• Deplorable teens beat up their "friend" near Haight Street, steal his Nissan Altima. [BCN/Appeal]

• A pod of as many as 11 humpback whales has been spotted hanging out in the water around the Santa Cruz Boardwalk. [CBS5]

• How Groupon turned into a messy orgy of money, sex and ego. [Gawker]

• Lake Street in the Richmond district has a terrifying Halloween block party. There's a guillotine on the street!

• Whoops: an employee for Cubic Transportation Systems, who make your Clipper Card, pulled the old "cc:" instead of "bcc:" move in an email to 1,800 customers, thus revealing their email addresses to each other. [SFEx]

• How do we feel about political ads on a building that burned down barely a month ago? [Haighteration]

• Occasionally, when a revolution or movement can't speak for itself, or proves to be inarticulate despite its best intentions, it may need a poet to speak for it. Why shouldn't that poet be Langston Hughes? [SFMOMA]