-- Van Halen jumps. [SFGate] -- Tommi Avicolli-Mecca to be visited by three ghosts Xmas Eve. [Beyond Chron] -- Gavin Newsom wants to be President of the U.S.A. you to get healthier. [Matier and Ross] -- SWL 337 Planning Challenge winners announced. (Go Jackson!) [Curbed] -- Susan Leal hit by a car. Chin up, girl. [CBS5] -- San Francisco's 100th homicide. [The Snitch] -- Bloggers, copyrights, photos, and lots of hair pulling. [Laughing Squid]......

SFist interviews Charlie M. from The Happy Hollows. They are playing the Fillmore tonight with the Silversun Pickups...

Here's todays sports news...

As promised, non-mayoral candidate Chris Daly's proposing his nonbinding resolution to ban the Blue Angels from flying over San Francisco at the Governmental Audit and Oversight Committee meeting today. Daly, who's been working with Code Pink, Global Exchange, and Veterans for Peace on the resolution, is asking that San Francisco elected officials work to reduce unnecessary military flyovers in the area, saying that the loud jets are a threat to publich safety; upset pets,......

Van Halen held a press conference today to unveil specifics of the band's upcoming national tour. This is the first time in 22 years that "Diamond" David Lee Roth will be performing on such a tour with the band. The tour starts in September, but won't won't be anywhere close to San Francisco until November, so crossing our fingers that, um, Roth will still be with the band at that point. ...

Just in time for July 4 -- the forecasters are predicting that a high pressure system rolling into the area's going to make it a sweltering week. So hooray if you like it warm! (And boo if, like us, you're a fan of the fog.) Meanwhile, that's a YouTube clip of Hot For Teacher by Van Halen, because it has the word "hot" in the title.......

SFist interviews Craig Billmeier aka Hot Lixx Hulahan, US air guitar champion. ...

In honor of Van Halen being nominated to the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, we give you this, a video of prime Van Halen in 1981 playing "Unchained" at the Oakland Arena. If we remember correctly, this was an actual video MTV would occasionally air. Yeah, R.E.M was nominated too and we would have played one of their videos, but we couldn't find one with a shirtless, boot wearing Michael Stipe leaping off......

Forget PTA bake sales, a coterie of SF's movers and shakers are hosting "Hot for Teachers," a party to benefit projects in Bay Area schools, at Club Mezzanine (444 Jessie St. near 5th and Mission). Enticements include: gourmet mac & cheese, a Van Halen tribute band, and a chance to win live auction "Hot for Learning" packages like ... "How to be Mayor." As Gavvy-N is on the honorary host committee, we're thinking we......

Dick and George may have thought they were getting off scott-free a few weeks ago when Sean Elsbrend decide to move Chris Daly's impeachment measure to the rules committee, but they were wrong. Oh so wrong. Because yesterday, your San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted by a 7-3 measure to impeach Bush AND Cheney. For those keeping score at home, that would mean your new President would be Dennis Hastert. Said Daly during the vote, "I think the case (for impeachment) is clear, and I think it's appropriate for us to weigh in." Look for the Board of Supes to also weigh in on the UAE port deal, social security reform, and "American Idol." ...

We wanted to write two things to recap the year. The first one was our favorite songs of the year, the other one a recap of sports. We couldn't do it. We actually tried to put together our favorite songs from the year but once we read Pitchfork's Best Of list, we knew we couldn't compete. Those guys are just so much cooler than we could ever be. Plus, we have to admit that we don't really listen to new music these days. No, it's not because we're old fogies (well, maybe), but because it's way more fun to download (legally, of course) music that you liked way back in the day than suffer through Live 105 for hours on hours just in hopes you hear something new that is actually worth hearing again. That's the thing about this Internet. In a way, it makes it easier to listen to new music but it's also easier to just pull yourself into some sort of musical bubble in which you do nothing but listen to twenty year olds songs that you liked back in the day and haven't heard since then. And seriously, would you rather listen to the Killers or Van Halen? We think that choice is obvious. So with that in mind, we thought we'd combine our two write ups-- we're going to list our favorite music downloads of the past year with our recap of sports. We're not sure, but we think the kids call this a "mash-up."...