SF News Former SF Examiner Executive Editor New Newsom Deputy Chief Of Staff Proving that there is a better life after local media, former San Francisco Examiner executive editor (and all-around swell human being) Deirdre Hussey has been hired on as Lieutenant Gavin Newsom's deputy chief
SF News On 4/20, Gavin Newsom Draws Inspiration From Bob Marley Former Mayor and recovering substance abuser Gavin Newsom found some curious inspiration all the way from Kingston, Jamaica on the noted stoner holiday. As the Lite Gov. tweeted, in a surprising plug for
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Newsom Gets His Own Talk Show On Current TV Proven to be such a shoot-from-the-hip, anything-goes, oh-my-god-did-he-really-just-say-that kind of guy, former San Francisco Mayor and now Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom landed his very own talk show on Current TV, reports Ms. Carla
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In China... Gavin Newsom Has His Picture Taken From Beijing's picturesque Tianamen Gate, former Mayor Gavin Newsom unenthusiastically tweets to his followers back home in California: "the perfunctory tourist photo in Beijing..." the perfunctory tourist photo in Beijing... lockerz.com/s/
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Newsom And Kamala Harris Claim And Enjoy Extravagant Gifts When Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom isn't returning our phone calls or emails, he's claiming $400 Louis Vuitton pens and $300 Bulgari ties on file forms for California's Fair Political Practices Commission. Why? Well,
SF News Gavin Newsom Donated $500 To Stephen Colbert's Super PAC [Updated] Stephen Colbert's "Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow" independent expenditure committee has been raising funds to support the comedian's real/parody run for the presidency since last fall. As is required by the
SF News Gavin Newsom: Kentfield, California Homeowner Gavin Newsom has finally found a quaint new suburban home to call his own, the Chronicle's Leah Garchik reports today. The new house, in the overwhelmingly caucasian town of Kentfield, California, is the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Chez Panisse-Inspired Fashion, A Gavin-esque Brasserie, John's Ocean Beach Alice Waters inspires a lot of things: White House veggie gardens, edible schoolyards, general mirth, etc. — but this line of Chez Panisse-inspired fashion that popped up in the Chronicle's Sunday Style section is
SF News Gavin Newsom Will Save State Economy Seeing as how Gavin Newsom fixed the city's lackluster job market and disabled budget during his tenure as San Francisco mayor, it should come as no surprise that the budding lieutenant governor plans
SF News Photos: Obama Honors SF Giants at White House President Barack Obama feted the San Francisco Giants at the White House today for their 2010 World Series win. (We can only hope/predict we'll write a similar sentence one year from now!
SF News Buy Newsom's Masonic House for $2,738,000 After Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom used San Francisco to get to Sacramento, he has since ditched us for highfalutin Ross. (Yes, technically he is still a resident of Baghdad by the Bay, but.
SF News Meanwhile, in the Richmond: Gavin Newsom Rides a Skateboard Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom was out at Rochambeau Playground in the Richmond District this afternoon to accept a $250,000 donation to the San Francisco Rec & Parks Department from the Coca-Cola Corporation.
SF News Gavin Newsom Makes an Important Twitter Announcement Gavin Newsom, an authority when it comes to social media and politics, made an important announcement via that most concise social medium this morning. And the news may come as a surprise: .bbpBox{
SF News Data Point: Demographic Breakdown of Ross, CA "8 Black people who live in Ross" - from the "Home, Swank Home" sidebar item that comes along with yet another reaction to news that Gavin Newsom would be moving up to Marin
SF News Gavin Newsom Moves to Marin When we first got wind that former San Francisco Mayor / current Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom moved to Marin, our first thought was, "Oh God, which town?" Everything in Marin, you see, hinges upon
SF News Overall Homeless Count Doesn't Change Dramatically, But Huge Spike In Bayview San Francisco's biennial census of the homeless population gets released today, and the numbers are predictably depressing. Though the overall number of homeless people went down by a paltry 60 (from 6,514
SF News Gavin Newsom Banging Out a Book on Social Media in Politics Word is out that Lieutenant Governor, former Mayor and adept twitter abbreviator Gavin Newsom just signed a deal with Penguin Books to pen a book about "the intersection of social media and government.
SF News A Spaceship Lands at SFO with Gavin Newsom Flying Wingman Sure this video from Wired of Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo flying over San Francisco yesterday, carrying SpaceShipOne Two underwing is basically a commercial for Virgin Galactic and we should be scolded for posting such
SF News That's One Cold Game of Cityville "[Zynga] let us know there is no way in the world that they can go public and pay payroll tax on all their employee stock options. They mostly just dropped that in our
SF News Meanwhile, In Newsom's Office... Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom hosts a wild party in his office with students from St. Vincent de Paul School in San Francisco. "Giving them an overview of our state government," he says. Like
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Gavin Newsom and the Awesome Hair Club on Real Time with Bill Maher Ep. 204: March 4, 2011 - Overtime Unfortunately, we can't share all of Gavin Newsom's performance on Real Time with Bill Maher because HBO subscriptions still cost money. So you'll have to deal
SF News Will No One Give Jerry Brown a Present? The Chronicle dug in to a 23-page report from the Fair Political Practices Commission that discloses roughly how much money in stocks and holdings our government officials have and shocker: Gavin Newsom is
SF News If You're Glue, Gavin's Rubber: Newsom Pledges End of 'R-Word' Today, California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom asked for people to stop using the "r-word" (in vulgar parlors: "retard," "retarded") in conversation and written text. Although we suspect any campaign to end argot has
SF News SFist Has A New Neighbor, Gavin Newsom Founders Den, a "private clubhouse" (see: workspace) for entrepreneurs in SoMa founded by Marissa Mayer's husband, has a new resident, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom. TechCrunch coos: Yes, the Lieutenant Governor of California (and
SF News How Was Gavin Newsom's First Week In Sacramento? Yesterday, the Sunday Chronicle (or maybe just the normal Chronicle? who even gets the paper anymore?) posted an update on Gavin's first week in office. While the lede says he's got a lot
