SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: The Attic Halloween is a special time. Not only is it perfect for carousing in purely ridiculous get-ups (when else can you go out of the house with a giant penis on your head?), one
SF News American Football Spectacular: Weak Points And The Art Of Inertia Don't forget to wake up as early as you care to on November 1 to go grab cheap candy at the store! Here at American Football Spectacular we are big fans of cheap
SF News Can You Bring Your Chris Daly Voodoo Doll To Your Polling Place And Other Burning Questions If you've got any legal questions about what to expect at your polling place, they're taking questions on their site now, and will publish a FAQ of the questions asked, on a state-by-state
SF News Mountsome! And the winner is...... (if you haven't seen it in the title of this post): MOUNTSOME! Mountsome wins with 47% of the vote! The naughty Brittanie Mountz Newsom comes in second, at 26%
SF News Open Air Oracle A reader attending the Oracle OpenWorld convention, who wants to be credited as "someone who's there," passed along these pictures of the scene under the tents on Howard Street. Yes, people, they closed
SF News State Of The City Address The only two things Gavin Newsom is required to do as the mayor of San Francisco are 1) propose a budget and 2) give an annual speech about the State Of The City.
SF News Marina Progressives Stand Up! Alioto-Pier (our reigning champion in the SFist Hottest Supervisor contest) is basically running unopposed, with only one declared opponent, Vilma Guinto Peoro, whose interview with the Chron was tactfully described as "free-wheeling," and
Arts & Entertainment Podcasting Frankenstein As part of SF's Free Night(s) Of Theater (details are still being finalized), on Monday, October 30, Black Box Theatre is performing , a new adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, before a live
Arts & Entertainment Live Public Radio The show is formatted like a radio program, so Barsamian will talk with Ali, and Kronos will intersperse musical interludes relating to the ideas being discussed throughout the conversation. We'll totally do the
SF News Don't Recycle Those Mailers! Since Greg doesn't live in an even-numbered district, he's asking in particular for any good Districts 4 and 6 mailers, or anything "freaky" from District 8 -- but will accept all your flyers
SF News (A Late) Swells By The Numbers Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 73. Total number of people pictured whom we recognize: 11. Minority count: 11. Not the same 11 whom we recognized. (15.3%
SF News Your Commute: Friday Woes Officer Cakebread is all over the news today -- earlier, he came to our attention when he was reporting that a sideswiped moving van flipped over on the westbound lanes of Highway 92
Arts & Entertainment The Oakland Hills Fire, 15 Years Later We weren't living in California at the time, but we remember the Cal student in our dorm the next semester telling us her harrowing stories of escaping with nothing more than her cat
Arts & Entertainment Bassists For Measure O The event's at the law offices of Gonzalez & Leigh, at 2 Shaw Alley, 3rd Floor (off Mission between 1st and 2nd), and Ross Mirkarimi's expected to be there too. We don't know
SF News Your Commute: Oracle Open World, Oracle Closed Streets Also, all the crosswalk lights have been extended an extra 10 seconds in all directions. Who knew you could pay the city to do that? We're going to take up a collection and
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Everybody Into The Pool Pat Murphy of the Sentinel was also there with the color commentary, reporting that Daly went into the splash with his wife Sarah, for a bid of $18,500. In reading Pat's article,
SF News Sandra Day "Jay Z" O'Connor O'Connor's doing a tour of the country -- she also recently sat on the 2nd Circuit (based in New York), and is planning on visiting the 8th Circuit (based in St. Louis). She's
SF News Bomb Scare An alert gardener noticed a 3 foot by 1 foot yellow tub with a wire coming out of it, on top of a bottle and some liquid, and called the authorities. The police
SF News Political Junkie: You're E-Vited! That Cubist-y gavel graphic Daly's picked to illustrate the evite is -- as is the greeting line: "Dear Mayor Gavin Christopher Newsom," as if some other Gavin Newsom, whose middle name is Edward,
SF News Beautiful City, Ugly Buildings Rybczynski throws us a couple bones (he hypothesizes that part of the problem with architecture in SF may be that the city is already too pretty, and notes that also-gorgeous Rio has horrible
SF News The SFist Guide To The SF Propositions If you're looking for better-informed information than the cursory one-sentence summaries we're going to provide to you after the jump, check out the SF Dept. of Elections and the San Francisco League of
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Dunk Tank! The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Center is sponsoring their 16th Annual Celebrity Pool Toss this Tuesday (tomorrow the 17th) from 6-10 p.m., where brave local celebrities volunteer to be tossed into the swimming
SF News The SFist Guide To The State Propositions As always, post your thoughts, corrections, and challenges to our supposed neutrality in the comments. [As you may remember, we have a mandate of nonpartisanship from our publisher, which is why we're never
SF News Brittanie's Fake ID? According to Sunday's Matier and Ross (posted on the 'Gate Saturday evening, which is why this is going up now), the Chron did some investigating and has confirmed that, based on her voter
SF News Triskadecaphobia --Weird screwup on the highways today -- due to a software glitch, eleven Bay Area road signs were flashing the message "two lanes closed for construction," when in fact all the relevant lanes
