Bill Swerboski records a recent John Brown's Body show at the Warfield, in case you missed it. Eddie Codel munch on liquid-nitrogen cooled vittles prepared by Marc Powell at Dorkbot. And Jen Maiser just got back from the Eco-Farm Conference, and links to an article by an enterprising farmer-gardener in Watts of all places. Ann Harrison and friends go to greet maligned medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby at the airport, only to find him......

Well, the cat's out of the bag about the new blog from Gawker Media. We've known for a while, but have been pretty good about keeping mum about it due to this SFist's work with Fleshbot. As PJ Corkery revealed Wednesday, it's going to be called Valleywag, and it's going to be helmed by the affable Nick Douglas, who's moving on from his post as editor at Blogebrity. Last night Spot-On's Chris Nolan held......

Kim Knox at Left in SF provides a handy listing of schools on the block for mergers and closures, and the board has decided to shut dow n the elementary school on Treasure Island. Looks like The City won't be able to provide any sort of internet connection to the public at Monday's scheduled public hearing on TechConnect. Maybe one of you has a brand new 3G modem? iPod jacking -- it's like 'dogging,'......

Let's get the tech out of the way first: John Hoar finds an article discussing the potential legal liabilities of Tech Connect. Could Susan Mernit and Chris Lopez be talking about the same thing -- namely, a Knight Ridder-Google merger? And if you needed any more evidence that Apple is selling sex more than tech, see what you come up with analyzing Jessie Johnson's dream. Kevin Cheng can finally talk about his latest project......

The Gavster strikes a humble pose at the Alice Griffith housing development. If you love Arnie, throw a 70's House Party -- because you really want to require parental notification for abortions. Chris Nolan is no longer standing alone as a journalist -- she's got friends and a new redesign. Now that Dubya is back in the Oval Office, Cindy Sheehan has decided to taunt him from where everyone else taunts him -- Berkeley.......

The Governator is sinking in the polls like a ton of steroid-abusing bricks -- in fact, he may not bother to run for another term. The movie star is actually dodging cameras when he's not dodging reporters' questions. And now he's facing new questions about the costs of his photo-op filling in a San Jose pothole. Chris Nolan says don't count him out so soon, though, since he likes to come from behind (ahem).......

So how did Sophie Maxwell's bill do? Well, due to an SFist power lunch, we weren't able to attend in person. We were able, however, to catch up via SFGTV -- scroll down to item 11. Basically, after debate between the supes over specifics, the bill was split into two versions -- one version, 11, was the bill as-written, and passed 9 to 2, with Elsbernd and Alioto-Pier voting no. The other version, which......

Well, when we suggested that Sophie start a blog to help counter some of the diatribes by critics in her constituency, we were only partly joking. Sure, we were jealous that our friends in District Six have a blogging supe, and we don't. But really, we tend to like Supervisor Maxwell, being the child of activists ourselves. But her public perception is about to take a hit again, this time on an international level,......

Alex Clemens of San Francisco Usual Suspects posted a link on Friday to a new website which we found on Chris Nolan's Politics from Left to Right. Looks like the documentary by producers Geoff Callan and Mike Shaw, which was mentioned in Tad Friend's bit of kudos-slathering about Gavin Newsom [PDF link from Usual Suspects], now has their website and trailer up. Rush to the Civil Altar, a documentary about our Winter of Love,......

Yes, yes, we saw that Sunday Chron magazine profile about the Gav -- "Newsom In Four Acts," Eye-Rolling In Three. As we all know, "Everyone in San Francisco knows a small black child saved from a hail of bullets by Matt Gonzalez." (We did enjoy the section where Gavin gets in a confrontation in Hunters Point while a youth says, "G, man." G's up... now, who's down again?) But what we found intriguing was the throwaway paragraph at the end of Act One, crypitically alluding to the origins of the close nature between the Newsoms and the Gettys. "When Bill Newsom and Gordon Getty were young friends, having attended St. Ignatius prep school together, Bill's father, William A. Newsom -- Gavin's grandpa -- gave refuge in his home to Getty when he needed it. A bond was forged between the two families." Hmmm! What does that mean? Well, local political blogger Chris Nolan hypothesizes that the friendship was cemented when Judge Bill Newsom used his legal wiles in his unofficial capacity as the Gordon Getty in-house lawyer to get millions of dollars for them out of the trust established by Getty patriarch J. Paul. So really, footing the $232,616.90 bill on that ill-fated Newsom-Guilfoyle wedding reception and sizable capital investment in MatrixFillmore was like an interest payment, right? Picture of the MatrixFillmore "deep lounge" CD from the Plumpjack website...