The Gavin Newsom Mea Culpa tour continues on as he put on his hair shirt on (with matching blue tie) and sat down with CBS 5's Hank Plante to talk about his rather crappy past couple of weeks. ...

Hey, does anyone know what the mayor of San Francisco's up to? --M&R report that Gavin has been attending rehab sessions every day this last week -- some as individual sessions with the head of Delancey Street, and some as group sessions, and his community service will take the form of activities he was already doing as mayor. He's dealing with "interpersonal issues, friendship issues, and issues that have been locked up for some time......

It's all about sex and land use around here in San Francisco, as kink.com (probably NSFW) moves into the Mission Armory and gets the official not-very-welcome wagon greeting from fifty community members yesterday, who braved the rain to protest the online porn industry. Much to the protestors' chagrin, though, it turns out kink.com has already moved in and started filming, and they didn't need to get permission from anyone to do so. The Armory's got......

As we go almost a week into As the Gav Turns, a few more stories are leaking out about what's been going on with the Mayor lately. But first, some news, mainly that he is most definitely not going to resign. In fact, he and Jake McG, who earlier called on Gavin to resign, had a meeting yesterday about that very subject that didn't go very well. Gavin played the "why is everybody always picking on me" card to which Jake responded, "bitch, please." Earlier, Jake had called on Gavin to resign, saying that Gavin did not have the "moral fiber" to be Mayor and we seem to recall that not being on the city charter. And if Gavin doesn't have moral turpitude than what could one say about Willie? The other news is that there's been issues as to who exactly is paying Alex Tourk's compensation and Gavin's people are trying to figure out a legal way around paying Alex Tourk as people have brought up the legal issues with how it was initially set up. ...

First off. Alcoholism is a serious problem and we hope Gavin Newsom (.pdf) gets help and support. Second of all. Blue tie alert! (see picture from this afternoon at right.) We're tag-teaming in for an exhausted Editor SFist Jon, who's taking a much-needed break from his nonstop Gavin news coverage this week, to give you the latest in Newsom news around the web. --Gavin will be getting counseling from Mimi Silbert, the head of the......

Get out the Kibbles and Bits -- UK prime minister Tony Blair, widely derided as Bush's "poodle" for his unhesitating support of the questionable Iraq war, is making an unannounced visit to the Bay Area this weekend. It'll be the first ever visit by a sitting British prime minister to the state of California. (What, Maggie Thatcher never made it out here?) Blair gets out here today, is having dinner on Saturday with George and......