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Taking a cue from American Idol, team Newsom is having a contest where you, the voter, get to decide which logo will represent Gavin Newsom's crapshoot for Governor of California.

While we cannot stomach the taste and mouth feel of warm fruit, many of you love pie -- apple pie, especially. Some of you even have recipes. Grandma's famous apple pie recipes, if lore is to believed. So, why not enter your favorite warm slice in this Sunday's Johnny Appleseed Apple Pie Contest. No, not a pie eating contest -- where do you think you are, east of I-5? --but a regular old pie contest. The Divisadero Farmers Market (Grove Street, at Divisadero) will be hosting the showdown this Sunday.

Friday's the deadline for the last (Grand Prize) drawing of the San Francisco Dream House Raffle, which benefits Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Buy a $150 ticket, and you could win a $2.4 million Dream House in the Sunset or $1.8 million in cash. Most people would be smart to take the cash, unless they can afford the huge taxes on the house. Or, if they already own a less dream-worthy house, they could sell it to pay the taxes, or something. Either way, your $150 benefits a great cause. The final, Grand Prize drawing takes place July 25.

The SF Zoo's baby gorilla, whose mother abandoned him soon after birth, has bee christen. After a baby naming contest has the entire city holding its breath in anticipation, the winning name is... Hasani. Which means "handsome" in some nonsense language. And it isn't as fetch as "Chad" or 'Darnell" would have been. And it also means hot belly dancing, with sexy results. Anyway, the winning name was chosen by Hasani's father after selecting a yellow cantaloupe early this afternoon. We're not even going to try explaining that one. It makes little sense. Go here to learn more about how, exactly, Hasani got his name.

Word has it that Absinthe chef and Top Chef cheftestant Jamie Lauren has been stung harder by the fame bug more than she has arugula's peppery tang. (Fame is fleeting, Lauren! Your palette and plates, much like your tattoos, are forever!) But in a fusion of attention grabbing and culinary trickery, Lauren and 7x7 Magazine are having a springtime veggie contest. It goes like this: You create a phenomenal original first-course dish using asparagus, one that would fit in with Absinthe’s "American-influenced French brasserie and Northern Italian cuisine" menu, and your creation will be featured on the menu for two weeks. Also, you'll get a complimentary dinner for two at Absinthe, a swank KitchenAid stand mixer, and coverage in 7x7.

Need to catch all of the Best Picture nominees before Oscar night? We can help. SFist is offering one (yes, just one) ticket to a screening of Milk, The Reader, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Slumdog Millionaire, and Frost/Nixon, all of which will play in one dedicated auditorium back-to-back throughout the day. It's all part of the AMC Best Picture Showcase. The film marathon screens on Saturday, February 21, the day before the Academy Awards telecast.

Ever hug a bottle of cheap vodka caked with cocaine residue? That's what hugging a journalist is like. And this Sunday, Feb. 15, is Hug a Journalist Day -- at least according to this newly created holiday on Facebook.

by Tiffany Maleshefski

Aw. Well, this is just downright sweet. And smart. You see, Cafe de la Paz, which has received a three-star rating by the Yelp mafia, is throwing a contest for Kern County queer couples only. The nuevo Latino and tapas restaurant is inviting Kern County to win a marriage ceremony and a small reception dinner at the Berkeley restaurant.

Oh wow. Mission Mission is offering a free pack of "I Lost Me to Meth" coasters to one lucky reader who can come up with the niftiest meth-related anecdote. So, tweakers of San Francisco, now it is your turn to shine as bright as your foreheads. Send Mission Mission your choicest sex-for-cash, this-month's-rent-goes-bye-bye, and sold-my-DVDs-to-Amoeba tales of meth-related woe. (Required PSA of concern: If you've succumbed to speed's siren song, there's nothing to be ashamed of, you know? Simply visit Tweaker.org for more info on getting help.)

Here's your chance to win a spot on Grand Ole Party's guest list for their upcoming concert with Rogue Wave on Saturday night at the Fillmore. We promised and we never break our promises. (Well, at least we try not to.)

Perfect for celebrating Earth Day, Citizen Sugar is offering one lucky winner $500 in gas relief. ("Gas relief." Har.) All you have to do is register and take a brief quiz (e.g., "how much does it cost to fill up a 2008 Hummer 2 [H2]?"), and then you'll be be entered in lottery. And if you win, you'll can temporarily stop whining about the price of gas these days.

Dun Hunter is not your average Texas teenager. He created his own band, PlayRadioPlay! and released his debut album, Texas just this month. (We featured PlayRadioPlay! as "Albums: Looking Forward to 2008" back at the beginning of the year.) He's being noticed and not just by us. Rolling Stone included PlayRadioPlay! as one of the "Artists to Watch: Seven Acts Who Are Defining Rock, Soul and Hip-Hop in 2008" - not bad for being only 18. We featured PlayRadioPlay! on New Tunes Tuesday after we had listened to his EP, The Frequency. We called him the, "kid brother of The Postal Service" with "catchy, inventive and youthful" songs.

Are you a poet? Do you know it? (Ouch.) Well, Poets Eleven, a citywide poetry contest showcasing prose created by residents of each of San Francisco's 11 districts, above, is now accepting submissions. You work will be scrutinized by San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman, so snap on your thinking and creativity caps, kids.

For more info and to win tickets to the show and an awesome prize package, take the jump...

James Brown impersonator killing it at Saturday's 27th Annual Black Cuisine Cooking Contest & Street Festival.

When we first mentioned Nicole Atkins, back in October, we genuinely loved her unique sound calling it "...an incredibly beautiful masterpiece of songwriting and story-telling." Almost six months later, we still agree with our initial reaction - if anything, it's grown on us even more. Our friends over at Noise: SFBG are totally into her as well. "There's always room for more melodrama in my life - just as long as it's strictly of the musical variety - and lucky me, new discovery Nicole Atkins is making everything pretty blood-and-thunder in my house, thank you very much." Watch the video of "The Way It Is" here or listen to "Party's Over" here.

Oh my God, we're so there. If there was ever a reason to kick it over at the Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services, this would be it. Join us tomorrow in our quest for clinical obesity as we head over the the 27th Annual Black Cuisine Cooking Contest & Street Festival. We're not sure what to expect, exactly; the only -esque cuisine that comes to mind are peach cobbler, collard greens, and lots of butter. (You know, stuff that actually tastes good.)

It's going to be a grand ole party (sorry, we had too...) over at Bottom of the Hill on Sunday night where Grand Ole Party will be headlining. They just finished a very successful tour with Rilo Kiley and Vampire Weekend and are celebrating the physical release of their debut album, Humanimals (which came out earlier this month). Check out three of their recently recorded songs over at Daytrotter; it's pretty damn cool. Hailing from San Diego, this funky threesome is getting ready for their upcoming performances at Coachella and SXSW. Grab two spots on the guest list and some cool swag, including their latest CD and t-shirt, by entering below. You'll be notified on Friday morning if you win. Good luck!

Cosco Busan Update:

Tickets, tickets, anyone want some tickets? We have two tickets to Friday's concert at Slim's featuring: Until June, Matt White and Melee. We've already told you that you don't want to be late to this show, because all three bands are equally as good.

• Londonist pondered who might be the next sponsors of the London Eye and whether or not readers would be willing to donate £1,000 each for a Londonist Eye.
• Shanghaiist was shocked to find a cameltoe in the city's only English-language paper.
• Gothamist believed that a writer who wanted pre-gentrified gritty New York and ended up getting beaten up during a mugging learned his lesson.

There was no sign of Mark "Cutback" Davis or Bob "Jungle Death" Gerard in the waves off Pillar Point on Saturday, but 24 of the world's ballsiest surfers were there to test their mettle against the huge, angry swell that is the Mavericks break. When the foam cleared and the judges scorecards were tallied, it was 24-year-old Greg Long from San Clemente, SoCal that ended up taking home the title of Mavericks Big Wave champion for 2008.

Twenty-four of the world's most bitchin-ass surfers are on their way to Half Moon bay for a dangerous showdown at this year's 2008 Mavericks Surf Contest. Shore stars like Shawn Rhodes, Greg Long (San Clemente FTW), Brock Little, Randy Cone, Santa Cruz's Tyler Smith, and more will take part in tomorrow's dangerous and exhilarating surf contest. The cold waters of Half Moon Bay combined with the Pacific storm winter weather make some of "the most dangerous waves in the world." This battle of the sea is not to be missed. Dude.

Oh, those nifty New Yorkers; it's all about them. As usual. Why? Because David Gockley, General Director of the SF Opera, announced that the company will start producing HD broadcasts of performances for theaters all across the states. Lovely, right? But the NYT then turns it into some kind of pissing contest because they did it first. Hrumph.

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Chucky appears to be back on the homeless beat this week with two stories about it. One is something that might piss people off, the other something that might not piss people off. We'll start with the one that might piss people off one first so we can cheer everyone up at the end with the one that won’t piss people off and make the post heart-warming, just in time for the holidays.

Well, this sounds like the perfect (and perfectly frightening) holiday entertainment for both kiddies and adults.

Guess when the Busan leaves S.F. Bay!

SFist interviews Rachel Schutz of Darlybird and hosts a giveaway of some of her awesome wares