SF News Everybody Hates Chris: SF"Chron"-Gate! Most people can't comprehend our near OCD level obsession with Chris Daly, Ed Jew, Gavin, and the Board of Supes. So, we're cool when people ask us questions like, "How do you know
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Conrad Black Postscript: I am writing this from the San Francisco Bay Area, where all summer a local politician named Ed Jew has been in trouble over his filing of an allegedly bogus claim of
SF News 'VideoGate' Officer Andrew Cohen Responds To Critics With A 'Call To Arms' SFist recieved two missives from Officer Andrew Cohen, who is best known for being the focal point of the so-called "VideoGate" scandal. As with his responses in our recent interview with him, we
SF News Behold! (A Very Young) Gavin in Uniform The Chron's Beth Spotswood lands a most delicious photo: a pre-Mayoral Gavin Newsom poured into a baseball uniform. Oh my. Well, then. (Not sure if this has been around, but it's the first
SF News Roisin Isner Update Just passing along the latest news on Roisin Isner, the 17-year-old drummer hit by a firecracker in Dolores Park on July 4. The 17-year-old boy the SFPD arrested has been released by the
Arts & Entertainment Merola's Cenerentola Schwabacher sadly passed away in the middle of last year’s edition, but the new kids (mostly in their 20s), they are all right. His legacy is safe and secure. We saw last
SF News <i>The Economist</i> On Our City's Economy It's always interesting to take an "outside-in" look at our fine city, like when the L.A. Times wrote about the Haight a couple months back. This time, it's the venerable UK-based that's
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: "Increasingly Preposterous" The City Attorney's Office has filed a reply to Ed Jew's response to the State AG from last week that if you don't think he lives in the city, you're a racist. And
SF News Garbage In, Garbage Out Over in the East Bay, the city of Oakland's filed suit against Waste Management, the garbage company that's locked out the local workers for 11 days now, and is letting trash pile up
SF News San Francisco's Mayoral Pick Via the Old Gray Lady Here we have le Gav looking lover-ly while kicking it with some tired Ethel Merman tranny (excuse me, fabulous "Ethel Merman impersonator") in Jesse McKinley's stellar New York Times article about our personality-littered
SF News SFist Tossup: Who Ya Got? We got in an interesting debate about this over dinner -- which is worse? LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa screwing over his wife, or Gavin Newsom screwing over his campaign manager? Family or friends?
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next, oh.... the SF Weekly. Matt Smith finds out that Don Fisher got arrested for getting 15 year old girls drunk (when he was 19). The power of investigative journalism, folks! ....and HA!
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Victory Tomorrow's report (up live now, which is why this post is going up when it is) is that Gavin Newsom said that he's considering options for getting Ed Jew out of office. We
SF News Society Snaps: Gavin and Friends OK. Hmm. We're not sure if politicians and public servants count as society folk, regardless of their top-drawer Getty connections. (We think once you're in office, we at SFist must then considered you
SF News Michela Alioto-Pier Misses Another Meeting Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? That's right, everyone's favorite supervisorial class-cutter, District 2's Michela Alioto-Pier, missed yet another committee meeting on Monday. That's not really newsworthy in and of itself -- but what is newsworthy
SF News Political Junkie: Gavin's Back (Ow!) Oh, Chris Daly's going to have a with this one for his own blog -- the Chronicle Local News Blog gleefully reports that, at Sunday's Celebrity All-Star game at AT&T Park,
Arts & Entertainment Chris Daly Has A Blog Man, we were reading the Chron on the plane out of San Francisco on July 4 for vacation, balling our fists in frustration over missing the stories on Ed Jew's "part-time lover" response
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Moonbeam In other deadline-related Ed Jew news, the other operative date to watch out for is Monday Tuesday July 10, which is the cutoff date for a special election for the seat if Ed
SF News Day Around The Bay --Picture of a woman collecting bottles from people in the iPhone line by reader zombie. Thanks for sending them in, zombie! [ZombieTime.] --Four murders in San Francisco this weekend, 10 murders throughout the
SF News Tap Into The Tap SFist Jim stopped by today's rally to support Gavin Newsom's crusade against bottled water, and reported turnout was a little low. They handed out some promotional material about why tap water is better
SF News Who's Running For Mayor: The Chicken And The Wolf Okay, okay, okay, okay -- we hear you about Laughing Squid's scoop that Chicken John running for mayor, folks! We were totally slammed at work today, that's why we're getting this up late.
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, let's say the San Jose Metro. Hillary Clinton is not doing very well fundraising in Silicon Valley. Eco-trendiness is getting kind of old. What exactly does it mean to be a
SF News Where'd Your Trash Can Go? Newsom, in his defense, says that SF has more garbage cans than any other comparable city, and he thinks people are using them to throw away personal or commercial trash instead of signing
SF News Day Around The Bay --Who owns the new East Bay Express? [the EBX's 92510] --Oh, Newsom's all for foot patrols. [KCBS.] --The Bike Coalition and Ross Mirkarimi want lights at Fell and Masonic. [Examiner.] --Wanna pay someone
