Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Standouts: (There are no major standouts this week) Please Let Us Know What You Think About: 1. Amy Winehouse - Frank: Winehouse doesn't have much luck - her last single, "Rehab," was so deliciously repetitive that it apparently drove her into exhaustion rehab. Will her next single be "Fuck Me Pumps" or "Amy Amy Amy"? We hope that nothing gets......

The dude who plunked down $752,467 to get the home-run ball that is #756 has decided to put it up to an online vote as to what to do with it...

Update: See Paul's comment below about why they had to do what they did, and what they're doing about it. Are there quiet, law-abiding people on Sixth Street? Sure, but it's hard to stand out when your neighborhood looks like something out of Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome -- take a walk down 6th, especially at night, and you'll find yourself surrounded by brawls, the mentally ill, drug deals, screaming gibberish, glazed-over eyes, and people......

In large part due to the strength of a rave review in the Chronicle, the Victoria was packed to the gills for the Sunday afternoon screening of Red Without Blue, a documentary about a pair of (local) identical twins, one of whom is transgender, for the Frameline LGBT film festival. Mark and Alex grew up as extremely close brothers in Missoula, Montana. As they entered adolescence, both realized they were gay, and in struggling to......

SFist Sara gets Knocked Up! (the movie -- the movie!) How can mainstream comedy be dead when Knocked Up is all about inventive delivery? (Get it? "Delivery?") Stronger than Judd Apatow’s last bluntly-titled summer comedy (The 40-Year-Old Virgin), Knocked Up stands up to both scrutiny and high expectations. The film is so funny it’s sure to have another life on DVD where you won’t be missing any of the punch lines because of the audience......

There's a profile of Phil Ginsburg, the new mayoral chief of staff, in today's Chron. Basically, it's a hard job, Ginsburg took a $75K paycut when he took it, and he was nonplussed when, about one week in, he got stuck dealing with the Ruby Rippey-Tourk/rehab circus. Also, Ginsburg is really into org charts. Interestingly, though, pretty much everyone admits (or at least doesn't deny) that Gavin is difficult to work with, and praise......

Set the rumor mill to spin: the latest word we're hearing is that everyone's favorite unstable gum-chewing rehab-graduating baldie mommy Britney Spears is making an attempted career revival at the Red Devil Lounge Monday night. You gossip mavens probably already know that Ms. Spears performed lip-synced a brief but dance-intensive 15 minute set in San Diego and LA earlier this week, under the name "the M+Ms." Well, guess who's listed on the marquee at the......

On time this week! Last week's winner: the East Bay Express. All pro-Wiccan letters except for one, which says witchcraft is not a religion. That's right -- it's a sandwich store! The mayors of Alameda and Oakland suck. Skating in the East Bay. Cover article: a local Burning Man DJ is popular, wants to get into hip-hop. That new movie by the Shawn of the Dead guys is pretty funny. Is payola coming back for......

As a Vans salesman recently told us, "Yo, Sis, this is fresh!" Maybe so. Tonight, learn about graffiti street artists as SF360 Film+Club returns to Mezzanine to celebrate the URB Next 100 Issue with a screening of Doug Pray’s film, Infamy. The film is an intense journey into the dangerous lives and obsessed minds of six of America’s most prolific graffiti artists. Doug Pray (“Hype!” and “Scratch”) teamed up with writer, publisher, and graffiti guru......

It's time for SFist Answers, trying to enjoy the weather from inside today....

And it's the (drum roll please)....BART. BART? ...

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. ...

You think Gavin Newsom'll shave off all his hair next, just like rehabbing Britney Spears? Okay, so where were we the last time we checked in with the Ruby Rippey-Tourk sick leave investigations? So the mayor's office and the Tourk family spokesman were taking the position that Rippey-Tourk got the city to cover her salary as paid sick leave during the time she was in rehab through the city's catastrophic-leave program, where people can......

One of those things you learn in rehab is to take it one day at a time (Valerie Bertinelli notwithstanding), though Valentine's Day can be one of the more excruciating days to get through, just dealing with the high schoolers on MUNI with the balloons, oversized stuffed animals and flowers alone. Difficult as it may be, remember, tomorrow it's all over and the candy is on sale. But tonight, it's the 2nd annual Pillow Fight......

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......

Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don't let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things we love, you included. Just be glad you're not amongst the things we hate. In New York, Gothamist isn't sure whether to love or hate......

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......

Here's the good news: there really isn't any news. Then again, who would know in the midst of the wall-to-wall Anna Nicole coverage? Oh, there was a staff shakeup and Gavin made a joke, but there really is nothing out there. No earth-shaking revelation, no new story of Gavin's lonely life living a Frank Sinatra tune, no clash with reporters. We guess that'll happen tomorrow for Fake Question Time II. That should be fun. ...

We don't mean to pour on the haterade, but we couldn't help but dedicate Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" to Gavin. In a perfect world, he would dance around to this song every morning while he picks out ties and logs onto SFist. Work it, Big G! By SFist Elaine......

p>Right on the Heels of Gavin's Announcement that he was going into rehab for drinking comes... you guessed it: San Francisco Strong Beer Month!

We really dread to be doing this, again, but here it is, your recap of the reaction to Gavin's admission that he's seeking counseling for booze. Or, as the NY Post puts it, "S.F. Sex Mayor In Booze RX." You know, we used to joke with our fellow -ists about how exciting our Mayor is compared to their boring, dreary Mayors (Gothamist's biggest scandal concerning Bloomberg was that he has bad fashion sense) but we're kind of over it. ...

The fallout of Gavin’s Bad Week has taken another turn, much to SFist's already bored chagrin, in that he just announced today that he's going to seek counseling for boozing. Now that "the Sopranos" is over, maybe that could be the sequel-- Dr. Melfi takes on as her new patient a handsome but troubled Mayor who breaks down everytime he sees snowy plovers by a pool. Newsom apparently told all of his Department Heads today what's up and to let them know that it won't entail him going into rehab so he'll be around to be Mayor. There goes our fantasy of him hanging with Lindsey Lohan and Mike Tyson in rehab. We also wonder if he'll do AA like Ruby did and so have to confess to everyone who he has wronged. Imagine that press conference. ...

Commenter and Friend of SFist Greg Dewar's running his semi-regular Blog Post Of The Election Mailers (also known as the Disinfo Rehab Mail Archive), where he collects all the political mailers sent out in San Francisco and posts them as a photomontage on his blog. Check out the last election cycle here. Since Greg doesn't live in an even-numbered district, he's asking in particular for any good Districts 4 and 6 mailers, or anything "freaky"......

Fall premiere week has officially begun and our TiVos are practically shivering in anticipation. (That would explain the fairly regular stop-and-start recordings we've been getting recently. Perhaps we should invest in one of those dual-tuner jobies? Sweet!) Tonight's riiily big shew is, apparently, "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," the first of two NBC shows loosely based on the backstage antics of a late night comedy show suspiciously like "Saturday Night Live." (This one's......

Cal is all over the blotter these days -- this time over a co-op, where 13 fun-loving residents had to go to the hospital after someone put something a little bit too funny in the space brownies. Two students and one recent grad have been arrested, and the cops are doing an analysis of the brownies (and cookie dough) in question. A house manager at the coop said, "We do not officially condone any of......

As our cab pulled up to the Castro Thursday night, our driver said "ANOTHER film festival? Don't we have one of those every week?" While a look at our email inbox indicates that he's not that far off base, dude, it's IndieFest! If IndieFest happened every week, we'd be in the hospital, rehab, or morgue, but we would have had a hell of a time getting there. Joining the crown filing into the The......

It's been a year of farewells for the Giants and after saying goodbye to Marquis, Woody, and J.T., the Giants officially bid adieu to another Giant of the early aught era, Rusty. Rusty was a bell and whistle in the bells and whistle laden Pac Bell Park when it opened. He was a mechanical robot stationed in right field who was supposed to come out during various parts of the game and do, well, we don't know what he was supposed to do because he never actually did do. Once the 2000 season started, Rusty was felled by mechanical issues and rarely made an appearance, although some would say "mechanical issues" really meant "sucked ass." Rusty was pretty much looked at with disdain since his announcement, kind of like Edgardo Alfonzo, and his loss will probably be mourned by no one. Also like Alfonzo. ...

SFist welcomes some new members of the family -- in English and in French (anybody want to contribute in Mandarin?). Oh, and Rehab the Crab! This is what happens when you introduce a conservative political columnist to postmodern critical theory. Though we admit, even we have a few pet conspiracy theories. Gerardo Sandoval owes Duane Baughman $15,000 -- a little more than a month's pay if he were the Assessor Recorder and made as......

The Giants and the Mariners are bad this year. Here at A's Brand Baseball, we take no special pleasure in writing that, nor do we do so in order to taunt the other baseball fans and writers on SFist. (OK, maybe a little of the latter.) Rather, we simply want to point out that when the A's won nine of ten games against those two sorry-a$$ teams at the end of June, it didn't......

With the weather turning nice and spring in the air, Giants' fans can't but help feeling a little hopeful these days. After a few dark, dark weeks, things are looking a bit up, especially in light of last night's 5-3 victory over the dastardly Dodgers and a truimphant return to .500 ball. Schmidt's off the DL and hitting them out, Barry has been cleared to start rehab, Jerome Williams is pitching better in Fresno, Noah Lowry snapped out of his funk, they took two from the A's, and they unveiled maybe the coolest alternate jersey in sports history. And wow, those A's fans are particularly testy these days, especially in regards to cracks about their Fearless Leader. More importantly, it looks like they found themselves a real, genuine closer. Ladies and Gentleman, may we introduce your new Giants savior, Tyler Walker. He of seven saves in eight chances, six since May 12. With two more games against LA and a weekend series against the first place Friars, the Giants can get back into the thick of things. ...