SF News Instant Recall (District 1 Edition) The recall campaign, which is spearheaded in part by one of the six candidates who ran against McGoldrick for the Board of Supes seat and lost (David Heller), is focusing primarily on McGoldrick's
Arts & Entertainment Annual César Chávez Holiday Breakfast and Parade At this morning's breakfast in the Mission, local officials called for this California-only state holiday to be expanded into an official national holiday. Did Mayor Gavin Newsom whip out a newspaper and start
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Knows Ebonics After a break of a few weeks, Gavin Watch is back with a launch party and a spiffy new web site. They already have some great content up already, mainly a video of
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's new 311 telephone service. The city of San Francisco officially kicked off its new 311 telephone service today. That means that you can simply dial these three digits (or 415-701-2311 if you are calling from a non-415
SF News Gavin: Your Inability to Depend on Muni is a Mere "Pet Peeve" (Thanks for the tip, GavinWatch! We can't wait for your launch party tomorrow.) The always vigilant GW tipped us off to a heroic, anonymous San Franciscan who puts a question to Gavin about
Arts & Entertainment Fake Question Time III- the Photos To paraphrase an old joke about hockey, we went to a Town Hall meeting last night and a protest broke out. Case in point, the above photo of an attendee making a calm
SF News Third Fake Question Time The tie was red, the gel was flaky, and Fake Question Time was ON! Big thanks to Luke Thomas for letting us use his photos! Check out even more amazing photos, and Fog
SF News Gavin Wants To Hear From You We checked our e-mail this morning and saw that OH MY GOD we got an e-mail from Gavin! And what does the Gavster say? That there's much more to governing than "making our
SF News Already Over Fake Question Time Our feelings regarding the sneaky scheduling of Gavin Newsom’s Third Fake Question Time this Monday can best be expressed through American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee’s latest single, “Over It.” The purple
SF News Go To The Third Fake Question Time For Us! Man, we can't believe Team Newsom scheduled Third Fake Question Time at the last minute like that -- your Political Junkie is out on vacation so we can't make it to the Cesar
SF News It Takes Two To Make a Thing Go Right The one Gavin wants to setup is an actual sort of a mini-court in which there's a DA, prosecutor, and judge and is designed to have a verdict rendered within 24 hours. The
SF News News Of The Gavin: Late, Delayed, and Cancelled Late word: What? Gavin Newsom lied to us! At the last Fake Question Time, Gavin clearly told us that the next "town hall meeting" would be in April and address the issue of
SF News Here Comes Da Judge For those who don't know how these things work, essentially if someone gets a citation for any number of "quality of life" type issues, they'd be sent immediately to a community court. At
SF News Political Junkie: Watching The Watchers As the political season starts to heat up, there's so many bloggers monitoring politicians' activities that we're thinking we need to start a new column, the _____Watch. There's so many people needing to
Arts & Entertainment Supermodels Attack SF One of our spies spotted model Gemma Ward hopping into a downtown Walgreens yesterday. Gemma was in SF for Fashion Week Live last night at Fort Mason. Their description of Gemma was priceless:
SF News What's With These Homies Dissing My Girl? So Gavin is proposing setting up community courts to help do something about those "quality of life" things. The problem being is that nothing is really done about people pissing in the streets
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Trouble With Romance</i> (The Jennifer Siebel Movie) The infamous SFist Rita took time away from her remote cave lair and evil blogging minions to hook me up with an advance copy of , starring none other than SFist commenter herself, Jennifer
SF News SFist Is The Culprit: The Comments In all seriousness, thank you guys for keeping the conversation in the comments relatively civil (snarky, but civil -- our favorite!). We always knew our readers and commenters were the best and this
misc Dear Gaviffer, We decided not to post your picture because we've seen enough of y'all to last a lifetime. Here's Gwen Stefani's video for "Sweet Escape" instead. As our blog hero, Perez Hilton, once said:
SF News Jennifer Siebel: The Girl Code Before we get into the Jennifer Siebel links of the day, we'd like to put a theory out there. Remember Chron writer C.W. Nevius's theory that men were upset about Newsom's behavior
SF News Jennifer Siebel Online It's our de rigueur day-after-the-scandal post, where we compile all the links we can find about the thing we were all talking about yesterday and turn it into a post for the next
SF News Not A Girl's Kind Of Girl Here's the full quote from the article: "I shouldn't say this, but there are two sides to every story,'' she said in an exhausted tone. "If people did research into the scandal
Arts & Entertainment The Bathrobe You may recall that the Guardian ran the picture in this week's issue of their alternative-weekly paper, saying they'd gotten it from a good source who said the picture was from Shin himself,
Arts & Entertainment Pop That Collar, Bro Orange Photography just posted these pictures of Gavin putting on a green tie for the Irish National Day Flag Raising Ceremony at City Hall. We love how he goes back to his preppy,
Arts & Entertainment Still Not Married We found this picture of Gaviffer looking cute, boring, and not married at the Google party last weekend. Thankfully, he left the blue tie at home, and we hope she left that weird
