So much to do, so much not to do. What's a girl to do? Well, here is just a smattering of what's going on tonight. (An aside, is there any reason to buy bags of fun-size candy anymore to hand out to costumed tykes? We haven't seen a trick-or-treater in ages. Sob.) -- Hellgate Halloween: Vice magazine (SF's no. 1 fan) is throwing a bash with a complimentary bar (!) and tunes by Chromeo......

It's a slight variation on our Who's Attacking/Defending Newsom Now columns -- Gavin goes on the offensive! The gay-focused Bay Area Reporter runs a column this week in their Political Notebook about the post-Halloween fallout between Gavin and new father District 8 Supervisor Bevan Dufty. Apparently the wounds from Gavin's attack on Bevan about the Castro Halloween shooting and his vote to override the veto on the foot patrol issue are still smarting, as......

It's our new occasional column, about the trials and tribulations facing Mayor Gav! So.... who's attacking Newsom now???? --...CBS 5!: KPIX aired a segment (video) detailing all of Newsom's recent woes. The clip includes an interview with Art Bruzzone about how Gavin's busy delegating everything to other people but doesn't actually know what's going on, a quizzical eye about Gavin's professed ambivalence about running for reelection, and footage of Gavin complaining about the excessive focus......

The big day's nearly upon us, and so many questions remain unanswered: when's the party start? How's it going to end? Is there going to be extra Muni running to the event in the Castro, or extra parking? Who's paying for it? What streets'll be closed? How many cops and EMTs will be there? Any officers on horseback? What's the plan for the unofficial Castro Halloween party happening Saturday night? What happens when the......

Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. The theme of the Local News section is "Editor's note: Alix Rosenthal [District 8 candidate] is the domestic partner of Guardian city editor Steven T. Jones. Jones did not participate in the assigning, writing, or editing of this story," as the Guardian weighs in on both the Castro Halloween fight and an update on the Pendulum. Also, Chris Daly can't get any documents under the sunshine laws either. Why......

We've been closely following this strange attempt by Bevan & Friends to put a stop to Halloween parties in the Castro -- including private house parties. Check out the coverage of Bevan's Wednesday meeting on our Party-Party friends' site; party member Adam reports that the meeting was populated mostly by businesspeople, not residents, and that the primary complains were that revelers relieved themselves in locations other than restrooms, that hate crimes were possible (the......

roundup of the Bay Area weeklies (SF only this week, sorry)....

Browsing the web today, we discovered a persistent meme amongst geekier revellers this weekend. SFist thinks this is the first time we've seen any particular piece of consumer electronics inspire so many into feats of costuming derring-do. This dude actually used a tablet PC and some speakers to make an iPod costume that worked as an MP3 player - a triple-helping of geek-cred to you, sir! A mere double-helping of geek-cred to those who......