misc [Insert Headline Here] As much as we try not to do 'caption this!' posts, we couldn't resist this one. Have at it, folks. (Thanks for sending this our way, Matt Baume.)
misc Photo du Jour 488 SF Zoo chimpanzee licks Jello off a pumpkin, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 at the San Francisco Zoo. Starting Oct. 24th and 25th, visitors can watch zookeepers give the animals Halloween-themed treats. Check it
Arts & Entertainment Halloween: Embarcadero the New Castro for 2009 Something called "Take Back Halloween: Part One" will go down at the Embarcadero this year. Brought to you by the same folks behind FlashDance and Black Rock Roller Disco, the All Hallow's Eve
SF News Jaywalkers, Doing God's Work? Brittney Gilbert at Eye On Blogs brings our attention to what could be our new favorite blog, The Pedestrianist. More than any driver or cyclist, the delicate pedestrian is the single most maligned
SF News I'm Staying And You're Gonna Love Me, Cries Newsom Trailing behind Jerry Brown in both the polls and fundraising, one might assume SF Mayor Gavin Newsom would bow out at this point. Not so. Even though rumors are swirling -- swirling! --
SF News High Surf Advisory In Effect Today Between 5 a.m. and 11 p.m. today, a high surf advisory is in effect for the Bay Area coast. This, according to Appeal/BCN, is "due to a forecast of swells
SF News Windows 7 So. Tell Us. What's it like? So far, it's being billed as what people thought "Vista should have been." And the new UI is (presumably) its biggest selling point. Gizmodo has a thorough,
SF News Santa Cruz Outdoor Smoking Ban Starts Today If you're heading down to Santa Cruz this weekend to buy and take illicit drugs -- a common practice in a city that seems to have crashed into the side of California --
SF News Bomb Threat In Millbrae Snarls CalTrain According to SFist Jonathan, "My train is stopped in Burlingame @ 6:20 pm -- the conductor says the train is being held here due to a bomb threat at Millbrae." Word is the
SF News Day Around the Bay (SF Supe Edition) Every Wednesday for the next two months, 'Day Around the Bay' will be edited by a San Francisco Supervisor. (All of them will get a shot at it, hopefully, depending on their love,
SF News Get Your Weblog On <em>NYT</em>'s "Blogroll" Are you looking for authentico journo cred? Yes? Well, get your weblog over on the New York Times' new Bay Area blogroll section. (Yes, people still have blogrolls. We're not sure why, exactly.
SF News Blue Whale Found Dead Near Ft. Bragg A blue whale, the world's largest mammal, was found washed ashore near Fort Bragg this week. The whale, a female, was spotted near Fort Bragg in Mendocino County on Monday night a few
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Please Welcome Tasting Table The Bay Area has a new daily food newsletter, one you need to know about. It's called Tasting Table. What's more, it's penned by the multi-talented Scott Hocker. (Before joining Tasting Table, Hocker
SF News SPCA to Close On Mondays Sad news. Due to the state's continuing economic woes, the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for the first time in its 141 year history, will close on Mondays.
SF News Schwarzenegger to Restore Domestic Violence Program Funding Legislation introduced by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco/San Mate, which will spare domestic violence programs from budget cuts, is expected to be signed by Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday. SF Appeal/BCN
Arts & Entertainment Lady Gaga Tickets On Sale This Saturday Hmm. We're not sure where most of you stand on Lady Gaga. Many of you claim to loathe her, some of you secretly love her. Why, it was just a few months ago
SF News Four-Alarm House Fire Burning In Tiburon A seemingly massive four-alarm house fire is roaring in Tiburon right now. If you work near the Golden Gate Bridge (or, of course, on the other side of it), you might be able
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Cement Tagging As many an art theory professor will tell you, painting is dead. Everything that one can do with paint on canvas or a wall, arguably, has been done. But maybe that's not so
SF News Meet Your Favorite City Hall Employees at 9:30 According to AlertSF, "San Francisco City Hall will be conducting an EVACUATION DRILL today 10/21/2009 at approximately 0930 hours. Tenants will completely evacuate the building and assemble in the Civic Center
SF News Day Around the Bay Eco-friendly sex machines? [Golden Gate Xpress] OK, yes, this was yesterday, but we had to show you this waterfall created at the DeYoung during yesterday's storm. [FAMSF, via Curbed] Poem sales at Mission
Arts & Entertainment Celeberate El Rio's Birthday Tonight! Once more of a locals/dyke bar -- though "Mango" still keeps the ladies coming (and coming) in droves -- over the years El Rio has turned into a popular spot for the
SF News Sun Microsystems Cutting Up To 3,000 Jobs Over the next year, and due to Oracle's takeover, Sun Microsystems plans on eradicating over 3,000 jobs. According to CBS 5/BCN, "They are the latest in a series of job cuts
Arts & Entertainment "Secret" Weezer Show On Wednesday The band who sings that "Just Like Buddy Holly" song (we don't know the title, and we refuse to Google it) will perform a "secret show" on Wednesday night at The Regency. The
SF News Crack Out, OxyContin In According to SFGate, crack-cocaine sales have waned while downer pills are white-hot. It seems crack-cocaine, the Tenderloin'a peppy poison of choice, isn't as popular as it used to be. But it's not for
