SF News Newsom's Attendance No Longer Required at Board of Supervisor Meetings? You know how Mayor Gavin Newsom is supposed to make a special guest appearance at the Board of Supervisors meeting? At least once a month? To listen to their complaints, demonstrate that he's
misc <i>Milk</i> Finishes Shooting, '70s Fashions Abound Well, it's been fun. The trailers, the megawatt celebrity sightings, the lights, the cameras, the not being invited to cast/crew parties -- SFist will miss it all. As most of you know,
SF News Money is What Muni Wants Due to budget problems, the Muni Powers That Be have decided on a possible solution, that being raising the Muni Fast Pass from $45 to $60 bucks. Suck on it, Muni riders. Muni's
SF News Day Around the Bay Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier sues City Hall over wheelchair ramplessness. [Curbed] Beth Spotswoodle [sic] hits up SFO's gay night. [SFGate] Valleywag 's happy hour watering hole, Moose's, comes to an end. Might we suggest
misc CL Missed Connection: Man Seeks Hot Cop A lonelyheart would very much like to reconnect with an extra that he met on the set of . (It's not us, by the way. If you recall, we were deemed too grotesque to
SF News Leal Voted Out As SFPUC Chief, Receives $400K Without providing an answer for firing San Francisco Public Utilities Commission chief Susan Leal, the SFPUC officially sacked her this morning after a nine-minute closed door City Hall meeting. As part of her
misc Rebuffed at San Francisco City Hall on Valentine's Day Marriage Equality USA held an event at City Hall yesterday to get the word out about "the 1,138 federal marriage rights as well as the hundreds of state rights same sex couples
SF News East Bay To Get Even Louder Tonight Anti-war fans, pro-war zealots, '60s fetishists, barely-legal Marines, the unshowered, and young college students trying to impress their boyfriends will be out in full force on the other side of the Bay later
SF News Gavin's People Gots To Be Paid Knowing that the report wouldn't put the Mayor in that nice of a light, he held a pre-emptory press briefing on Friday in which he said everything was on the up-and-up, that it
misc Is This the Last Phone Booth in San Francisco? Does S.F. have any other old-school, glassed walled, stand alone phone booths that are still operational?
misc Willie's Book Tour for <i>Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times</i> He makes an unusual attack on his successor as mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, all but accusing him of racism in appointments. " What do you think of that? Other reviews are here
misc No losers there. Then somewhere north of 1,700 tickets (including our little single one!) will be metaphorically mixed in a giant non-safeway non-plastic bag, out of which maybe 50 will win (197 units will be
misc Oh, Look, a Government Agency that Actually Does a Pretty Smart Job of Spending Our Money The SFCTA is like Muni's successful younger sibling: they may be smaller, but they're lean and quick and very efficient. These folks get stuff . In addition to fixing all the broken transit in
SF News Filthy Gossip: Ginsburg Out, Crowfoot In? The Usual Suspects passed us the following note in homeroom recently: Word is that a high-level staffer is departing the Mayor's office. But since none of the Real Media have confirmed anything, we
misc Registered to Vote? Deadline Tomorrow Those who still need to register to vote in time for the February 5 presidential primaries need to do so by tomorrow, January 22nd. Re-registering is necessary whenever you move, change your name,
misc Gavin Plays Extreme Makeover First there were raises given to staff members who were also given spiffy new job titles. Total cost of all this is will be around $500,000 over the next 18 months, money
SF News Tiger Attack 911 Tapes Released At the bargain price of just $35 dollars down at City Hall this morning, authorities released the emergency 911 tapes of the San Francisco Zoo tiger attacks. The attacks, if you don't remember,
misc Day Around the Bay ConJewMu set to open on June 8, 2008. [Curbed] Dinosaurs were teenage sluts, did what whatever they wanted, and you're just jealous. Whatever, you don't know them. [SFGate] The croc still lives on.
misc Barack Obama Rising in California -- Rally at City Hall Of course Hillary Clinton is still a formidable candidate, especially in the bigger states. This all adds up to a certain humdinger of an election. This campaign trail is heading right to your
misc Ask SFist -- Loosest Bay Area Screw? (Ew. Not like that.) OK, guys. We're at the end of yet another stereotypically zany year in the Bay Area. A surprisingly boring election, some guy named Ed Jew, bickering weeklies, horny blasphemers,
misc Dennis Kucinich's Brother Found Dead Perry Kucinich, the brother of Democratic Prez candidate Dennis Kucinich, has been found dead according CBS 5. His other brother, Larry, found 52-year-old Perry at his Cleveland home at around 9 a.m.
SF News Defy Newsom And Face His Wrath We like one of the SFGate commenters' take on the sitch: hit by a car "after getting thrown under the bus by Newsome [sic]." We hit the recommend button on that one! You
SF News 100 Alas. We hit the 100th murder mark over the weekend. And this big 1-0-0, as you know, is not a cause for celebration. Early Saturday morning at around 5 a.m., Jose Alberto
misc Haight, Homeless, and Dogs...Continued! What would Animal Control do in that situation, where a homeless kid owner lets his dog bite someone? There are a few ways that this situation could work itself out, depending on the
SF News Call Off Your Old Tired Eth-- Oh, For A Golden Shower I Charge $250, Baby The Mayor shot down the legislation. saying that "legalization of prostitution would be a terrible mistake," because of...bad stuff happening around security gates, or security cameras, or something like that. He does
