Those goddamn, dirty, lovable hippies known as the Grateful Dead -- i.e., Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Phil Lesh -- reunite tonight in honor of (our future president) Barack Obama. Looking to snare to what Joe Garofoli refers to as, "California's gray-haired ponytail vote," the Dead is backing Obama. Minus, Jerry Garcia, of course, since he is now most literally a dead head. Billed as a one-time-only event, although they got back together briefly......

-Electronic devices cause BART tickets to be demagnetized causing mayhem and anarchy on BART. ...

Awright! It's time for another SFist contest! Where was Gavin Newsom last week? a) On the playa at Burning Man; b) On a date with a barely-legal model; c) On a date with a C-list reality TV star; d) Trying out for Skating With Celebrities; e) Ably leading San Francisco through its current crisis of high crime rates and a fractiously-divided Board of Supervisors. or ..... f) something else entirely? Was he.... babysitting Suri Cruise?......

We've always wanted to be mischaracterized in a bullying fashion by the Chron's Pink Pages writer Aidin Vaziri! So Vaziri, on the SFGate's Culture Blog, pokes some gentle fun at us for posting the picture that all our astute commenters agreed was Photoshopped, of a purported Phil Lesh fan falling off the Warfield balcony. But what we don't get is that Aidin says no one actually fell off the balcony at all and that......

Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Cocktail waitress to guy at bar: "Hey, did you ever end up taking that pill you found?" Guy at bar: "Um ... I don't remember." -- From Ingrid/Gold Dust Lounge Hag: "Are you going to do Bay to Breakers?" Fag: "I don't think so. I don't like running." Hag: "But you love drinking." -- Mission & 24th Cheerleader Bay-to-Breaker on cell phone: "Hey!......

We keep missing the rock-n-roll celebrity sightings around this city. Last week Kirk Hammett (Metallica) and Robert Trujillo (Suicidal Tendencies) were at Rock It Room on the night of the Madame Legal show we told you about. And then after playing two nights at the spacious and refined Palace of Fine Arts, Ryan Adams stole over to the tiny 12 Galaxies on Thursday night to jam with Phil Lesh. Friends who've known him or met......

A review of the three-night Phil Lesh and Friends concert at the Warfield, December 17-19 by new SFist contributor Claire O'rrific....

SFist interviews Jennifer DePalma, candidate for United States Congress from the 8th district....