SF News The Day After the Day After So you're Alex Tourk. Everything is fine and honky dorky until your wife, out of the blue, admits to having a fling with not only your boss but one of your best buddies.
SF News The Day After One day after Gavin's big My Bad moment, the big question is what does this all mean for him, the city, and his reelection bid. After all, as bad as this all sounds,
Arts & Entertainment Assessor-Recorder Swearing In SFist Jim stopped by the swearing-in for San Francisco assessor-recorder (and buzzed-about mayoral possibility?) Phil Ting last night and snapped these pictures for us. Yes, that is a subdued-looking Gavin Newsom, hiding in
SF News TourkGate: So What Happens Next? Well, that was certainly a mortified apology and a hasty retreat. We'll take Chris "The High Road" Daly's cue and refrain from comment about the principal players in this sad story -- but
SF News Live Blogging the Gavin Press Conference 12:46 And, yes, folks-- he wore a blue tie. 11:38. Abbada abbadee, that's all folks. He basically apologized to everyone, said he's really sorry, will work to regain everyone's trust, wants
SF News Newsom to Speak We're a little late on this, but Gavin is going to have a press conference today at 11:30 to go over the allegations at City Hall today. And props to Gavin to
SF News Meet John Nelson Hey everyone, in the midst of all this Ruby Rippey-Tourk madness, guess who showed up for a photo session and interview with the Chron? That's right -- Peter Ragone's best friend and your
SF News Holy Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So earlier today, we heard that Alex Tourk resigned as Gavin's campaign manager. It was a bit curious, a bit odd, but these things happen, although whenever somebody mentions that they are leaving
SF News Update on SFistGate! Eh, we made that up. Barbara Taylor actually got a hold of Gavin at some Global Climate Summit (probably the one about what to do with all the reservoirs and our lack of
SF News SFistGate Online So please pardon us if we've become a little obsessed in following the online coverage of SFist Jon's exposé and evening news report -- but look what we've found! --Stalwart video hounds GavinWatch
SF News What Goes Up Shouldn't Go Down So here's the numbers: in the three years that Gavin has been Mayor and Heather Fong the Police Commissioner, San Francisco has averaged 90 homicides and 23.5 homicide arrests a year. That's
SF News Swells By The Numbers More balletomania! We've read so much coverage of the 74th SF ballet opening night gala, we're starting to expect to see ourselves in these pictures! Number of people pictured in this week's Swells
SF News Virtually Gavin Hey, Dan Noyes, here's a gotcha technique to consider -- cyberspace! Gavin took a break from Davos to do a virtual interview with the Second Life news center. Alas, there are no chicken
SF News Gavin's Sock Puppet Now, the internets is a free place so if Peter wants to respond, he's more than welcome to. In fact, welcome aboard, Peter-- we're actually a little flattered that he's joining our little
SF News Who's Defending Newsom Now! As promised -- when we find people defending Newsom, we diligently write 'em up in the column we call.... Who's Defending Newsom Now! Who's swinging for the mayor? --The mayor himself!: Before heading
SF News How'd Question Time Go? Well, we're sorry to report that everyone's day jobs managed to succeed where Wade Crowfoot did not -- namely, in preventing anyone wearing a chicken suit from gaining access to the city's very
SF News RIIIIIII-COLA!!!! And it's not necessarily because he's missing Question Time. No, he's also missing out on the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a less exciting but probably more relevant meeting featuring a Special Guest
SF News Your First Question Time Tomorrow! Well, it's hard to think what could top the chickens last weekend -- so it seems a little anticlimactic to announce that the Board of Supervisors will be hosting its very first Question
SF News Who's Attacking Newsom Now! So... who's on this week's list? Let's bring 'em out! --Aaron Peskin and Ross Mirkarimi!: Luke Thomas at Fog City Journal reports that Supervisors Peskin and Mirkarimi decided to take advantage of Gavin
SF News Gavin Defends Screw Tops The article isn't online, but it's a piece called "All You Really Need To Know About WINE" and Gavin's on page 138, as "Plumpjack Winery Founder and Mayor of San Francisco." It's accompanied
SF News I Saw Gavin Newsom It seems like the trick for getting something into this column is to hang out at Tosca's -- check out the following story we got passed along. Thanks, gentle reader! Last night our
SF News I'm Elected Electric Spy, I'm Protected Electric Eye By a 5-0 vote, the Police Commission last night voted to install twenty five of those anti-crime cameras throughout the Mission, SoMa, and the Tenderloin. As expected, last night's hearing was pretty heated
Arts & Entertainment Blue Tie Alert! SFist Jim snapped this picture of Gavin Newsom swearing in the latest batch of city commissioners this afternoon. SFMike has his usual tart lowdown on the actual event -- along with more pictures
SF News Chicken Is As Chicken Does Angela Alioto got the biggest applause line of the morning at the Gavin Newsom Fake Question Time townhall meeting last Saturday when she roared out, "Instead of sitting around in chicken outfits, what
SF News Your Daily Dose of Whatever Gate We're Calling It Talk about tension city-- here was the political rival of the Mayor chatting it up with the Mayor's ex-wife. And according to Matier & Ross, Kimberly signed off with these words: "all right,
