SF News Irony Alert Way back when, in days of yore, Alex Tourk and Gavin Newsom were friends and worked on projects together, like San Francisco Connect. And so they decided to that in order to get
SF News Peter Ragone By The Numbers We've learned so much about mayoral communications director Peter Ragone from this article in the Sunday Chron! Since it's a Sunday (and there's no Swells today), we're naturally giving it the SFist By
SF News Today In <i>As The Gav Turns</i>: Friends With (Sick Leave) Benefits You think Gavin Newsom'll shave off all his hair next, just like rehabbing Britney Spears? Okay, so where were we the last time we checked in with the Ruby Rippey-Tourk sick leave investigations?
SF News Gavin Newsom's Next Trip Gavin's trip is occasioned by the 50th anniversary of San Francisco's sister city relationship with Osaka, and he's going with a delegation of 45 people, including Jeff Adachi and Ross Mirkarimi (we know,
Arts & Entertainment Blue Tie Alert! Not only a blue tie alert, but it sounds like maybe the SFWall got Gavin and Joanna Newsom mixed up in their reports earlier this week that our mayor was in Japan --
Arts & Entertainment Yes, We Know We're Going to Hell ...But we couldn't resist posting this excellent YouTube of Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around (Comes Around)" set to the movie "Closer." When TourkGate 2007 broke out, we were at home listening to our
SF News An LA Caption Action They got the usual level of "that's hot" Paris references and obscure "I'd like to join YOUR LA school board" inside-politics commentary, but, entertainingly enough, look who else got invited to the Villaraigosa-Hilton
SF News Political Junkie: The Om--- ? Okay, this has been killing us all afternoon. So we were checking out the pictures from Gavin Newsom's reelection campaign kickoff rally from Sunday on his campaign website's "Brian Blogs," and it looks
SF News News About The Mayor Hey, does anyone know what the mayor of San Francisco's up to? --M&R report that Gavin has been attending rehab sessions every day this last week -- some as individual sessions
SF News Gavinwatch Watch We come back from Second Fake Question Time and.... WHERE'S GAVINWATCH???? Emails to the anonymous blogger/videohounds' gmail account were bouncing, their YouTubes clips were gone, and their website had crashed. What th---?
SF News Second Fake Question Time As you can see, the pouring rain was wreaking havoc on Gavin Newsom's carefully-styled coif this morning at the Second Fake Question Time townhall meeting in District 10's Bayview district. We arrived at
SF News He Fought the Law and the Law Won The police did approve a payout of $83,000 to the man, Andrew Marconi, and commissioners expressed frustration with the amount of bureaucratic snares that delayed any sort of discipline to take place.
SF News Wonks Win A reader passed along a picture from today's press conference with City Treasurer José Cisneros and City Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting, where they bragged about how they collected $24 million more than expected in
SF News Today in <em>As the Gav Turns</em> As SFist Rita mentioned, Gavin has figured out that the best way to not have there being any sort of impropriety regarding Alex Tourk's severance using city coffers is by agreeing to pay
SF News The Stuff They've Got In The Oven (Local Politics News, Non-Newsom) --The Board of Supes held hearings yesterday about whether to accept the Google/Earthlink citywide wifi plans. We must confess we're still very vague on the pros and cons of the proposal (all
SF News Gavin News Fatigue We've got it just as bad as you! Nevertheless, here's the three items we found in our listless online trolling today that still managed to catch our eye. --GavinWatch tries to shake off
SF News Denial Ain't Just a River in Egypt Now, onto the juicy stuff… Apparently, a bunch of people have been telling Gavin to lay off the booze for awhile but Gavin wouldn't hear of it. Then, sometime after his fun little
SF News Had A Bad Day Okay, to start things off, that's a YouTube clip of Daniel Powter's Had A Bad Day. Play it as you read this post! Gavin Newsom started off the first day of the rest
SF News Today's Installment of <em>As the Gav Turns</em> ANYWAYS, let's take a look at all the big picture stuff out there, starting with the rumor that DiFi wanted Gavin to resign. This morning, the rumor was completly denied by DiFi's people.
SF News You Knew It Had To Happen A search for other Gavin stuff got us entries for "I Had an Affair With Gavin Newsom" ("I thought we shared something special, but apparently you just used me, Mr. Playboy") as well
SF News Today, On <i>As The Gav Turns</i>... First off. Alcoholism is a serious problem and we hope Gavin Newsom (.pdf) gets help and support. Second of all. Blue tie alert! (see picture from this afternoon at right.) We're tag-teaming in
SF News Rehab is For Quitters Now granted, there have been rumors about Gavin boozing it up for a long time. And there have been all sorts of stories about him doing Mayoral type things while being a little
SF News We Are So Screwed The jist of the report is that in times of trouble, it's the non-profit people who are able to provide the best relief to the people in need and that they're not ready
SF News SFiS By The Numbers SFiS -- more than just SFist minus the T! We give the new glossy advertorial section of the Chronicle our patented By The Numbers treatment below. (Warning -- SFiS only appears in .pdf
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Gavin Newsom: Hell-Bent for Re-election Mayor Newsom toured part of the UCSF Children’s Hospital this morning during the California State Assembly’s Town Hall event hosted by Speaker Núñez. With girlfriend Jennifer at his side, he discussed
