SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What's Your Favorite Halloween Candy? Oh my god, shut up. I know, multiple studies say that sugar is bad for you, and 48-year-old Halle Berry attributes her glowing good looks to a sugarless life. That's great. But it's
SF News San Francisco Teen Raises $200K For Charity With Pumpkin Sales While most of us spend the time leading up to Halloween preoccupied with costume decisions and purchases, one San Francisco teen has over the past 11 years spent his Octobers in a different
Arts & Entertainment The 13 Spookiest Halloween Storefronts In San Francisco It’s All Hallow’s Eve Eve Eve, and many San Francisco storefronts are killing it with exceedingly creepy and fabulous Halloween gore, and décor. As you head out for your last-minute costume
SF News Late-Night Halloween Celebrants Get Extra Hour With Sunday's Return To Standard Time At 2 a.m. on November 1, Daylight Saving Time ends and we all get an an "extra" hour as clocks "fall back." What will you do with it? I've bored you before
SF News Sex Offenders In California Do Not Have To Post Trick-Or-Treat Warning Signs On Their Homes The California Department of Corrections this week clarified requirements of Operation Boo, a program designed to protect children from registered sexual offenders on Halloween, stating that offenders do not need to post exterior
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Shocktoberfest 16: Curse of the Cobra' at The Hypnodrome The Thrillpeddlers’ Shocktoberfest 16: Curse of the Cobra (playing through Nov. 21 at The Hypnodrome) concludes with an exhilarating, terrifying three-minute musical sequence that messes with your depth perception, makes great use of
Arts & Entertainment Seven Things You Should Know Before Entering This Year's Armory Haunted House This year's Hell In the Armory Presents: Inferno is similar to last year's inaugural Hell In the Armory in a few ways, but very few. And, as I found out last night, it's
Arts & Entertainment Another Year Of Drought, Another Year of Teeny-Tiny Pumpkins We know that California's drought is doing all sorts of horrible things to our state, drying us to a Mad Max-like crisp and burning us to ash. And for the second year in
SF News Santa Cruz Man Attacks Another Man Dressed As Fox News Reporter For Halloween, Becomes New 'Hot Convict' A 29-year-old Santa Cruz man's mugshot went viral over the weekend after he was arrested for allegedly attacking someone dressed as a Fox News anchor on Halloween. Screaming "I hate Fox News!", Sean
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Chloe Sevigny' Does Halloween In honor of our nation's favorite holiday for getting bloodied and/or tarted up, we bring you this pair of videos by comedian Drew Droege, seen here in his fictionalized drag persona of
SF News Brace For Friday: SF Giants Parade/Halloween/Critical Mass/Rain First, let's be clear: we love, love it when big public events take over parts of San Francisco. It's fun, and one of the things that makes us happy to live in a
Arts & Entertainment Video: Funny Or Die's Halloween Anthology Did you think that Elvira, Mistress of the Dark would still be rocking the wig and double-stick-tape after all these years? The woman is 63. Just goes to show you: a supernatural 60
SF News Just In Time For Halloween, Rabid Bat Discovered In Richmond District Spooky! Just days before Halloween — a holiday typically associated with bats and the pestilence they represent — a rabid representative of the species was discovered, still live and twitching, in a Richmond District driveway.
Arts & Entertainment 20 Halloween Costumes To Avoid At All Costs In 2014 Many of you are probably still weighing your options for costuming on Friday, and some of you have probably already made some poor choices. For whatever it's worth, here again is SFist's two
Arts & Entertainment I Went To 'Hell In The Armory,' And I Have A Few Words Of Advice It should go without saying that Hell In the Armory, the new haunted house attraction in the basement of the infamous Kink.com headquarters, is not for pearl-clutchers. It is raunchy, it is
Arts & Entertainment Despite There Being No Trick-Or-Treaters, S.F. Once Again Tops List For Trick-Or-Treating Cities The people over at real estate site Zillow don't seem to understand how few children there are in San Francisco. And for the fourth year in a row, our city is number one
Arts & Entertainment ...And Now, A Baby Dressed As Skrillex For Halloween Though we are neither Skrillex nor baby aficionados here at SFist, we nonetheless had to share this photo that got sent in by mom Maria R. of her 15-month-old son Skylar, whom she
Arts & Entertainment Photo: West Portal Homeowner Clearly Wants To Frighten Children A tipster sent in this photo of a mock guillotine, complete with severed and bloodied mannequin head, that's been installed in the front yard of a West Portal home for the Halloween season.
SF News Drought To Make Your Halloween Pumpkins Way Smaller Another unconsidered consequence of our intractable drought: smaller pumpkins! As CBS 5 reports, local farmers are reporting a shortage of medium- and large-format pumpkins as a result of there being less water to
Arts & Entertainment Give Us All Your Candy: SFist Staff Shows Off Their Childhood Halloween Costumes Happy All Hallow's Eve, folks! Today is a day when, at least back in our halcyon youths, we roamed around the neighborhood at dusk, seeking fun-size treats while wearing our finest spooky, princess,
Arts & Entertainment This Is Just A Picture Of S.F. Zoo's Baby Gorilla Posing With A Pumpkin And she is one camera-ready gorilla, folks. (Also, she doesn't have a name yet. Help her out, won't you?)
Arts & Entertainment Video: One Guy Does All the Parts of 'This Is Halloween' And It Is Awesome Singer Dan Buckley performs the amazing feat of all 66 vocal tracks on a cover of "This Is Halloween," from Tim Burton's 1993 classic The Nightmare Before Christmas. In the original, which you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ridiculous North Dakota Woman Shames Parents Of Overweight Trick-Or-Treaters A woman who clearly has watched too much daytime television and thinks it's her duty to force a reality check on some fellow parents is body-shaming youngsters who come to her door looking
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Shalloween' Two blonde girls go hiking in Runyon Canyon in L.A., and they can't stop talking. About nothing. Even though they keep running into body parts. Please appreciate this awesome little short by
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Movie Killer Conference Call This one gets a small "har" (it's no "Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders"), and it's about three minutes too long, as so many YouTube humorists are guilty of. But in the spirit of
