For reasons better left unsaid (and in the name of tasteful censorship), we here at SFist are enjoying ABC 7 Dan Noyes' new publicity shot. Very much so. (Even better than the old one, yes? Yes.)......

Update: Now with "correct" spelling! We understand that it's common for coaches to put their game plans (strategy notes? football-y documents?) in their pants. What is strange is Standford using the following shot of Coach Jim Harbaugh, with his plans tucked neatly near his crotchal area, as their marketing tool of choice on 2007 football publicity handouts, wallet-sized calendars, and flyers. Behold: Looks a bit crude, which we like since it almost makes football interesting......

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Even though he defected to Los Angeles, we were tickled when local fave Keith Knight took home a Harvey Award. Now another Bay Area sequential artist is up for a prestigious comics industry award. Melanie "Minty" Lewis was nominated for an Ignatz Award for her P.S. Comics #3, a book we bought at this years' Alternative Press Expo and totally loved....

While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton's San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan's cab must keep its (in)famous medallion number, 666; and in an un-fashion-forward frenzy, San Francisco Fashion Week (chortle) bars bloggers from covering and getting smashed at their shows and parties, respectively. Also, they found a......

So a bunch of bloggers had a few drinks last night, or as someone on the Wall and SF Junto put it "some lame meeting of whiney bloggers at a hipster bar” when Alex and Maggie of the strangely peculiar blog, The Mayor and the Hair, came by and asked if one of them was Dean of Gavin Sucks. It was. And so, they dumped their alcohol on poor Dean, who had to spend the rest of the night wearing a wine and beer soaked shirt....

Well, look who's back for round three with the media! That's right, girls' girl and bumblebee Jennifer Siebel is tentatively tiptoeing back into the publicity news rounds, with a soft-focus lens interview in her daily newspaper, the Marin Independent Journal. In this interview, Jennifer Siebel rambles on and on about how she only went to business school to please her parents ("a pattern for much of my life"), cries a lot, says she only gets......

Okay, our treatment of Muni drivers hasn't been totally kind lately, but that doesn't mean we hate them. We yearn -- yearn -- to write some stories about awesome drivers. And lo and behold, the opportunity to do so just fell into our lap, thanks to Muni's publicity agents. It would seem that last Valentine's Day, some dude dropped his wallet on a bus. And the driver found it, called the number on the......

Oh, so Jennifer Siebel is that kind of girl: the kind that doesn't like other girls. People are abuzz about the comments that Gavin Newsom's current companion made in what was otherwise a kind of fluffy throwaway interview in the Sunday Style section of the Chronicle -- where she lashed out at people criticizing her man's behavior with the wife of his campaign aide by saying, "the woman is the culprit.." Oh, nice. Here's the......

For those of you who felt left out of the whole Alqueda Teen Hunger Force terrorist plot, don't you worry, we weren't left out. It turns out twenty of those things were scattered throughout the city. Unlike those idgits in Boston, nobody seemed to think anything of it. So no complaints were filed and no press conferences were held with people trying to explain why something that looks like one of those Lite Brite things was some nefarious plot hatched by people hiding in caves. In fact, one of the ones that was found was found over the weekend on a sign above an art gallery on Clement Street and not only did nobody call it in, but the person who found it thought it was cool. When the batteries went out, he just took it down. ...

Mountain biking is a grass-roots sport that is only about one bake sale above your local group ride in terms of publicity and prestige, but it is an exciting sport that requires intense fitness, training, and dedication. At SFist, we understand the sport and the culture around it. We also understand what makes a good mountain bike race. To that end, we've reviewed the 2007 MTB racing season in order to provide our readers with a summary of this year's most interesting Northern California events.

So grab your bike, sharpen your elbows, and strap on a number plate for some challenging dirt action, or pack up the camp chairs, the cooler, and the kids, and head out to the races for a cheap day of fun and entertainment. Even if you aren't interested in competing, check out some of these events. You will see amazing feats of cycling prowess, discover the latest in space-age materials and designs, and probably pick up an armful of free posters, stickers, and other industry schwag.

As previously reported on SFist, today is the day the official, real Question Time is supposed to happen. Sometime today, the Board of Supes will read off all the names of people who should be in attendance and add one name to the list, that being Gavin's. Gavin won't be there, of course, because he will be at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, hobnobbing with the stars, both poltical and movie. His attendance at the confab, however, isn't going over very well with some people. ...

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to....

Previously on "Survivor," a load of people were segregated into racial tribes in an attempt to garner some cheap publicity for the show. That "bold" idea lasted about three weeks before things in "Survivor" land were back to their usual predictable ways. And at that point, all we cared about was the fate of local boy Yul. And that continued to be the case yesterday during the season finale. The morning after Tribal Council, and......

Chris Daly's having a party! Look at the elaborate evite he's designed, inviting Gavin Newsom to appear before the Budget and Finance Committee meeting tomorrow today [we forgot today is Wednesday!] at 1 p.m to explain why he needs extra money for the police department. "Please join me for an exciting Budget and Finance Committee meeting tomorrow to discuss your 'Violence Response' supplemental appropriation!" Ha! We bet it will be exciting. That Cubist-y gavel graphic......

Remember way back to this spring when there was a Democratic primary? And that one guy who looked like Phil Rizzuto beat the Really Boring Guy to take on the Governator? Whatever happened to him? Yes, it's only been a few weeks into the main part of the campaign for Governor, that being after Labor Day, but questions are already being asked about whether Phil's campaign is either doomed or just F-----.. ...

Well, is our face red! We screwed ourselves out of a couple of free 40 buck lunches! For the second year in a row, we talked smack about our nomination for a Pubby Award, the SF Bay Area Publicity Club's Media Excellence Awards. However this year's awards banquet had a surprise twist (at least, it was a surprise to us): according to a source within the SFBAPC Sorry you couldn't make the Pubbies Award program......

You'd think that after our ungrateful sniping about the way we were (without our knowledge) nominated for a "Pubby" award, that the San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club would blacklist us from all future events. However, it was not to be, as we just recieved notification that we were nominated again this year! (This is the part where we'd link to the award information on the BAPC site, but they barely mention it as of......

We're inundated with the hottest variety of shows you could ever hope for. ...

While we'd like to be able to sympathize with grumpsters who foretell of the fall of Western Civilization at the hands of taggers, we just can't. Graffitti is as old as the first prehistoric punks who got a little tipsy on fermented fruit and scratched big spears and boobies onto rocks. And who hasn't seen throw ups by Neck Face or Ribity in some far-flung corner of the globe, smiled, and thought "That's right, Frisco......

While some consider Memorial Day the official start of summer, we know it is marked by a different occasion: the premiere of crappy summer TV shows! While last week was a nice little vacation from TV slavedom, complete with even more deletions from the TiVo Season Pass list, those empty spots are quickly getting filled up. Let's see what the evening has to offer, shall we? Tonight is devoted to slightly nightmarish plastic surgery-laden......

Following up on our past posts on problems with Ocean Beach bonfires, SFist reader Owen has this to say (we added the links): The Golden Gate National Recreation Area is considering a total ban on bonfires at Ocean Beach. They spent approximately $90,000 last year cleaning up after beach fires and responding to law enforcement calls relating to them; neighbors and beach visitors have complained about hazardous litter (nails, glass, etc) on the beach,......

These shows prove that the realm of divahood doesn't just consist of hissy fits and Botox or even transvestites....

Perhaps a result of the recent spate of publicity surrounding laptop thefts at cafes, super-fine SFist reader Sugam observed this behavior: So, this morning... I stop in at the corner coffee shop which is buzzing with the usual unemployed people (usually with emo hair, or Marina hoop earings) busily tapping away at their PowerBooks and iBooks (occasionally Dells). I order a bagel and a coffee and as I wait recognize a neighbor sitting next......

You know how GoldenPalace.com is buying everything weird for publicity? Like the grilled cheese sandwich with the Virgin Mary on it, or hiring streakers? (Their list of auctions is some pretty entertaining reading.) Well, they were stymied in their attempt to purchase Jerry Garcia's toilet -- after paying $2550 for the pink-colored throne, it was stolen, along with three other toilets and a bidet, from the current owner's driveway. Golden Palace is offering a $5000 reward for its return. Wonder if Golden Palace staged this whole thing? In San Anselmo, a 16-year-old is so upset about the theft of her bichon frise that her parents have allowed her to stay home from school today. She and her mother were at the DMV applying for her learners' permit, and they'd left the bichon in the car for about 20 minutes. When they came back, someone had opened the door to their Saab (whose locks were broken) and taken the dog. They paid $850 for the dog, which was a present for the daughter's 14th birthday. He's white with brown markings around the eyes, and answers to Napoleon -- if you see him, call the CHP at 415-924-1100 or page Mom at 415-258-5080. And yipes! A car chase that began on 18th and Mission last night raced onto the highway and culminated in a dramatic crash on Treasure Island. The driver repeatedly rammed his car into the cop cars, injuring two officers. Officers then fired at the car, injuring two riders. A third passenger was injured in one of the ramming incidents. ...

When the Chron bites, it bites down hard -- check out today's editorial about Gavin Newsom whining about his love life. Funny, he didn't seem to mind the publicity when he was posing on the carpet. Since news hit that Mayor Gavin Newsom was seen kissing "CSI:Miami" star/scientologist Sofia Milos at a North Beach cafe, he has been a bit on the defensive side -- complaining about all the media attention and the hardships of maintaining a private life. Maybe we would feel a little more sympathy for him if it weren't for those haunting images of the mayor and his soon-to-be-ex-wife Kimberly Guilfoyle all snug as two bugs on a billionaire's rug for a Harper's Bazaar spread. . . . . You can't call the media on the carpet when you willingly lie down and pose on it for them. Good an excuse as any for us to haul back out the retired so-best carpet picture itself! ...

What is there to say about the Barry in Drag photos that hasn't already been said? Like everyone else, our first reaction was "what the..?" followed quickly by "that's pretty funny" with a little bit of "hmmm...that does look like steroid bloat" thrown in at the end for good measure. You have to hand it to the dude, in one fell photo-op swoop, he managed to get himself some really good publicity. Who doesn't love it when big, burly athletic dudes show up in drag? ...

The Olympics are finally over, and television is returning to its regular line-up of tired reality shows and midseason replacements. We're stoked. For the past two weeks Donald Trump and Martha Stewart have been embroiled in a very public feud over just who is to blame for the general suckiness and failure of both of their "Apprentice" shows last season. We have no desire to pick sides here because we can't help but think......

It's all about good causes here at SFist. And while we're not sure if they really qualifies as a good cause, it's certainly a funny one. Matt Stewart is planning a wedding, and what really makes a for a rockin' reception is a good band. Being the superfan that he is, he thinks that he's offering a primo opportunity for fabulous publicity to one of the most enigmatic musicians of our time -- Axl......

So are the people behind the J.T. Leroy hoax all irritated that James Frey has gotten the bulk of the publicity -- and subsequent sales boost -- in the "Authors who misrepresent themselves to the public" press beat? Is that why Geoffrey Knoop is now giving interviews in which he admits that (former) partner Laura Albert was the one who created J.T. Leroy, wrote under that name, and duped all sorts of literati? We......