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Zeds Dead on Joining the Mad Decent Label and the Post-Genre Future of Dance Music

Graveyard Shift​Producers Hooks and DC started out their careers sampling hip-hop as the duo Mass Productions in 2004. However, after competing their first album, they found themselves drawn to the intensity and bass of dance music, particularly dubstep. Renaming themselves Zeds Dead in 2009, ... More >>

Halloween Hangover: Candy's Hateful History

These children are about to glut themselves on a legacy of horror.​Seeing as how you're now in possession of several half-bags of fun-sized candy bars, or trying to convince your children that you're confiscating their haul because Smarties are a "sometimes" food, today might be a good time to ... More >>

Transgender Woman Attacked on Halloween

coolers should only be used for parties​A 43-year-old transgender woman was attacked Halloween night as she walked though the Mission District, according to police.The woman was on the 500 block of Valencia Street when the suspect approached her and started yelling gay slurs at her and threatened ... More >>

Halloween Laughs: The Top 5 Cheesiest Songs From Horror Movie Soundtracks

​In a recent piece for the UK Guardian, Stephen Thrower discussed the dramatic function of a good horror movie soundtrack. Citing examples like the themes from Halloweenand The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as well as Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" (memorably used in The Exorcist), Thrower identif ... More >>

Rhymes with "Mommy Tree"

​In a recent piece for the UK Guardian, Stephen Thrower discussed the dramatic function of a good horror movie soundtrack. Citing examples like the themes from Halloweenand The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as well as Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" (memorably used in The Exorcist), Thrower identif ... More >>

Tomorrow's Spookiness: Bake Pan de Muerto for Day of the Dead!

​What: Pan de Muerto Workshop! Where: La Cocina When: Wed., October 26, 6:30-9 p.m. Cost: $65 The rundown: Chaac Mool invades La Cocina to lead a workshop in baking Pan de Muerto. Literally meaning "Bread of the Dead", it's traditionally made in Mexico during the week leading up to Hallow ... More >>

Disaster Drills Promise Pre-Halloween Blood and Gore

No pulse! No pulse!​Saturday morning, you will find screaming victims writhing on the ground throughout city parks. Throngs of trained rescue workers will be on hand to carry them off on stretchers. Be not alarmed, dear San Franciscans. This is not a zombie flash mob, and no, you didn't miss Hallo ... More >>

Low, Bachelorette, Great American Music Hall

No pulse! No pulse!​Saturday morning, you will find screaming victims writhing on the ground throughout city parks. Throngs of trained rescue workers will be on hand to carry them off on stretchers. Be not alarmed, dear San Franciscans. This is not a zombie flash mob, and no, you didn't miss Hallo ... More >>

Jesse Brown, S.F. Man Accused in Halloween Gunfire, Dies in Texas Shootout with Cops

Texas shootout​The man accused of shooting three people -- including a 3-year-old girl -- on Halloween in San Francisco last year killed himself during a shootout with Houston police this weekend. The Houston Chronicle reports that 20-year-old Jesse Brown killed himself in a parking garage while t ... More >>

Iowa Farmers vs. Animal Rights Activists, Restaurateur vs. Yelper

Farm Sanctuary/FlickrMove along, nothing to see here.​​ Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. No-shoot zones. Yesterday, HuffPo posted an article about an Iowa bill that that has been approved by both the state senat ... More >>

The Top 10 Best Big Concerts I Saw in 2010, with Gaga, Green Day, Sir Paul, Pavement, and LCD Soundsystem

It just didn't seem right to lump in Oracle Arena and HP Pavilion fare with the cozy goings-on at S.F. dens like Bottom of the Hill and even Great American Music Hall. So, in search of an even comparison, I'm breaking it up: Today, here are the best concerts I saw with more than 5,000 of my fellow h ... More >>

All Ages

It just didn't seem right to lump in Oracle Arena and HP Pavilion fare with the cozy goings-on at S.F. dens like Bottom of the Hill and even Great American Music Hall. So, in search of an even comparison, I'm breaking it up: Today, here are the best concerts I saw with more than 5,000 of my fellow h ... More >>

High Holidays: Six Marijuana-Infused Side Dishes

The holidays may be all about tradition, but when it comes to pot edibles, cookies and brownies are likely to extract a round of yawns, even before they're consumed. Enterprising chefs have long been finding ways to incorporate marijuana into dishes that don't double as an after-school snack. And no ... More >>

Friday Night: Kid Koala, Amon Tobin, DJ Food, and the Ninja Tune Crew Take Over 1015 Folsom

Kid Koala in the audience: "I'm feeling quite silly tonight!"​ Kid Koala Amon Tobin October 29, 2010Ninja Tune XX Party@ 1015 Folsom (Definitely not) Better than: Ninjas with guitars Between Halloween on Sunday and the Giants nearly sweeping the World Series, San Francisco felt like the home of ... More >>

3-Year-Old Girl, Two Others, Shot in Potrero Hill

​A 3-year-old girl and her grandfather were showered with bullets last night and another man was shot not far away in a disturbing -- and, thus far, unexplained -- Halloween night attack. The toddler was hit with multiple shots despite the efforts of her 54-year-old grandfather to shield her from ... More >>

The Giants Cheer That Failed To Launch (VIDEO)

​The two-note "Let's Go, Gi-ants!" dum-dum dumdumdum cheer has become almost a salutation in the streets this week -- randomly loosed by fans swarming AT&T park, streaming out of bars, erupting from merry costumed masses flocking to Castro Street for the Halloween festivities this weekend.&nbs ... More >>

Wet Halloween Weekend Commences

This costume, unlike a Christine O'Donnell ladybug, will keep you dry ​Your best bet for a Halloween costume this year may end up being "Gorton's fisherman." You could always say you're the villain from I Know What You Did Last Summer. You'll stay dry (and stay out of the Castro, dammit!). As anyo ... More >>

Love is Chemicals: Like a Party of Sea Gods or Snake-Oil Salesmen

love is chemicals presents the Secret Satan covers show at the Hemlock tonight​ Off-kilter indie-pop quartet Love is Chemicals is a group of expert multi-taskers. Between organizing tonight's Secret Satan show at the Hemlock and arranging more sharp-edged guitar pop for their upcoming album, ... More >>

Which Is Witch

love is chemicals presents the Secret Satan covers show at the Hemlock tonight​ Off-kilter indie-pop quartet Love is Chemicals is a group of expert multi-taskers. Between organizing tonight's Secret Satan show at the Hemlock and arranging more sharp-edged guitar pop for their upcoming album, ... More >>

Exclusive Download: Chris Orr's 'Hac Mix' for Halloween Debaser

Chris BrennanChris Orr​Chris Orr, the U.K. ex-pat and S.F.-based radio host, Public Works team member, acid-house casualty, and veteran DJ, is headlining Debaser's Halloween party this Friday, October 29, at 111 Minna. Before that performance, Orr hooked us up with a stellar mix of classic dance m ... More >>

Evil Jerk Cart Celebrates First Birthday with Halloween Costume Party

Tamara Palmer​Lisette Titre missed the Jamaican food her family made in Florida, so she started Evil Jerk Cart to fill the void, selling items such as jerk chicken and pork and vegetarian "Ital" stew. Now Titre, who daylights as a senior character and special effects artist at Electronic Arts, ... More >>

Can You Beat These Giants Fan Get Ups?

So you call yourself a fan at heart. Big boop-boop-a-deal. We want to see it in your fashion.At Wednesday's game, no one could beat this little lady right here. The Giants' own little Miss Betty Boop. We suspect this might be a recycled Halloween costume, but it rocked nonetheless, and the dudes nex ... More >>

Ghouls' Night Out

So you call yourself a fan at heart. Big boop-boop-a-deal. We want to see it in your fashion.At Wednesday's game, no one could beat this little lady right here. The Giants' own little Miss Betty Boop. We suspect this might be a recycled Halloween costume, but it rocked nonetheless, and the dudes nex ... More >>

The Top Ten Most Disgusting Halloween Candies Ever

The surest and quickest way into the hearts of young children (as anyone who has been a young child or spends time with young children knows) is not through cajolling or pulling pennies out of ears -- it's through appealing to their love of candy and all things disgusting. Combine both elements and ... More >>

Whisky, Pie, and Franken Berry: The Week in Food Bloggery

Benimoto/FlickrYou think you can bake like this?​Highlights from the blog and beyond:1. You have two days left in WhiskyWeek, another excuse to get drunk in the name of furthering your culinary education. Lou Bustamante offers a primer on whiskey/whisky (getting the spelling right is one of the ba ... More >>

Bad Eggs Didn't Cause Salmonella Spike in San Francisco

Yep, it's a bad egg​Wednesday's massive recall of 380 million potentially tainted eggs -- more than one for every American -- likely induced more hurling of eggs than any past Halloween and more worries about salmonella than those of every turtle-owning parent of all-time. Yes, you should dispose ... More >>

Muni's Forcing You to Get a Clipper Card. Get One Tomorrow For Free.

​With the curtailment of the paper Fast Pass the day after Halloween, Muni is prodding its frequent riders into the 21st century. They haven't yet perfected the George Jetson flying car that transforms into a briefcase -- but they have created Clipper, the expensively rebranded TransLink card that ... More >>

Did SFPD needlessly hound a rival officer while she lay dying of cancer?

​With the curtailment of the paper Fast Pass the day after Halloween, Muni is prodding its frequent riders into the 21st century. They haven't yet perfected the George Jetson flying car that transforms into a briefcase -- but they have created Clipper, the expensively rebranded TransLink card that ... More >>

List: Nightlifers

​With the curtailment of the paper Fast Pass the day after Halloween, Muni is prodding its frequent riders into the 21st century. They haven't yet perfected the George Jetson flying car that transforms into a briefcase -- but they have created Clipper, the expensively rebranded TransLink card that ... More >>

"October Country": Days of the living dead

​With the curtailment of the paper Fast Pass the day after Halloween, Muni is prodding its frequent riders into the 21st century. They haven't yet perfected the George Jetson flying car that transforms into a briefcase -- but they have created Clipper, the expensively rebranded TransLink card that ... More >>

SFPD Returns Laptops to DJ, Party Guest (from The Snitch)

Tom Dougherty​Fellow SF Weekly reporter Joe Eskenazi followed up on the story I broke Nov. 16 about problems DJs and partygoers were having with the SFPD seizing laptops and DJ equipment. This morning, Electronic Frontier Foundation's Jennifer Granick represented a DJ and a partygoer from a SOMA H ... More >>

Who Was Malik Fennedy? Mystery Is Solved.

​Back on Nov. 1, we reported that the man shot to death on Halloween night was Malik Fennedy, 22, based on an identification from the city's Medical Examiner. Several online commenters purporting to be Fennedy's family members left laments at the bottom of our original article ("...he is a Son a b ... More >>

Welcome Back, Gavin: Newsom Bows Out of Governor's Race

Audrey Fukuman, based on original illustration by @yiyingluGavin Newsom and the Bay Bridge came up short this week​If you see a tall, handsome man with slicked-back hair wandering forlornly through the city on Halloween, it may not be a denizen dressed as Gavin Newsom. It may be the real thing. Th ... More >>

Robert Crumb

Audrey Fukuman, based on original illustration by @yiyingluGavin Newsom and the Bay Bridge came up short this week​If you see a tall, handsome man with slicked-back hair wandering forlornly through the city on Halloween, it may not be a denizen dressed as Gavin Newsom. It may be the real thing. Th ... More >>

Sorry, E. Bay Drunks: Lawyer's Free Halloween Cab Ride Program Won't Get You Home

Everyone knows ex-boxer Tony Danza played an ex-boxer namd Tony on Taxi. Not everyone knows that lawyer William Berg's tipsy taxi promotion won't allow you to go from San Francisco to the East Bay ​Every year around this time, personal injury attorney William Berg's name gets into the news for his ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: Supes Try To Save Cats, Unify Ireland, and Create Public Power

  The moral high ground in San Francisco may be the most valuable real estate of all. Last week Gavin Newsom -- who thumbed his nose at state and federal law on gay marriage -- tried to claim it by saying he couldn't help illegal immigrants because he has too much respect for the law. The ... More >>

Video of the Day: Rafael Casal

Local rapper/spoken word champ Rafael Casal is producing something scary for Halloween. His new LP, out at the end of this month, is called Monster, and the first video from this fresh collection of thinking man's hip-hop is for the title track. Here Casal and crew slink around unlocked cells, fe ... More >>

Just a Game. Just a Game.

Local rapper/spoken word champ Rafael Casal is producing something scary for Halloween. His new LP, out at the end of this month, is called Monster, and the first video from this fresh collection of thinking man's hip-hop is for the title track. Here Casal and crew slink around unlocked cells, fe ... More >>

The Price Is Fright

Local rapper/spoken word champ Rafael Casal is producing something scary for Halloween. His new LP, out at the end of this month, is called Monster, and the first video from this fresh collection of thinking man's hip-hop is for the title track. Here Casal and crew slink around unlocked cells, fe ... More >>

10 Things to Do This Weekend For Under $10

www.epiphanydance.orgTrolly Dances Sat. & Sun.​The Intelligence, Hank IV, Mayyors, Bronze @ Elbo Room (Fri.) Portland's postpunk, postapocalyptic noisemakers The Intelligence headline a Friday night to remember. The band brings its lo-fi, high-trash sound to an Elbo Room lineup where it gets s ... More >>

Hellraiser

www.epiphanydance.orgTrolly Dances Sat. & Sun.​The Intelligence, Hank IV, Mayyors, Bronze @ Elbo Room (Fri.) Portland's postpunk, postapocalyptic noisemakers The Intelligence headline a Friday night to remember. The band brings its lo-fi, high-trash sound to an Elbo Room lineup where it gets s ... More >>

Favorite Haunts

www.epiphanydance.orgTrolly Dances Sat. & Sun.​The Intelligence, Hank IV, Mayyors, Bronze @ Elbo Room (Fri.) Portland's postpunk, postapocalyptic noisemakers The Intelligence headline a Friday night to remember. The band brings its lo-fi, high-trash sound to an Elbo Room lineup where it gets s ... More >>

Bloody Children Wandering the Lower Haight Not a Big Deal

​If you happen to live in the areas bordered by Haight, Steiner, and Pierce Streets near Duboce Park and you walked outside today to find dead, injured, and/or bloodied trick-or-treaters swarming your 'hood (now coated in spider webbing and littered with jack-o-lanterns), ... More >>

Parent Trap

​If you happen to live in the areas bordered by Haight, Steiner, and Pierce Streets near Duboce Park and you walked outside today to find dead, injured, and/or bloodied trick-or-treaters swarming your 'hood (now coated in spider webbing and littered with jack-o-lanterns), ... More >>

Mind Candy

​If you happen to live in the areas bordered by Haight, Steiner, and Pierce Streets near Duboce Park and you walked outside today to find dead, injured, and/or bloodied trick-or-treaters swarming your 'hood (now coated in spider webbing and littered with jack-o-lanterns), ... More >>

More Sex!

​If you happen to live in the areas bordered by Haight, Steiner, and Pierce Streets near Duboce Park and you walked outside today to find dead, injured, and/or bloodied trick-or-treaters swarming your 'hood (now coated in spider webbing and littered with jack-o-lanterns), ... More >>

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