Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 11/2 - 11/8 This week's concert preview is being brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce, providing detailed concert listings for the Bay Area every week. Follow them on Twitter. Another packed week with sludge
SF News Halloween '09 Turnout Smaller In Castro; Bottle-Service Types Still Came Out ABC 7 has this report about Halloween in SF, sans bridge traffic, and it turns out business was still strong at places like Rouge on Polk (which has $500 bottle service at the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: A New-School Cocktail Glossary A couple months back we attended a panel discussion that included local cocktail blogger and booze aficionado Camper English (he of Alcademics fame), and as a hand-out Camper prepared a locally-based glossary, if
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: David Mamet's <em>November</em> at A.C.T. What do you get when a liberal, obviously embittered playwright sets out amidst the second term of the second Bush Administration to write a political satire about a conservative, buffoon-ish, sitting president whose
SF News A Toll To Cross the Golden Gate On Foot Or Bicycle? In addition to raising the car toll another $1 come 2013, the board of directors of the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District is considering charging bicyclists and pedestrians to cross the
SF News Obama Reverses 22-Year-Old HIV Travel Ban In 1987, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, the Department of Health and Human Services added HIV to the list of communicable diseases that barred tourists and travelers from entry into the
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Scenes from Castro Halloween '07 On Halloween night of the first year that the Halloween kibosh began in the Castro, 2007, KRON 4 provided this coverage from the scene. There is an amusing bit with a very drunk
misc Those Life-Size iPhone Dorks and 9 Other Supremely Expensive Halloween Costumes NBC Bay Area has a cute gallery of a number of extremely involved and expensive Halloween costumes, including those guys who constructed two functioning, human-sized iPhones, and a guy who made a working,
SF News Korbel Family Scandal Settled "Throughout the Universe" We hope you've been keeping up with the crazy family rape-and-money scandal going on between Korbel Champagne Cellars owner Gary Heck and his 39-year-old daughter Richie Ann Samii. They just settled in court
SF News Free Doctor Housecalls For HIV+ People With Flu A clinical trial is taking place in San Francisco for HIV+ people who are exhibiting flu symptoms in which they can qualify for free in-home doctor visits. Quest Clinical Studies, Conant Medical Group
misc In Re: Bridge... Does This Mean Halloween Is Back On? With the Bay Bridge out of commission "indefinitely," doesn't that mean there'll be far fewer East Bay teenagers coming to the city for Halloween and therefore fewer events of the stabbing/shooting variety?
misc FailCon: Celebrating High Tech's Failures, For Fun and Education Tired of attending conference after conference in which attendees were regaled with unblemished successes, Cassie Phillipps was inspired to organize FailCon, which went down yesterday at the Kabuki Hotel and which featured panel
SF News Donate To Bay Bridge Investigation Fund This couldn't come at a better time, and leave it to a snapped eastern span Bay Bridge cable to make us find this: Baynewser reported just two weeks back about a joint venture
SF News CA Underemployment Rate Hits 22% Long seen by economists as a truer marker than the traditional unemployment rate, CA's underemployment rate hit a shocking 22% in September. Per the Chron: "That figure includes 1.9 million jobless Californians,
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 10/26 - 11/1 This week's concert preview is being brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce, providing detailed concert listings for the Bay Area every week. Follow them on Twitter. Insane week in live music
SF News Muni Riders Have No Manners But BART Riders Do? We just came across this amusing post via The Muni Diaries' counterpart in commute-blogging, The BART Diaries. Apparently this blogger *really* hates Muni, and here are her highly generalized observations as to how
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Spruce Goose from Spruce Today's culinary cocktail tour of SF takes us to the far reaches of the Presidio (and Brock's favorite restaurant) Spruce, where bar manager Brandon Clements has created a dual-sided cocktail menu that highlights
misc "No Farting" Sign Appears in Mission A new sign outside a 16th & Mission business appears to be prohibiting flatulence on or near the premises. The provenance for the sign, or the recent need for such prohibitions in the
SF News Major NorCal Suburban Pot Ring Busted by Feds Obama's Justice Department may be loosening up about medical marijuana, but right on cue the DEA just busted a huge marijuana grow operation that was running out of dozens of half-million-dollar homes in
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A <em>Trauma</em>-tic Halloween Here it is people: the Trauma episode we've been waiting for. On Monday night, the Halloween episode of the SF-based helicopter drama will be airing, and all the drag queens in town who
SF News The <em>Weekly</em> Profiles Theresa Sparks, SF's First (Potential) Transgender Supervisor Our guest Day-Around-the-Bay aggregator Chris Daly pointed you to this cover piece about Theresa Sparks in the new issue of SF Weekly last night, but having just read it ourselves during a long
SF News Purple Lady of Tiburon Loses Purple-Filled House to Fire Remember that four-alarm house fire in Tiburon we mentioned yesterday? Well, sadly, that burning house belonged to Marin County icon, author, peace activist and collector of all things purple, Barbara Meislin, who had
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Astrale e Terra Winery In our search for small-scale wine producers to visit in our nearby wine regions, we're always glad to find start-up wineries making excellent wines to a small, devoted audience. Astrale e Terra on
SF News Scary Bay Bridge S-Curve Getting New Signage CalTrans has apparently been taken by surprise by how difficult Bay Area commuters (and Safeway delivery trucks) are finding it to navigate that new S-curve on the Bay Bridge. Following on that unfortunate
SF News 1-Year-Old Gets Totally Stoned On His Birthday Check it, check it... A Vacaville boy was about to turn one last week, yo. He and his cuzzes and his parents were going to kick back and chill at a park with
