• Meteorologists are predicting that a storm system is making its way to the Bay Area, providing a bit of rain and a nice alternative to the recent warm weather. Of course, the temperatures are supposed to be "chillier than normal," so, you know, it's your run-of-the-mill "what the heck is this weather" weather. [Chron]
  • Check out the SF Symphony's newly-unveiled winter schedule, which features a live-scored performance of Home Alone, Seal, and Peaches Christ. Cool. [SFGate]
  • While you're at it, here's the Shotgun Players' upcoming schedule for the 2018-2019 season. Highlights include "Women Laughing Alone with Salad," a riff on the popular internet meme, and "Love," a meta play about a theater troupe whose interpretation of a play gets tossed up in the air after the playwright appears in the play itself. [Chron]
  • [SF Business Journal] took a look inside San Francisco's priciest Airbnb, which costs $10,000 per night. Oof.
  • An engineer at Patreon shared her account of being pulled over by SFPD near the Cliff House for driving while black. Her story quickly went viral, and highlights the kind of profiling people of color go through every day.
  • The SFMTA wrote this intriguing blog post about the story behind Muni's very first headquarters, which was built on the site of a former graveyard. Nothing like a little spooky Halloween reading on public transit, eh?
  • Morrissey's scheduled to play a show on November 4th at The Masonic, but given his prolific participation in the time-honored tradition of San Francisco flaking... will he actually play? [Chron]
  • SF's LGBTQ community has weighed in on Kevin Spacey's controversial coming out statement, which was suspiciously timed, because in that very same statement, he also admitted to making sexual advances on Anthony Rapp when Rapp was only 14. [ABC 7]
  • BART recently unveiled a new plan to combat fare evasion, which will cost the agency $740,000 a year. That's a fraction of the total cost of lost fares, which BART estimates to be about $25 million. [CBS] [Chron]
  • The San Jose Tallow Company stands accused of leaving leaky trucks filled with the bodies of various collected road kill just sitting out on a neighborhood street. [NBC Bay Area]
  • San Francisco's new LED streetlights are just too bright for some SF residents, who think that they should have a "warmer" light. [SFGate]
  • Perkins Eastman has officially won the Harvey Milk Plaza Design competition, and will be bringing their soapbox-style seating and community space to the area in the coming years. [Hoodline]