Arts & Entertainment Free Range Chickens! It's looking like Gavin's townhall meeting on Saturday is becoming the gift that keeps on giving. From GavinWatch, we get word of this YouTube clip of the great kerfluffle that arose when the
SF News 14 Murders in 17 Days So what's the deal? On January 2, the city had just patted itself on the back for reducing the murder rate in 2006 by 11% over 2005. Well, in today's Examiner, local Republican
SF News <strike>Swells</strike> Fake Question Time By The Numbers There's no Swells society column today! Sad! So we're doing a Fake Question Time By The Numbers instead. Number of people in attendance: 200. Number of chickens: 6. Number of times Angela Alioto
SF News SFist Goes to Gavin's Townhall Meeting This morning, we dragged our flu-ridden butts all the way out to the Richmond hoping to see what had all the makings of a circus. We didn't get it. What we got, instead,
SF News Political Junkie: Gav Gets Mad As we've mentioned, better watch this clip (or upload it to YouTube) before ABC 7 takes it down -- media hound Dan Noyes from the "I Team" (we think the I stands for
SF News The Fake Question Time Drinking Game! And you know who's really gonna want to play this drinking game? The star of the event! See you guys there -- we'll bring the booze. If Gavin.... You.... Wears his lucky blue
SF News Koo-Koo-Ka-Cha! At the request of our august editor, in honor of this Saturday's townhall meeting and Gavin Newsom chicken-out from Question Time, we're running the YouTube clip of the Chicken Dance from Arrested Development.
SF News Other Things That Happened Today Sorry, we've become so obsessed with the upcoming Fake Question Time and those Yalie a capella singers that got beaten up that we totally didn't cover any of the other city news from
SF News Fake Question Time RSVP You can email MONS and let them know you're planning on attending, or call 415-554-6110. The word on the street is that they may close the room off if it's full. (We hope
SF News Only Three More Days Until Fake Question Time! Gavin buck-buck-buck'ed a testy response to this latest coop challenge, saying only, "Been there, done that. I've talked about it for one month." But not yet answered any questions from supervisors! And finally
SF News Gavin on KQED The Mayor was at his wonkish, earnest, puppy-dog best. To each question, he spent five minutes or so riffing off stats, programs, and pat responses so well that we could just picture him
SF News Political Junkie: Thin Veneer Of Something Sulky, sulky -- Gavin Newsom was sober and mad after yesterday's Board of Supervisors inaugural ceremony, which the Chronicle tactfully described as having a "tone of political contentiousness running just beneath a veneer
SF News Political Junkie: Booooo! It's a bad sign when the Oakland City Council (and its participating public -- see notes in the comments below) takes the "worst behaved political activity" award on a day where not only
SF News They Do Chicken Right Don't forget -- your insufficient substitute for Question Time will take place at 10 a.m. this Saturday at the Richmond Recreation Center at 281 18th Avenue, between Geary and Clement. We can't
SF News Today in Matier & Ross Anyways, what the story is about is that on the night Officer Bryan Tuvera was shot, the Gav was at a holiday party and when he showed up at the hospital, he was
SF News Shorter Gavin in the Examiner As we all know, Gavin is up for re-election this year (and why 2007? Aren't big elections supposed to be in even-numbered years? Is this one more "only in SF" type of thing?
SF News Breaking Up is the New Black (and Orange) With Gavin Newsom out of town, it's good to know the ladies of SF are this much closer to stalking Barry Zito. Unless he starts taking after his father, Joe Zito, anytime soon:
SF News Oakland's New Last-Minute Mayor Yeah, we don't remember any dramatic hand-on-the-Bible or inaugural speechifying either -- it turns out they threw together a somewhat slapdash inauguration when someone realized that the Oakland city charter required Dellums to
Arts & Entertainment Holy Smokes, Look What We Found In Native American lore, the White Buffalo is a sacred animal. Born only rarely, they hold a place of great spiritual importance in several Native American relgions. This past weekend, leaders from several
SF News SFist Rita's 2006 From the Starbucks (not really a) bomber in January to the opening of the Daiso in December, it was certainly one heck of a year, wasn't it? There was BUSH TER DOWN; the
SF News State Senate Shenanigans Well, the latest rumor (from the Bay Area Reporter) is that folks have heard tell that Aaron Peskin is now thinking about running for the State Senate seat as well. Whaaaaa? The tea-leaf
SF News Who Wants To Be The Mayor (Declared) Look who's launched his "reelect me in 2007" website! (Thanks, Usual Suspects!) Mysteriously, Gavin and his handlers didn't choose the domain name gavinnewsom2007.com, but went with actlocallysf.com instead. ActLocallySF.org is
SF News Who Wants To Be The Mayor (Maybe) Okay, so we've covered the people who aren't running against Gavin Newsom for mayor in 2007, and we've covered the people who are. Who next but the undeclareds? Here's your list of the
SF News Who Wants To Run For Mayor? We'd have a sad face too if the Chron came out against our position on Question Time, some mayoral pipsqueak in Santa Clara was out to eat our Niners lunch, and our chief
SF News The Homeless. Again. Here comes the numbers (mostly compared to 2004), according to the Mayor: -4,800 less homeless people -2,600 homeless individuals were put in supportive housing -87% reduction in people claiming cash payments
