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Tinkering with and/or eliminating rent control in California

Last week's winner, the deceptive SF Weekly. Letters abound, either outraged by the fake Barry Bonds story or entertained by the elk. Why don't the negative letters have the names of the authors? Are you now questioning all the journalism you read in the Weekly now, or did you just think it was a good joke? Matt Smith says Gavin Newsom is supporting a cult. No, not the cult of Gavin, though no doubt Gavin supports that too. Cover article: a family that's had two kids shot near the Sunnyvale housing project. It's a really interesting story! This weekend alone: Litquake, the Zine Fest, and Tease-O-Rama. It's good to live in SF! Meredith isn't so happy with an appetizer bar; SFist Ced isn't so happy with Meredith! Mercredi, C'est Ravioli will continue!!!! Yay! Recent disaster concerts in the Bay Area -- at least Lady Sovereign and Lauryn Hill showed up, unlike MF Doom. We liked Let's Get Killed's pensive mature tone about the tough times Rogue Wave's gone through, we really did. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and the Bouncer deconstructs the dive bar.

--No parking for your bulldozer? Just leave it on the beach. (Thanks to reader Joe, who sent this absolutely gorgeous postcard picture to us. GREETINGS FROM THE BULLDOZER!)

The suspense is killing us -- in the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates The Absentees.

Ever-vigilant SFist reader Robert Haaland tipped us off today to KGO talker Pete Wilson (not to be confused with the former governor, or the Canadian pro wrestler) pointing some love-related criticism at local gaydad Bevan Dufty and lesbimom Rebecca Goldfader. According to Pete (the radio guy, not the former Treasurer of the Kensington and Chelsea Conservative Association), Bevan and Rebecca have done their new son [UPDATE: and by "son," of course," what we really mean is "daughter"] a disservice by not being properly in love (they are apparantly "cavalier" and "careless" parents). The two are very close long-time friends, and they intend to raise young Sidney together, while living in the same house, and while taking close care of each other, but without actually marrying each other.

And the second in our school board interviews -- Kim Knox! Knox is currently a member of the local SF Green Party County Council, and blogs with Robert Haaland and Sasha Magee at Left in SF.

Last week's winner, the Guardian (which now has no pictures of the current cover on its site for us to use to illustrate this post -- this is a picture from Sonic Reducer): How Tim Redmond set up wifi in his home. Robert Haaland, subject of the latest poorly-scanning Joe O'Donoghue poem, pens an op-ed on the Gap. Background on the (now-averted) school strike. Doesn't Janet Reilly kind of look like Tori Spelling? [picture is not online] NoJANETrious! Cover: motorcycling around the world. A life coach named Pat Murphy, who does not run the SF Sentinel. [we like the new web design but it's awfully hard to find articles on it; you'll have to read it on paper.] Annalee Newitz gets called fat on Slashdot. We need better indie rock DJs. And the sex columnist on sock fetishes and fire fetishes.

Pillow Fight February 14th!!! Who wants to bet that Frank Chu just shows up? Banjo-pickin' blogger Jordan Klein will be appearing tomorrow and next Friday as part of the San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival. And congrats to Irene McGee for landing her show "NoOne's Listening" on 106.9 FM.

We'll start with the 2005 year-in-reviews. Robert Haaland says 2005 "was a great year to be a queer union organizer." Om Malik points out that the number of broadband connections grew 35% last year. And Jenguin literally looks back at 2005 with a selection of her photos.

While cruising our feeds for sexy items for our other gig, we stumbled across this little tryst in the blogosphere's bushes [NSFW]:

I was scheduled to judge a "Halloween Underwear Contest", but the club owner gave the promoter, Sean Masters, the green light to let the party get as risque as he wanted...The party lasted till 3 am with reports of a former candidate for San Francisco Supervisor naked on the stairway and full on sex going on upstairs!

Okay, so this is second-hand, so somebody could have just mistaken some regular naked guy for a former board candidate. On the other hand, saying 'a former candidate' doesn't necessarily rule out a candidate who won, even if it's contrary to the implication. And it's not the fact that someone with political ambitions is gay that intrigues us (hell, it would probably help their chances in this town) -- it's that someone with political ambitions might be hanging out naked at a Raging Stallion party! That's what we like to call getting in touch with your constituents.

Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. The saga continues! Robert Haaland snipes in the letters column about Matt Gonzalez's snipe in the letters column the week before, about an op-ed by Harvey Milk Club prez Greg Shaw that ran two weeks back. Plus, the world's most excellent article about infighting in the San Francisco left -- someone, please option this for TV! It's totally next season's Lost! They could call it Left! This week's op-ed is by an activist in the leather community about joining the SF People's Organization; we look forward to next week's angry response in the letters to the editor! It doesn't really matter what else is in the paper (but, just so you know, the cover article is about a Russian guy getting deported under bad circumstances, represented by fresh-faced attorney Rocky Tsai.) The Weekly: Matt Smith on bikes. Dog Bites says the SFIFF is badly run, and Ray Ratto uses the prefix "crypto" too often. Cover article: Ostensibly about a bad-boy photographer, but okay, okay, we only looked at the pictures of naked people, is that so wrong? Icelandic chanteuse Emiliana Torrini. (Why isn't her last name something "-sdottir"?) And Savage Love: foot fetishist, panty fetishist, and STDs. The EBX and the weekly of the week, beyond the expandotron.

Now, SFist and your Political Junkie are not really statisticians, but the preliminary data coming in from the RCV reports compiled by the Center for Voting and Democracy yield some pretty interesting results, as reported by the Examiner's Adriel Hampton.