Gavin Newsom, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums tried to out-macho each other last night at the MacArthur Maze.

Whatev, the boys probably scheduled a spa date for this morning. The Guvenator loves to get his nails done!

Photo courtesy of Luke Thomas

Image replaced to avoid hotlinking. Photo of Tina Turner's cat courtesy of the Institute for Private Dancing Studies.

Gavin appeared on the Alice Radio morning show last Friday and gave us this photo. We would come up with a funny caption for this, but we think the caption given is good enough: "Mayor Newsom displays his single chest hair."

Oh, hell, here's one-- While on the radio, Gavin shows off his superfluous third nipple.

Lest you think Gavin's little statement over the weekend that this being a Sanctuary City, he will order city officials to not raise a finger when it comes to cracking down illegal immigrants has gone without any reaction out there in media land, it has. And it's loads of fun.

First up, Screamin' Lou Dobbs who broke Godwin's Law in envoking Nazis to describe Gavin's statement. Said Lou:

"They might as well work for Hermann Goering, I mean, they're running so much propaganda, trying to confuse the debate, the national dialogue, by talking about immigrants rather than illegal aliens and legal immigrants. It's mindless beyond belief."

Next up, the Minutemen who in response to Gavin's statement said that Gavin should be looked into by the Feds for saying all this. Said Chris Simcox with the Minutemen "the federal authorities should investigate him under RICO statutes, and racketeering, because basically he's saying his city is safe for organized criminals." He also added that Gavin "has shown a lack of judgment in many areas during his tenure, this is just another one." Hmm...we wonder if he's referring to the whole Gay Marriage thing or if he's referring to the drunken cuckolding he's done or maybe a bit of both?

On second thought, we don't want to know.

Picture courtesy of SFMike, who snapped this at the Cherry Blossom Festival's Beauty Queens parade outside City Hall today, where Newsom also celebrated the 50th anniversary of our sister city relationship with Osaka, Japan.

You could tell Mayor Gavin Newsom came in expecting the full costumed brigade this morning at Fourth Fake Question Time-- we definitely saw Gavin flinch when SFist Elaine saw him coming into the Excelsior Boys and Girls Club right at 2 p.m.. this morning and shouted out, "Holler!" -- but it was as chicken-free as a lunch at Cafe Gratitude, for the latest installment of Gavin Newsom's town hall meeting, this one on the topic of Youth and Families.

Well, on the bright side, Gavin actually took questions at this event. On the down side, it ended up being heavy enough on the wonk side that a baby started shrieking as soon as Gavin Newsom moved towards his mother and we thought, "We totally know you feel, little one." Here's our impressions from the day:

--Gavin was totally upstaged by the adorable hip-hop dancers that kicked off the event.

--Note to Dan Noyes: Gavin is perfectly happy to take unscripted questions from children ("Why is it the Boys and Girls Club and not the Girls and Boys Club?"). If you want to ask Gavin hard-hitting questions about, say, Ruby Rippey-Tourk, can the ABC 7 I-Team hire a 7-year-old reporter?

--State Assembly Rep. Fiona Ma brought her dog again.

Pictures after the jump (including one of Fiona's dog), along with the Bumblebee status report!

Don't forget, the next Fake Question Time (or, as we call it around here: FQT4) is this Saturday, April 21 at the Boys and Girls Club in Excelsior (163 London Street, x Excelsior Ave, one block off Mission). The meeting starts at 2 p.m. (not the usual 10 or 11 a.m.) and the topic is Kids and Families. Gee, you think Gavin'll let people ask questions this time? Drinks are on us if he does!

We're planning on being there (of course!) -- but, as GavinWatch asks, will the star of the show? Here's their latest video clip, about the town hall meeting on crime that Gavin told everyone he was definitely, absolutely going to, the day after FQT 3.

Uno, dos, tres, quatro!: the mayor's office has announced the fourth installment of his traveling lecture series, or, as he prefers to call it "the town hall open meeting where the public is not actually permitted to ask direct questions." Or -- as we prefer to call it -- FOURTH FAKE QUESTION TIME!!!

Guess Gavin's still not going to do Actual Question Time before the Board of Supervisors, huh? Were all those sweet words to the contrary to Cecilia Vega a lie?

You've seen how well all the three previous lectures have gone -- so come by and see the next! Do you have the guts to ask a question about Ruby Rippey-Tourk? Will the Bumblebee make another appearance? Only one way to find out!

Here's the stats: The meeting's in Gerardo Sandoval's District 11 (the Fightin' Eleven!), for Sat. April 21 at 2 p.m. Location? The Excelsior Boys and Girls Club (.pdf), at 163 London Street. London Street is one block off Mission and one block down Excelsior Avenue -- you can take the 14 Mission bus (.pdf). Our burning question: When will it be District 6's turn??????

And the topic? "SF Children, Youth, and Families." We're sure the chicken families will be out in force, anyways. (bonus points for any chicken that comes to 4FQT with a child dressed up as an egg!)

Picture of a 3FQT chicken from the District 9 health care non-town hall meeting by rock star Jerry Jarvis.

The City's Atttorney's Office came out today to say that as far as they know, there was nothing improper about handing over thousand of dollars of "catastrophic illness pay" to Ruby Rippey-Tourk. The payment had become a bit of an issue because Ruby was able to get money reserved for "catastrophic illness" and nobody is quite sure why she needed it.

City Attorney Dennis Herrera declined to give a comment but just told everyone to check out the report. So here it is.

While the report says Gavin did nothing illegal, it did go onto say that there's still questions about all that time off Ruby got and whether she was given preferential treatment. In fact, the report says they weren't able to determine where Ruby went during all the time off or what problem she had. It might have helped if they were actually able to talk to either Ruby or Alex Tourk, her husband, but were never able to.

Reaction, of course, is all over the place. ABC 7 mainly says Gavin's free and easy these days, although Aaron Peskin says the whole thing "raises questions." In a surprise to no one, the Bay Guardian says that the report is "far from reassuring" that everything was on the up-and-up.

All of which means that there is just enough questions out there to make sure this issue might never go away.

Well, look who's back for round three with the media! That's right, girls' girl and bumblebee Jennifer Siebel is tentatively tiptoeing back into the publicity news rounds, with a soft-focus lens interview in her daily newspaper, the Marin Independent Journal.

In this interview, Jennifer Siebel rambles on and on about how she only went to business school to please her parents ("a pattern for much of my life"), cries a lot, says she only gets "six hours of sleep a night," and, jarringly, appears to confess to having had at least some involvement in a golf cart accident at the age of 6 that killed her older sister (who was 8). Yikes! (but she says this is why she's a "nurturer" and "protector" now.)

We're not touching the golf cart revelation, but we're running a quick survey. Which of the following lines from Bumblebee Siebel's Marin IJ interview is your favorite? (Beth Spotswood, for what it's worth, votes for "I ski hard.")

Note: We totally missed the "I grew up in a very beautiful, magical bubble" line (we are kicking ourselves) until it was pointed out to us by a reader, so alas, it's not included in the poll.

We gotta say, we got chills watching this video. Entitled "Walkaway Mayor," GavinWatch has compiled a collection of all the times a certain city official refuses to answer direct questions from the press. (And it's not just when Dan Noyes is talking too!)

Given that Gavin doesn't do press conferences where he actually takes any questions either, what's the reason for ignoring the questions he doesn't like? GavinWatch posits two theories: either the mayor's afraid to answer them (the "chicken Gavin" theory), or he just doesn't think he has to (the "jerk Gavin" theory).

Well, maybe Gavin, or least his press office, should start doing daily or weekly briefings or something -- just so we can get some kind of answers around here -- but meanwhile: mmmm, jerk chicken.

Photo of Jennifer Siebel and Sen. John Kerry courtesy of Luke Thomas

When Luke Thomas sent us these pictures of Jennifer Siebel yesterday, we just about died and went to sartorial heaven. Even Jennifer can't believe how cute she looks. Please keep this up, Jen, and give us the name of the salesperson who sold you your cape. We want to buy that person a mojito.

We could care less if Jen is pretty on the inside. Everything works here: the bag, the boots, the dress, and, most importantly, the hair. In short, this look is fierce. (Yes, this is coming from the same blogger who loved VicTraina's Hefty bag couture. Whatev, we like what we like.)

About a week ago, we spotted a picture of Jen on Fog City wearing a cute red trench coat. Also, her hair was brushed, and her skin was glowing. Contrary to popular belief, we don't particularly enjoy looking at bad pictures of celebrities. It breaks our heart to see beautiful people make fugly mistakes.

We refrained from crediting ourselves with Jen's coincidental makeover, chalking it up to the influence of her female friends, the dressing room attendant at Saks, or photo comments on her MySpace. (We don't know if Jen actually has a MySpace page, but she should add as a friend us if she does.)

However, the image of Jen wearing an SFist-approved cape, made us say "Praise Jebus!" We just happened to be wearing our own black cape yesterday, and we met a stylist wearing the exact same one.

Another picture of Jen's fabulous black cape after the jump!

Image replaced to avoid hotlinking. Photo of Tina Turner's cat courtesy of the Institute for Private Dancing Studies.

Update: When we originally called this post "Gavin's Rubber, We're Glue," we didn't mean THAT kind of rubber. How the hell did we miss this? Check out the first few seconds of anti-Gavin gumshoe Dan Noyes's ABC 7 video -- what the heck's Gavin doing with that Channel 2 mike?

Thanks to a faithful reader (and you commenters!) who pointed it out, via the Drudge Report (which labels it: "CAUGHT ON TAPE: SF MAYOR SIMULATES ORAL SEX ON TV CREW'S STICK MIC."). And we just want to say that SFist Jon is making us run the picture, despite both of our better judgments to the contrary.

--Original post: The hotness that is Dan Noyes! Everyone who's anyone is totally crushing out!

Well, except for one certain someone -- check out the latest video footage of the ABC 7 I-Team at a mayoral "press conference" yesterday, where a certain light-blue-tied city executive studiously ignores all of Hot Dan's questions about deaths at Laguna Honda Hospital with an increasingly tight smile, finally culminating in a no-eye-contact clipped conversation where Gavin for some reason will only talk to Dan in the third person, about how he's not going to talk to him anymore.

Mature! We can't wait for the next confrontation, featuring Newsom going, "I know you are but what am I?"

Picture still from the ABC 7 I-Team Blog footage. Video's 6 minutes long.