Hooray! We're back with more Ed Jew news! And this time, with a vast Sunset-wing conspiracy. Former District 4 supervisor Ed Jew may have pled out of his state court civil suit ("okay, you caught me, I don't actually live here"), but his federal criminal extortion case ("a man can't get a $40,000 bubble tea once in awhile?") continues apace. In his federal case, Ed's now asked for a hearing on whether his former lawyer,......

Okay, okay, okay, we promise, this is our last post for today about Ed Jew (we think) -- so what happens next? Well. Newsom will now appoint a permanent replacement for Ed Jew's seat on the Board of Supes (presumably interim District 4 supervisor Carmen Chu is the leading candidate, unless Jennifer Siebel-soon-to-be-hyphenate-Newsom is living by the zoo now and wants something to do on Tuesday and Thursday nights), and that replacement will rule through......

We had so much fun breaking down the RCV numbers in District 6, we thought we'd tackle District 4 next! Congratulations, Ed Jew! He wasn't even considered a factor when the Chron covered the race, and now he's the first person in SF RCV history to come from behind (2nd place) to win the election in overtime. So coming in after the election, the top four candidates were (in order): Ron Dudum, Ed Jew, Jaynry......

There's another district where a winning candidate has yet to be named and that's District 4. This race has been a little under the radar as it hasn't involved candidate's wives telling lobbying groups what they could do with themselves or sock puppets. Nevertheless, it's quite a humdinger as there are three candidates who are neck and neck and neck-- Ron Dudum, Ed Jew, and Jaynry Mak are within just a few percentage points of each other (Dudum has 27 percent, Jew has 25 percent, and Mak has 22 percent). Doug Chan, Gavin's guy, has only 16 points so unless he gets a lot of #2 picks, he's probably out of it and will get eliminated as they move more into the ranked choice tallies. Hey, this whole thing is kind of like in English Premiere League soccer where the losing candidates get relegated. ...

You know, even the most hardened Political Junkies get a little bored with the upcoming election every now and then -- and it's such a beautiful day today! We're putting down the Voter Information Guides, the green and silver beads, the Jaynry Mak fundraising kit, the Krissy Keefer drums, and the David Kiddoo write-in forms, and enjoying the first day of Fall Back! Reader Jim Herd sent along some gorgeous pictures of nature scenes......

Monday is our favorite day to do laundry, thus we are thrilled by the possibility of satisfying our dire needs for both clean socks and weird live music at once at the Brainwash Café (1122 Folsom St. @ 7th). The Jardin Noir Dark Circus Radio Project blends psychedelic jazz improv and world music with strange and compelling results for free. (7-10pm) We instantly got a craving for pancakes when reading about this one: CalHOP......

--Another successful Folsom Street Fair! --Another successful Dragon Boat race! --Another successful Burlingame Pet Parade! --Another successful Love Parade! Article by Catherine Rauschuber, pictures by Luke Thomas from the Fog City Journal. See also the Sentinel's coverage, some of which is NSFW. (Luke's pictures are okay for work.). --Happy birthday, Jaynry Mak! --Give Gavin a raise (Sofia Milos makes an appearance later in this item as well). --District 6 candidate Rob Black gets the all-important......

Well, look who's in imminent danger of violating the curfew for the kids under 13! Here's a picture of Gavin Newsom cutting a rug at District 4 candidate Doug Chan's kickoff event, first located by -- you got it -- commenter ThatChick! Okay, here's the informative section: Doug Chan's running against Fiona Ma's aide Jaynry Mak for the District 4 seat (Fiona seems to be hedging her bets and has endorsed both of them.)......