Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. more ›

Who's that being spotted Hollywood clubbin' with Giants' curveballer Barry Zito? more ›

It keeps the post office busy -- the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates A Spending Cap. more ›

even as we speak. Even as we speak! We were so eager to get this post up that we're recycling our old Us Weekly style picture of Kim only five months pregnant, rather than hunting down a new one. more ›

closed the San Francisco International Film Festival Thursday night to a sell-out crowd. Despite the fact that public radio fans plus Robert Altman devotees do not equal red carpet spectacle, SFIFF did roll out the (albeit very short) red carpet guarded by velvet ropes, with staffers wearing head sets and staring officiously down their noses at the unwashed masses. There were even paparazzi hovering on the other side of the velvet rope, although when we passed by they were mostly just joking around with each other. We would have stuck around to gawk on the off chance that Lindsey Lohan might show up and have a wardrobe malfunction or some other US Weekly notable moment but those public radio fans move pretty fast in those Birkenstocks and we had to race inside to grab a seat before they were all filled with KQED tote bags, Patagonia jackets and hemp scarves. more ›

Thanks, SFist Jackson, for the bang-up Photoshop job showing what the union of Mr. Newsom and Ms. Milos might look like! (Scientology Sea Org cap added by Jackson.) And keep those name-the-couple entries coming! We picked "CSI: Plumpjack" from the comments but that's not necessarily an indication of who's going to win! As we do our part to keep up the famed "blog chatter" on Gav-boy and Scientologist Sofia (including a shot in this week's US Weekly as a "hot new couple"), Newsom's released a frantic statement: "I'm Catholic! They didn't talk about Scientology at that dinner I went to, just psychiatry! I wasn't even listening because I was focusing on playing footsie under the table!" (okay, we made that last part up.) "I think everyone needs to take a deep breath and get back to focus on things that matter in this world, like homelessness, housing and poverty," our mayor said. Well, all right, Mr. Mayor, let's do that. According to the latest survey (as reported by anti-Newsomites Beyond Chron, even though the poll itself hasn't been officially released), Newsom's approval levels have dropped to about 50%, from his high of 80%. Beyond Chron speculates that it might be related to Newsom's inconsistent performance on crime and the SFPD. And folks on the sfwall.net are saying that apparently Newsom looked surprised on Channel 2 News this morning when they confronted him with the numbers later. Hm.... maybe talking about Ms. Milos instead (video) doesn't look quite so bad now in comparison! more ›

Brangelina..... TomKat.... Bennifer 2.... Filliam H. Muffman -- every celebrity couple of the moment has a fun blended name! So help SFist come up with the it name of the moment for our hot couple of the week -- Gavin Newsom and Sofia Milos! Gavia? Newlos? L. Gavin Hubbard? Post your suggestions in the comments and we'll give the best one some SFist swag! You'll have to settle for more goofy pictures of Gavin and Sof., as we try and figure out just exactly how US Weekly does those pictures where they combine the couples' faces together and call it, "What Will Their Baby Look Like?" (SFist Jackson is working on it even as we speak.) more ›

To the tune of Beethoven's Fifth: Beethoven's skull...... Beethoven's skull..... So it turns out some guy in Danville's had fragments of Beethoven's skull sitting in a safe-deposit box, and he's turned them over to San Jose State, which apparently collects bits and pieces of Beethoven's body for their Center for Beethoven Studies. (The Center also has a lock of Beethoven's hair.) Is Beethoven like Lenin now or something? The Center is hoping that by examining the bones, they can determine whether Beethoven was killed by lead poisoning, and possibly extract DNA to determine whether Beethoven's deafness had a genetic component. There's a press conference later today, and the results of the forensic study (.pdf) will be released in the latest issue of the Beethoven Journal. (Look for it right behind US Weekly on the newsstand!) Says William Meredith, the director of the Beethoven Center, "I have no doubt that they are Beethoven's skull bones. Whenever I hold them or work with them, they strike me mute for the whole rest of the day. It's not a describable feeling.'' We'll go with the description, "ewwwwww." (but we're easily grossed out.) Picture of reconstructed skull from the Merc News, courtesy of SJSU and the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies more ›

SFist interviews Ambulance Ltd. more ›

We're only getting to this story now because it takes four days for magazines to travel across our great lands to us yokels out here in the Western hinterlands -- the New Yorker deigns to focus its little monocle on the far end of Democrat-Blue America and presents a rather one-sided hagiography of our boy wonder mayor, Gavin Newsom. more ›

summary of the Bay Area weeklies more ›