SF News Perata Leads Oakland Mayor's Race, Final Tally Due Friday Former state senator Don Perata has a fair lead in the race for Mayor of Oakland, with city councilwoman Jean Quan trailing behind by 11 percentage points. Perata holds 35% of the vote
SF News The Sit/Lie Proponents Win, Prop L Passes; Prop G, Changing the Way Muni Drivers Are Paid, Also Passes Measure L, the Sit/Lie law, looks to have passed with 53% of the city voting yes to outlaw sitting or lying on sidewalks between the hours of 7 a.m. and 11
SF News Scott Wiener, Jane Kim Take Early Leads in Supervisor Races With the whole ranked choice thing, and the relatively slim majorities being held, it's probably too early to call most of the Supervisor races. The Appeal has published the percentages of votes tallied
SF News Newsom Takes Lieutenant Governor, Boxer Wins (Barely), California Democrats Feel Lucky The NYT, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Chron are calling it for Boxer, with a 4-point spread and 30% of precincts reporting, ending a bitter fight with Republican Carly Fiorina that might
SF News Pot Smokers Not Actually Making It to the Polls? The LA Times blog reports that, via preliminary exit poll data, "only about 1 voter in 10 said that his or her main motivation to vote in this election was Prop. 19." Most
SF News Schwarzenegger: Not Only Can You Not Use Your Welfare Cards at Casinos, You Can't Use Them at Psychics Either In a bold move to stem the inappropriate use of state welfare funds, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has issued a letter to county welfare directors that state-issued welfare debit cards will no longer work
misc Man Exposes His Penis to Riot Cops in Mission Tagged under "Pretty sure this is the first time I've seen someone who wasn't homeless expose himself on 22nd" on Uptown Almanac is this marvelous NSFW photo of a drunk man whipping out
SF News Alleged Gang Member Shot and Killed at Gravity Room During Post-World Series Celebrations Marina club the Gravity Room was the scene of a murder last night, just before midnight, as the neighborhood partied on in World Series glory. Alleged gang member Jelvon Helton, 22, was shot
SF News Let's Go Giants!: Scenes From San Francisco's First World Series Win Here are the first photos out of the big World Series win, in which the Giants prevailed in their first World Series since 1954, and their first ever since moving to San Francisco.
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "My Girl's a Republican" And now, to cleanse your political palates this fine Monday afternoon/election eve, we bring you this catchy ditty "My Girl's a Republican" from The Real. Like all great videos, it contains talking
SF News NIMBY Watch: Pavement to Parks Program Ends With Parklet Approvals in Noe Valley, North Beach You may recall that brouhaha in Noe Valley over the possibility of a street closure to create a pedestrian plaza? Well, the Pavement to Parks Program sponsored by the City has closed up
SF News 16 Kids Hospitalized In Yet Another Cow Palace Rave OD Situation In further party-casualty news from this past weekend, sixteen people were taken to the hospital after apparent drug overdoses during another Cow Palace dance music fest on Friday night. Two remained in critical
SF News 9 Shot In Halloween Party Mess In Oakland Just after midnight Saturday, a gunman opened fire on the crowd at a big costume party at this historic Sweet's Ballroom in downtown Oakland. Nine people were hit in all, and all are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Ti Punch from Bar Agricole The newest bar in SoMa, tucked away on 11th Street near DNA Lounge and Slim's, is Bar Agricole from cocktail wizard Thad Vogler (with a food menu by Brandon Jew, formerly of Magnolia)
misc Don't Forget: Critical Mass Tonight ... And it's Halloween Critical Mass at that. Don't try to get anywhere in a hurry come 6:30 or 7:00... (Pics from last year.)
SF News Two Gold Teeth Thieves, Two Graffiti Artists Sued by City of Oakland Relating to Mehserle Verdict Night Remember how we all thought Oakland was going to burn the night Johannes Mehserle got convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Oscar Grant? And the press got super excited and all
SF News Mysterious Human Bones, Hair Tonic From the 1800s Found Near Fort Mason They're saying it's "not a mass grave" because it's only about 20 people, but still, a whole bunch of mysterious human remains were discovered just a few feet underground during an excavation underneath
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Berkeley (an SFist Reads Special Presentation): <em>The Dog Park Club</em> The Dog Park Club, the hilarious new novel by local author Cynthia Robinson, tells the story of Max Bravo, a bisexual opera singer who gets embroiled in the mysterious disappearance of a young
SF News SFist Blotter: A Shooting in the Mission, a Shooting in Berkeley Mission / Shooting: Just after midnight last night, a man was shot three times at the corner of South Van Ness and 26th. Two suspects were seen fleeing the scene in a two-door Pontiac,
SF News 15-Year-Old Hayward Twins Had Possible Suicide Pact, One Dead The body of a 15-year-old boy believed to be the twin of another 15-year-old apprehended by police was found in a ravine yesterday in an unincorporated area near Hayward. As the Chron's reporting,
misc Good Job Guys... The <em>Weekly</em> Gives Us an Inane List of Songs to Listen to During an Earthquake So, apparently the Weekly let an intern loose on the All Shook Down blog or something, and they give us (we shit you not) The Top 8 Songs to Listen to During the
SF News District 10 Supervisor Race Looks to Be Total Sh*tshow The District 6 race might be hogging a lot of the spotlight, just the way termed-out D6 supe Chris Daly often did while in office, and the District 8 race has garnered a
SF News San Francisco Gold's Gym Franchise Tries to Break With the Brand After CEO Donates $2 Million to Conservative Group Allow us to begin by informing you, in case you weren't sure, that Gold's Gym in the Castro is the gayest place on the planet. The second gayest place? That would be Gold's
misc Meanwhile, In Berkeley: A 'Man vs. Wild' Spoof from Killing My Lobster "I'm Bear Grylls, and I'm in a land overrun by the most passive aggressive creatures on the planet. Even city dwellers fear to tread here. But I'm going straight into the heart of
