley's film crew taking in the (non)X-rated partying that went on at last Saturday's Erotic Exotic Ball. This week he'll devoted an entire segment to the annual "sexy" Halloween fete, and even have the ball’s founder, Perry Mann, on as a guest. ...

After getting heat from the Catholic Church and death-by-fiery-car-crash-worthy Bill O'Reilly, Archbishop George Niederauer officially apologized for giving communion to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. This is insane. Gay bars have been serving daiquiris to and sparing flaky bumps to closeted priests and assorted Catholics for years. And yet, a few gays can't come to their house of worship for a little body of Christ and some merlot? Such hypocrisy we'll never understand.......

Looks like we're in a heapin' load of trouble as those who like to get outraged at us are outraged again. Or, at least something the Archbishop of San Francisco did. Last weekend, while conducting mass, the Archbishop was giving communion when up came two people "wearing bizarre makeup and costumes, including one dressed in a parody of a nun's habit." Hmm…couldn’t that also describe the Pope? Anyways, the "offenders" in question, of course, were members of the Sister of Perpetual Indulgence. So Archbishop George Niederauer gave them communion. ...

-- 19-year-old lad from Felton -- a fascinating, frightening place -- calls cops after his weed gets pinched. Which he was trying to sell in downtown Santa Cruz. And doesn't get arrested. [Chron] -- Same-sex marriage bill OK'd, ready to be TKO'd by Arnold. [Chron] -- Obama in SF! [Examiner, via BCN] -- Boom! Bomb threat forces Southwest Airlines jet back to Oakland Airport. [CBS5] -- Hsu caught, in hospital after falling down on...train......

After news came out that Gavin gave a proclamation for a gay porn studio, it was soon revealed that apparently nobody was paying attention to the city's process of issuing proclamations. So SFist did some digging around and discovered that in the past few years, we have issued these proclamations: ...

Conservatives are doing what they do best-- feigning outrage over trivial little thing, that being the fact that Gavin issued a proclamation making last Friday, "Colt Studio Day." For those not in the know, Colt Studio is a gay porn company in San Francisco that just recently celebrated it's 40th Anniversary. ...

We've been having all sorts of weird and whacky things with our servers lately and they've been getting even weirder and whackier lately. Which means that, yes, you might be encountering errors when posting a comment. We're working on it. What this means to you, dear readers, is that you might have problems posting a comment. Bear with us. And also know that if you've posted something, there's a good chance it'll show up. Maybe......

As we wrote before, you're staring to hear the phrase "San Francisco values" thrown around and around and not in a good way, more in a trying to scare the bejeesus out of Mr. and Mrs. Red State kind of way. But what exactly do people mean by "San Francisco values." ...

We won't say the Democrats are confident right now, but we hear Nancy Pelosi is already asking her staff to refer to her only as Madame Speaker, Ms. Speaker if you're nasty. Democrats are so confident these days that Kos himself weighed in yesterday to say that everyone is getting too confident. Hell, Democrats are so confident these days that they're starting to wonder if Nancy being in charge is really such a great idea. ...

What with PageF-----gate going on, Fox News has to be desperate these days to stir things up. After all, misidentifying politician's political parties can only work for so long before even Fox News viewers catch on. So how do we know they're getting desperate these days? Because as Stephen Colbert would say, Bill O'Reilly just put Jon Carroll of the Chron's back pages on notice. ...

Just in time for Summer Solstice, there's a new No Fun fracas going on. See, there's this tradition where people go to Ocean Beach and do the bonfire thing. It's like Burning Man except without the Man and the poseur artists. But this year just might be the last year as there's a wee bit chance of a bonfire crackdown after this year's....

In yet another babysitting-related crime in the Bay Area, a woman in Richmond is in jail after she left a 2-year-old she was watching (along with an 8-month old) with her 11-year-old daughter while she went out to run some errands. The 11-year-old dropped the 2-year-old, who suffered a skull fracture and died. Other babysitter-related crimes of late include: the woman who let a baby she was watching get hit by a train, the nanny......

Man, every day in 2005 had some kind of good San Francisco Bay Area news story -- whether it was the lady who planted the finger in the Wendy's chili, Bill O'Reilly, explosions downtown, anarchist yutzes in the Mission, and nude art in bars, to pick some totally random examples we pulled from a disorganized riffling through the SFist archives search engine. How can we pick just one favorite news story for the entire......

Well, Eminem is back with his on-again off-again Kim, but SF's sporadic First Lady's now not only on the outs with Gavin but now also with her employer, Court TV. Matier and Ross report that Ms.-Guilfoyle-if-you're-nasty has announced that she's going to be taking a job with FOX News, hosting a weekend law/crime show called "The Lineup." Kimbers coyly refused to say anything mean about her new channel, but you gotta wonder if new co-worker-to-be......

"Seinfeld" has given much to us over the years. It's given us more words and phrases to enter into our language than Billy Shakespeare, it's given us a whole new way of perceiving and quantifying reality, and it's single-handedly killed off the puffy-shirt look. Could you even say that about "Friends?" It also appears to giving us a new holiday--Festivus, of course. For the uninitiated, Festivus was the holiday Frank Costanza cooked up in lieu......

You know, with all this Bill O'Reilly brouhaha, we totally realized that, as stalwart San Francisco residents, we'd never actually been to Coit Tower. In fact, we only know it as the leftmost icon in the SFist logo. Gotta go before it's gone! Like Daly said, Coit Tower was built on land donated to the city by Lillian Coit to commemorate SF firefighters (with whom she was a little obsessed). The Tower opened in 1933, and our government, flirting with socialism, decided to pay artists to paint public works of art in it. And now Bill O'Reilly wants it destroyed! Parking is always a nightmare on Telegraph Hill Road, so either schlep up on foot or take the #39 bus. The 39 only goes from Fisherman's Wharf to Coit Tower -- and it only runs every 20 minutes, but hey -- you paid for that FastPass, it's free to you! The Tower's open from 10 to 5; it's free to view the WPA murals on the first floor. It's $3 to take the elevator to the top, and you can only see the murals on the 2nd floor on the Sunday 11 a.m. tour. ...

With San Francisco's honor besmirched by the falafel loving Bill O'Reilly, it was only a matter of time before Gavin the Good marched on in and made with the chivalry. After all, he couldn't let Daly and Peskin have all the fun. So in a noon press conference today, Gavin let forth with great vengeance and furious anger upon Mr. Spin Factor, letting him know in no uncertain terms that we don't need him around anyhow. ...

As you might imagine, Bill O'Reilly's comments about our fair city deserving a terrorist attack managed to raise a few hackles. Including from Chris Daly who was so angered by Bill's hot-headed comments that he got hot-headed himself and called on Fox News to fire him (editor's note-- wouldn't you love to see a Celebrity Death Match type battle go down between O'Reilly and Daly? Wouldn't that be Awesome? Our money would totally be on Daly too 'cause nobody puts Daly in the corner) . And Aaron Peskin said something along the lines about Bill being hyped up on Oxycontin, just like Rush Limbaugh. So O'Reilly went on the radio and tried to set the record straight. ...

The Oakland PD has arrested a man for the shooting of Antar Bey, the 20-year-old leader of a Black Muslim organization in Oakland. The police had been working to rule out any possible assassination attempts, in light of the fact that after the death of its founder and Antar Bey's father, Yusuf Bey, two other members of the Black Muslim group had been shot under mysterious circumstances in the last two years. The president and CEO of Your Black Muslim Bakery was found in a shallow grave in the Oakland hills in 2004, and Bey's adopted brother was wounded by a gunman outside his house just this June. Antar Bey's killing appears to be just a random carjacking, and unrelated to any political strife in the organization. Well, in lighter news, a guy in Blackhawk (near Danville) was driving along and thought he hit a deer. He pulled over to see what happened. No deer..... -- until a second car drove by, and hit the deer a second time. The deer went flying -- and hit the first driver. First man broke his ankle. Cops are still looking for the second driver. Deer was pronounced dead on the scene. And in the wake of the Yes on I vote in SF (disapproving of military recruiting in schools), Bill O'Reilly's called for terrorists to destroy Coit Tower. Why call for terrorists to do it when we can use budget cuts to do the same thing? Mayor Gav brushed it off, saying, "remember that guy wanted to have me arrested last year?" (for the gay marriages). And after the jump, a recap of all the blotter pictures since June. Previous updates here and here. ...

We doubt you've been watching, but it's been a rough time for Fox News. With democrats cowering and the news dominated by the tragedies in South East Asia, there's nothing for the commentators to attack anymore. Watching Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity lately has been like watching two dogs just back from the pound after being neutered. Luckily for them, that's all about to change: Michael Newdow, the Sacramento lawyer who sued to get the......

Hearings began Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court on the legality of Same-Sex Marriage. On one side is the City of San Francisco, representing twelve plaintiffs who filed suitafter the California Supreme Court ruled against the sanctioning of the marriages. All twelve of the plaintiffs were married last spring- in fact, two of the plaintiffs, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, were the very first couple to have been married. On the other side is......