(By Eyleen Tavy) Somebody amend the Constitution, already! Even as one right is affirmed, another is torn from our grasp -- the right to manufacture pre-mixed caffeinated energy drinks. That's right, "Anheuser-Busch said it will reformulate its popular 'Tilt' and 'Bud Extra' (oh god they call it 'B to the E', we are cringing SO HARD right now our desk chair might go up our ass) brands to remove the stimulants they currently contain."......

By Joe Kukura Our Bay to Breakers coverage – which kicked off this morning in a post so drunk and confused it had to be deleted – continues without shame as we direct you to this handy Bay to Breakers Liquor Store Locator. Many of you know how long sections of this race course are painfully lacking in places to buy additional smokes and booze for your continued "running." But with knowledge of a......

Although ABC 7's Cheryl Jennings -- who we find kicky and whimsical -- told us that a cleaning solvent spilled into the bay this morning, we're getting conflicting reports as to whether or not the spill actually hit precious, precious SF waters. See, after a blaze at an Oakland warehouse today, it was originally reported that "an unknown amount of chemical -- possibly isopropyl alcohol -- may have spilled into a drainage system that......

Congratulations, Oakland (29th), Fremont (32nd), and San Francisco (34th) -- you made it on the top 50 drunkest cities in the U.S. list. At least, according to the December issue of the body dysmorphia-inducing rag Men's Health Magazine. The rankings are based on alcohol-related liver deaths, "binge drinking data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," FBI-culled drunk driving arrest numbers, death-related auto accidents that involved booze, and "grades given to cities......

On Sunday morning Gary Cloutier, 45, (the gay one!) spent several hours in jail after being arrested for public intoxication in Palm Spring, CA. But he didn't just have a few sips of an appletini. It seems that the mayor wannabe was "staggering and could barely stand," according to CBS 5, after cops found him in his car, freshly sloshed after leaving a Palm Springs bar. (And it's not even White Party season!)...

What started out yesterday morning as a PG-13, innocent little fender bender has now turned into our very own R-rated environmental disaster. Smashing. Here's a summary of today's oil spill-related chaos, followed by volunteering and clean-up information. -- Today Gavin Newsom sent down word from wherever he's recovering from his hangover -- we kid. sort of -- that SF will get litigious on the agency or persons responsible for the 58,000 gallons of oil......

Last week's winner, the SF Weekly. Hey, someone spilled alcohol on our issue! Or at least we hope it's only alcohol.... We're now only gingerly turning the pages. Please don't be pee. Letters: Someone hates Chris Daly. You can't talk to MUNI head Nat Ford when he's in the john? (Cartoon at left.) Cover article: The Treasure Island Music Fest is gonna be awesome!!!!!!! (We have got to remember to pick up tickets for it......

It's the latest in the Tsk Tsk Supervisorial codes of conduct battle front! You've got sex, you've got drugs, all you need now is some rock and roll: Supervisor Chris Daly went and introduced the code of conduct regulations he's been waving around ever since his fellow supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier said she was going to put in some rules about (his) offensive language. Daly's code would prohibit sexual relationships between managers and subordinates at City......

We can't really get ourselves too worked up about the billboards or campaign finance allegations that Mark Leno's tossing around about his rival for the State Senate seat, Carole Migden (sorry) -- but we certainly do pay attention to her reckless-driving woes! The Solano County DA has decided to charge Migden with a misdemeanor based on her wild lane-changing and fender-bending ways from earlier this year. Like Paris Hilton, only without the DUI or the......

When we read the above headline on GavinWatch -- a site we enjoy reading; no offense, Gavin -- we waited to hear about a "disturbingly (but not surprisingly) skeevy" rape, AIDS, or Polish joke that came from our Mayor's cherry-stained lips. It seems that while he was getting signatures for his re-election effot, Newsom went up to a few guys at The Cafe and made this shockingly innocuous remark. GavinWatch's anonymous tipster recounts the......

Derrick Schneider has an excellent food-focused blog called "Obsession With Food." He also wrote for SFist regularly for quite a long time, most notably his still-popular SFist in the Kitchen series. So of course we were very pleased to see that he wrote an article appearing in the Wine Section of today's Chron. He writes all about "fruit wine," or wine made with fruit other than grapes....

Oh sure, our parents always pushed us to stay in the family business: blogging. But we have dreams -- big dreams -- dreams of DANCE! And now it's finally time to dust off the leg warmers and kick off our Sunday shoes. Flashdance Seven! Saturday, the 16th! From 8pm to 10pm! At the 24th St Bart plaza! Late arrivals are frowned upon -- the sudden assembly of a crowd is what makes or breaks......

Did anything happen at all in the San Francisco Bay Area today? All we've been doing is monitoring the Paris Hilton back to jail news! MOOOOOOM!!!!! --Beer and wine are okay for the North Beach Festival next week, but no hard alcohol. --More folks are getting laid off from the Chronicle. The Chron has launched a Portraits In Grief-like feature. --The Special Olympics are in Berkeley this weekend. --An old theater on Market Street (the......

--Our sources report that only like four non-media people showed up for the anti-Jerry Falwell protest (picture above, and two more pictures after the jump). --Chris Daly called Newsom campaign manager Eric Jaye an asshole. That's very mayoral of Daly. --A bunch of assaults in San Francisco, and an SFSU student drops dead on campus. Also, a dead body found on Baker Beach. --Keenen Ivory Wayans pitches a film studio in West Oakland. --Ken......

Here's some good news- everyone involved in yesterday's bus stop/SUV accident is okay. All in all, thirteen kids were hospitalized for injury, as well as the driver, but most of the injuries were minor. Some of them were just hospitalized for anxiety and if we were involved, we'd be pretty frackin’ anxiety riddled ourselves. ...

So a bunch of bloggers had a few drinks last night, or as someone on the Wall and SF Junto put it "some lame meeting of whiney bloggers at a hipster bar” when Alex and Maggie of the strangely peculiar blog, The Mayor and the Hair, came by and asked if one of them was Dean of Gavin Sucks. It was. And so, they dumped their alcohol on poor Dean, who had to spend the rest of the night wearing a wine and beer soaked shirt....

This weekend we started our taxes, so we are now feeling particularly poor. In need of activities that that will suit our penny-pinching ways, while also distracting us from the cold hard reality of our financial state, we turn to Albany, a little town north of Berkeley. ...

Believe it or not, two people were charged today in the Baker's Dozen New Year's eve melee. The two people charged were Richard Aicardi and Brian Dwyer. Aicardi, the instigator and the one who gave us the such classic lines as "this is the 415" and "I'm 20 deep, my boys are coming" is being charged with two counts of felony assault and one count of battery. Dwyer is being charged with felony assault and battery. The two were charged for the beat down of singers Evan Gogel and William Baile. As for Sharyar Aziz Jr., the one who got his jaw broken, nobody has been charged yet for what happened to him. Police say they don't have enough evidence to convict anyone for what happened. ...

We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. These are our favorite tidbits from today's offerings:...

You think Gavin Newsom'll shave off all his hair next, just like rehabbing Britney Spears? Okay, so where were we the last time we checked in with the Ruby Rippey-Tourk sick leave investigations? So the mayor's office and the Tourk family spokesman were taking the position that Rippey-Tourk got the city to cover her salary as paid sick leave during the time she was in rehab through the city's catastrophic-leave program, where people can......

Tonight, the SF Indiefest anschlüss continues, with a party celebrating the Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski at Balazo Gallery (2183 Mission at 18th). Costumes encouraged. (9pm) Two great alcohol-accessorized reading events at the Make Out Room (3225 22nd St between Mission and Valencia): Friday and Saturday night is Mortified's annual doomed Valentine show with teenage stories of hopeless love, awkwardness and pain. (8pm) All this weekend it's the California International Antiquarian Book Fair at......

SFist Jon's away for the weekend, so we're subbing in for the weekend daily news roundups! --Isn't anyone going to run against Gavin Newsom? It's like San Francisco has decided to punish Gavin for his sexual/alcohol indiscretions by forcing him to be mayor for four more years. --The ABC 7 news team reviews all the news they've covered in addition to Newsom Meltdown 2007. --Groups A, B, and C will be lining up at......

p>Right on the Heels of Gavin's Announcement that he was going into rehab for drinking comes... you guessed it: San Francisco Strong Beer Month!

Okay, to start things off, that's a YouTube clip of Daniel Powter's Had A Bad Day. Play it as you read this post! Gavin Newsom started off the first day of the rest of his life with a press conference at the Academy of Art College about PG&E's "Energy Watch" program. Since it was the first press conference he's done since announcing his plan to seek treatment for alcohol abuse, it was, predictably, mobbed......

-Yesterday was a mother fu----ing protest-off over abortion. -Pelosi and the Governator aren't even MySpace buddies. -Nobel prize winners meet in Berkeley to discuss Grey's Anatomy, Global Warming. -Man shot in Oakland-- homicide #6 for the year. -Six car crash on I-80 near Vacaville kills three, injures eights, and closes westbound lanes for more than six hours. Drugs and alcohol are suspected -The new dot.coms just aren't any fun. -Save the Presidio clarkia! Illustration of......

Today we have dueling columnists, news on the investigation, and an actual eyewitness account. Yes, it's the Day In Bakers Dozen or as we think we'll call it from now on, Gleegate (hat tip to Jon Carroll). ...

From the Usual Suspects, we found a link to a story about Doughgate (we like that one) in the Yale Daily News. As you might as well imagine, it's a big story over there. Anyways, it’s an interesting read as it gives you an idea how it's seen over there in Ivy League Land. Among other things, they have no idea about all the inside San Francisco stuff, like the high schools involved or who the people who hosted the party were. To them it's just a straight forward assault and battery....

What? This isn't Thursday? OK, all this holiday brouhaha has made us a day late from our usual posting schedule but we just know you'll forgive us. To make it up to you, we want to share a brand new video from Trainwreck Riders. According to our buddy Nat, last week the band hit the streets with a super 8 camera and a bag full of costumes that they dug up from their basements. They......

Last week, Gavin gave his State of the Homeless speech. And you'll never guess what he said? He said we're doing swell. He also said that there's still more to do and gosh-darnit, he's going to do it....

At the behest of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a piazza that will take up a block of Vallejo street is in the plans for 2007. The piazza will be located on Vallejo Street between Columbus and Grant, by the St. Francis of Assisi. If we can remember our North Beach geography through our fuzzy, alcohol drenched memories of North Beach, that's right by Busters (home of yummy Cheese Steaks) and Caffe Trieste. The piazza will include benches, trees and a "starving poets podium" for, well, starving poets. If we can remember our geography through our fuzzy, alcohol drenched memories, isn't there something like that in London? Says Tony Gartner, the president of the North Beach Merchants Association a nice restful place for "people to come and rest their souls." ...