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- SF's Day of the Dead celebration is tonight, and that's not the only thing to do this week. [SFist]
- If you’re heading to Tahoe or anywhere past North Sacramento this weekend from the Bay Area, you might want to add some time for delays with a major freeway closure planned. [CBS 5]
- Lawmakers stunned by a report explaining how Facebook allows advertisers to exclude certain "ethnic affinities" ask the company to cut it out. [USA Today]
- BART travel was snarled early Wednesday when smoke filled Montgomery Station following a third rail explosion. [ABC 7]
- [Wired] goes inside the classroom where San Quentin inmates learn to code.
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Plans drafted for 85-foot-tall building at Market and Duboce. [SocketSite]
- Muni driver gets national love. [Moving SF]
- Internet commenters who know everything about transit planning take note: Caltrans is looking for a new Transportation Planning Division Chief. [Streetsblog SF]
- San Francisco’s 12 days of rain in October were the most in the month in well over a century. [SF Chronicle]
- The annual mating dance of the newts has begun at Tilden Park. [CBS 5]
- At Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, the last one before next week’s election, Supervisor Aaron Peskin predicted the defeat of a sales tax assumed in Mayor Ed Lee’s city budget. [SF Examiner]
