"I can't believe no one thought of this before," exclaims Tabitha Russell who snapped this shot at Civic Center Plaza. And it's a great marketing scheme because any (crackpot) theory goes down better with cookies. more ›

-- 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. more ›

Wonkette did something we find most awesome: commenter-cleansing. Hee: more ›

-- PSA of the day: never forget your BDSM safeword, kids. [Chron] more ›

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. more ›

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. more ›

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 the roll-away metal bleachers in the outfield, seats not normally used during season baseball play, and we were watching the teams warm up on the field while our dad was at the concession stand getting hot dogs and beer. It was still a little while before the game was set to begin, but we were enjoying just being there, watching the teams warm up; hearing the Giants faithful talk about how THIS was going to be the Giants' night. more ›