-- Grilled Cheese Invitational : What's better than a grilled cheese sandwich? Nothing, that's what. (Our apologies go out to all and any lactose-intolerant readers. You live a life of heartache we can only imagine.) This competition, though, will feature ingredients ranging from Kraft Singles (yum!) to truffle butter, brie, rice, and more. Starts at 8:30 p.m. at Eli's Mile High Club, Oakland; $5. -- Edward Gorey's Dracula: Guests are encouraged to wear Gorey-inspired......

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells: 83. Total number of people pictured whose names we recognize: 5 (Carole Shorenstein Hays, and the Emerson String Quartet, which count for 4.) Minority count: 7 (about 8%). Getty v. Traina: 0-1. Congratulations on your wedding, Trevor Traina! Number of hats: 1. Number of horses: 2. Number of female Iron Chefs: 1. Height of the mini-home designed by super home builder Bob Flury as a steeplechase......

Last week's winner, the East Bay Express. More letters about Cody's? Okay, ew: there's cockroaches on AC Transits, and they had a lice infestation on BART. We are totally standing up on BART for the indefinite future. Also -- Ann Coulter is accused of plagiarizing from Jane Ganahl. Is Ann Coulter also feeling bad about being single? Spider bites. A new group encouraging more people to refuse to testify before grand juries. Will SFist Jackson......

Sometime in the past week we started on a hard-core musical binge. We don't know why--maybe it started when we heard about the bloggers visiting Beach Blanket Babylon, and wondered why we weren't invited. In any event, we're listening to Les Mis (London Cast, disc 2--"A Little Fall of Rain" is playing right now) as we're typing this, plotting our trip to San Jose to see Super Vision (admittedly not a musical) at the......

We're inundated with the hottest variety of shows you could ever hope for. ...

The '70s started with Janis Joplin's death, and a mere five years later A Chorus Line premiered on Broadway, running for 15 year until 1990. ...

Today is, of course, Festivus. And with Festivus comes the traditional airing of grievances. Not to mention acknowledgement that we stole the idea from the Daily Quickie column on ESPN.com’s Page 2. So, in celebration of the most holy of holidays, we here at Sfist would like to air our grievances. Sfist Rita’s grievances are that she is cheesed off that she only just started watching the Matt Gonzalez show on public access this......