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SchwarzenWatcher Wonders If Arnie Is So Sexy It Hurts

While Schwarzenegger's political poll numbers are still down, there is one poll in which he is doing very well. Turns out, Arnie is Ubersexy! According to Men's Vogue, Arnie is the Fifth Ubersexiest

At Least He's Consistent

Today Arnold officially added homos to his list of vulnerable minorities to push around when he vetoed AB 849, which passed the state legislature and would have granted marriage equality to gay couples.

Arts & Entertainment

You Gotta Play To Win, Still

Remember when we were nagging you to get off the couch and make some damn art, already? Well, we have a couple more shots at the big auteur target in the sky for

How Berkeley Can YOU Be '05

Quick! Name an event that can combine politicians, naked folks (ok, just a few), Klingons, hippies, bunnies, art cars, and cheerleaders on a Sunday afternoon. Only the Tenth Annual How Berkeley Can You

SchwarzenWatcher Watches Arnie & George

When we last saw our favorite Republican bigwigs, Arnie and George, they were having a bit of a problem getting together. Twice, during the President's extended and ill-fated vacation, he visited our fair

The SchwarzenWatcher's Running For Reelection

The LA Times reports that American Media tried to pay off the guy who shot a movie of Arnie in Brazil for Playboy, called "Carnival in Rio" to stop him from screening it.

Vote for Nguyen

San Jose voters will be putting the first Vietnamese-American woman into a city council in California today -- who will be named Nguyen. You're either reading a column by the Great Karnak --

Your (Substitute) SchwarzenWatcher

Approval levels in the 36 percent range -- are we talking about Bush or the California governor? What's the SchwarzenWatcher got cooking today? The governor's veto-happy! It's not just gay marriage, either --

Schwartzenwatcher Checks Out the Competition

Right now, the two main contenders to try and take the governship, Steve Westly and Phil Angelides, have been drawing nothing but the big yawn from the collected mass of California voters. And

SchwarzenWatcher: The Feature

Because there's so much going on with Herr Governator, we thought we'd need to turn it into a weekly feature. Yay? First last week's big story about the mistress and payment and the

Arts & Entertainment

Not-So-Guilty Pleasure: <i>The Aristocrats</i>

It's here, it's finally, really here! We've been waiting for to publish our review of The Aristocrats since catching a preview screener. Drumroll please... If you like to laugh until it hurts, go

SchwarzenWatcher: Rock 'n Roll Edition

Hey, want to spend an evening with an aging former drug abuser watching four other aging former (?) drug abusers shake their wrinkled heines on stage? For $100,000 and the cost of some

Arts & Entertainment

SFJFF: <i>Campfire</i>

What we got instead was the story of an Israeli woman, Rachel (Michaela Eshet), who is somewhat in mourning a year after her husband's death from cancer. Rachel tries to uproot her daughters,

Political Junkie: Hottest Supe Elections!

Oooooh, your Junkie to vote. We vote for everything: national elections, state elections, local elections, CNN QuickPolls, the SFGate Question, BizRate surveys about our Priceline experiences, those "How'd We Do?" cards where you

Who Said Being Governor was Going to be Easy?

Supporters of the measure claim that the ruling is merely nothing but politics as usual and the political establishment sticking it to noble reformers. They also said that the changes-- a few rewritten

Political Junkie: Meet The Assessor

We're so excited! We've never actually someone we've written about in the Political Junkie column before! Usual Suspects is reporting that 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place is abuzzzzzzzz with the word that

<b>BREAKING: SANDOVAL FOR CITY ASSESSOR</b>

Sandoval is alerting people to the fact that he's running for Assessor. The election will be in November; if there's an incumbent, it will be an appointed incumbent, as Mabel Teng has resigned.

Gavin in Ought-Six?

Well, Randy Shaw apparently got the news that the Gavster's strategists are looking into the possibility of running for the Democratic nomination for the gubenatorial race next year. He writes in Beyond Chron:

Oh, Arnold.

The problem with a protest on the peninsula, of course, is that without Frank Chu how do you know it really happened? We took some pictures just in case. Since no news station

More More News than You Could Ever Possibly Want to Know

--Arnie kicked off the special election campaign with the traditional scaring of the old folks. The claim this time? If the three resolutions he's backing don't pass, Prop. 13 will have to be

SchwarzenWatcher: Commencemental

Inside the stadium, the drone from hundreds of rowdy protesters threatened to drown out the governor's voice at times. Many in the crowd erupted in boos when a police officer pulled down a

Arnie Presents a Very Special Election

What to expect over the next few months? Wall-to-wall TV ads, Arnie going across the country to suck up more corporate money, totally lame witticisms from political hacks, one side yelling "you are"

A Bump in the Road

"" by the Doobie Brothers played in the background as the governor confidently strode into a residential San Jose neighborhood to pave a pothole and attempt to get some positive press for his plans

California Recall: Where Are They Now?

So whatever happened to those 135 people who ran for governor in the 2003 recall election? Well, a bunch are in the Bay Area news today! Cue up the end-of-the-movie montage music! Arnold

New Pope!

With the election of a second non-Italian Pope in a row, we're hoping that this kind of "outside the box" thinking bodes well for the heavenly reign of Pope Benedict XVI, and that