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Gavin Newsom wants to give former Mayor Willie Brown's a choice gift for his 75th birthday. He wants to rename a street in his honor. And not just any street, mind you; he wants to give him Third Street. which stretches five miles from Bayview-Hunters Point through Mission Bay, ending at Market Street. Newsom made the announcement on his weekly radio show this weekend while Brown was a guest. Brown pretended to act surprised when told the news, then Newsom handed him a street sign that read, "Willie L. Brown Jr. Blvd.'' The Board of Supervisors, however, would have to sign off on it. To find other SF streets renamed in honor of former mayors, check out SFGate.

While we work on a meaty and insanely brilliant review of the recently opened JewMu -- which is, in fact, kind of way awesome, complete with numerous, noted artists responding to the Book of Genesis, and a nifty Laurie Anderson sound piece based on a letter of the Hebrew alphabet -- here's a possible Benetton ad or picture featuring former Mayor Willie Brown at the museum.

At 74 years young, today former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown was named a torchbearer for the controversial Olympic flame's San Francisco tour. The tireless--yes, tireless!-- advocate for human rights and environmental concerns will drag his crazy-old-coot ass out for next week's "sustainable journey" torch run.

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Bad series of news items for the SFPD -- the rookie cop who accidentally shot himself at a party earlier this month when trying to demonstrate tips on gun safety was legally drunk (just barely), that cop, Jesse Serna, who keeps (allegedly) beating up people like Barry Bonds' trainer and Willie Brown's friends in North Beach just got the city sued again, this time for beating up a doctor starting his residency at Harvard (whose case was previously profiled by the Chron.)

Things have changed since our last post about Presidio Terrace. Go on, take a look at the old post - we'll wait for you. Now, instead of one Yellow Man inside the gate, it's a bunch. And they've brought a few friends along as well in a kind of virtual demonstration, as you can see in the screenshot above. Oh my!

Hey kid. An SFist editor would like to have some words with you. A 16-year-old from Belmont was arrested for planting those bombs around SF General yesterday. He was caught with another explosive device in his house, and they think he might have planted some bombs near SF General last month too. And yeah, you may have heard -- it turns out they were actual bombs.

Esther Hwang picked a bad day for a press conference -- normally, the media would be all over the former Willie Brown secretary turned cheesecake model turned San Francisco Law School student discussing the $1 million lawsuit she's filed against the SFPD for alleged brutality against her outside a North Beach bar -- but with everyone distracted by Ed Jew's flight from the law, Carole Migden's cancer-related bad driving, and in a city that now expects out of its mayoral girlfriends underage drinking, sordid affairs with best friends' wives, and/or misjudged blog commentary, Ms. Hwang's press conference seemed like a quaint trip in the San Francisco wayback machine to the last century.

Can no force stand up to power of Critical Mass? Willie Brown was no match for the monster .. but Willie didn't have a WALKING HORDE OF UNDEAD. Preliminary reports from local Zomboligists predict some sort of catyclismic corpse animation coming this Friday, the 25th, around 6pm. And by terrible, horrible, coincidence, that's exactly the same time that an army of revenge-seeking bicyclists will take the the city's streets. Epic battle is inevitable.

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 74.

Okay, we're a local news junkie Asian-American, and we're just going to say it -- we're a little embarrassed for our people from yesterday. Or, rather, we're going to strongly support investing more resources into Asian-American mental health advocacy and support groups.

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 72.

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 48.

It seems like the trick for getting something into this column is to hang out at Tosca's -- check out the following story we got passed along. Thanks, gentle reader!

Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro. Gary Singh infiltrates a ladies' drinking circle, while Chuck Reed goes drinking with the Merc News. Do note, Gavin Newsom, that Reed only drank two bottled waters the entire night. Cover article: Making Redwood City fun again (land use edition). Italian food in Los Gatos. Lemon trees in winter. Women chanters. A review of the Justin Timberlake show. And the Straight Dope: are the magnetic poles going to flip?

strong>Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 76 people plus two dummies and one dog.

Fist Rita is on a well-deserved holiday break so we apologize ahead of time for this week's suckage. Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 48

Breaking news on a Friday afternoon -- Gavin Newsom's chief of staff Steve Kawa has resigned. Stated reason: "I want to spend more time with my amazing family."

It turns out that Rev. Amos Brown-- African-American community leader, former City Supervisor, and the head of the Third Baptist Church-- is now shilling for Schwarzenegger in the upcoming gubernatorial election. What makes this so interesting is that Brown has in the past said not so nice things about Arnie, including that Arnie was part of "the national axis of evil" and was a "partner in crime" with the President.

The Chron is attacking the credibility of the Michelin guide on its cover today, as they dug out some gross and shamefully dated material about SF restaurants: belly dancing which had stopped 3 years ago, maître d' who had left the floor in 2000, etc. We don't condone googling material to fluff up a piece, as if we'd ever do that, but in the kicker, the Chron writes: "But if you come in with that pedigree, your fact checking has to scrupulous." Point taken, we will scrupulous a lot more, indeed.

The urchins in Haight Street sure are in the news a lot these days. First there was the super-excellent story in this week's SF Weekly. But of even more significance is that Gavin, while in New York, studied up on Central Park and got some ideas on how to make Golden Gate Park nicer. First thing up-- trying to get rid of the homeless.

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells column: 68.

Last week's winner, the SF Weekly: Matt Smith on defrauding the retarded. Chris Daly thinks the SFSOS flyer about him is funny. Cover article: graffiti artist Vulcan. Win a free copy of season 2 of the American Office. Meredith eats outside. Vashti Bunyan, the Silver Jews, and the Headphone Festival.

--Chemo the cancer dog was returned! As was Dixie, the other stolen dog of a sick child.

One Wednesday you're in, and the next you're .... out. Tonight: Independent bookstores all over town are closing left and right. Help the one on the left stay open at a benefit for Modern Times tonight. Local musicians, artists, and performers like Solidad diCosta, Ghost Family, Bahiyyih Maroon, Seeley Quest, Grant Donnelly and Joolie Geldner are donating their time and talent. Plus -- food and drink! Valencia x 20th, 7-9 p.m.

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells: 58

Wednesday night, a San Francisco commission is all set to take up one of the pre-eminent issues facing our fair city-- private booths in strip clubs. For those who have never frequented a strip club (we, of course, find strip clubs exploitive of women and those photos that circulated around the internet of SFist at the strip club are totally false and it wasn't our idea and we didn't pay for it!!!!), private booths are places where you can go and get a "special" kind of lap dance for extra money, all depending on the amount of money. Hey, sometimes you need a little privacy. The issue is whether to allow them or not.

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Saturday before last I saw Gavin Newsom. I saw him come into Cafe Grecco in North Beach, wearing a suit and his ubiquitous light blue tie. He sat down and drank a coffee in a DISPOSABLE CUP. And this is the guy that Vanity Fair calls a "green mayor"? I don't think so. He stayed pretty much to himself and everyone left him alone.

I didn't see Gavin, but on Friday I saw Willie Brown coming out of a limo parked illegally in the bus zone on 2nd and Folsom. About five minutes later Matt Gonzalez shows up. Matt came by foot at least. Then the limo in the bus zone drives off, only to be replaced immediately by a longer, more ostentatious limo that parked illegally in the same spot. Where's DPT when you need them?!

Well, it's April 19, 2006, and the goodwill created by celebrating disaster rising above disaster has now officially dissipated. The Chronicle reports that numerous public officials are disgruntled at various protocol lapses that left them feeling insufficiently fawned over at the big 4:30 a.m. party.

There was predawn political infighting because some elected officials weren't offered a coveted spot on stage, an awkward moment when the master of ceremonies called into the audience to locate former Mayor Willie Brown even though he was standing not far behind her, and what should have been a memorable finale with the crowd singing a roaring rendition of "San Francisco" puttered out because many didn't know the lyrics.