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.
SF News Short Coattails Take Doug Chan in District 4, for example. Newsom was the conservative (for SF) Police Commission member Chan's go-to guy -- Newsom showed up at Chan's kickoff rally; he walked the Sunset with
SF News Everything Else Results National They called the race for Feinstein like 5 minutes after the polls closed in California. Pelosi is not only going to win, she's going to be the next Speaker of the House!
SF News Your Commute: Look Out Below! The bus driver, driving towards the Castro, was tooling up the steep Noe Street hill between 29th and Valley when the electric bus was blocked by the offending garbage truck. The truck driver
SF News Gavin's New Date After vetoing Mirkarimi's foot patrol proposal on Friday, Gavin Newsom skipped on over to the Red Tie Gala at Neiman-Marcus, to benefit St. Anne's Home for the elderly poor in the Lake District,
SF News Saving Some Shoe Leather The old political shibboleth about releasing unpopular news on the afternoon of "take out the trash" Friday holds true again, as Gavin Newsom sneaks in a veto on Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi's well-received proposal
SF News District 6 Election Pictures Of The Day We're not calling this an "Everybody Hates Chris" post only because we're starting to think there are too many posts on the SFist front page that bear that title. This week's episode: Everybody
SF News State Of The City Address The only two things Gavin Newsom is required to do as the mayor of San Francisco are 1) propose a budget and 2) give an annual speech about the State Of The City.
SF News Marina Progressives Stand Up! Alioto-Pier (our reigning champion in the SFist Hottest Supervisor contest) is basically running unopposed, with only one declared opponent, Vilma Guinto Peoro, whose interview with the Chron was tactfully described as "free-wheeling," and
SF News Political Junkie: You're E-Vited! That Cubist-y gavel graphic Daly's picked to illustrate the evite is -- as is the greeting line: "Dear Mayor Gavin Christopher Newsom," as if some other Gavin Newsom, whose middle name is Edward,
misc Political Junkie: New Hairstyles, New Races Well, we're pleased as punch to say that someone has risen to our challenge! Look how more regressive Matt looks! You can practically see him chasing the homeless out of San Francisco now,
SF News Brittanie Bobs Her Hair This month's Zelda Fitzgerald, mayoral paramour Brittanie Mountz is not only flitting about town in true flapper style (and who knows -- if she's in fact under 21, she might be drinking some
SF News Political Junkie: Hair Of The Mayor That Bit You Yes, folks, it's true -- the floppy-haired Matt Gonzalez look sported by Mayor Gavin Newsom was for one day only. Awwwwwww! We're back to the swept-back, visible-comb-lines-through-the-front (scroll down), crunchy-gelled 'do you all
Arts & Entertainment Old School, New School: The SFist School Board Interviews Introduce yourself, and tell us what you currently do. For the last seven years, I have been an independent contractor with the City and County of San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department. My title
misc Political Junkie: Gel Free We're not going to steal the Sentinel's pictures of the new do, but let's just say it looks awfully ....Gonzalezy. Well, either Gonzalez-y or like Nick and Aaron Carter -- we haven't really
SF News The Newest Guilfoyle Villency Is On The Way! Our tipster also reports that Kimberly is trying to go natural -- so it'll probably be another 36 hours or so before we can report the actual arrival of Ronan Anthony Guilfency. Keep
