Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 21: Mayoral Shrinky Dinks After taking a couple weeks off to go on Pigeon Safari, the Tenderloin Geographic Society returns to grace this space with their weekly wit and wisdom. This week's episode: getting crafty with the
SF News Supervisor Wiener Slips in to Mayor's Role While Ed Lee Visits Baltimore Temporary Mayor Ed Lee was in Baltimore for the U.S. Conference of Mayors over the weekend, but since no one cares what happens in Baltimore unless it was scripted for HBO, we
SF News Ed Lee Would Like a Word With Target Execs Temporary Mayor Ed Lee is looking out for the concerns of San Francisco's budget-minded and politically-conscious shoppers. You'll remember that the city's excitement for house-brand hand soaps, Paul Frank bedding and one-off designer
Arts & Entertainment So Temporary Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Jane Kim Walk Into a Bar... ...[finish the joke!] SFAppeal has the scoop on what went down at the Buck Tavern last night including Ed Lee's gift for the former supe and what Jane Kim ordered at the bar.
SF News Temporary Mayor Ed Lee Won't Run, Say Matier & Ross In Sunday's tag-team column, Chronicle columnists Matier & Ross hounded Temporary Mayor Ed Lee for a hard answer on whether or not he'll play along with the two former city supervisors behind the
SF News Temporary Mayor Ed Lee Makes a Joke, Still Not Running For Mayor According to the Chronicle, Ed Lee led off a recent press conference with a special proclamation: "I'm announcing my candidacy - for being the lead of the pothole crew." Good one, Mayor Lee!
SF News Draft Ed Lee for Mayor Website Pops Up, Unsurprisingly We're pretty sure everyone saw this coming: a group calling themselves the Draft Mayor Ed Lee Organizing Committee has popped up to gently encourage His Impermanency to run for a full term in
SF News Temporary Mayor Ed Lee Prevents Supe-on-Supe Chafing With Slick Transportation Commission Appointment Awhile back, the Board agreed to break tradition and let junior supes serve on outside boards and committees - which is how Jane Kim got to be the chair of the Rules Committee.
SF News Inaugural Edition of Mayoral Question Time Gently Lulls Everyone to Sleep Look, we know local politics is a bore. If it were exciting we'd probably be in the middle of a revolution. Our eleven supervisors would be replaced by eleven champions chosen for their
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup The firefighter who was taken to the hospital during last night's blaze on Mission Street is recovering fine and no other injuries were reported, but SFFD still doesn't know the cause. [BCN/Appeal]
SF News Temporary Mayor Ed Lee Finally Weighs In On "Tempeh" District The one piece that's been missing from this Tenderloin/Tempeh story (first reported by SFist) was an actual response from just-for-now Mayor Mustache himself. The Examiner, ever-vigilant in their pursuit of a story,
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Snubs Supermodel Niki Taylor Hey, everybody! Guess what? Niki Taylor is in town. She's here to give San Francisco money. Because we're broke, that's why. Who is Niki Taylor, you ask? Well, first of all, shame on
SF News Temporary Mayor Ed Lee Would Be a Real Mayor If We Voted Today, Poll Shows In an exclusive poll conducted by CBS5 and SurveyUSA (sounds official!), the local news station found that Ed Lee would be moving in to the Mayor's office for a full term if we
SF News Fairmont Hotel In Trouble, Mayor Tries to Give Them Extension for Condo Conversion You'll recall how the Fairmont Hotel wants to take that semi-ugly tower at the corner of Stockton and California and build a new condo tower, demolishing the famed Tonga Room in the process?
SF News N.Y. Mayor Mike Bloomberg in Town to Meet With Mayor Lee Two big-city mayors are pow-wowing today in S.F. to "learn a lot from each other" -- which we think is a bit of an overstatement by mayoral spokesperson Christine Falvey given that,
SF News Temporary Mayor Ed Lee Gives Jerry Brown the Velvet Hammer on Redevelopment Over at the Chronicle, they're still reminding us of that stupid nickname given to temporary mayor Ed Lee by a middle aged woman from Nevada. What's worse is that it's hiding the story
SF News Ed Lee to Possibly Get Screwed Out of His Admin Job? Interim Mayor Ed Lee, as many of you know, only took the job on the promise that the law could be changed allowing him an exception from the rule that says that mayors
misc Ed Lee's New Mantra "We'll meet for further discussions" - apparently what the temporary mayor told supporters of Mother Brown's Dining Room in Bayview after the Human Services Agency proposed slashing 60% of the soup kitchen's funding.
SF News We're Calling Temporary Mayor Ed Lee "The Velvet Hammer" Now Because apparently that is a cool thing to call your Mayor. The Pro Tem nickname comes from one Tania Modic, owner of an Investment Firm in Incline Village, Nevada (which is not part
SF News Bicycle Activists Lightly Grill Temporary Mayor Now that Ed Lee has gotten a couple breakfasts with Willie Brown out of the way he had a moment to sit down with the bike/walk/train activists over at Streetsblog and
SF News Supervisors Will Get Question Time with Mayor Ed Lee Our current mayor will be making more appearances at Board of Supervisors meetings than our previous one thanks to that question-time ballot measure no one really cared about back in November. You'll remember
SF News Jean Quan and Ed Lee to Attend White House State Dinner Newly elected Oakland Mayor Jean Quan has gotten a ton of press in China for being the first Chinese- or Asian-American mayor in her city, and thus she was invited to attend a
SF News Mayor Ed Lee's Facebook Page Did we say Ed Lee had no Facebook page? Scratch that. San Francisco's nascent mayor does, in fact, have a Facebook page. A fan page, actually, with not much on it. Yet. Let's
SF News San Francisco's New Mayor: Ed Lee Ed Lee was sworn in as San Francisco's first Chinese-American mayor on Tuesday. In a speech after the ceremony, Lee promised to be a mayor "for everyone." What's in store for San Francisco?
SF News Rose Pak Doesn't F@%k Around “Now you know why they say I play politics like a blood sport.” Chinatown power broker Rose Pak, in the culminating quote of a new Bay Citizen/NYT piece that provides a complete
