SF News Oh No Ed Jew!: Suspended, Replaced Mayor Gavin Newsom suspended Ed Jew today, (temporarily) removing him from office a little before 9 a.m. this morning at Waverly Place in Chinatown, according to the Chronicle. The young-ish Carmen Chu,
Arts & Entertainment Every Day is Right-Handers' Day Friend of SFist Steve found the attached image in a bookstore window: apparently there's some store called "The Great Overland Book Company" that's offering 20% off on August 17, 18, and 19, but
misc SF Halloween...Over? Now that there will be no city sanctioned Halloween debauchery in the Castro, Civic Center, or anywhere else, it'll be exciting to see the police state that's sure to erupt come 10/31.
misc Week Around The -ists This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going
SF News 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
SF News 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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Octavia Boulevard Betterment - It's On! But things could be getting a little better after the guvmint starts to take some action. Like this Monday for instance. Supervisors Chris Daly, Bevan Dufty, and Ross Mirkarimi have joined together to
SF News 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!
SF News Day Around The Bay --Ha! The guy to your right ran for mayor of Barcelona, and doesn't he look like Matt Gonzalez? By copatbark from the SFist Flickr stream. --John Edwards was in town at Google. So
SF News The Mayoral Minder There's a profile of Phil Ginsburg, the new mayoral chief of staff, in today's Chron. Basically, it's a hard job, Ginsburg took a $75K paycut when he took it, and he was nonplussed
SF News Supervisor Ed Jew's Office Raided Oh man -- first the Arlene lawsuit, now this! It's been a fascinating news-dump Friday, hasn't it? Details are few, but check out this quote in the Chron: "'The FBI executed sealed search
SF News Day Around The Bay --There were more bikes than cars on Market Street today for Bike To Work Day. Soon we will realize our dream where every car driver is assigned an individual biker to yell at
SF News 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
Arts & Entertainment The Bathrobe You may recall that the Guardian ran the picture in this week's issue of their alternative-weekly paper, saying they'd gotten it from a good source who said the picture was from Shin himself,
Arts & Entertainment Photoshopping Gavin & Han Shin Now, we're no Photoshop experts, but a reader who is sent along the following thoughts: The light on Gavin's face is coming from over the photog's right shoulder. So there is a shadow
misc Here We Go Again You know, even we're thrown for a loop on this. The proclamation came the day of a gala event (link NSFW) at the city's War Memorial for the company. The event was held
SF News Carrying To Term Dufty says the reason why he's doing this is because a more experienced Supervisor means a better Supervisor. He's also proposing it to keep people from constantly scheming about what other position they
misc Telegraph Hill is Going to the Birds For those who don't know, the Parrots of Telegraph Hill are a bunch of parrots who one day showed up in Telegraph Hill and made themselves home in some of the trees there.
SF News TourkGate: So What Happens Next? Well, that was certainly a mortified apology and a hasty retreat. We'll take Chris "The High Road" Daly's cue and refrain from comment about the principal players in this sad story -- but
SF News Last Night in the Lower Haight Last night was a meeting about the spate of violent crime and shootings in the Lower Haight. In attendance were various officials from the SFPD, including Heather Fong, as well as supervisors Ross
Arts & Entertainment Octavia Blvd. protest, support for injured cyclist This morning a crowd of over 100 protested against the dangerous intersection at Octavia and Market Street. The injured cyclist is still hospitalized after being struck by a large pickup truck making an
SF News Who's Defending Newsom Now! As promised -- when we find people defending Newsom, we diligently write 'em up in the column we call.... Who's Defending Newsom Now! Who's swinging for the mayor? --The mayor himself!: Before heading
