-- The Misfits: a little post-Halloween chillingness -- sexy, bare-chested, punk chillingness, that is -- for you tonight. Behold: the Misfits play a few ditties along with the Hellbillys and the Memphis Murder Men tonight at 8 p.m. at DNA Lounge; $20.

-- Dodo for President: Written by Mark Eisman (LA Weekly's Best Playwright 2006, two-time [daytime] Emmy nominee) returns with this politcomedy. It's a "funny, quirky and touching look at friendships, presidential campaigns and an incriminating peach sweater." (More pastel-based attire, huh? Shudder.) The curtain goes up at 8 p.m., the Custom Stage @ Off-Market; $15-25.

-- KALX 45th Anniversary Benefit Show: Welcome to San Francisco, strange East Bay natives! We look forward to hearing your native rock, folk, and KALX-y beats -- heard from such outfits as Chow Nasty, Sugar & Gold, Social Studies, Greg Ashley (the Gris Gris), and DJ sets from Yoni Wolf of Why?. The radio station's birfday party starts at 9 p.m. at Rickshaw Stop; $10.

Giants 8 Marlins 7- Again, we have no statistics to back us up, but it seems like Giants team after Giants team goes down to that humid, plastic, empty stadium in Miami and dies. We can’t remember a good series the Giants had down there. But finally, the worst Giants team of the past fifteen (twenty?) years appears to have gotten one over the Fish by taking a four game series. About four years too late if you ask us. Hell, ten years too late. Anyways, a real live pennant race is coming to the Phonebooth tonight as the Giants play host to the Cubs who are involved in that threeway race for the NL Central crown. You can't be any sort of baseball fan and not by psyched by the prospect of a pennant race between the Cubs, Cards, and the Milwaukee Brewers. And as we kind of like the Cubs being loveable losers and hate Tony LaRussa, we're hoping the Giants continue with their winning ways and help the rumblin', stumblin' Brew Crew out.

A's 6 Jays 4- Your A's hero of the game? Slammin' Jack Hannahan who hit his first home run ever in the third, a three run jobber. Hannahan is yet one more in the A's continuing season-long saga of "Who the Hell Are These Guys?" Beane's made a bunch of big, sort of splashy signings over the past few years (Mike Piazza anyone) yet the guys who've been doing it for the A's are guys we're not even sure Beane thought would do much. Athletic's Nation sums it up best, calling this A's team "the Misfits." And, hey, those Misfits are now just two games away from .500.

But because this week was dreamed up by a gay rights group, religious right groups, obviously moving on from their attacks on Sponge Bob Squarepants, are criticizing the week. Critics are saying that in teaching tolerance, the program is really teaching kids that it's not okay to tease gay kids. Christianity, of course, has long preached that while violence is wrong and one should love thy neighbor, name calling is ok. In fact, while it's been awhile since we've read through the New Testament, we can definitely remember that Jesus often referred to the Romans as "knuckleheads" and called High Priest Caiaphas "you hockeypuck." Says Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute and we're guessing not a woman, "I hope schools will realize it's less an exercise in tolerance than a platform for liberal groups to promote their pan-sexual agenda." That, of course, must not stand.