SF News Happy Birfday, Gavin! That was one important vagina 40 years ago today. Who knew back then that it would poop out San Francisco's fearless leader, Gavin Newsom, who just turned a still-sexy 40? Ta-da! (The presumably
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Is San Francisco Still a Navy Town? The mayor recently felt the urge to go after the "extreme right" in his "fierce defense of San Francisco." "I am sick and tired of this city being depicted as anti-military." Well, all
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the deceptive SF Weekly. Letters abound, either outraged by the fake Barry Bonds story or entertained by the elk. Why don't the negative letters have the names of the authors?
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: We Suport It's on! Gavin Newsom's finally pulled the trigger (.pdf), and Ed Jew is out (at least for now). What odds do you have on poor beleagued Ed Jew lawyer Steven Gruel filing a
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,
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Duct Tape We're back from our inadvertent hiatus -- here's hoping it's a less busy week for us at the day job and an even more busy week for Ed Jew news! Fang qi means
SF News The Telephone Hour From the moment you first plugged it in, your home telephone has been waiting for the moment when its existence would be justified. And now! At last! The Gavin Newsom '08 Phone Bank
SF News Wasn't Us Either! Man, what a day for us to get swamped at our day job! We missed the Ed Jew plea bargain, the resignation requests in the mayoral staff ranks, the mayoral candidate arrested outside
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Tenant Assns. Coalition's Mayoral Forum Yesterday, Program Director Michael Nulty hosted the Tenants Associations Coalition of San Francisco's Mayoral Forum in the Tenderloin on "gritty Turk Street". Who failed to appear? Of the people who showed, who has
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies And next up, the Bay Guardian: Tim Redmond and the Guardian editorial board go in with both fists swinging about Newsom's latest two begging-from-the-rich schemes. Yeah! We love it!! Guess that banner about
SF News Have You Seen This Fugitive Fundraiser? Fundraiser, five-head sufferer, and possible one-time kidnapping victim Norman Hsu skipped his San Mateo County Superior Court appearance this morning and is now the lam! He is wanted for a 15-year-old felony warrant
Arts & Entertainment CalTrain of Thought Other local trains featured in the book include MUNI's F-line and the famous cable car, with a cameo appearance by your very own Golden Gate Bridge, of course. (Yay! The next generation of
SF News We Win Best Apology!!!!! Yay! We're so excited!! In today's Chron Datebook Peter Hartlaub article, on the various types of lame apologies, SFist wins!!!!! Well, technically, Gavin Newsom "we're still dating!! we are we are we are!
SF News Gavin Continues His March To Victory: Tony Hall's Out Hall was the one unambiguously-serious mayoral candidate running against Gavin Newsom (and by "unambiguously-serious" we mean was a wedding singer but does not have an animal in his name and wears clothes, of
SF News Free Earthlink WiFi Deal Dies Gavin Newsom says he's committed to finding another private company to set up the whole system, and blames the Board of Supervisors for the deal falling through because they wanted more information before
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Tesla Motors' Roadster- the Electric Edsel? Are there any similarities here with this car? Some hyperbolic coverage from the MSM makes us wonder a bit. Here's an opinion from Washington Post-affiliated Slate - the author was "unbelievably stoked", even
SF News Step Right Up! Gawk At Public Housing! We're not even really sure what to make of this article on the front page of today's Chronicle. Apparently Gavin Newsom has now so given up on being able to fix the city's
SF News Now Boarding Group A.... Out Of SFO Southwest has gone a little nuts about the news themselves -- are you also getting emails where they're giving you triple Rapid Rewards credit if you book a ticket online out of any
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Bonus Photo for the Barry Bonds Party We have team coverage for today's big event. We've ID'ed Lou Seal, Senator Carole Migden, Omar Vizquel, Rich Aurilia, Barry's family, Mayor Gavin Newsom, the Willies (Mayor Brown, Mays, and McCovey), Peter MacGowan
misc Week Around the -ists Chicagoist is gearing up for this weekend's annual Air & Water Show along the lakefront. In what's becoming an annual tradition around there, staff member Todd McClamroch even got to fly with one
SF News Sophia:Gavin::Jayne:Boobies We came across this not so recent (but still scorching hot) photo of Mayor Gavin Newsom here. It looks like it might have been snapped back in the day when he was hitting
SF News Pelosi V. Sheehan Someone else viewed as unbeatable has a hail-Mary opponent from the progressive left -- and we're not just talking about Gavin Newsom and Chris Daly! That's right -- the stridently anti-war soldier's mom