There's been a lot of talk, maybe too much talk, about the city's apparent crackdown on fun. Which sounds kind of silly considering where we live, but there's some truth to it. In the past year, we've seen battles over the North Beach Fair, the North Beach Jazz Festival, the Haight Street Festival, and the How Weird Fair. So people are fixing to do something about it. ...

Wednesday, please pack your knives and go. Tonight: We're keeping it bipartisan for once! You can stop by the Democratic County Central Committee monthly meeting at the State Building at 455 Golden Gate (between Polk and Larkin) at 7:00 p.m., or the SF Republican women's dinner at MacArthur Park at 607 Front Street, 6 p.m. We presume they'll both be discussing how they're going to defeat each other. The DCCC meeting is free; the Republicans are charging $25 (non-members) for admission to hear a speaker who is TBD. Thursday: Korean pansori, or storytelling opera, tonight at 7 pm at the Asian Art Museum! Check out these sound clips for a preview. Korean composer ChanHae Lee will be performing the music live. $5 members, $10 non-. and Friday: In commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Jewish Film Festival, the Yerba Buena Center in conjunction with the Holocaust Center of Northern California, is screening the documentary "Rene and I," about the lives of twins temporarily separated by the Holocaust, and who both survived both Mengele and "a Jewish henchman of Al Capone." Huh! Filmmaker Gina Angelone will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A. 7:30 p.m., $7....

It's politics week around SFist, so we here at the Essefficist thought we'd do our civic duty by chipping in with answers to political questions we received about one thing that is on next week's ballot and one thing that isn't. Rita asks, Hey Essefficist! Can you find out what exactly the City College Board of Directors does? Or the Democratic County Central Committee? Why aren't we voting for the DCCC this time around? I'm......