misc SFist Answers -- Park at Scott and Waller? But we received this urgent question from someone about a park we've neither seen nor frolicked in. Maybe you have an answer regarding this mystifying Scott and Waller area? (Do check out Google's
SF News Your SF Halloween Night Closures Why aren't you hiding under the covers yet? The city doesn't want to so much as hear you breathe come tomorrow. So, start upending those floorboards and crawling into that dank attic, or
SF News Ask a Muni Driver Question: Who gets to do the big nights and who doesn't and why does everyone complain that there's not enough busses? I've had to either wait for hours or even walk from downtown
Arts & Entertainment Bill O'Reilly: As Dated As He Wants to Be Someone put this man out of his misery. This is just...sad. It seems that NBC 11 caught Bill O'Reilly's film crew taking in the (non)X-rated partying that went on at last
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Pipettes: This all-female, British, Phil-Spector-sounding band gains more and more popularity by the day. See them tonight so that by next year when they're too big for SF venues, you can
SF News Today: Gav's State of the City Address Same here, Gavin! But just who isn't excited about "Live with Regis and Kelly's" 3-D Halloween episode?! The Examiner lavishes Gavin with praise today, just hours before his annual State of the City
SF News Ceci n'est pas une Halloween So now, in a semiotically treacherous move, they're saying that the disruptions are due to -Halloween. "No Halloween in the Castro. Possible delays and re-routed lines," says the MTA website. "Due to the
SF News That Was Muni's Guide to the Weekend that Was Sorry we're so late with this feature this week. Our tardiness involves a sordid tale of broken 2Wire gateways and AT&T not being terribly helpful. But anyway: on with the show!
SF News Two SF Shootings Incidents Hospitalize Three According to Bay City News, "two separate Friday night shootings that occurred within about an hour of each other sent three men to San Francisco General Hospital." (And it's not even Halloween yet.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight (Spooktacular Edition) Boo. And behold: Halloween happenings for Saturday night, 10/27. -- Karla LaVey's Satanic Halloween Party & Unholy Variety Show: Satan reigns supreme tonight "thrashing black-metal bands, theremin warblers, psychobilly greasers, cruel electronic-noise
SF News Halloween in the Castro Mayoral Debate Today Joe Gallagher says, "Waaaah!" Don't forget, in just a couple of hours, Ted Strawser, founder of SFPartyParty, will be moderating a Halloween and Public Events debate between the Mayoral Candidates in the Castro
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Carmen Jones: Based off of Georges Bizet's famous French opera Carmen, the adaptation was made into a successful Broadway musical, and then a '50s film staring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and Pearl
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Mike Birbiglia Here at SFist we like to think of ourselves as givers. We give. You take. Again and again. So here you go, we're doing our part. We've got a pair of tickets for
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Bay Area firefighters wait and wait and wait for SoCal assignments. [SFGate] -- Curbed SF: traumatizing one daughter at a time. Beasts! [Curbed SF] -- Bay Area stock soar today. [Examiner] --
Arts & Entertainment SoCal Fires Monopolize Local News Pay attention to us, pretty please? We promise we'll be good, and stay out of the Castro on Halloween. We'll even maybe pretend to care about mayoral elections. Well, if we try, will
misc Week Around the -Ists Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come
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SF News No Halloween in the Castro PSAs OK, like, there is so going to be a party in the Castro. There just is. We all know that, right? Right. The crafty anti-Halloween PR campaign out there right now exists merely
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Halloween in the Castro, or lack thereof. [The Snitch] -- 50K a year and living in SF? How vulgar. [SFGate] -- Jarring and attractive LSD-y visuals. [SFBG] -- Marquee preservation. [CurbedSF] --
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Breasts of Sherry Glaser: The protest-y Miss Glaser's comedy and peace activism show runs the gamut from her unsheathed mammary glands to an interpretation of 9/11 and the Twin Towers
misc Week Around the -Ists DCist spent the week honoring some local heroes. First and foremost, they honored 75 year-old Mona Shaw, who smashed up a local Comcast cable office with a hammer after she got fed up
SF News Match Game PM? Or SF Mayoral Debate? Before last night's much more important Zombie Attack, there was some sort of mayoral debate at some bookish building. A debate consisting of Mayor Gavin Newsom, possible contender Quintin Mecke, and slew of
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. Tim Redmond says the Navy is the gayest armed services branch. Well, sure. Cars are worse than homeless people, says a letter writer. Halloween will suuuuuck. A
Arts & Entertainment Stuff to Do On Halloween Night Let's remember that Halloween also exists outside of the Castro. (It's not all about you, Castro denizens.) No, it's true. If you don't believe us, check out the many, many scary events going
Arts & Entertainment And You Thought the Shooting Was Bad Apparently you can't have a port-o-let unless the street's officially closed, and the DPW wasn't willing to recognize that anything remarkable could happen in the Castro on Halloween. The citizens will be appealing