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Link Love from the Gavster!

Somebody who has a bigger crush on Gavin than we do (how else to explain them visiting Gavin Newsom's campaign page) pointed out that if you drop by his homepage at, where else,

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Interview: Merkley???

Finally! An interview subject who provides both a use for left over super nachos AND a recipe for tortilla soup. Even after the exhaustive interview process, SFist was left wondering what Merkley has

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The Dave Matthews Band is Newsom's Favorite

We'd never lie to you, so let's just be upfront: this correspondent loathes the Dave Matthews Band. The insipid guitar solos, the faux-brohemian jam'n vibe -- why? why? Dear Lord, why? Frankly, we

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Winter of Love Doc Trailer Online

, a documentary about our Winter of Love, has footage of the Mayor's meetings in the days leading up to the Valentine's happening, as well as footage of the ensuing exchanges of heartfelt vows

Political Junkie: Gruesome Newsom

The Newsom tributes roll on in the wake of the Chronicle's hard-hitting Passion of the Gavin article. Kneeling before the emperor, BeyondChron.org offers its laurels through the eternal voice of poesy. Joe

Political Junkie: Matrix GavinGetty

Yes, yes, we saw that Sunday Chron magazine profile about the Gav -- "Newsom In Four Acts," Eye-Rolling In Three. As we all know, "Everyone in San Francisco knows a small black child

Back to the Boardroom

Kimberly Guilfoyle formerly Newsom better make room for someone else on that carpet -- there's a new sassy San Francisco lawyer-correspondent making the rounds. The Post's Page Six reports that Apprentice runner-up Jennifer

We'll Always Have So Best

You might not have been able to tell but we here at SFist have some mixed feelings about the Newsom breakup. On the one hand, there's been an increase in single female staff

Political Junkie: The Gossip

Passing along news about public figures in an attempt to distract ourselves from the pain of everyday existence: your Political Junkie gossip roundup for the day! Our soon-to-be-former first lady Kimberly made it

SFist Cheshire Remembers 2004

Like SFist Emily, I'm bad at lists. So I'm just going to relish the chance to write in the first person singular for a moment and break down the highlights and lowlights of

Mazel Tov, Gavin

It’s been quite a year for the Gavster. Elected by a slim majority, Gavin let a few gay people get married and the next thing you know, he’s blown up across

Political Junkie: You're A Mean One

Mayor Gavin the N, fresh from meat-slicing duties, found his press conference on how he plans to use funds from Prop 63 (money for mental health services) upstaged by caroling progressives protesting his

Political Junkie: Movie Casting

Okay, we're stealing this link from Usual Suspects, who found it first. (but if we give them credit, it's all okay!) PlanetOut.com, in connection with their voting Newsom the person of the

Political Junkie: World Mayor Pretend

He's (almost) Miss World, can't look us in the eye -- Hizzoner Newsom announced that he was nominated but did not win in the online World Mayor 2004 contest. (That Giacometti-like figure to

We Feel Your Pain

At the beginning of the year, our earnest Boy Wonder of a Mayor said that in the spirit of sharing the pain of the inevitable budget cuts, he would cut his own salary

Political Junkie: Puttin' the F back in SF

(We've been dying to use that title for weeks now!) All of you who make that trendy organic soap, sales should be skyrocketing through your thatched roofs with all the mouth-washing-out that's underway

So Best

Sort of relating to an earlier post today, our boy Gavin's definitely not having the best week. His tax increases lost (so MUNI fares may go up to $1.50, 300 city jobs

Think Global, Act Local

In all the hubbub about Bush's "mandate," new dark allegations about possible voter fraud in Florida and Ohio, and general wailing about the death of the Democratic party, it's easy to forget the

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Sigh

It's basically over, folks. Maybe some lawyers can pull this one out of their collective asses, but the man over eighty percent of San Franciscans voted against is probably going to be our

Yes, We Had No Banana

Far be it from us to post stories making some spurious claim about some noted official and then disappear whenever they try to defend themselves. So when said noted official tries to defend

Sold on Solar

Fossil fuels are sooo twentieth century. Crude oil is way over fifty bucks a barrel, a gallon of gas is nearly three dollars, there's a war raging in a country with the second

Kimberly Takes Manhattan

How do you know our esteemed First Couple has it made it? First there was big story in the New Yorker and now this- they made the New York Post gossip column! We

No Choice But to Use Their Voice

Every morning on our way to work, we raise a fist in support of the locked out hotel workers. Today we were looking forward to the last day of the strike, when picketers

Just Tell Your Friends Back Home You're Experiencing "The Real San Francisco"

The noisy unrest outside many of San Francisco's hotels continued over the weekend as ten other hotel members of the San Francisco Multi-Employer Group (which we'd link to if they had a web

Monster Park

Update @ 11:35: We managed to get our grubby little hands on the press release about an hour before the conference - and it was sent out only an hour before we put