-- Judy Butterfield: Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, and more come to life via seventeen-year-old Judy Butterfield. Wait, she's seventeen and headlining at the Plush Room already? We were robo-tripping at that age. Christ, that's amazing. OK then. She sings at 8 p.m. at The Empire Plush Room, 940 Sutter; $25. -- The Devil Came on Horseback: The U.S. isn't the only country that loves a good rape and murder spree on foreign soils. Take, for......

Wonkette did something we find most awesome: commenter-cleansing. Hee: Oh, hi everybody. A lot of comments have been fun & good & whatever, but a lot of comments have also been painful to read, lately. We need to cull the herd, as it were, and we need your help. Please nominate commenters you want removed from the gene pool, which is closed for cleaning. Thanks and sorry! Never forget, indeed. Of course, as fun......

-- PSA of the day: never forget your BDSM safeword, kids. [Chron] -- Alt-Weekly Death Watch returns. Yikes is right! [AWDW] -- Matthew S. Bajko says the gays and their bills are drawing more GOP votes. We're shocked. Seriously. [BAR] -- Awful landlord hit with awfully big fine. [Examiner] -- Dead body found inside airplane's wheel at SFO. [Chron, KPIX, KGO] -- Wyatt Buchanan’s blow-by-blow recount of Daly/Dufty's near slap-fest. (Our money is on......

Not everybody is screaming for Gavin to resign or telling him that shame, shame, everybody knows his name as there's a Facebook group out there called "Gavin Newsom is a P.I.M.P" You can see the bio above. And, of course, no Facebook entry would come complete without the always fun comments. This entry has such comments as "he can cheat on me any day" or "he pimped me so good last summer. ill never forget it." At this point, there's fifty-one members but expect that to shoot up at in a bit, especially as we post on it. ...

If you're like us, you still have a few disturbing holes on your holiday gift giving. Union Square is now officially insane, Stonestown is too generic, and all the nifty little boutiques are picked over all to hell. A lot of times gift certificates can seem kind of generic, but in some cases they make for the most awesome gifts ever, as in the case of The Body Gallery Pilates studio. Set in a......

We'll never forget where we were during the early evening hours of October 17th, 1989. It was one of those warm, Indian Summer days, and the air was completely still. To the superstitious, that's known as "earthquake weather." We had just gotten to Candlestick Park for the third game of the World Series. Giants versus A's--an event we'd hoped to see at least once in our lifetimes. We were ensconced in our seats in......