Arts & Entertainment 20 Costumes To Avoid At All Costs This Halloween You know what Halloween should be about? Imagination. And if not imagination, sheer, unadulterated gore. Sure, it's become an excuse for every woman between the ages of 18 and 40 to tart themselves
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing This Weekend: Juanita More's Halloween Runway Massacre There are probably plenty of Halloween parties in your Facebook events section, assuming you have festive friends. But we'd like to point everyone to what will likely be a fun and flashy event
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Who F&@%ed This Pumpkin?' It's a problem you may encounter at your next pumpkin carving unveiling. But probably not. Unless your friends are really pervy. Don't look at us. [Cracked]
SF News S.F. Once Again Tops List Of Best Cities For Trick-Or-Treating Despite being a city with a ridiculously low percentage of families with children, San Francisco has once again topped all other cities in the nation on a list of best places for trick-or-treating.
Arts & Entertainment Haunted House Ups Fright Factor With Start-Up Theme Halloween is coming, and assorted ghouls, goblins, and Miley Cyruses will soon stalk the streets in search of blood. However, the scares this year will come from a different source: a new haunted
Arts & Entertainment Your Topical S.F. Halloween Costume Ideas, 2013 Edition It may not feel like it, but we've entered October, and that means Halloween is fast approaching. Halloween is a dark and spooky day when the souls of the dead rise up to
Arts & Entertainment Chilling But Rad Last-Minute List Of SF Halloween Parties! What with the Giants, suspicious suitcases, Taco Bell "food," and controversial t-shirts, we almost forgot about Halloween! Almost. And with that, here are a few noteworthy Halloween events happening tonight that, if you
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Ellen Goes as Sofia Vergara for Halloween Here's Ellen DeGeneres on her show today, dressed up as Sofia Vergara for Halloween, hip pads, ass crack and all. She gets the accent pretty well down, and Ellen looks pretty good in
SF News Fort Mason Halloween Party Ends In Parking Lot Shooting One partygoer is in the hospital with a critical gunshot wound to the head after an altercation in the parking lot outside of a Halloween Party at Fort Mason last weekend. According to
Arts & Entertainment Giants Victory Parade Set For Halloween Mix a Giants victory parade with Halloween revelry and you'll get one of the largest, most colorful celebrations this city's has seen in eons. On Wednesday, San Francisco will honor your the Giants
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: HALLOWEEN! The Ballad of Michele Myers Local drag queen Raya Light transforms herself into Michael Myers' drag counterpart, Michele Myers, in this hilarious "horror musical" that mashes up moments from favorite horror films and The Facts of Life. It
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What's The Nastiest Halloween Treat? In 2010, SFist readers selected Reese's Peanut Butter Cups as their favorite Halloween candy. (We should point out that the noted peanut butter-chocolate orgasms are also French Laundry master chef Thomas Keller's favorite
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink For Your Halloween Party: The Human Torso Appetizer Plate Jessy Ellenberger of Oakland, California has concocted the perfect platter for your gory All Hallow's Eve party. See, it's a Human Torso Appetizer plate (aka the "ManWich"), and it sounds as delicious (screw
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Sexy' Halloween Costumes That Are Just Wrong What's that? You're a female/gay male/metrosexual who likes to show off his body and you're not sure what to be for Halloween this year? Allow us to advise you to please,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, In Halloween Hell... Because putting razor blades inside apples isn't cruel enough, Whole Foods wants you to hand out pretzels (the raisins of savory snacking) to children this Halloween.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick-or-Treaters Descend Upon Steve Jobs' House Sure, we've all gone out of our way to get the top-shelf Halloween treats from the rich neighbors down the street, but we never lived down the street from Steve Jobs' home on
SF News Bayview Shooting Leaves One Injured on Halloween Night Around 9 p.m. last night, SFPD officers responding to a crime scene in the Bayview found a 24-year-old victim suffering from a gunshot wound at Revere Ave and Jennings Street. The victim
Arts & Entertainment And Now, Here's Supervisor John Avalos' Halloween Costume Not that we generally traffic in these types of paparazzi-esque photos, but here's District 11 Supervisor and candidate for mayor John Avalos with the Avalos for Mayor Party Bus outside The Cinch in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/31: Halloween Concert at the Freight, Adam Gopnik, Nopa Halloween Block Party MUSIC: Classical at the Freight presents a special Halloween Concert featuring the Bellavente Wind Quintet performing a special early family-friendly concert of "spooky and adventurous music" designed for kids of all ages. There
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, on Muni... Happy Halloween, everybody! We hope you find your Luigi tonight at whatever party, gala or bar you hit. Have fun. And: boo! (Photo: DavityDave)
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Chloe's "Hallowe'en" Our favorite performance artist/celebrity drag performer Chloe Sevigny (a.k.a. Drew Droege) returns with a very special Hallowe'en episode. As it turns out, a recent screening of "The Worst Witch" has
Arts & Entertainment The SFist Guide To Locally Relevant Halloween Costumes Halloween approaches. Scratch that. Halloween weekend approaches. So that could mean you require more than one costume over the next three days. But what to wear, you locally-minded folks ask? A Frank Chu
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Awesome Halloween Claymation In honor of Halloween weekend, here's an amazing piece of claymation from British animator Lee Hardcastle entitled "Postman Pat's Pet Sematary." It involves a dead cat, a lot of claymation blood, and spliffs.
Arts & Entertainment Halloween Weekend Events: 'The Hunger'/Twin Peaks', Trannyshack, Waldo Pub Crawl, and More! There's certainly no shortage of frightful Halloween events going on this weekend for adults and kids alike. Here are a few choice happenings. Midnites for Maniacs' Halloween Spooktacular: Midnites for Maniacs presents an
Arts & Entertainment 5 Truly Spooktacular Halloween Videos Boo! Did we scare you? No? Well, just you wait. What with Halloween around the corner and a crisp feeling in the air, it's that time of year where chills and thrills are