SF News Now, Where Did We Put Our Blacklight? When he's not busy keeping it real or putting in a couple of loads at the laundromat -- he looks like a Biz kind of guy, doesn't he? -- Gavin Newsom is out
SF News 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] --
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Gavin Newsom's State of the City, Unfiltered What do you think was the most interesting part? Our mayor breaking the fourth wall by walking into the crowd? The litany of "audacious ideas"? The chart showing "Black on Black Gang Homicides"
misc Week Around the -Ists Londonist, celebrating their third birthday, watched as their city turned a little more American. The Miami Dolphins and New York Giants were in town, with some very big cheerleaders. US-style litigation hit the
SF News Friday Fun: Gavin's Wikipedia Page! Hey, remember the Wikipedia scanner that tells you who's edited what page on the ol' Wikepedia? Well, we decided to have a little fun with it and see who's been playing with the
SF News San Francisco's 311 Gets Its One Millionth Caller "This is Gavin Newsom, what the hell do you want?" Newsom (might have) said when he answered yesterday's one millionth call to 311. Since its launch in April, 311 helps SF residents bypass
SF News Your Mecke Photo Fix for the Day Objectifying Gavin Newsom is dead. We've shifted our stalker gaze on Quintin Mecke, and so have many of SFist's more randy readers. Where does he stand on the issues? Who cares! (Well, actually,
SF News Behold: Your SF Mayoral Ballot Check it out, our new SF mayoral ballot, now with ranked-choice voting. It works like this: if for any reason Gavin Newsom cannot fulfill his reign as Mr. San Francisco... Or something like
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Quintin Mecke's Odds of Victory First, check out the line on Conan O'Brien, Tom Brady and famous local Sean Penn. Now check out Quintin's. Surprised?
SF News Match Game PM? Or SF Mayoral Debate? Before last night's much more important Zombie Attack, there was some sort of mayoral debate at some bookish building. A debate consisting of Mayor Gavin Newsom, possible contender Quintin Mecke, and slew of
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