• Northern Mission residents, here's a handy excuse you can use when you're late to work today: My alarm didn't go off because a PG&E transformer exploded in my neighborhood overnight. [BCN/Appeal]

  • The folks behind Rickhouse and Bourbon & Branch finally have a new name for their subterranean bar at Third and Market: Local Edition. Get it? Because it's in the old Hearst Building. [Grub Street SF]

  • California Watch, the nonprofit investigative reporting group in Berkeley, receives a Polk Award for Journalism. Other winners include: the AP, the NY Times and pretty much every other big name in news. [AP/Chron]

  • Better than Shark Week, it's Giant Pacific Octopus Week at the Aquarium of the Bay. [AotB]

  • Michael Bauer has been talking about foie gras all week. He must be pretty beat up over the impending ban. Today, Bauer discusses whether the ban is justified for health concerns. [InsideScoop]