From the far-superior-to-SFist blog Fog City Journal, Elaine Santore tweets, "Spotted: Tony Hall Hall filing papers for D7 at City Hall." Hmmm. Interesting, indeed. (elainesantore/Twitter)......

Maybe Tony Hall needs to put a yellow sticky on his campaign credit card and label it "FOR CAMPAIGN USE ONLY" -- the SF Ethics Commission has decided to proceed on charges against the former city supervisor based on the alleged misuse of funds in his star-crossed attempt to run for mayor last year, and his defense is that he used the wrong credit card. Namely, that $320 of what Tony Hall characterized as "office......

Larry Craig's police interrogation audio -- Senator Larry Craig still a lying homosexual. [Examiner, via AP] -- Tony Hall calls it quits. [Chron] -- Jackson West's last column for now. Good luck on the other coast, Jackson! Weep, weep. [Chron Blog] -- Harvey Milk Club hearts Tommy Ammiano and Kamala Harris. Of course. [Left in SF] -- Cupertino/Stevens Creek Canyon fire contained. [SJ Merc] -- BM suicide. [Chron Blogs] -- AIDS housing advocates and......

You think Gavin means it when he tells Ken Garcia that it's kind of freaking him out that no one's running against him? Well, there's one more down: ABC 7's Dan Noyes has the scoop that Tony Hall has dropped out of the race too. Hall was the one unambiguously-serious mayoral candidate running against Gavin Newsom (and by "unambiguously-serious" we mean was a wedding singer but does not have an animal in his name and......

Recently accounced mayoral candidate, activist Josh Wolf, was seeking signatures to get him on the ballot sans fee at the Noe Valley Farmers' Market on Saturday. It wasn't a great day for it weather-wise, but he was meeting and greeting nonetheless....

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......

Well, it's about time! As the progressives run around in a circle waving their hands around in terror for another week or two until June 2, the more right-leaning folks have decisively made their move! Former supervisor and sometimes lounge singer Tony Hall has filed his paperwork to run for mayor. Tony Hall's been famously irritated with Gavin Newsom ever since Newsom dumped him off at the Treasure Island Development Association to give his Supervisor's......

ABC 7 is the latest people to do a survey on Gavin and all the recent Gavin news and found out that the dude is still pretty popular in town, all to the tune of 75% approval ratings. That's five percent higher than the poll Matier & Ross wrote about last weekend. ...

Well, that was certainly a mortified apology and a hasty retreat. We'll take Chris "The High Road" Daly's cue and refrain from comment about the principal players in this sad story -- but we are wondering: what's the effect of this on our current issues of obsession in the current political scene? What about..... Question Time?: The SFWall's done a 180 on this, with people now seeming to agree that maybe Gavin should suck it......

It's the return of our column where we compile all the attacks and defenses of Gavin Newsom in one handy place! This week it's all attacks, though. Send your Newsom defenses here! (or post 'em in the comments.) So... who's on this week's list? Let's bring 'em out! --Aaron Peskin and Ross Mirkarimi!: Luke Thomas at Fog City Journal reports that Supervisors Peskin and Mirkarimi decided to take advantage of Gavin Newsom's much-touted "open door......

Now that Gavin has stopped playing coy and moved ahead with his re-election plans, the question is who will step up to run against Mr. 80% Approval Ratings? It's the parlor game anyone can play! So far, the question has been pondered in the Bay Guardian, Beyond Chron, and yesterday's Matier & Ross column. And the answer, so far? Nobody has the cajones to. ...

If you read the comments on this blog closely, you'll see that we suggested that, in light of Gavin Newsom's new Matt Gonzalez-influenced coffure, the next obvious thing would be for us to find a picture of Matt Gonzalez brushing his hair like Gavin's. Well, we're pleased as punch to say that someone has risen to our challenge! Look how more regressive Matt looks! You can practically see him chasing the homeless out of San......

They fight, and bite, and fight and bite and fight -- the Newsom and Daly show! Is Daly Itchy or is Newsom? You guys pick! The eternal conflict between the cat and the mouse flared up again today as Newsom called up the Chronicle editorial board all special, just to complain about Daly's city propositions A (more money for crime prevention) and C (Transbay Terminal reform). Newsom's also unhappy about D (Laguna Honda reform), but......

On Wednesday we relished reading Matier and Ross's column about a brouhaha involving the San Francisco Film Commission. Seems that while shooting days in The City are up, all is not well between the commissioners and the executive director, Stefanie Coyote -- whom loyal SFist readers will remember from her previous brouhaha with deposed Treasure Island impresario Tony Hall over the Rent production. So Stefanie gets in a fight with former deputy director Michael Billington......

Hey, no one told us that Gavin was giving a State of the City address last night! We totally would have gone! It was all blah blah blah, Tony Hall, blah blah beautification, blah blah wind and solar power, but Newsom also announced that he's thinking about starting a science and technology high school over in Mission Bay. Going on the NY model, SF has one general Stuyvesant-type magnet school (Lowell) and a FAME-type......

Are you listening, Tony Hall? You may have been kicked off Treasure Island, but with that fat severance package you can afford to pick up Forbes Island, a 700 ton, 50 by 100 foot houseboat and restaurant. And if Gavin refuses to give you Sean Elsbernd's job, you can pick up and sail anywhere you like. Like up the delta to Sacramento. Seriously, at the current high bid of $222,322, this thing is a......

SFist would like to extend a warm welcome to all of you who found us via SFist Chuck's SFist Tech Roundup. Lotsa other stuff besides our contemplation of Apple's bigger plan over here at SFist last week... Like our contemplation of The Orphanage's bigger plan, which we promise to never contemplate again if they give SFist Matty-Matt (who appeared during KRON's coverage of the story a day later, as he raised his hand at......

Like most people who lose their job, Tony Hall is now currently looking for work. Sure, the loss of his job meant a super-nice severance package ($254,500, health benefits, and thousands more in a pension), but he had to go through the indignity of being fired from a cushy little gig and had to give up the Aviator SUV that was leased to him. Besides, unemployment is SO 2001. So naturally, he did what most......

Remember three years ago, when all your media-employed friends had to suddenly go from pulling down a dot-com salary to working retail and collecting unemployment? We spoke to a manager at a North Beach postproduction house a year ago, and he told us that even though most of their competition had gone out of business, they were still struggling -- there just wasn't any work. It was a rotten time. Well, good news: the......

If you read the Chron in the mornings the way we do (i.e., looking for airline deals in the national section, scanning the Bay Area section in hopes of pictures of an angry Daly, only opening the Business section to read Dilbert, and then idly wondering if maybe you should get into Sudoku), you may have glancingly noticed some articles about Treasure Island administrator Tony Hall in your cruise through the local news. (The SF Sentinel also weighs in here.) What's going on over there? Certainly you're not going to actually read those articles, are you? Well, your source of oversimplified explanations of the news -- SFist Book Reports -- comes to your rescue! So here's what's up. City Controller Ed Harrington says that Tony Hall has put $173,000 of public funds in a private bank account. And that the private bank account is earning less interest than other public city investments. Harrington is calling for an audit of the funds. Hall says all that money was properly reported to the city, and that he's being targeted by enemies, like "the junior staff of the mayor's office." That's it? That's it. You may now return to skimming the paper with a clear conscience! ...

SFist would like to point out that if you haven't had a chance to give for the Tsunami effort, you still can. We know it's hard in the weeks following Christmas, what with your budget probably blown to bits. This is the last time we ask, we promise. That doesn't mean we won't highlight other ways you can help in the future, like HiMY SYeD's Global Vigil for January 26th. We're not perfect. Couldn't......

If this blog entry suddenly disappears, you'll know why -- P.J. Corkery of the Examiner reports that after his column gently mocking Tony Hall and P.J.'s friend Frank Gallagher as "the Laurel and Hardy" of San Francisco over the Rent shenanigans ran, he received an angry, rambly voice mail from Mr. Hall himself. After defending himself at great length, Hall then said, "PJ, this is personal. When you get personal, I don't like that. Because that means it's a fight -- a two-way street. And we have our own ways of going about things." Um, yikes! Mr. Hall, we hope you don't read this website -- we're not very good at fighting. We never meant any of those things we said about you, honest! And please don't run over Mr. Corkery in your SUV that city taxpayers are paying $948 a month for! It's so hard to find entertaining political columnists these days! ...

The ongoing landlord-tenant dispute known as the Rent movie negotiations flared up once again, with Chris Columbus's production team claiming they were promised free use of the facilities on Treasure Island, and the City claiming they needed to fork over a security deposit and other niceties. Please do note the irony of squatting in a film studio to film Rent -- okay, thanks. Please also note the irony of Tony Hall claiming that Rent is misusing city funds when he's having the city pay for a new SUV and his Christmas party. (obligatory libel CYA: those may actually be legitimate city expenditures.) Thanks again. So after tears, recriminations, and threats to move back to New York, Rent will be coughing up $12,500/month for studio space, plus utilities, and the rent goes up in July to $20,000. And you thought $1800 for a one-bedroom was too high. Local filming is scheduled to start soon, though it's unclear whether star Idina Menzel's Wicked injury will affect the schedule. ...

Okay, we're stealing this link from Usual Suspects, who found it first. (but if we give them credit, it's all okay!) PlanetOut.com, in connection with their voting Gavvie the person of the year, is running an online survey called "Who should play Gavin in the movie?" (We voted for k.d. lang.) More importantly: will Peter Coyote play Tony Hall negotiating the movie production of the movie, in the movie? ...

[Ed. Note: This is maybe too personal, but anyone looking for a room in a share, east Mission?] Oh man, it's already started to look like some kind of boozed-up, stuffed to the gills, Xanax and Percocet inducing kind of holiday season -- and we love it! Nothing like depressants in pill form and drinking on an empty stomach to ward off that ten pound weight gain. Contact your doctor. On the other hand, however......

First we had to deal with the drama of New Yorkers whining over Rent interiors being filmed on Treasure Island, prompting Revolution Studios to assure Gothamist that exteriors would be shot in NYC. Now we have to deal with former Supervisor and current Treasure Island Development Association director Tony Hall whining over Rent interiors being filmed on Treasure Island. No, Tony isn't nostalgic for the East Village of the early nineties -- he's more......