Arts & Entertainment A Grave Look At SF's Infamous 'Haunted Hotel' Spooky season’s in full swing on the blogs and local newspapers, with The Atlantic’s video rundown of the cryptic Columbarium, the SF Weekly’s devilish dive into Anton LaVey’s supposed
Arts & Entertainment Steph Curry Celebrates Halloween By Showing Up To Sunday's Game Dressed As 'Jigsaw' Puppet Hello, I want to play a game. #Jigsaw #DubNation pic.twitter.com/cvl6F3cIQc— Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30) October 29, 2017 Stephen Curry knows how to make an entrance. Getting into the Halloween spirit, Curry
Arts & Entertainment The Rise and Fall of the Exotic Erotic Ball (1979-2010) There was once a time when the hottest, most coveted golden ticket to a Halloween party in San Francisco was to something called the Exotic Erotic Ball, a combination of swinger party, fetish
Arts & Entertainment The 13 Spookiest Halloween Windows & Storefronts In SF Good eeeeeveninnnng . With the spectre of Halloween weekend now upon us, storefronts across town are chasing your party and costume dolla with revolting retail window displays of fiendish proportions. As we’ve done
Arts & Entertainment Video: Locally Shot 1976 C-Grade Horror Flick 'The Milpitas Monster,' Screening Monday Locally famous (in Milpitas anyway) homegrown, low-budget horror film The Milpitas Monster (1976) just aired Saturday night on Northbay TV's (channel 49) "Creature Features," a reboot of KTVU's long-running horror movie series hosted
SF News Inexplicably, Forbes And Zillow Again Name San Francisco As #1 City For Trick-Or-Treating Somehow, San Francisco has again topped Forbes' "America's Best 20 Cities for Trick-Or-Treating" list, specifying Presidio Heights and Cow Hollow as the two best neighborhoods where you should walk around dressed as a
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Dungeon Invites Guests To Stay Overnight In 'Ghosts of Alcatraz' Cell The "elaborate, dark, Disney-esque" tourist attraction at Fisherman's Wharf called "The Dungeon" (or the "San Francisco Dungeon") is upping its game with a special Halloween offering: a spooky overnight stay in their "Ghosts
Arts & Entertainment Fatboy Slim And Moby To Headline LoveBoat Halloween (a.k.a. Ghost Ship Halloween) Last week we broke the news of the likely permanent name change for the annual Halloween party known as Ghost Ship, which this year is being called LoveBoat Halloween after the unrelated fire
Arts & Entertainment Popular Pier 70 Halloween Party 'Ghost Ship' Rebrands Itself 'LoveBoat Halloween' Many of us assumed that the big two-night Halloween costume rave known as Ghost Ship, which lately has been happening in the abandoned warehouse on Pier 70, would likely have to change its
SF News Halloween 2012 Shooting Victim Horrified His Shooter Is Free You might remember a Halloween 2012 shooting at a Fort Mason party in which (then 21-year-old) Benjamin Passah was shot in the head, and ultimately given only a 25 percent chance to live.
Arts & Entertainment Kid Stuck On SF-Bound Flight On Halloween Gets To Trick-Or-Treat Anyway OMG, my heart is exploding right now. Dad of the year just passed out candy to everyone on the flight so his 3 year old could trick or treat pic.twitter.com/vfsAcYNrhr—
SF News Ten Years After Castro Halloween Shooting, Spooked City Officials Still Tell Revelers To Stay Away It was ten years ago today that someone fired a gun into a crowd of Halloween revelers at the annual Castro block party, hitting nine people, with another person injured in the resulting
SF News Bay Area Trick-Or-Treaters Should Brace For Rain, Possible Thunderstorms Forecasters are warning that we'll see a lot of soggy ghosts and goblins tonight, as a new storm is expected to hit the Bay Area this afternoon and evening. Though showers predicted for
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Pumpkin's Eye View As SF Zoo Meerkats Attack There are no fancy production values other than a few edits, in this video, nor are there any cutesy bits of pop-up commentary or bouncy music clips intended to signal that this is,
SF News Rain To Return To San Francisco Today, Halloween Might Be Soggy Too Radar Update 8:30AM - Heading out the door? Grab an umbrella. Showers cont to move over the #BayArea More rain poss through the day #CAwx pic.twitter.com/iFK5ujL09j— NWS Bay Area
Arts & Entertainment Do You Live On A Former San Francisco Cemetery? An Interactive Map It is said that there are no cemeteries in San Francisco, but that is not true. In fact, ours was once a town full of cemeteries, before graveyards within city limits were banned
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Where Are All The Trick-Or-Treaters? Photo of the author, ca. 1983, in her "Halloween III" mask, and her aunt and cousin as terrifying clowns Dear Rain, I've lived in San Francisco for over 10 years, and every Halloween
Arts & Entertainment Here's What Google Said SFist Should Be For Halloween In one of Google's routine efforts to convince you that it's a fun, cute, and zany company full of doodles and delights, not a massive terrifying monolith that knows everything about you and
SF News Day Around The Bay: This Year's Top Halloween Costume Predicted Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Lo-Cost Meat and Fish Market, a staple of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink There's A Pre-Halloween 'Stranger Things' Pop-Up At Third Rail This Weekend Ring in Halloween week starting this Sunday with waffles, chocolate pudding, blinky Christmas lights, creepy 80's synth music, and Stranger Things-themed drink specials at a special pop-up event at Third Rail in Dogpatch.
Arts & Entertainment This Year's Legit Scary Armory Haunted House Makes You Figure Out How To Escape From It For the third year in a row, the purveyors of filth over at the Armory are hosting a haunted house in their cavernous headquarters. Unlike the first year, this latest dive into darkness
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF No Longer Best Place To Trick-Or-Treat Just in time for Halloween, we bring you some truly frightening news: San Francisco is no longer the top trick-or-treating city in the country. KRON 4 reports this scarifying tidbit, and notes that
SF News Up To 5,000 People Riot Near UC Berkeley Campus Overnight Thousands of partiers and college students took to the streets in Berkeley near the Cal campus on Saturday night and early Sunday morning as Halloween revelry devolved into a massive riot. Hundreds gathered
SF News Photo Du Jour: I'm 24th Street BART Gumby, Damnit! 24th Street BART has always been a hub for interesting characters, never more so than on Halloween. Okay, it may just be All Hallows' Eve eve, or whatever, but don't tell that to
Arts & Entertainment Lyft Is Delivering Free Zombies Today For a little Halloween promotional fun, Lyft is delivering zombies to your door today, for free. "Liven up a dead party! Activate a sluggish meeting!" says the promo. Yes, you can have a
