Gavin Newsom began his second term as mayor of San Francisco this morning ...

Airport news! This morning, SFO crews found a dead body lodged in the wheel well of the nose of a United plane coming in from Shanghai. It might have been a stowaway. A woman was arraigned in Denver yesterday, after getting arrested on Monday for beating her kids on a Frontier Air flight that took off from SFO. Witnesses report that she seemed intoxicated on the flight, was yelling and hitting the kids, and......

Uh oh. All that work, all that lobbying and compromising, all those broken promises, all those clipboards -- and nobody showed up for the first Healthy Saturday. Yikes. We've got lots of pix up on Flickr. A biggish swath of JFK Drive was opened to pedestrians this Sunday; and maybe it was the gloomy weather, or Healthy Saturday's newness, or the fact that it's damn near impossible to find a map of the pedestrian......

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Transportation dotted the eyes and crossed the tees for Sir Richard Branson's airline, Virgin America, to begin flying out of SFO, which will actually be its home base. Huzzah, more local jobs! The company is planning a mid-summer launch....

San Francisco Bay to Breakers results...

Update: So hey! We just got this in our inbox. JetBlue is giving away round-trip tickets to the first 150 people who show up in Union Square tomorrow Saturday (we totally thought today was Friday) dressed up as their favorite New York icon and carrying two or more canned goods to give away to a local food bank. Contest starts at 10 a.m., line starts at 7 a.m. SFist will throw in your lunch for......

John Kerry! The former presidential candidate was in town the other day -- and how things have changed. Before, he was greeted by Bruce Springsteen, roaring crowds representing about 48% of the voting majority, and people carrying flip-flops. Now, he appears to be hawking products for a company called Blancpain (they sell watches). (Why? He doesn't need the money!) Well, we don't care! He ran against Bush and that's enough for us. We still......

Number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 67. Number of people pictured whom we recognize: 9 (including 3 pictures of Gavin Newsom and 2 pictures of Dede Wilsey). Minority count: 5 (7.5%). Getty v. Traina: 10-8 (There's a spread about the LA branch of the Gettys in this month's Harper's Bazaar). Number of choice quotes concerning Gavin Newsom: 2. One by Dede Wilsey (re the Healthy Saturdays negotiations): "I learned that Gavin......

Peace in our times! Bikers and car drivers, with the help of none other than the Honorable Gavin Newsom, have worked out a permanent solution to the Golden Gate Park Healthy Saturdays impasse. We know, we're totally amazed too -- next, the mayor's office will say they've worked it all out between the Shias and the Sunnis; Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff; and Pat Murphy and Chris Daly. We're nominating Gavin for a Nobel peace......

In light of the new study coming out saying that the closure of JFK boulevard on Sundays doesn't hurt attendance at any of the fancy new museums in Golden Gate Park, supporters of the Healthy Saturdays initiative gathered to renew the fight. In a press conference yesterday, Jake McG said he was going to reintroduce the measure to close the park on Saturday for a six month trial run. ...

As anyone who has done a lot of traveling knows, there are two types of airlines-- there is JetBlue and there is everybody else. Oh, JetBlue, why do we love you? Is it because of actual comfortable seats and actual comfortable space? Direct TV? Low prices? Or because there's no real first class so flying never gives you visions of proletarian revolution? People who start flying JetBlue get a little religious about the airline, praising the company to the heavens and vowing to never fly another airline again. The main problem with JetBlue, though, is that they don't go to a lot of airports. Here, you could get them at Oakland but not at SFO. But not for any longer-- JetBlue will now be serving SFO. And we are stoked. ...

Otherwise known as stories we missed while we were on vacation... -The last time we heard from Krissy Keefer, the Green candidate for Congress, she and some of her gal-pals were banging the Taiko drum and handing out cookies to celebrate her official entrance into the race. We maybe a little fuzzy on our American history, but we think Lincoln started that way too. Anyways, we hadn't heard from her since then but last week, she and her Merry Band of Dancers took part in a celebration of Fidel Castro's 80th birthday, which the San Francisco Sentinel described as a "spectacular evening ensemble of music, song, dance and poetry." Keefer's dance troupe performed and Keefer performed the monologue during the performance. You know, nothing says "striving for mainstream political acceptance" like staging dance performances to celebrate Fidel Castro. While it's not official, word has it that Keefer is in talks to take part in a new VH-1 reality show "Dancing With Dictators." It's not know yet who'll she be dancing with, but we here the Stacey Keibler/Mahmoud Ahmadinejad team will be pretty hard to beat. ...

Like a lot of you, we stumbled into the election booth last Tuesday and discovered much to our surprise that we had to vote for Nancy Pelosi. Did we know that? Does she actually ever campaign here? We can't really recall ever seeing any ads or posters or even bumper stickers promoting Pelosi, like, ever. Is there anyone out there who could challenge her? Well, have no fear, the Green Party is here. ...

We don't mean to ALARM you ... but it's possible that President Kennedy is in VERY GRAVE DANGER. Although similar recent efforts have mostly failed, our very own Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Leland Yee is pushing a bill -- AB 450 -- that would fine retailers $1,000 for selling M-rated video games to the under-17 set. Leland, himself a child psychologist, points to surprisingly convincing evidence that violent play can lead to violent behavior,......