SF News Hank Plante Nails Newsom on Colma-Bought SUV Oh, Hank. When you deliver, you do it in spades. Earlier this week, when Newsom held a press conference in Noe Valley to push the actually impressive Shop SF, an incentive plan begging
SF News Newsom Suffers Through Marin Priorities During Town Hall Meeting During some sort of pre-meeting to see if maybe, perhaps, possibly Newsom wants to throw his hat into the California's Governor race, the San Francisco Mayor held a "beta meeting" at his alma
SF News Mayor Gavin Newsom Gets Himself a YouTube Page Following on the heels of other YouTube stars such as Chris Crocker and the Chocolate Rain guy, Mayor Gavin Newsom continues to harness the awesome power of the world wide web via a
SF News Mayor Newsom Appears on Dr. Phil Tonight Unless it involves children assaulting their own mothers, having mimicking young punks removed from the set, or nubile teens hooked on heroin, we wouldn't recommend an episode of Dr. Phil. Until today. See,
SF News Bay Area to Become the Electric Car Capital of the World While most of us who could afford an electric car are being handed pink slips, San Francisco and other Bay Area cities announced plans yesterday to make the Bay Ara the electric car
SF News "Gavin, Where Are Our IDs?" Happening at around 10:30 a.m., this small gathering could get bigger. What today's scene outside city hall about, you ask? Supervisor Tom Ammiano's ID card legislation, which was approved by the
SF News Daly Helps Pull Funding from Community Court Supervisor Chis Daly went on the defense against Mayor Gavin Newsom's quality-of-life pipedream at yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting. Daly introduced legislation that would yank funding from Newsom's Community Justice Center and put
SF News All that Olympic Torch Brouhaha Pays Off, Newsom Launches ChinaSF Team Newsom recently kicked off a nightclub-sounding economic development initiative called ChinaSF. The "public/private" partnership will help connect businesses in China to San Francisco and the Bay Area, helping cash-rich Chinese companies
SF News Top consultant breaks with Mayor Gavin Newsom While many in the city concerned themselves with that civil rights protest at City Hall, Mayor Gavin Newsom was wringing his hands over the loss of his top consultant, Shawnda Westly, last week.
SF News Tales of PR Inanity: Newsom Rides a Jet Over 2008 we've been increasingly flummoxed to see Mayor Gavin Newsom and Jennifer Siebel resign themselves to personality, rather than awe-inspiring politician or actress of note, respectively. And press releases like the following,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Newsom's Victory Garden to Thrive for an Additional Month Gavin Newsom's ode to living a green, fit, probiotic-rich life received a two -eek extension before getting sprayed with the Roundup. According to Matier & Ross, the food garden/publicity stunt at City
SF News Where's the Stimulus, Gavin? Halloween comes early at City Hall after Newsom's "economic stimulus package" press conference, which is being referred to as one of the "ugliest news conferences" in ages. Mild-mannered yet astute Jim Herd was
SF News Newsom Declares Civic Center the "Sustainable Resource District" of Tomorrow! Part of Mayor Gavin Newsom's plan or save the Earth/become Governor of California, Civic Center has been declared "a sustainable vision for the heart of San Francisco." That is to say, it's
SF News Outsiders Blamed for (Alleged) SF Crime Wave Once again, lots of sticky, viscous blood bathed the streets of San Francisco. Let's see, we had a 19-year-old man shot while strolling along 23rd Street and Treat, two people shot inside a
SF News Update on Grassy "Living Shelters" So, this inane bus shelter, also known as a "living roof," is all a part of Newsom plan to get elected Governor of California. (Let's hear it for the amusement parkification of SF
SF News Newsom Throws Party at DNC, Sponsors Called Into Question Current San Francisco Mayor, possible future Governor of California, and still-lost-inside-Siebel's-sugar-walls honeymooner Gavin Newsom is throwing some sort of party at the Denver Democratic National Convention. It's cloyingly called Unconventional 08, molded for
SF News Noted Psychic Reveals Nothing About Newsom and Siebel's Future Phillip and Andrew kick things off this morning with a little bit of sorcery. One-time Silicon Valley ad executive and current psychic spiritual healer and "intuitive consultant" Simone (nee Carol Simone), the lady
SF News It Is Done: Newsom and Siebel Get Hitched Well, it was a stellar weekend for actress/Standford grad/former SFist commenter Jennifer Siebel. First, she became San Francisco's reigning queen. Siebel, 34, and the Gav, 40, were hitched on Saturday in
misc What's Their Names Tie the Knot This Weekend Oh yeah, we almost forgot. They're getting married this weekend somewhere in Canada at some sort of horse breeding ranch. Or wherever. Billed as an "old-fashioned wedding social," featuring "wrangler events, a cowboy
SF News Mayor Newsom Scores Password Codes from Gushing Terry Childs With a whole lot of charm and little bit of pluck, Mayor Gavin Newsom managed to get the much-needed passwords from former IT nerd Terry Childs during a jailhouse visit last night. If
misc Mayor Gavin Newsom: "Poopfinger" Crazy sidewalk artist quips: Gavin "Poopfinger" Knew-Some for Governor A gallon of Dipity-Do and an assortment of powerful psych meds Well... yeah, we really don't have anything else to add.
SF News Photo du Jour 170 Things got a wee bit heated at last night's Presidio Trust Public Board of Directors Meeting. The hot topic about was that art museum thingy we most likely never plan on visiting, but
SF News Mayor Gavin Newsom's chief of staff Quits All around nice guy Phil Ginsburg, Maor Gavin Newsom's chief of staff, turned in his letter of resignation today. This makes the second CoS to resign since Newsom has been in office. (Steve
misc What's Going On Here, Gavin? Taken by Jim Herd at Saturday's Pink Triangle party (always celebrated the day before Queer Pride Parade), a "newly sober" Mayor Gavin Newsom rips into a bottle of bubbly. How adorable! Also, he
