Photos of our new public plaza...

Mary Spicuzza's got it that "Supervisor Chris Daly picked up his mayoral nomination papers late yesterday afternoon." Now all he has to do is get some signatures, cough up a $3,776 filing fee, and fill out some more paperwork. Then, SF media has fodder to last us until God knows when. Thanks, Chris! Also, Spicuzza goes on to say that as of "Thursday at about noon, only four of the 31 candidates have actually......

Segway scooters on S.F. sidewalks...

Man, we were reading the Chron on the plane out of San Francisco on July 4 for vacation, balling our fists in frustration over missing the stories on Ed Jew's "part-time lover" response to the City Attorney's allegations AND the story about Aaron Peskin's zinger to Dianne Feinstein about her strange letter complaining about Chris Daly. No fair! (but thank you, SFist Jer, for covering it for us while we were gone!) Well, even......

So many recalls afoot these days, we're starting a new column! Today's recall news: a reader passed along these pictures of today's rather-sparsely attended Recall Peskin rally on the steps of City Hall. Looks like they got about a quarter of the 40 folks who signed the Peskin recall petition in the first place -- and it looks like we're the only people who even have news of the event up anywhere online. Our......

Quick, look out your window! Are pigs flying? Mark this day on your calendar, because pugnacious Supervisor Chris Daly has actually backed down on something he's proposed (other than running for mayor, that is). After getting inundated with calls from the media (presumably right-leaning) about his statement the other day about introducing a resolution before the Board of Supes calling for a permanent ban on the Blue Angels' noisy air shows over San Francisco,......

Gavin Newsom, why won't you just do a Question Time before the Board of Supervisors? Was it not enough to force all those citizens into renting chicken suits and drag all those innocent bloggers out at obscenely early hours on the weekends (read: 10 a.m.), just because you've unilaterally decided you don't like to take unscripted questions? Was it really worth it? Now just look what you've made Question Time originator Chris Daly do! That's......

Chris Daly gives a ride to a frind on his bike...

Hip, hip, HOORAY! Hip, hip, HOORAY! Catherine Bigelow, the Chron society columnist, is back from vacation, and here with a special report on Wednesday night's SF Ballet Opening Gala! Number of people pictured: 24. Number of people pictured whom we recognize: 3 (the Shultzes and Jerry Yang, though we did also recognize Angelique Griepp's Oscar de la Renta dress from SFMike's blog). Minority count: 3 (12.5%). Getty v. Traina: Too bad Gavin's in Davos this......

The rumors are confirmed! Supervisor Chris Daly has indeed grown a mustache. That's good progress on the handlebar we were suggesting, Chris! Don't worry, folks, we have word that he's shaving it off soon. This picture is going to haunt our nightmares tonight. Thanks to Luke Thomas from the Fog City Journal for passing it along!......

It's our column about District 6 Election Drama! Today's weekend episode: Everybody Hates Silver. Thanks to tipsters who work a lot harder than we do, we learned that Supervisor Chris Daly's ubiquitous string of green Mardi Gras beads are in fact his "District 6 spirit beads," which Daly wears to show his commitment to the L-shaped spit of land he represents. Well, we suppose it was inevitable that a counter-movement would start. A noted Daly......

What's everyone got against the San Francisco Sentinel these days, anyways? It's got beautiful photography, keeps an ear firmly planted on the ground of City Hall, and runs a fairly-entertaining gossip column to boot! Well, sure, there was that H. Brown controversy, but that seems to have resolved with H's summary axing from the site, right? Well, not quite. So all in this week, editors Pat Murphy and Luke Thomas are besieged on all sides. So SF political newssite Usual Suspects dropped the Sentinel from its blogroll this week. No reason was given, but Murphy's weekly gossip column seems to imply (if you can get through the obscurantist prose) that Alex Clemens said the Sentinel runs articles based on advertiser preference and doesn't get balancing quotes from all sides before running stories. But SFist is on the Suspects blogroll too and we don't get quotes from even one side before we run anything! What gives? Do we need to start reporting now or something too? On the left flank, Supervisor Chris Daly revives his smoldering feud with Murphy and reports that he's gotten a letter from the City Attorney that he believes makes clear that the Sentinel should be considered a political committee and thus should disclose all its donors to the ethics commission. And Supervisor Aaron Peskin wrote a letter to the Sentinel (scroll down) accusing it of being a Gavin Newsom love machine, to which the Sentinel accused Peskin of just being sore that the Sentinel broke the news of a secret Supervisor powwow he didn't want out. So what's going on? Is this some kind of H. Brown-related fallout? An upsurge in anti-Newsom sentiment? An increased call for media accountability for the holiday season? Or did we just lose our copy of the memo announcing that it's Everyone Hates Pat month? ...

This shhhhh really is bananas! Just like Gwen Stefani, Supervisor Chris Daly stuck it to the student teachers (stomp stomp), getting ev'ryone riled up (stomp stomp). He ain't no hollaback supe -- he ain't no hollaback supe! So what's the hollering about? What's it always about? MUNI! So Daly, who's been on the forefront of protesting the MUNI fare hikes, made a routine motion to put off discussing the rollback in the parking fees so it could be discussed at the same time as the other MUNI budget objections he and the transit advocates wanted to make. Supervisor McGoldrick then said he wouldn't vote for the motion. "Are you kidding me?," our peroxide-blonde cheerleader ska-punk-pop princess said. Sandoval then said he wouldn't either. Response? "F*** that!" Bring it, Chris! Chanting, gavel-banging, and the cops get called, after the jump. Yeah!...

What did we tell you, Chris? Switch to blogger.com! The Chron, fresh from learning that "blog" is short for "web-log," (gosh! You can read them any old time and they can be refreshed as often as you like? You don't say!), finally heard that Chris Daly's keeping a blog. Gasp! Unable to find any kind of way to use this as an excuse to call Daly juvenile, the Chron settles for implying that he's wasting taxpayer dollars by doing this on the sfgov.org website, and ominously implies that he might be breaking the law. Is blogging illegal now? And is it just us, or does the Chron seem a little sulky about Daly's slam on their coverage? Oh, the Chron can dish it out but can't take it, huh? (It's okay, The Chron -- we're all about dishing without taking here too!) We keep telling you, Chris -- blogger.com! Or Movable Type! They're totally free, no use of city funds, you can say whatever you want instead of being forced to restrict yourself to "civic" commentary and putting up those "You are now leaving the website of sfgov.org" splash pages before your links to beauteous sites like, say, Jerry and East Bay Assembly rep Loni Hancock and use the free blog software! We're dying to know what it's really like in the Board of Supes antechamber! Pic off the DalyBlog. We hope it's okay to use the picture, it is just so freakin' awesome. ...

San Francisco rejects Cheney's politics but continues to embraces his sunny demeanor in the face of conflict, with the school board issuing a reprimand at its meeting tonight over the pottymouth outburst at last week's meeting. ...