SF News Breaking Up is the New Black (and Orange) With Gavin Newsom out of town, it's good to know the ladies of SF are this much closer to stalking Barry Zito. Unless he starts taking after his father, Joe Zito, anytime soon:
SF News Oakland's New Last-Minute Mayor Yeah, we don't remember any dramatic hand-on-the-Bible or inaugural speechifying either -- it turns out they threw together a somewhat slapdash inauguration when someone realized that the Oakland city charter required Dellums to
SF News SFist Rita's 2006 From the Starbucks (not really a) bomber in January to the opening of the Daiso in December, it was certainly one heck of a year, wasn't it? There was BUSH TER DOWN; the
SF News State Senate Shenanigans Well, the latest rumor (from the Bay Area Reporter) is that folks have heard tell that Aaron Peskin is now thinking about running for the State Senate seat as well. Whaaaaa? The tea-leaf
SF News Who Wants To Be The Mayor (Declared) Look who's launched his "reelect me in 2007" website! (Thanks, Usual Suspects!) Mysteriously, Gavin and his handlers didn't choose the domain name gavinnewsom2007.com, but went with actlocallysf.com instead. ActLocallySF.org is
SF News Who Wants To Be The Mayor (Maybe) Okay, so we've covered the people who aren't running against Gavin Newsom for mayor in 2007, and we've covered the people who are. Who next but the undeclareds? Here's your list of the
SF News Political Junkie: Chris Daly Mustached We went to our very first Ross Mirkarimi Third Friday art show yesterday, and had a very nice time -- loved the eggnog! We also picked up the following piece of gossip: Chris
SF News Can Someone Explain The Significance Of This To Us? Breaking news on a Friday afternoon -- Gavin Newsom's chief of staff Steve Kawa has resigned. Stated reason: "I want to spend more time with my amazing family." Okay, an announcement made at
Arts & Entertainment Actual Celebrities Come To San Francisco! Yeah, we know, we're stuck here at SFist fetishizing weirdo wonks like Gavin Newsom and Ross Mirkarimi because we don't have any actual celebrities in town that we can follow around and talk
Arts & Entertainment Caption Action Ed Jew: I heard Vanessa Getty talked smack about you in W Magazine. Gavin Newsom: Oh, no she didn't! Ed Jew: Oh, yes she did. Gavin Newsom: Then I'm telling everybody how she
SF News Mayoral Race Poll Now that Gavin has stopped playing coy and moved ahead with his re-election plans, the question is who will step up to run against Mr. 80% Approval Ratings? It's the parlor game anyone
Arts & Entertainment The Glide Red Carpet is based on the true story of a homeless man in San Francisco named Chris Gardner who turned his life around in the 1980s with the help of Glide Memorial and became a
SF News Avoiding The Question (Time) Ques-tion TIME! Ques-tion TIME! Gavin Newsom sees your "immature" comment and raises, Board of Supervisors! Now the mayor's announced that his first non-Question Time "community panel" will be in Jake McGoldrick's District 1
SF News Who's Got Questions? As you know, this correspondent is unabashedly in favor of this election season's Proposition I Question Time -- because we're in favor of anything that makes local politics entertaining! (We can discuss offline
SF News Everybody STILL Hates Chris!: The District 6 Election Redux We're baaaaaack! (Did you think we'd ever left?) Well, we've moved on to relentlessly houding Gavin Newsom to show up for Question Time and we're also starting to gear up to cover the
SF News Now Bring Us Some Figgy Pudding Well, never let it be said that the progressives in town don't come up with some entertaining protest ideas! So get your top hat and/or velvet bonnet, warm up those vocal cords,
SF News Typhoon Just Misses Gavin Yes, the typhoon was named after the pungent fruit with the spikes on it -- do they not name typhoons in Asia after people? (The typhoon is also being referred to as Reming
SF News 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 map above is from
SF News San Francisco Values, In Song A "political cabaret" group called the Auditorials has written their own Capitol Steps-like tribute song to "San Francisco Values." We can't decide if this is frightening or hilarious! (Also -- special cameo appearance
SF News Brittanie Mountz Wins! Your results are in pie graph form above -- but if you can't read the names and numbers in those little wedges, here they are in legible form: --Brittanie Mountz -- 68.3%
SF News Political Junkie: Gavin's Blue Tie We are really in no position to judge Gavin Newsom for wearing the same blue tie to numerous events, since we wear black pants and a gray sweater like every single day of
SF News Ques-tion TIME! Ques-tion TIME! We don't know about you, but we were when Proposition I won at the polls -- with 56.03% of the vote -- like how we were totally shocked that Jeffrey won Project
SF News New Poll! Pick Your Favorite Gavin Date! It's been awfully quiet on the Gavin Newsom dating front, hasn't it? Well, if our mayor won't create gossip for us, we'll have to do it ourselves! So we're announcing the official Favorite
Arts & Entertainment Is Green A Verb? As we discussed earlier today, PG&E and ReadyMade magazine are co-sponsoring "Let's Green This City," which is aiming to raise environmental consciousness by putting sofas covered with grass around the city.
SF News The Warriors: Making a (home) stand If hoops is a game of streaks, right now the Warriors are Frank the Tank. They're flying so high, they're looking down on the Democrats. They're looking so good, Gavin Newsom is jealous.
