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Week Around the -Ists

Londonist, celebrating their third birthday, watched as their city turned a little more American. The Miami Dolphins and New York Giants were in town, with some very big cheerleaders. US-style litigation hit the

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Bye Bye, Barleycorn

A campaign was started to save it, complete with petitions, a Great Pub Toast, and proposed legislation from Aaron Peskin. But it was all to no avail. In a city filled with mixed

Aaron "Payback's a Bitch" Peskin Tries to Slash SF's Environment Dept.

Mere days after the head of the environmental department broke with Aaron Peskin and other city leaders on a Public Utilities Commission policy, this week he introduced a wee bit of legislation that

More Yes-On-A Merriment

Harvey Milk Club President Brian Basinger addressed the crowd at today's rally in the Castro. Supervisor Aaron Peskin, Senator Carole Migden, and Supervisor Bevan Dufty also spoke out to support Prop A and

Yes on A, No on H: Kicky Gap/Don Fisher Protesters

Alwaysupndown has loads of choice images from last Wednesday's Yes-on-A, No-on-H protest at the Market Street Gap store. At first we thought it was over Gap's continuing efforts to shove horizontal pastels down

We Read The Weeklies

Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro. Alas! They haven't updated their site for this week yet, and we didn't manage to snag a hard copy of the paper, so they'll have to

Peskin's Out (State Senate Race, And Politics In General)

We've gotten word that everyone's favorite tough guy, Board of Supes Prez Aaron Peskin has made it official that he's not going to be running for the State Senate, declining to get in

Daly-Dufty Fight

Sigh -- we don't even want to go into this, it's just embarrassing for everyone. So Daly, maybe a little unhappy about not getting seconded for his budget motion, was going back and

Daly-Dufty Fight

Sigh -- we don't even want to go into this, it's just embarrassing for everyone. So Daly, maybe a little unhappy about not getting seconded for his budget motion, was going back and

blah blah blah MUNI blah blah PESKIN blah MCGOLDRICK

Here's a condensed version of what the amendment would do: give Muni more money (it's currently underfunded by millions and simply can't afford to meet its service requirements), make it easier to fire

Arts & Entertainment

Chris Daly Has A Blog

Man, we were reading the Chron on the plane out of San Francisco on July 4 for vacation, balling our fists in frustration over missing the stories on Ed Jew's "part-time lover" response

No More Drama (The SF Budget)

Sorry we're late on this one! Not much to report, just that Board of Supes president Aaron Peskin has named himself the chair of the Budget and Finance Committee after firing Chris Daly

Fake Question Time 6: MUNI

For those of you still a few SFist obsessions back (before Ed Jew, around the same time as Jennifer Siebel, and after the District 6 election), Gavin Newsom's Fake Question Time neighborhood lecture

New Coke: The Chris Daly Fallout

--Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier is going to reintroduce a code of conduct for behavior before the Board of Supes. You may remember she introduced a motion to censure Daly for saying "f*** off" at

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Photo: Playing Politics with Street Repaving?

Chris Daly <strike>Meltdown</strike> Oratory -- Info Please!

This is all Ed Jew's fault. We were so distracted by updating you on the latest in his woes that we the news that we just got from a favorite reader that previous

Oh No, Ed Jew!: M&R

Man, we're bummed the Chron still hasn't put back up the pictures of the Canton Flower Shop and their stymied attempts to inspect the legendary shower in the back -- but we do

Oh No, Ed Jew!: LOLJEW

What's the latest? Poor Tapioca Ed! His legislative aide Barbara Meskunas spoke to the media this afternoon to let them know that her boss took the day off work and was "explaining the

Oh No, Ed Jew!: Around The Districts

Nothing too new to report on the Ed Jew got arrested front this morning, but the Chron did survey all the other Board of Supervisor members for their reactions. Let's go in order!

Who's Aaron Peskin? We .... Can't Recall!

The Examiner confirms the reports we'd been hearing that someone's decided to start a recall campaign against District 3 Supervisor (and Board of Supes president) Aaron Peskin. So according to the Ex, this

Oh No, Ed Jew!: Permits

--So you know what that $40,000 would've bought the Quicklys? A letter from Ed Jew to the Planning Commission to get a business permit, the Examiner says. The Quicklys' rival bubble tea

Ask a Muni Security Guy

Then there's last week's story about Aaron Peskin trying to propose new rules to make paying Muni fines easier then we guess the process is now (as we've never been fined-- we once

Oh No, Ed Jew!: A Trip To China

Aaron Peskin seems to have moved away from his original "let's see what happens and maybe it's all a big mistake" position, since he's now saying Jew has brought "dishonor" to the Board

Day Around The Bay

--Whoa, Ed Jew! See below. Aaron Peskin told the I-Team that the FBI was searching Jew's City Hall office for "$100 bills with specific serial numbers listed." That does not sound good at

What's Up With Your Board Of Supes?

Look at that fresh new picture of your 2007 San Francisco Board of Supervisors! Chris Daly even showed up this time! So what's the gang up to these days? (Besides Chris Daly; he's