Usually when a Presidential candidate announces his VP choice it's either to try and help him win some state or area that could help him win or to try and strengthen an apparent weakness. For example, Bill Clinton chose Al Gore to help him try and win the south. And in 2000, George Bush selected Dick Cheney to help alleviate concerns about his lack of experience and evilness. So with that, we announce that Ralph Nader's choice as his Vice President is our very own Matt Gonzalez....

Your Black Muslim Bakery women treated like "slaves." (Hot fish sandwiches don't make themselves, ladies.) [Oakland Tribune]Dan Noyes sticks it to Muni again, and not in a good way. Be sure to check it out. [ABC7]Well. Somebody thinks they're too good to shoplift. [Spotswood]Free Jameth! He turned into a reform school girl over the weekend. [Nature abhors a vacuum]How many real estate agents does it take to post an ad on Craigslist? [Curbed]TED, a......

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We could also use a Dunkin' Donuts. Failing that, the makers of Raweos could always set up shop next door. Did you see or hear about Gavin Newson's State of the City address? We did. For a few minutes. It seems the Gavin went on for over 100 minutes, as SFist Jim already pointed out. (Pretty people have a habit of droning on. We waste more time feigning interest in what attractive people have to......

Google maybe plotting world domination, but the good news is that at least they're liberal. That's what happens when you have Nobel Peace Prize/Oscar/Emmy/Grammy/NL MVP Al Gore as a board member....

-- Emmy-winner Al Gore might also win the Nobel Peace Prize. Weren't Bono and Princess Diana supposed to win that at some point, too? (You know, before she...vroom.) [Wired News] -- Bay Area Reporter endorses Newsom. Shocking. [BAR] -- Double shooting in East Oakland. [CBS5] -- 16-year-old Angel Carrion busted out of juvenile detention center. Because he's bad. Real bad. And probably dating your daughter. [Examiner] -- Infant cold sniffle medicine yanked off store......

We watched the Emmy Awards last night (for what it's worth: yay, 30 Rock!), and the award shows fellating Al Gore continues, this time for Current TV, which won for Best Interactive Programming or Best iWorld Wide Web Doing God's Work or something inane like that. Also: really? Why? Aside from having sweet Mission Bay offices -- with self-consciously placed arcade games in their front windows -- Current TV takes itself way too seriously......

We've been big fans of Good Magazine since their premier issue came out last fall. We love the inspiring stories they cover and the ways they present them -- graphics, design, and concept are given as much weight as the words. We also love that the staff is predominantly made up of young people -- much younger than we are, we might add. (Incidentally, bad-boy Al Gore III is the associate publisher.) Some recent,......

"Low carb diet" had a lot of buzz in the past few years. Perhaps "low carbon diet" is next. A while ago we wrote about the possibility of saving the world through cuisine. We were being a little hyperbolic, of course. But a new diet, written by two Bay Area residents, quite literally aims to save the environment via your food consumption....

Sounds like Sunday's Great Gorilla Race in Golden Gate Park was a success! The 4.3 mile race, run by people in gorilla suits to raise money for gorilla conservation, raised over $100,000. Four hundred people showed up, and given that there's only about 700 gorillas left living in the wild, that's almost a ratio of two gorillas per person. Okay, we're lame, but we are deeply enjoying the description of the race in this Chron......

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti......

--They reopened the Macarthur Maze! And of course, now the bridge is backed up. --TiVo is getting a lot of angry emails after the triumphant conclusion of American Idol was cut off by recorders not padded with extra time. Always pad your live shows, people! --Left In SF notes that no one sees Tapioca Ed Jew in either his Sunset house or his Burlingame house. --There's a hilarious picture of Al Gore at his reading......

Oh hi Al Gore! Welcome to San Rafael, land of pleasure and delight. While you're here, don't miss the Marin Center Veterans' Memorial Auditorium. It's a lovely place -- just right for Keynote presentations and beards. But what's that? You're going to be speaking there on Wednesday, May 23 at 7PM? About your new book, The Assault on Reason? And you'll be signing copies? And we can buy tickets at http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C003EA7BF17AF23?artistid=1126516& majorcatid=10005&minorcatid=104? That certainly......

Belmont (the Utica to our Manhattan, if we may make such a daring analogy) is an on-the-go suburb, in love with its cars and asphalt, and with no time for such frivolities as parks and people and conserving water. Mayor Coralin Feierbach is one of the only Bay Area mayors to refuse to sign the Sierra Club's Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement, objecting to the pledge to "reduce sprawl, preserve open space, and create compact,......

Okay, this was a pretty cool event. Peter Morgan, the writer responsible for both Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren's Oscars this year (for The Last King of Scotland and The Queen) won the film festival's second annual Kanbar Award for excellence in screenplay writing -- so they had him up for an hourlong talk about his distinctive docudrama perspective on contemporary historical events and the flawed personalities behind them, and then they screened The Deal,......

Possum Death Spree claims to be the web's first carbon-neutral film, a designation that means Al Gore catered it or something. The film itself is about four minutes' worth of the best part of a horror film -- when the monsters attack and the sexy young humans die horribly. In this case, the monsters are thawed possums, and the sexy young humans gamely shriek and burst and run away, pursued by a predictably question-marky......

Here's our Caption Action entry for the picture above! Oscar winner Al Gore, Oscar-less Leonardo diCaprio, and our pick in the pool for Best Supporting Actor (in the role of John Nelson), Peter Ragone. And yes, you heard it correctly from commenter Ragone Has Resigned -- former mayoral press secretary Peter Ragone is leaving his recently retitled job as Director of Communications in City Hall to move up the street to work out of......

Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of "Friday Night Lights" production to New Mexico. Bostonist was happy they finally found an Anna Nicole Smith connection to their fair city and that an Apple Store was opening up. They were less happy that new rules have been established limiting underage shows and that their Governor is spending......

-A woman's car breaking down caused a huge chain of events leading to her death and three hours worth of traffic on the upper deck of the Bay Bridge. -Where oh where did the snow go? ...

Apple today issued a statement proclaiming that its internal investigation found that Steve Jobs is innocent of everything. This despite the fact they know he attended a meeting that never happened. We would get all cynical and say that one should never trust internal investigations but one of the people behind the investigation and who issued the statement is Al Gore and, well, we love you, Al!!! Apple has also said they are making adjustments to their current financial statements to make up for discrepancies and that they are working with federal authorities to prove they've done nothing wrong. ...

-Lindsey Lohan's best bud, Al Gore, shows up in town to rally the troops to fight Global Warming. Save us, Al, save us! -San Jose man accused of trying to sell cool spy software to Asian militaries. -Turns out a couple of boats were leaking "discharge" into the Bay. That's not very legal. -Remember how everyone thought the cause of that Taco Bell e coli scare was the result of green onions? Nope, it was......

In an interview with the Chronicle last week, Gavin dropped some more Green-related news. Turns out he's looking into dropping turbines into both the ocean and the Bay to generate enough energy to feed the city and to maybe sell off to others. The Olympic Guys should love that. ...

Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro: Again, we're reduced to reading it online, as our source wasn't in the South Bay this week. Cover article: fashion in the San Jose city hall. What are all these positions we're voting on for? A handy-dandy guide. Exciting inside SJ politics with the Fly, and their new SJ politics blog, SV411.org. Al Gore and his movie. Skateboarders come to town. And soft-shell crab. Next up, the SF......

Hey, time to fuel up that ol' SUV and drive with the freon-leaking A/C on to see local filmmaker Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, opening on Friday at the Embarcadero Center (and at the Sequoia in Mill Valley). MoveOn.Org is asking people to buy tickets in advance to pump up the buzz, and Paramount has announced it'll be donating 5% of the profits to the Alliance for Climate Protection. Thanks, Green Party, for making it......

Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scene. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers. Bostonist sees Boston and Somerville each whip out their art and face off. A plagiarized novel is the......

We will grant SFist commenter Jason his "modest, if peevish, request: Can we banish "sleek" from the glossary of decor and fashion terms? Let's keep it to a descriptor of wet otters. Way too 7X7 X SFMag X Surface X Paper X City." God knows no one will ever confuse us with Josh Sens, so we don't want none of that SFMag stuff here. So Ame, the somewhat new restaurant in the Home of Al......

SFist Jon, on the East Coast this week, took a break from his family vacation to excitedly email us that our boy Gavin's featured in yet another national magazine photo spread. This time it's Vanity Fair! It's their Green Issue, featuring on the cover Julia Roberts dressed as a tree, and a very embarrassed-looking SF resident Al Gore at Julia's crotch level. Newsom's in a two-page photo spread of Mayors Who Support The Environment, one page after Ed Norton (who's a solar-power user) and 9 pages after Republican Governors Who Support The Environment, with girly-greeny man Arnold Schwarzenegger and a wan-looking George Pataki. He got the shout-out for promoting recycling. We'd show you the picture but it's not online -- so you'll have to look at it in the checkout line at Safeway. On the bright side, Gavin is the only mayor who doesn't have a potbelly. On the down side, he looks vaguely embarrassed about being in the picture at all. You can see him thinking, I'd much rather be lying on a carpet right now. Don't worry, Gavin, we here at SFist will make your dreams come true! So best! ...

It's the name of a TV show, people! Our new District 6 election column. This week on Everybody Hates Chris -- Everyone Hates An Open Field. Matier and Ross report today that the dreams of the District 6 Anyone But Daly crowd were dashed as Christine Pelosi debunked the rumor first announced in Beyond Chron and announced that she will not be running for Daly's seat on the Board of Supes. (For some reason, she's listed as "Christina" Pelosi in the M&R column but it looks like her name is actually "Christine." Maybe name recognition was going to be a problem for her in the race.) Christine Pelosi, whose mother you may have heard of, is a former San Francisco deputy DA who is now a member of the DNC and the chair of the Platform Committee for the California Democratic Party. In her day job, Christine serves as Chief of Staff to Congressman John Tierney (D-Mass.) (who her mother then appointed to the Intelligence committee) and used to date (scroll down) now 63-year-old Texas Democratic congressman Max Sandlin (during which time her mother appointed him to the Ways and Means committee). Sandlin lost his bid for reelection last year (and is now dating a representative from South Dakota. What a player!) It sounds like all the rumors might have been started because the younger Ms. Pelosi just moved into SoMA, by the ballpark. Christine says, "I moved South of Market not to run for district supervisor but to be close to the ballyard where I can enjoy my beloved Giants, mindful that the last time Giants won the World Series, the Democrats won back the U.S. House and Senate." Isn't anyone going to run against Daly? What about you, District 6 resident Al Gore? Picture of Christina Pelosi (at left) with mom from Washington Life, from the 2000 Italian-American Foundation Gala...

1115.org weighs in with their analysis of last night's State of the State, and Capitol Notes' John Meyer takes folks behind the scenes. SF CityScape has high hopes for The City's promotion of interim Planning Director Dean Macris to a permanent post. And San Jose decides they want a city wifi network, too. Many Friends of SFist are down in Las Vegas this week, some at CES, some at AVN, most probably going both......

Will the rain ever stop? Hope it didn't rain too hard on your New Year Eve's festivities, readers, as some of your favorite SFist staffers close out 2005 and ring in oh-six. We also finished our Fisties of the Year! Did your favorites win? In other news, Al Gore is moving into Chris Daly's district (and down the block from Gavin), BART fares are going up, and hey! The Roxie's not going to close! Also -- check out the pictures from our first annual SFist Christmas party -- we hope you had a good time. Welcome SFists Sarah, Chuck, and Karen -- and check out our interview with local author (and sometimes-commenter!) Judy B. Party picture by Paolo. Check out our flickr! ...