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Day Around the Bay

-- 177 Townsend's promise of public art delivered, raised. [Curbed SF] -- Grace Cathedral almost burned down last night via an infamous Burner. [CBS5] -- Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner: thin, pretty. [BeyondChron] -- Gavin Newsom&

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Day Around The Bay

-- Are you ready for the genius that is Peaches Christ and her Midnight Mass cult-film series? [Bay Area Reporter] -- Television -- glorious, warm, loving television! -- on BART cars? Hmm. [Inside Bay Area, Oakland

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The Bolt-Cutters Are Back

Tents! Man, we'd love to have a tent across the street from the Palace Steak House. Twelve people were arrested as a group of about 80 protestors chanted anti-high end

Arts & Entertainment

'VideoGate' Officer Andrew Cohen Doesn't Hold Back

Officer Andrew Cohen made headlines in recent years for the videos he produced spoofing the SFPD. The videos were intended to be a humorous sendoff to former police captain Rick Bruce and poke

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Day Around The Bay

--Hey! Did you ever do coke with Gavin? [Fog City Journal.] --Chris Daly explains himself. [SFGov.org.] --What's fun doing for Pride Weekend? [SFPartyParty, Bay Area Reporter, SF Weekly's

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Day Around The Bay

--Spot (at least) four problems with this picture! [zippy_monster on Flickr, from the SFist Flickr stream.] --Fight at the Metreon! [Chron Culture Blog] --Pat Murphy claims to feel bad about his nemesis

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Not Doing It, Lumpy: Chris Daly's Not Running

Guess Lumpy's not doing it after all -- Pat Murphy, the guy who came up with the catch phrase "Do It, Lumpy" to goad local progressive ringleader and District 6

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Oh No, Ed Jew!: Residency Requirement

And the hits keep on coming! Now the Chron's reporting that Ed Jew's been told he has five (5) days to prove that he lives in San Francisco, through

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Don't Hate Esther Because She's Beautiful

Hwang claims that she was outside the North Beach bar Dolce last week, celebrating the end of her law school finals and waiting for her boyfriend when she saw some police officers. She

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Joe Joe Alioto Alioto District District 3 3

Well, there's now two more vying for elective office -- and hey, check this out. According to Fog City Journal, Joe Alioto is running in District 3, and Joe Alioto is running

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Third Fake Question Time

The tie was red, the gel was flaky, and Fake Question Time was ON! Big thanks to Luke Thomas for letting us use his photos! Check out even more amazing photos, and Fog

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More Police Walking the Streets.

Currently, four projects have patrols set up. Those are ones in Sunnydale (in Visitacion Valley, not the Hell Mouth), Potrero, Hunters Point and Alice Griffith. Since putting in the foot patrols, crime is

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Matt vs. Gavin: the Rematch?

Fog City Journal is reporting that Matt Gonzalez has been in talks with a campaign manager, Nicole Derse, about running. We're all guessing it's for Mayor but who knows

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Today in Crime

This morning, police looked for a suspect who robbed and shot a 42-year old man. The suspect, however, ran off after the robbery, evading the police. They police searched a nearby residence

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Gavin Speaks!

The big money quote? Gavin channeling Popeye to say "I am who I am, imperfect and a work in progress." He also denied cocaine use, said he was going to Delancey

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Everybody (Still) Loves Gavin

ABC 7 is the latest people to do a survey on Gavin and all the recent Gavin news and found out that the dude is still pretty popular in town, all to the

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Checking in on Gavin's Re-election campaign.

The Examiner has a story this morning saying Gavin's re-election campaign is up and running and has already raised a million dollars. The fund raising was suspended for a few

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Saturdays Are Healthy Too

All of this means the proverbial ball is in Gavin's proverbial court. He said he'd listen to the study even if it went against what he thought and the

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Gavinwatch Watch

We come back from Second Fake Question Time and.... WHERE'S GAVINWATCH???? Emails to the anonymous blogger/videohounds' gmail account were bouncing, their YouTubes clips were gone, and their website had

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Update on SFistGate!

Eh, we made that up. Barbara Taylor actually got a hold of Gavin at some Global Climate Summit (probably the one about what to do with all the reservoirs and our lack of

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Who's Attacking Newsom Now!

So... who's on this week's list? Let's bring 'em out! --Aaron Peskin and Ross Mirkarimi!: Luke Thomas at Fog City Journal reports that Supervisors Peskin and

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Did the Lawyer Leak?

Late last night, Yahoo! of all sites was reporting that the leak in the BALCO case was Victor Conte's defense lawyer. Or at least that's what the FBI is

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Political Junkie: Daly Stache Sighted!

Don't worry, folks, we have word that . This picture is going to haunt our nightmares tonight. Thanks to Luke Thomas from the Fog City Journal for passing it along! he'

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Random Political Odds And Ends

We can't be bothered to type up all these intriguing little political news tidbits into that many separate posts for the day! So we're compiling them all here. --That

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And It's a Hard Rain's a-Fallin'

So why is it? Well, it's a matter of sewage. San Francisco just doesn't have enough of it. And what we do have is single-pipelines, which obviously can&