If you're lost and alone
Or you're sinking like a stone
Carry on.
May your past be the sound
Of your feet upon the ground
Carry on.
- Fun.
Reader Jordan's Pick
Codame Art & Tech Event
South of Market area
San Francisco, CA 94103
It's a four-story, free-for-all, technologically driven showcase of art, music, and live performance. RSVP to find out the location, and admission and drink costs are donation-based. Mr. Gray is one of the co-founders of Codame.
South of Market area
San Francisco, CA 94103
It's a four-story, free-for-all, technologically driven showcase of art, music, and live performance. RSVP to find out the location, and admission and drink costs are donation-based. Mr. Gray is one of the co-founders of Codame.
Bay Area Food Pick
Amid the Fillmore revival sits this unassuming gastropub within eyeshot of Fillmore Karaoke and Popeye's. Great mac 'n' cheese, several slider options, and tasty flatbreads can be paired with multiple superior wine or beer options on tap. It's my pick before a show at the Fillmore or Yoshi's. 4-1/2 stars - 366 reviews
Previous San Francisco picks: Radius; Limon Rotisserie; Art's Cafe; Little Star Pizza; Yamo; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Humphry Slocombe; Tu Lan; Foreign Cinema; Zanze's Cheesecake; San Tung; Katana-Ya; A La Turca; Boxing Room; Frances; Saigon Sandwich; Brenda's French Soul Food; Park Tavern; Broken Record; Rosamunde Sausage Grill; Curry Up Now; Yasukochi's Sweet Stop; Lime Tree Southeast Asian Kitchen; Firefly; Red Door Cafe; L'Ardoise Bistro; Pluto's; My Tofu House; Mr. and Mrs. Miscellaneous; Walzwerk; Good Luck Dim Sum; Amber India; Sotto Mare; Sweet Maple; Shanghai Dumpling King; Super Duper; Kokkari Estiatorio; Olea; Bodega Bistro; The Chairman Truck; Molinari Delicatessen; Wayfare Tavern; Wexler's; Thorough Bread & Pastry; Lers Ros Thai; Helmand Palace; HRD Coffee Shop.
Previous Peninsula/South Bay picks: Curry Up Now (San Mateo); Little Lucca Sandwich Shop & Deli (Burlingame/South SF); Falafel's Drive In (San Jose); Sunny Bowl (Mountain View); Back A Yard Caribbean Grill (Menlo Park); Pluto's (Palo Alto/San Jose); Ramen Dojo/Ramen Parlor (San Mateo); Amber India (Mountain View/San Jose/Palo Alto); Nini's Coffee Shop (San Mateo); Kabab and Curry's (Santa Clara); Fiddler's Green (Millbrae); Alana's Cafe (Burlingame); Sushi Sam's Edomata (San Mateo).
Previous East Bay picks: Little Star Pizza (Albany); Angeline's Louisiana Kitchen (Berkeley); Asmara (Oakland); Keanu's Island Kine Food (Vacaville); Tara's Organic Ice Cream (Berkeley/Oakland); Pluto's (Chico/Davis/Sacramento/
Previous North Bay picks: Bouchon Bakery (Yountville); Della Fattoria Bakery (Petaluma); Sol Food (San Rafael); Stumptown Brewery (Guerneville); Moustache Baked Goods (Healdsburg); Super Duper (Mill Valley); The Pelican Inn (Muir Beach); Garden Grill (Guerneville).
Previous Other picks: Shoki Ramen House (Sacramento); Built to Grill (Portland).
Bay Area Bar Pick
Lucky 13
2140 Market St. (at Church St.)
San Francisco, CA 94114
Proximate to Blackbird is a dive bar with plenty of indoor seating and a decent-sized patio. Tap beer - which run the gamut from PBR to Pliny the Elder - range from $2 up to $5 for happy hour. Free popcorn is available anytime in the back area, as well as a pool table and photo booth. And, every Saturday from 4-7pm, there's free BBQ on the patio. 4 stars - 576 reviews
Previous San Francisco picks: Blackbird; El Rio; Rickhouse; Southern Pacific Brewing; The Hidden Vine; Vesuvio; The Pig & Whistle; Biergarten; Martuni's; Tosca Cafe; Toronado; The Alembic; Trad'r Sam; Sugar Lounge; Speakeasy Ales & Lagers.
Previous Peninsula/South Bay picks: Antonio's Nut House (Palo Alto); The Oasis Beer Garden (Menlo Park).
Previous East Bay picks: The Trappist (Oakland); Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon (Oakland); The Turf Club (Hayward); Jupiter (Berkeley); St. George Spirits (Alameda); Drake's Barrel House (San Leandro); JC Cellars (Oakland); Dashe Cellars (Oakland); Room 389 (Oakland).
Previous North Bay picks: Lagunitas Brewing Co. (Petaluma); Bear Republic Brewing Co. (Healdsburg).
Previous Other pick: New Deal Distillery (Portland).
Bay Area History
Nancy Pelosi
(1940- )
Ms. Pelosi was born and raised in Baltimore by an Italian-American family, whose father served as a Congressman and Mayor. After marrying in 1963, the couple moved to San Francisco in 1969, where her brother-in-law served as a Board of Supervisor. She became San Francisco's primary representative in Congress starting with a special election in 1987, and has since ascended to the posts of Minority Whip, Minority Leader, Majority Leader, and - most recently - Speaker of the House. Each time, she broke the gender barrier for that position. When not in Washington D.C., she lives in San Francisco's Pacific Heights area. Nancy Pelosi Drive, a stretch of Golden Gate Park near the tennis courts and CAlifornia Academy of Sciences, is named after her.
Previous San Francisco history: John Geary; Samuel Brannan; Michael O'Shaughnessy; Jasper O'Farrell; Frank McCoppin; Thomas Hayes; Francisco de Haro; Jose Bernal; David Broderick; Henry Haight; John Townsend; Cyril Magnin; Jose Arguello; Keiko Fukuda; John Le Conte; Eugene Schmitz; Theodore Judah; Herb Caen; James Phelan; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Angelo Rossi; Charles Brenham; Warren Hellman; John McLaren; Dogpatch; Thomas Larkin.
Previous Peninsula/South Bay history: Millbrae; Tanforan Racetrack; T. Jack Foster; Leland Stanford; Milpitas; Donald Tresidder; Josiah Belden; Hiram Morgan Hill; Simon Mezes; James Forbes; Henry Coe, Jr.
Previous East Bay history: Charles Tilden; William Hayward; John Fremont; Mariano Vallejo; Ygnacio Martinez; Henry Kaiser; Anthony Chabot; Thomas Caldecott; Laurentine Hamilton; Joel Clayton; Edson Adams.
Previous North Bay history: Cotati; Charles Fairfax; Luther Burbank; William Richardson; Oscar and James Shafter; George Guerne; Frank Doyle; Samuel Taylor.
Previous Other history: Francis Pettygrove (Portland).
Bay Area Charity
Based in San Francisco since 2006, this organization provides emotional and psychological support to Iraq/Afghanistan veterans, service members, and their families. Estimates are that one out of six troops returning from the wars will have psychological trauma.
Previous organizations Randy's Guide has spotlighted and donated: Common Ground Relief, LYRIC, Aldea Inc., Glide Memorial, City CarShare, Maitri, Loaves and Fishes, Friends of the Urban Forest, Farm Sanctuary, Bay Area Community Services, Blue Energy, My New Red Shoes, College Track, Foundation for the People of Burma, Vital Life Services, Little Angel Fund, San Francisco Health Services Coalition, Natural Resources Defense Council, Bay Localize, San Francisco Women Against Rape, Sustainable Conservation, Ashoka, Old Skool Cafe, Darfur Sister Schools, Rebuilding Together San Francisco, Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center, Urban Solutions, San Francisco Suicide Prevention, The East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse, Shanti, Curry Without Worry, SF Neighborhood Theater Foundation, La Cocina, Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California, The Bike Kitchen, First Graduate, Lazarex Cancer Foundation (Amy C), KQED (88.5 FM), FabMo Creativity Center; and now Duboce/Valencia Fire Relief.
Bay Area Weekend Highs
Last week's heat may be all for the rest of the year. About an inch of rain has fallen in the Bay Area over the past several days. Sun should shine for Halloween festivities this weekend.
~ Thursday-Friday ~
Coast: low-60s
SF: mid-60s
Bay: upper-60s
Inland East Bay: upper-60s
North Bay: low-70s
South Bay: low-70s
~ Saturday-Sunday ~
Coast: mid-60s
SF: low-70s
Bay: mid-70s
Inland East Bay: upper-70s
South Bay: upper-70s
North Bay: low-80s
Bay Area Free Activities of the Week
1. Go Giants!
- Giants-Tigers World Series: Thursday, Saturday-Monday, Wednesday @ 5:07pm
Watch at your home. Watch at a bar. Spend several hundred and see it at AT&T Park. Support your local Giants, who have made the final two out of 30 teams for the second time in three years. Some great places to catch the game include The Independent, The Mix, Civic Center Plaza, Kezar Pub, Greens, and Public House.
2. It's Halloween. And Dia de Los Muertos.
- Dia de Los Muertos (SJ): Saturday, 11am-5pm
- Dia de Los Muertos (Oakland): Sunday, 10am-5pm
- Randall Museum Halloween Fest: Saturday, 10am-2pm
- Rock 'n' Roll Costume Bash: Saturday, 8pm
- Halloween Hoopla: Sunday, noon-1:30pm
Celebrate Dia de Los Muertos at the San Jose Museum of Art on Saturday with storytelling and live mariachi music, or along E. 12th Street in Oakland's Fruitvale district with Aztec dancers and commemorative altars. The Randall Museum, always free, offers pumpkin carving and Halloween games. The Great American Music Hall hosts several bands for a Halloween bash - costumes mandatory - lasting until 1am. Then Yerba Buena Gardens hosts its annual Halloween parade and program on Sunday afternoon.
3. Science Week.
- Bay Area Science Festival: Saturday-Nov. 3
It's a week-long series of science-related activities, ranging in venue from the farmers' markets and art galleries to nightclubs and AT&T Park.
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