Hope you're having a bad-luck-free Friday the 13th out there, folks! Here's the ominous items we found on a casual search of San Francisco news sites. --Weird screwup on the highways today -- due to a software glitch, eleven Bay Area road signs were flashing the message "two lanes closed for construction," when in fact all the relevant lanes were open. At least it wasn't flashing an Amber Alert with your car's license plate number,......

SFist Reader Michael has had it! And we're sure he's not the first person who has had it with the Series of Unfortunate Events (way to take ownership of your screwups, Muni!) we call a transit system. Dear Mr. Ford, Tonight I have joined the increasing ranks of former MUNI riders after an incident at the Caltrain station. I arrived to 4th & King St. on Caltrain #191. The train was slightly late, arriving about......

You, the voracious reader, will soon be left to repine most piteously, for a most sorrowful event is pending. Yes! Local author Lemony Snicket's final book in A Series of Unfortunate Events, titled The END, is being released next month. The final volume to this terrible collection will no doubt fill the reader with terror, pity and sorrow once they learn the final fates of the unlucky Baudelaire orphans. Worse - there will be no......

Finally, our holiday film season begins. There are so many great movies opening this weekend that we don't know where to begin. On the bigger-budgeted side of things, we are embarassed by the twin riches of The House of Flying Daggers, a Tang-dynasty-set police drama with all the breathtaking martial arts we've come to expect from any movie starring the lovely Ziyi Zhang, and the film version of San Francisco novelist Daniel Handler's A Series......