Starved as we are for celebrity sightings that don't involve Mark Zuckerberg or Robin Williams, we bring your attention this a.m. to the very important news that Ryan Gosling was in San Francisco last night. In fact he may not have checked out of his hotel yet, or he may be here for more than one day.

Gosling has been keeping a very low profile lately, but he was at the Tuesday night screening of a movie he's producing, White Shadow, which first premiered at Sundance this year and got a Grand Jury Prize nomination. It's directed by Noaz Deshe and it's the story of an albino boy in Tanzania, not quite a teenager, who's being hunted by witch doctors who want to chop him up for his prized albino body parts.

After the screening, which was at the Sundance Kabuki, he managed to score a table at State Bird Provisions because celebs can do that, and it looks like he may have been dining there with director Deshe.

The photo comes via the cellphone of the uncle of Twitterer Camille Ruvalcaba. But somehow Beth Spotswood heard the news last night, because she's that tied to the pulse, ladies and gentlemen.

Here's the red carpet photo of a scruffy, under-dressed Gosling. Because, after all, it's just the San Francisco Int'l Film Festival.

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Winning the title of first football player to be nabbed in the BALCO scandal, ex-49ers defensive lineman Dana Stubblefield was charged with lying to a federal agent when he denied taking steroids. Oh, Dana. he is expected to plead guilty in a San Francisco federal courtroom later on today.

This comes on the heels of former Olympic athlete Marion Jones receiving a six month sentence for her involvement in the BALCO scandal. And now that jail time is being dolled out, we wonder how much time, if any, Bonds will get in the clink? Just saying.

Jones, Stubblefield, Bonds--all of this begs the question: OMG, what on earth is Mary J. Blige doing using steroids? We simply refuse to believe it, but, like, really, Real Love? You too are possibly using the juice? We are most intrigued.

N Judah Chronicles' Greg Dewar will not be pleased. And neither will the rest of you.

Just weeks after colliding with a 90-year-old woman on the corner of 9th Avenue and Irving Street, an inbound N Judah stuck a man at 31st Avenue, dragging him to 28th, killing him in the process. Overhead news helicopters, a Judah Street closure, and a police investigation followed suit. What's more, according to the Gate:

The incident was the second Muni accident of the night. About an hour earlier, a streetcar struck a car at 44th Avenue and Taraval Street, injuring several people who were transported to San Francisco General Hospital, a Muni spokeswoman said.

The number of people hurt and the extent of their injuries had not yet been determined, she said.

Charming.

The N Judah death, which occurred a little after 9 p.m last night, "stretched several blocks and...was very bloody." Of course, this raises many questions. For example, who was the victim? What was he doing at the time? How in the hell did the streetcar operator not know that they had just hit someone? Did any passengers know? He was dragged? Will the N Judah please stop its current campaign of perambulator terror?

We will update you with more info as it comes to us.

Update: The Municide (TM SFist tipster) victim has been identified as 40-year-old Mark Callaghan. And--get this--it seems that the San Francisco resident was attempting to board the N-Judah train at 31st Avenue "when the doors closed...Callaghan tripped and fell...then was dragged underneath the streetcar." Jesus.

Oh we warned you. We gave you all the signs. RSAN 'n stuff. And now it's here.

OMG, a blustery day! Actual weather in San Francisco, complete with an omninous-looking Storm Warning flag flying above the Great Highway. That's an advisory for Beaufort wind force scale numbers of 10 or 11. Do you have any idea what that means!?

We don't either. We think it's something like "park your car near an aging Eucalyptus tree and you might regret it." Otherwise, you should be all right.

Carry on.

Update: Over at The Biggest Room, Outdoor News for Indoor Enthusiasts, San Francisco resident "quake" is hunkering down near Donner Lake bracing for a blizzard with winds of up to 145 mph. He's already calling this the Storm of 1-4-08 and he thinks this will be NorCal's biggest since the big blow of 12-12-95. That one took out the Conservatory of Flowers. Courage.

But seriously, folks: the two-term city councilman smells treachery afoot. And with good reason. According to the Chronicle, it seems that "the vote count included at least one discarded ballot and improper supervision of the hand recount. The recount showed Davis finishing with 5,718 votes to Cloutier's 5,716." And CBS 5 bring up Patrick Farrell, a Vallejo resident and recount witness, who claims that during the recount "[b]allots were all over the place, on the floor, on tables, people were grabbing them from each other."

And both sides seem to be get more heated and frustrated by the day. ("He ain't nothing but a sore loser," a heckler cried out during Cloutier's news conference.) But we must admit that, seeing as how two counts resulted in to different results, a third recount seems more than necessary.

Did you see or hear about Gavin Newson's State of the City address? We did. For a few minutes. It seems the Gavin went on for over 100 minutes, as SFist Jim already pointed out. (Pretty people have a habit of droning on. We waste more time feigning interest in what attractive people have to say than we do standing in line or waiting at red lights.) He also thanked Carole Migden and Mark Leno for coming to hear him speak...in that order! (OMG! Read between the lines there, folks. Or not. Migden does outrank Leno as she's in the upper house, etc. But nothing like trying to start another fun fight, right?)

But as Phil Matier already pointed out, the Mayor took a page from Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth via busting out the Powerpoint. (Oh, Gav. You so Gorey.) The address focused less on the future, and more on all of the glorious achievements we have now (biotech companies, etc.), a brief whisper of our problems (an inexcusable murder rate, etc.), and Gavin's continued fondness for icy-blue neckwear.

It really is all about the other side of Market Street now.

Along with neighborhoods that we've heard of before like Pike Place in Seattle; Hillcrest in San Diego; and Park Slope in Brooklyn, N.Y. -- our xenophobia runs deep, folks -- as well as hoods that we've never heard of such as Chatham Village, Pittsburgh; Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, D.C.; Elmwood Village in Buffalo, N.Y.; and Old West Austin in Austin, our very own historic North Beach arrondissement was named one of the top 10 U.S. neighborhoods by the American Planning Association.

The study was based on this neighborhood having the cutest little coffee shop, that neighborhood having the most darling homes, their OMG!!!-factors, etc.

-- Wing: With album titles like Wing Sings Elvis, Wing Sings AC/DC, Dancing Queen by Wing, and Beatles Classics by Wing, it's easy to see why she shot to cult-icon status and became a favorite of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who ended up using her in South Park. See her tonight along with comedian Lisa Geduling at 8:30 p.m. at Cafe Du Nord, Market and Sanchez Streets; $12.

-- Urban Capture the Flag: OMG! Our favorite game, ever! (At a certain Orange County youth group, though, the flock would sometimes remove one consonant. Can you guess which letter?) Come play capture the flag at 8:30 p.m. at Frank Ogawa Plaza (City Hall), Oakland; free.

-- The Cliks: FTM-fronted rock band from Canada performs along with Dolorata, Origami at 9 p.m. at Bottom of the Hill, 1233 - 17th Street; $10.

-- Joanna McNaney & Earl J Rivard: Acoustic folk while you wash your delicates! 7 p.m. at Brainwash, 1122 Folsom; free.