"Gimme head with hair/ Long beautiful hair/Shining, gleaming/Streaming, flaxen, waxen..." In 1906, we had the Big One. In 1989, we had Loma Prieta. In 2004, we had the Winter of Love. In 2006? Gavin let his hair down. As Peter Hartlaub wrote in the Chron: "Where Were You the Day Gavin Changed His 'do?" Well, we here at SFist were all over the story, giving you the breaking news that his hair was de-gelled and then giving you the breaking news when he became gelled again. Then, of course, there was the debate: did he look more like Matt Gonzalez or Nick Carter? How come nobody thought of the obvious Clay Aiken 'do? And for those of you who wondered why there wasn't anything else important going on, we covered that too-- the new do of Gav's 20 year-old girlfriend....

We here in the Bay Area may not agree on many things, but the one thing we do agree on is that MUNI sucks. Hell, even the Mayor realized this as he went all Grampa Simpson on us and whined about it. Whether it's litter or bad drivers or super-crowded busses, the week was nothing but one big huge MUNI kvetch. ...

As fall settles in and another calendar page gets turned, thoughts turn from bbq's and vacations to holidays and the realization that '06 is coming to an end. With all that going on, with change in the air, we wonder what is it that made that makes the -ists ponder? ...

We here at SFis-T are still not considered classy enough to have gotten a copy of the Chronicle's new magazine SFiS (no T) (thanks to our tipster for finding the online version!) -- but we can just imagine what their inaugural issue must have contained! --coverage of our favorite baseball franchise, the Gians; --a report on how our locals are doing on reality V; --the opening of another branch of the excellent pizza parlor Lile......

SFist Krissy's weekly music review column's not only indispensable for the latest indie rock goings-on around town and those must-hear .mp3s, but also hosts some cool-looking art too. Ratatat! In news, North Beach cracks down on public drunkenness, as the mayor imposes a citywide curfew on kids under 13. Hope that doesn't cut in on his dating life. We've got your hot athletic action too -- SFist sports editor Jon debuts our daily wrapup of......

We're so into our new Day Around The Bay short news summaries we're going to do Week In SFist in the same style! --Who is Brittanie Mountz? --Who is Erin Brodie? --What in the Sam Hill is going on over there at UC Berkeley? --Are you ready for some football? --Cody's Books on Telegraph is now a Halloween superstore. --Chinatown Ghost Tour -- boo. --Do we know anything about Dr. Phil? Or engineer fight clubs?......

Look how cute these penguins are! In soberer news, we're all still in shock about the Ohmeed Popal SUV incidents on Tuesday. Our condolences go to the family of the man killed in Fremont, we hope for a speedy recovery for everyone who was injured, and we sincerely hope that Popal gets the help he desperately needs. In other news -- Josh Wolf is out of jail; he could probably still make it to Burning......

Welcome SFist Jessica, our undercover tourist! The all-Alcatraz outfit was definitely a nice touch -- and we're still looking forward to the poignant watercolors she's going to paint of her time on the San Francisco Bay Quackers tour. Lots of local news tidbits this week: the musical saw competition, Hitler references by a departing Niner, the police escorts for the renegade sound system on the N Judah -- and we noted the difficulty of complying......

Thanks, everyone, for making our second birthday party such a blast! (and sorry to do this to you, Chris Daly, after you were nice enough to come to our party and sign all the bingo card squares offered to you, in the space labeled "Political Candidate" -- but we couldn't resist!) An extra big thank you to Varnish Bar and IODA for all their help putting the party together, and to DJ Ted for......

Hello on your puzzling adventures, Perplex puzzlers! We're hoping they lured you to our site out of your competitive spirit of gamesmanship, and we'll keep you with our obsessive coverage of most things Bay Area. SFist Jon braves the HTML wilds of table-formatting to serve up a heapful of truth about our local SF political scene. Quick, guess who this is: "Nice, affable, and completely ineffective. But we love the whole Gay Marriage thing." And......

This Sisyphus is just trying to get to the Exit Theater -- but what were we futilely trying to get done this week? *Just trying to get to work, darn it! The MUNI derailment in the Twin Peaks tunnel stranded 60% of the lines and delayed 100% of blameless San Francisco light rail commuters. *Trying to find love for our beleaguered mayor Gavin Newsom. (We've already totally given up trying to get any love for......

The debate rages on about whether Bevan Dufty is right to try and cancel Halloween in the Castro, and what that all means about the future of San Francisco. How do we balance the idea of fun for the city and security for neighborhood residents? As always, you readers impress us with your articulateness, thoughtfulness, and intense dedication to our beloved burg. Thanks, MattyMatt, for bringing up the subject and giving people a place......

Maybe everyone's just happy that our server seems back on the job (more or less -- sorry for the confusion, contest entrants), but we're glad to see all the lively conversations going on in the comments this week. Whether you're following the Tour de France, heckling or supporting Chris Daly, discussing art, keeping your culinary cool, or demonstrating your West Coast stickball pride, we're enjoying reading all of it. What really got you guys going......

As you may have heard, we had some server problems. They promise us everything's going to be better this week, though. So we're giving out our prestigious Second-Best Meltdown Of The Week award. (The new SFist server wins the First Best Meltdown of the Week award). Our nominees: *That guy who flipped out about his children seeing sex things in the Castro that got mocked on the Daily Show. *Poor KTVU, after realizing they......

Hope you had a good July 4 this week! Namely, we hope you didn't come anywhere near Joey Chestnut's 2nd place hot dog eating contest finish at your barbecues of choice. It was a week of transit woes -- Caltrain fares going up, inconvenient MUNI routes, and BART breakdowns. It wasn't any better on the roads, either -- some drag-racing teenage girl killed two members of the Tongan royal family in a car accident in......

We're so pleased with ourselves for coming up with this other Us-Weekly-style tagline for Kimberly Guilfoyle's bump-belly watch! Baby splashdown date around September. Ladies (and gents), if you want to land Baby Boy Guilfoyle-Villency, better get started now -- SFist Rain's got week 2 of your How To Get The Guy tips. But don't get too excited to plan that bachelor/ette party just yet -- there is now no sex in the city's champagne rooms.......

Getting ready for Tuesday's election? Study up on our handy-dandy chart of the gubernatorial candidates or our five-second summary of all the state and San Francisco propositions. Or pick sides in Ma v. Ja! And if your favorite candidate loses, well, he or she can always become a filmmaker instead. Free free free! A free Madame Butterfly performance, free We Are Scientists tickets, free readings, a free baseball, free stuff on Craigslist, and free......

Check out SFist Shelley with Henry Rollins (!!!) at last week's benefit for the West Memphis Three! MUNI madness: while SFist Eve meets the famous head of MUNI, Mr. Nathaniel Ford, SFist MattyMatt grits his teeth and waits in vain for the elusive 33. What else have we been doing? We're going to DocFest, the Mission Creek Music Festival, theater, and air guitar championships. We also went to check out the new Beard Papa......

The storybook romance of Gavin and Kim seems more concluded than ever, as Kim's announced her betrothal to another. If that's not depressing enough, the original Cody's bookstore is closing, the Webbies are a racket, and a Ferry wrecked into Pier 43. Things are tough all over, though -- look at the Chron! Between their grand jury informed writers getting subpoenaed and the lawsuit they're facing regarding their misidentification of a brutal cop, they're......

Congratulations to Cement Brunette for winning our Second Gavin Caption Contest, with the entry: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and girlfriend Sofia Milos seen rehearsing their "I've Had The Time of My Life" Dirty Dancing number for the upcoming California Democratic Convention variety show.. Ha! In other news, we saw some more movies for the SFIFF, including the controversial The Bridge, about suicides off the Golden Gate Bridge. We also saw the Yeah Yeah Yeahs,......

We saw movies, and more movies, and famous people, and more movies, and kinda porny movies, and French movies, and political movies, and locally produced movies. Movies! And thank goodness we had movies to escape to, so we could stop obsessively weeping over being called "garbage. Classy! We may be garbage, but we're Times Square garbage! We'd drown our sorrows in alcohol, but won't be doing so at the North Beach Festival. Gavin, you're......

Hey, did you hear it was the 100th anniversary of the Great San Francisco earthquake this week? Did you? Did you? Did you? We're loving reading the comments from girls participating in Alameda County's Girls Inc., and we wish we had cool Garfield candy like they do at the Chron. We also discovered the joys of photocruising in the sfgov.org archives and SF political Flickr accounts -- and congratulations to commenter zac, who won......

Everybody's a winner on SFist! Our fat ass wins cream puffs, The SF Chronicle wins a scoop, everyone named Rob Black wins their 15 minutes, and San Francisco wins second-best quality of life in the US. Pork wins on "Top Chef", Supervisor Alioto-Pier wins a baby (but no leave), and the SF Weekly wins because Rita says so. Who doesn't feel like a winner when they look at so best, commenter "E" wins back......

SFist Karen catches some Andy Goldsworthy-esque art on the beach. Meet the Ritual Roasters, the folks behind local politics website Usual Suspects, the guy who produced The Devil and Daniel Johnston, and some hot sexcake talk! Plus: we shamelessly speculate about the "CIA agent" posting notices around town. In sports: Giants (plus the new Barry show), A's, mountain biking, and the end of the women's NCAA tourney. We wish a fond farewell to abecedarian eater......

Holy crap Noise Pop! We're going, are you? We gave away tickets to Feist, Rogue Wave, and Craig Wedren. We went to see Feist and Rogue Wave. We ran interviews with Aqueduct, John Vanderslice and Bing Ji Ling. And when we were done with all that, we went Noise Pop Shopping.......

This week's big excitement? A tipster tells us TomKat's in town -- and we get in Defamer! And the New York Times! (Okay, the online version -- but hey, we'll take it.) We love you, tipster! Let's hear the money quote from our tipster one more time! "Jesus, he drags her pregnant ass everywhere, doesn't he?" What else happened this week? Sheesh. Lots of commuting woes this week, most dramatically the Gitmo protest at Market......

It's the questions (what..) it's the questions boy. Did Rain end up liking "The New Adventures of Old Christine"? When is it okay to call someone an "ofay"? Is coffee made from cold water good? Why is Commenter Matt so vociferous regarding his sexual frustration? Would you take a new swain where you've taken your ex? (We totally have.) What constitutes a serious shooting? What did you misspell? When can we forget about JT......

When life gives you lemons, you.... *set BART on fire *break someone's cell phone (allegedly) *wait for the Mac DVR *get in a District 6 shouting match with Joe Scarborough *do roids *win our Fake SF contest *read SFist on your Palm *vote for your favorite Gavin + Sofia couple name *pee on a Thomas Kinkade *check out St. Vincent de Paul's Project Runway benefit *yvesdrop *protest the 12 Galaxies! (scroll down to the......

Last week, all we wanted was our ten dollars, but he wouldn't give it to us. So, that means you'll have to get free stuff from us, instead. So, enter our fabulize away or name that (imaginary) baby, for some loot from SFist. Sure, sure, we're jumping the gun on the baby thing, as Gavin and Sophia are only dating. Then again, that's waht we thought about TomKat, and the next thing you know......

SFist Sam had a sandwich by our famous Golden Gate Bridge as she closes off the 23rd letter of her ongoing dine-around-the-alphabet series, while SFist Ced also stops by the Ws with a trip to Winterland. In SFist Family news, let's all raise our grande-sized paper latte cups wrapped in little cardboard sleeves in honor of SFist Jeremy and his new son! (And then let's run in fear from SFist Jeremy's wrath that we're going to a coffee place where they call medium-sized drinks "grandes"!) That makes two SFist babies in one month! Moving from babies to pets -- SFist Franny's going to do her doggie best to power San Francisco, and .... would you look at that adorable fat cat? The Tour of California huffs and puffs its way up Telegraph Hill, while down the street in North Beach, Mayor Gavin Newsom huffs and puffs his way through two dates over a whirlwind weekend. Barry Bonds'll be huffing and puffing his way through training camp -- that is, until he drops out again. And we move ever closer to getting citywide wireless internet access, which'll make it that much easier to steal elections in the future. Picture by SFist Sam...