• Dolores Park jumps the proverbial shark; alt-weekly feature stories on Dolores Park TBA. [Mission Local, Mission Mission, UA]
• Will Mark Zuckerberg finally discuss his mystery ex-girlfriend? [Valleywag]
• Hyatt Hotel workers protest persists. [ABC 7]
• Today people celebrated 90210, popular Aaron Spelling TV abortion of the '90s. [Eye On Blogs]
• Car crashes into Walnut Creek post office. (Pics) [Claycord]
• Court won't force state to defend Prop. 8. [Chronicle]

Oakland Pride, forgotten mousy cousin of San Francisco Pride? Maybe a little. But this year's LGBT Pride celebration on the other side of the bridge promises to be worth a BART trip under the Bay. Headlining the queer festivities is none other than Chaka Khan. She feels for you. She thinks she loves you. She's every woman. So, give her some love back this Sunday, Sept. 5.

Also on the bill are Yo-Yo, God-dess and She, Caravanserai, Valerie Troutt, Blair Hansen, Dahrio Wonder and the Oakland East Bay Gay Men’s Chorus. Also also, according to Oakland Local, there will be parties galore. Well, three of them. OL notes: "In addition to the Pride festivities, three parties will be jumping off: Good Times, Hella Gay and Temptations. Good Times is held at the Den, 1912 Telegraph Ave.; Hella Gay is just down the street, at 1928 Telegraph Ave.; and then there's the fun at 510 17th St. for Temptations."

It all goes down, so to speak, at Uptown Oakland, 19th Street & Franklin Street (Exit 19th Street BART Station); $5.

Visit Oakland Pride for more details.

An estimated 4,000 people in Provo, Utah "attempting to set the world record for the largest water balloon fight, throwing a total of 120,000 water balloons," noted Laughing Squid who brought this refreshing video to our attention.

Oh, and said water balloon fight is the framework for “You Always Make Me Smile” by Kyle Andrews. Enjoy.

What in heaven's name is chè? Jonathan Kauffman explains.

Some sort of XX chromosome chef migration is afoot downtown. First, according to Grub Street, Jennie Lorenzo leaves Fifth Floor, and then Erica Holland-Toll exits Ducca, notes Inside Scoop.

Burger King sold for a whopping $3.26 billion.

Leah Garchik has word that SF kids are getting too big for their britches. During a sojourn at the California Academy of Sciences, one 13-year-old boy quips, "It's been a tough day. Could we go to one of the Top 100 restaurants with a one-bell rating?"

A little before noon today, a small plane crashed into a lagoon in Redwood Shores. At least one person, an unidentified woman, died. According to BCN (via CBS 5), "The plane had taken off from the nearby San Carlos Airport and was headed to San Martin, [Battalion Chief Dave Pucci] said. FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford said the plane, a twin-engine Beech 65 Queen Air, crashed into the water about 30 seconds after taking off."

Authorities are currently looking for a second body. As of now, the plane is fully submerged in the lagoon.

[CBS 5, SFGate]

UPDATE: KGO reports, "Two more bodies have been found in the wreckage of the plane that crashed into the Redwood Shores lagoon."

Tran's body was found moments later in the passenger seat of the car at the strip mall where, shortly thereafter, Valdemoro was shot by police in a standoff. Below, KTVU has a full report on the latest developments. Also check with them at 2 p.m. for a live news conference about the case, which involves four murders in three cities, with a fifth potential victim still missing.

PREVIOUSLY: Police Discover Two Dead Women, Bomb Materials in Vallejo Home

For their Fall Arts Preview, 7x7 has produced yet another kooky neighborhood map, this time using the theme of phrenology, and like, human tendencies? Or something? Anyway, we live somewhere in the vicinity of Cautiousness and Love of Sex, but we have no goddamn idea what Veneration is doing anywhere near the Marina. [7x7 via SF Citizen]

Scheduling male-on-male sex dates using Craigslist, Grindr, or any number of social media outlets devoted to penetration, some might argue, is a tad impersonal. Downright rude sometimes. Instead, why not visit one of the many fine sex clubs still left in the Bay Area? Matt Baume has compiled a convenient breakdown of said clubs for Bar Tab SF. A few noteworthy places to explore? Baume suggests the Tearoom Theater ("old-timey charm"), Nob Hill Theater ("engaging entertainers like Adrian, Isaic, Max, and Tiger"), Folsom Gulch ("better-than-average chance of meeting men who go home to wives"), Blow Buddies (they have something called "Whiz World," which isn't a night dedicated to a processed cheese spread), SF Citadel ("disruptively loud whip-cracks are frowned upon"), and more. Check it out.

Psst, remember to take all your belongings back home with you; otherwise, they could end up in print!

7 to 9 p.m. // Rare Device (1845 Market St) // free

SCIENCE: Enjoy an evening in outer space at the Exploratorium After Dark's Cosmological Constructs, featuring installations by Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory artist Dan Goods, a presentation by Megan Prelinger titled Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962, an audiovisual journey through the peculiar cargo loaded onto NASA’s Voyager missions by media artist David Cerf, and a discussion by Timothy Ferris on communication with our yet-to-be-discovered neighbors in space.

6 to 10 p.m. // Exploratorium (3601 Lyon St) // $15

FILM: Electronic music duo Daft Punk's directorial debut, Electroma, chronicles two robots on a quest to become human. "Austere yet saturated in Americana, the film manages to brilliantly complement Daft Punk's style even while containing no music by the successful group."

7 p.m. // SF MOMA, Phyllis Wattis Theater (151 Third St) // $5

Sad news. A 70-year-old woman was stuck and killed by a Priu in the Haight on Wednesday. According to BCN (via SF Appeal), the "woman had been crossing the street at Waller and Cole streets at about 8 a.m. when she was struck by a black Toyota Prius."

After hitting the woman, later identified as Joyce Lau, the driver fled the scene.

Luckily, our city's increasingly swift police department managed to catch the suspect. Authorities tracked down the Prius, arresting San Franciscan Iddo Avital, 26, at his home.

Speaking of Bjork, Darwin Bell snapped this shot at last week's Bjork Tribute Night at Trannyshack.

At 9:35 a.m. this morning, a small 3.3 earthquake hit the Bay Area, just northwest of San Pablo, reports UCGS. The jolt, according to KRON 4, was felt in Berkeley, Oakland, and up in Marin.

On the Twitter front, @DJEROCKSF1 says, "No matter how long you've lived in the bay area, you can never get used to an earthquake. Never." So true, so very true. Let this morning's gentle tremor remind you to get your earthquake emergency kit ready.

So, did you feel it?

Another sure apparent sign of economic recovery: Sales of Burning Man-related supplies at places like REI and Haight-based costume shop Piedmont Boutique are way up over last year, indicating both that more people are headed to the playa and that they're spending more on their "creative expression." As Bay City News reports (via SF Appeal), from the perspective of local merchants, attendance looks to be at about 2008 levels, when 50,000 people went to Burning Man.

"We ran out of anything that holds water this year," says REI store manager Doug Tracey.

Uti, the owner of Piedmont Boutique, says that she's sold tons of "glitzy pieces, goggles, hologram clothes, and costumes that light up... They can be very artistic."

Right... artistic.

PREVIOUSLY: Burners Upset Over Orchard Supply Hardware Ad?

The Eels have just released their ninth album, Tomorrow Morning, which is the final installment in their recent trilogy of records, preceded by 2009's Hombre Lobo and 2010's End Times, and will be at the Fillmore on October 11th.

Before releasing the trilogy, frontman Mark Oliver Everett (aka E) published a best-selling autobiography Things the Grandchildren Should Know and was the subject of a documentary about his relationship with his groundbreaking quantum physicist father Hugh Everett III, Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives, which aired on PBS' NOVA.

Daniel Phifer speaks with E about what he's been up to.

SFist: Good morning, thanks for taking the time to talk to us.

E: Thanks for taking time for talking to me.

SFist: Where are you this morning?

E: In Glasgow, Scotland and it’s evening.

SFist: Glasgow in the evening sounds beautiful.

E: No, it’s rainy.

SFist: Oh. Well should of guessed it being Scotland.

E: Yeah.

SFist: I’m wondering who this "Spectacular Girl" is. It seems like a lot of times you have proper names for the women in your songs like Jeanie, Susan, Elizabeth, Did you have anybody in mind…

E: They’re often not their real names.

SFist: They’re pseudonyms?

E: Well actually all the examples you just gave were real names. But a lot of times they aren’t.

SFist: So how about this song?

E: I stopped naming names now.

SFist: Oh yeah? Any reason?

E: It’s nobody’s business.

SFist: So the official answer for this one is it’s nobody’s business. (Laughing)

E: Yep.

SFist: Birds are a favorite theme of yours and one of the first tracks on your album is “I’m a Hummingbird”. How would you describe your connection to birds? Do you think you might have been a bird in a past life, or would you just like to fly somewhere?

E: I don’t know. Part of it might be because I write a lot of my songs in my studio and it overlooks my backyard which is very forested and full of wildlife.

SFist: Yeah you know you inspire a lot of people with the birds. I was at an Eels show at the Fillmore and there was a woman running around with a homemade hat. She had sewn fake birds onto it and attached a sign that said “I Like Birds”. So I think the bird thing is working well.

Going back to past lives for a moment, are you a religious person at all?

E: No. Not at all.

SFist: Interesting, because the song “Looking Up” sounds like you might have attended a Sunday Service once or twice in your life.

E: Well I’m just doing kind of what Ray Charles used to do in terms of taking the Lords music and putting it in the devils hands. Although it’s not exactly the same thing because it’s not about a woman so much as it is about being grateful and enjoying the nice things in your life.

SFist: Yeah that track is very uplifting and I think it has a lot to do with that gospel choir feel that it has to it.

E: Yeah that’s my favorite I think. It was just the most fun I’ve ever had in the recording studio.

SFist: How did you do that? I mean obviously you got some people to come in and sing, but how was that set up?

E: Well I can’t give away all my trade secrets.

SFist: (Laughs)

E: That wouldn’t be right.

SFist: I can’t blame you.

E: It was an awful lot of fun.

SFist: Too bad the rest of my questions are all about your trade secrets.

E: (Laughs)

SFist: A lot of your albums start of in a very soft and sad way, then song by song they become more optimistic and upbeat. Usually by the last song it reaches some sort of bittersweet conclusion. Is this really a reflection of your day to day life or is it something just outside that sphere?

E: No it’s really what’s going on with me at this point and it’s nice because I’m pretty happy these days. Go figure.

SFist: Yeah, I mean you do sound on this album, a lot, I don’t even want to say mature, but you seem like you kind of figured something out here. Lyrically.

E: Yeah. It kind of feels like that. It’s strange. I wish someone could have told me when I was younger that I would have ended up here. It’s a nice place to be.

SFist: We’ll that’s good to hear. I’m very happy for you. So switching gears a little bit, your career started right on the precipice of the digital music boom. Do you think the proliferation of file sharing and computer culture has helped or harmed you as a musician?

E: Um, I would say it’s some of both. There’s definitely a lot of positive things about it. Well I don’t know about file sharing per se. But just the internet in general. There’s a lot of positives and a lot of negatives. I don’t really know what the answer is about the file sharing thing, it’s hard to say.

SFist: Right. On the one hand it does get you out there a little more than possibly before, but on the other hand nobody’s paying for it.

E: Right.

SFist: So do you do a lot of home recording?

E: Most of our records are made in my basement studio with some exceptions here and there. Occasionally you have to go outside to a more traditional recording studio if you want to do something like record a live orchestra or something. I could fit a 24 piece orchestra in my basement if I piled them all on top of each other, but it’s hard to bow your violin like that.

SFist: Where are you based out of?

E: Los Angeles.

SFist: Oh, okay. So you probably have a little more space than we do here in San Francisco, I can fit a computer and a bass and a guitar in my home recording studio. Which is also the baby’s room, the dining room, and the home office.

E: (Laughs)

SFist: So maybe this falls under trade secrets again but what’s your songwriting process like? Is it lyrics first, music first? Can you hear a song before you write it? Do you have some sort of grand thematic thing in mind when you first start out writing an album?

E: All the things you just said are things that happen. There’s not any real recipe or rule or set way that any of that happens. It’s kind of case by case, always different. Which is what’s fun about it.

SFist: So this being your 9th studio album do you approach the process of recording any differently now than when you were recording some of your earlier work? Have you got it down to a science?

E: No, no. that’s what’s fun about it. It’s always different, I just like to immerse myself into different musical worlds each time. It keeps it interesting.

SFist: I agree. It does. My last question to you is, in the spirit of the song "What I Have to Offer” what do you think Tomorrow Morning has to offer someone who’s maybe never heard the Eels before?

E: Um. (Pause) Well, I think it’s an album for the whole family and everyone can enjoy it, It will make you feel good. And when I say it’s an album for the whole family, I mean every member of the family should own their own copy. You don’t want to fight over it.

SFist: Absolutely not.

E: That’s just how good it is.

SFist: I agree. It’s been great talking to you and we look forward to seeing you when you come out to San Francisco. Have a great tour and thanks for you time. I really appreciate it.

E: Thanks a lot, man.

Update: Excellent news! A mile-long oil sheen is spreading from the site of the explosion. [AP/SF Gate]

• After his iconic March show in Oakland, comedian Dave Chappelle returns to New Parish. [38th Notes]
• Botanical garden that spends $10K/month on PR cutting services for residents. [SF Appeal]
• Papalote’s salsa to hit shelves in 2010. [Aggressive Panhandler]
• Economic leaders say S.F. ready to bounce back strongly. [SFGate]
• Apple censors Lady Gaga's pro-gay marriage sentiments at today's announcement. [Gawker]
• Burners in flux. [SFBG]
• Grana Padan, the poor man's Parmigiano Reggiano? Not so. [Cooking With Amy]

Photo by Travis Jensen

Can we be frank? We're not the biggest Bjork fan. (More like Byuck, eh? Eh? *crickets*) However, we do enjoy Bjork's "Hyperballad" and we enjoy chanteuse Robyn, and here they are together. Best of all, Robyn is covering it in front of the Icelandic poster child herself. Chilling.

Hat Tip: The Awl

Have you heard of this newfangled Facebook thingamajig the kids talk about these days? Sticky privacy issues notwithstanding, it's pretty neat-o. And that Twitter? That sure is fun. Have you also heard that SFist is on Facebook and Twitter? True. They're easy ways to keep up on our stories. If the mood should strike, check us out on Facebook and Twitter.

Today the California Supreme Court refused to listen to D-2 Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier's "request to review her legal bid to run for re-election in November - a decision that effectively ends her campaign," reports the Chronicle. This comes on the heels of the longtime Supe taking her case to the California Court of Appeal who ruled "3-0 on Aug. 24 that San Francisco's voter-approved term-limits law bars her from seeking another term." Read all about it.

Abercrombie & Fitch's unyielding adherence to one kind of beauty has, once again, gotten them in trouble. A Mulsim woman accuses the clothing retailer of not hiring due to her head scarf. Mercury News reports, "Federal civil rights lawyers today sued clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch on behalf of an 18-year-old Muslim woman who alleges the company's store at the Great Mall in Milpitas refused to hire her for wearing a religious head scarf, the second time the national chain has been hit with a similar discrimination lawsuit."

The "hip" clothing line was hit with a similar lawsuit back in 2009.

Matier & Ross have word that Joanna Rees, wealthy-ish venture capitalist and educator, will toss her adorable sweater set into the San Francisco mayoral ring. Part of her platform? Hot, hot, hot hyperlocalism. According to JoinJoanna, "This is going to be a campaign rooted in the neighborhoods. It's going to be a campaign of ideas — your ideas and mine. Over the next few months I'm going to be reaching out — and listening — in every neighborhood and every community of San Francisco."

Rees will run as a "progressive independent," whatever that means. Also: "I'm not part of the City Hall crowd," she declares

M&R go on to say that her "campaign team is being headed by Ace Smith and Sean Clegg, whose SCN Strategies is also running Mayor Gavin Newsom's campaign for lieutenant governor and District Attorney Kamala Harris' campaign for state attorney general, and is advising Sen. Barbara Boxer on her re-election drive."

So far, she is the only dame in the race.

8:30 p.m. // Roxie (3117 16th St) // $6-10

MUSIC: Mark Matos & Os Beaches, who are described as "Southwest smoke meets Bay Area sunshine folk-rock" headline Hotel Utah tonight, accompanied by Shareef Ali and The Radical Folksonomy, whose sound ranges from folk to jazz to country to rock and roll and who are releasing their debut EP The Once + Future Boyfriend, and Wolf & Crow.

9 p.m. // Hotel Utah (500 Fourth St) // $7

COMEDY: Madrone Art Bar's Happy Hour Comedy celebrates its one-year anniversary. Featuring Jules Posner, Brendan Lynch, Katie Compa, Nick Palm, Dave Thomason, Natasha Muse, and host Trevor Hill.

7 to 9 p.m. // Madrone Art Bar (500 Divisadero St) // free

Also found in the house were chemicals consistent with the manufacture of explosives, and Rittenhouse is being held in connection with those. But the other prime suspect in the murders is 38-year-old Efren Valdemoro, a man who'd been driving Allen's Escalade, and was a suspect in the beating death of a 73-year-old Hercules man on Saturday. He was gunned down by police in a standoff last night at a Ranch 99 in Richmond. He was spotted, gave chase, and was finally shot because he refused to drop the meat cleaver he was holding.

Authorities say Valderomo had been staying at the house with Rittenhouse and Allen, and seems a likely candidate for the murder suspect -- however Rittenhouse's dissembling with the missing persons report makes things weirder.

Valdemoro was being sought by police after the body of his girlfriend was found in a car. Also missing is Frederick Sales, the 35-year-old son of the dead Hercules man, who had allegedly been in a fight with Valdemoro alongside his father days before the father was found dead.

As ABC 7 reports, police are still investigating Rittenhouse's role, if any, in the murders, but meanwhile the project of removing all the explosive chemicals from his house will take all day. He is being held in Vallejo.

Today's warm weather prompted another Spare the Air Day. This means no wood fire, public transit, and other clean air such as, according to BCN (via CBS 5), biking to work or around town, working at home or telecommuting, stringing together errands for fewer driving trips, and cooking indoors rather than on outdoor grills or barbecues."

Apple made some big announcements today. This morning at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Apple's CEO Steve Jobs previewed updates to the iOS system, "unveiled updated iPods including a redesigned iPod nano and iPod shuffle as well as a camera-equipped iPod touch, and released the iTunes 10 update," beams Macworld. Also, something about Apple TV and Ping, a new social network for music ilk. It all sounds very delightful and expensive. Kudos to those of you who can purchase said items.

Also, Gwyneth Paltrow's husband performed. How awful. (Chris Breen of Macworld liveblogs, "As a trained professional, may I just mention that Chris Martin has terrible piano technique." Snap.)

In more pressing news, Steve Jobs' forehead looks shiny and new. Did Botox touch it for the very first time? He looks lovely. Feel free to speculate wildly in the comments.

"Jones & O'Farrell" by Troy Holden.

San Francisco has been an epicenter of great metal and hard rock throughout the years, and judging by some of the live music coming this month, the earth-shattering, head-splitting madness shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.

The two biggest shows of the month are the back to back Sleep reunions going down at the Regency on the 12th and the 13th. For those of you not in the know, Sleep are a highly influential stoner metal band from the 90's featuring Matt Pike (currently of High On Fire) and Al Cisneros (currently of Om and Shrinebuilder). Original drummer Chris Kakius is sitting out these shows, so the band has tapped Jason Roeder (of Neurosis) to fill in on drums. The band will be playing their epic, hour-long song/record Dopesmoker, as well as selections from their Holy Mountain lp. The show on the 12th has Northwest weirdo Thrones opening, while on the 13th the band will be joined by Oakland's very own Saviours.

If the Sleep reunions aren't enough Matt Pike for you in one month, be sure to catch High On Fire with Torche and Kylesa at the Great American Music Hall on the 29th.

The Melvins are at Slim's on the 19th with long running locals Totimoshi, and if you're looking for more of that 90's grunge vibe, be sure to cross the bridge for Helmet, Bison BC, and Disastroid at the Uptown in Oakland on Sept 10th.

For those of you who are recovering hardcore kids, Louisville, KY's Coliseum and Canada's Burning Love (featuring Hamilton, Ontario legend Chris Colohan of Cursed, The Swarm, and Left For Dead) will be bringing the mosh to Thee Parkside with locals Walken and Buried At Birth.

If you prefer a more international flair to your metal, first wave Swedish death turned doom metal champs Katatonia will also be destroying Thee Parkside with Swallow the Sun from Finland and Orphaned Land from Israel. Orphaned Land are especially interesting because on their latest record, The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR, the band sings in English, Hebrew, and Arabic, which can be a somewhat ballsy move for a band coming out of an often tense country like Israel. Orphaned Land also recently joined Metallica and High On Fire for two shows in Tel Aviv, which really ties this whole month of live metal together nicely.

See you in the pit.

8/31, CASTRO GLEN PARK: A female walking south on Castro Street (near Sussex) was accosted by a 20- to 30-year-old black man who grabbed her purse from behind, pulled her sweater over her head, and swiped her cell phone. The incident happened at around 8:30 a.m. The suspect took off north on Castro. No arrests.

8/31, LOWER NOB HILL: A woman came home to notice her laptop and charger missing after leaving her apartment door unlocked. This happened on the 600 block of Sutter. According to police, a roommate was in the apartment sleeping and "awoke to see the suspects in the victim’s room." The suspects are described simply as a white man and Hispanic man somewhere in their 20s. Luckily, the thieves fled without causing harm. Scary. No arrests.

8/31, MARKET/GOUGH: At around 11 p.m.-ish, a lady was walking westbound on Market Street when a twentysomething black man approached her from behind and yanked off her purse. The hooligan fled the scene towards Otis Street. No arrests.

Now, a few choice quotes, via Mission Local, from both sides of the issue, which include several neighborhood splinter groups named Dolores Park Works, SafeCleanGreen, and the Dolores Heights Improvement Club:

"The park is dying from overuse and abuse." — Deborah Bueti, a teacher at Everett Middle School who's lived nearby for 19-years, member of SafeCleanGreen.

"...That’s to say nothing of other problems like public drunkenness and urination, cigarette butts blanketing the turf, broken glass." -- Gideon Kramer, founder of SafeCleanGreen.

"I want to be able to go to the park and do whatever it is I want to do in the park for as long as I want to do it…. Be responsibly irresponsible and leave no trace, those are our goals as an organization." — Crystal Vann Wallstrom, who opposes the new police enforcement.

"No matter what we do, somebody’s upset. We have to try to strike a happy medium while assuring citizens are safe while they’re using Dolores Park." — Mission station Police Captain Greg Corrales.

"It’s never going to be the quiet little Victorian oasis [the neighbors] want it to be." — Robert Brust, member of the Dolores Heights Improvement Club.

Warning signs have since been posted in the area, but surfers were back in the water within a couple of hours since the shark had already eaten and was probably full for the time being. [KTVU]

• Explore some Bay Area haunt spots. [Eye on Blogs]
• Drinking in S.F. could soon be more taxing. [Bay Area Bites]
• American Apparel gets their perky asses sued. [SF Citizen]
• Jeff Adachi celebrates good times, common. [generic]
• Noe Valley Victorian goes goth. [Apartment Therapy, Fresh Home]
• Caltrans official pleads guilty to accepting bribes. [SFGate]

You know how Lady Gaga was spotted at Rosamunde last week in the Mission? Well, Mission Mission got right to the bottom of what happened, exactly. Well, Gaga, it seems, ordered some wine, asked for the correct spelling of "diarrhea," requested an employee to design her necklace for next week's MTV Music Awards, El Farolito, an invitation to Waterbar, and more. Check it out.

Like all of Cupertino company's announcements, tomorrow's Apple declaration will be big. What's more it will involve music, something big about music. And here is our contribution to the hype: What will the big announcement be, other than being big? Well, Macword predicts a new iPod touch, a revamped iTV, a 6G iPod nano, iTunes 10, and/ot streaming/TV rentals. Or, perhaps, and announcement that AT&T stores will, finally, get a new shipment of iPhone 4s. That would be big. Dare to dream. [Macworld]

While some argue that a steamy San Francisco burrito is as complex and interesting as a clam chowder sourdough bread bowl, the local foil-wrapped burrito -- packed with rice... and stuff -- has its fans. Many of them, in fact. Probably you. Which is why the superb 2010 Mission Burrito Book, a site devoted to one man's burrito-eating experience, culminated yesterday by naming the top burrito in San Francisco. Papalote came in at #5, Los Coyotes at #4, El Metate at #3, and... well, you'll have to visit 2010 Mission Burrito to find out the top 2 picks. (The entire site, brief and to the point, is worth a look.) [Grub Street]

ART: Check out Circular Time, "a live reading of artist Packard Jenning's project, Longshot: Dining Labor and Ponies on view now at the SFAC Gallery as part of the exhibition Now & When. For the project, Jennings "invited eight conceptual artists to meet in the private dining room of an upscale restaurant to discuss what project to make with their project budget provided by the gallery. The brainstorming for a time capsule took place over the course of a three-hour meal. After the bill was paid there was not enough stipend left to produce the project. All that remained was the conversation." And that conversation? Will be performed by hired reading a transcription of the Longshot dinner conversation. Think of it as A Chorus Line (a show also based on transcripts) minus the music, the dancing, and Miss Donna McKechnie's groundbreaking performance.

7:30 - 8:30 p.m. // Intersection for the Arts (446 Valencia) // $5-$15 sliding scale, ll proceeds go to pay the participating actors

MUSIC: Gram Rabbit ("Dry and tough as mule jerky, sexy as a swayed hip, the music weaves elements of electro-dance, Byrd’s-era country rock, inner-space jazz, and gnomic meditations in the manner of Spiritualized and Pink Floyd into a sound that’s unaffectedly homey, profoundly ambitious, and frankly revolutionary," beams LA CityBeat), Chambers ("combine multiple genres, ranging all the way from trashy math-rock to dreamy ambient pop and retro-futuristic disco, while keeping a heavy rhythmic and melodic core to ground them in a unified direction," coos SF Weekly), and Part Time (", like Roxy Music scoring Liquid Sky," exclaims Dan Strachota) will perform in Hayes Valley. And, when was the last time you were in Hayes Valley? It's been too long, really.

8 p.m. // Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell) // $10

Early this morning, Berkeley police shot and killed a mountain lion on Shattuck Avenue, "not far from popular restaurants and shops in the north side of the city, reports KTVU. The early morning murder happened "just around the corner from Chez Panisse, Peet’s Coffee and other popular businesses on Shattuck Avenue." (Berkeley Daily Planet's Daniel Turman jests, "he or she was apparently drawn to the area by the promise of an exalted hunt: tender, young returning students and slow-moving, California Cuisine-fed, neo-hippies.") RIP, big fella.

National Organization of Marriage (NOM), an anti-gay and anti-San Francisco group with strong ties to the Mormon church, unleashed this video on Aug. 27 about--what else--gay marriage and "San Francisco values." The video is deplorable, offensive, and worst of all, wrong -- nothing unusual for NOM.

Matt Baume (local writer and founder of Stop8.org) just came out with this impressive, sensible, and most best of all accurate rebuttal to NOM's propaganda. Check it out below.

"Pork Delivery. Chinatown." Photo by Julie Michelle/tangobaby.

Hat tip: Uptown Almanac