You think Hallwoeen on the Castro is a nightmare of douche-baggie proportions? Try the Oracle Open World 2007 convention, which is happening this Sunday, November 11 through Thursday, November 15. And it sucks for us plebeians. Imagine nerds and sales tools infused with a false sense of power. (Except for any Oracle SFist reader; you're all golden.) Imagine nasty Oracle PR bitches who hangup on local media outlets trying to get a modicum of......

Hope you weren't planning on driving 1) to the Metreon, 2) to the Westfield mall, 3) to the W Hotel, or 4) to the Gold Club for the next eight days -- 800 pound gorilla Oracle has managed to convince the city of San Francisco that it is essential to the success of their Oracle OpenWorld convention that they entirely shut down Howard Street between Third and Fourth to traffic, because they need the space......

Summer is heating up (or cooling down, depending on how close you are to the Pacific) so don’t forget to pack your sunscreen and pooch to take your dog with you on your adventures. You can start this Sunday at the W Hotel’s party for dogs cosponsored by Bark Magazine. Come meet the author of “TAILS OF DEVOTION A Look At The Bond Between People And Their Pets” from 4-6 p.m. This is a......

At the Fashion Week Boutique held in the W Hotel on Saturday afternoon, we boldly faced one of our longtime fears: professional eyebrow shaping. We've seen too many overplucked, scraggly, arc-like slivers to ever have trusted our eyebrows to anyone else before now. But when we spotted Kimberly Jones' mobile eyebrow rescue unit in the corner, a wave of daring washed over us. We did it. We asked Kimberly to give us Eyebrows To Die......