SF News Political Junkie: How's That Election Count Going? Sorry we've been gone from the scene for so long -- yes, we've been swamped at work, but honestly, we've been so dispirited with this particular election cycle lately, we figured we were
SF News Political Junkie: Gavin's Back (Ow!) Oh, Chris Daly's going to have a with this one for his own blog -- the Chronicle Local News Blog gleefully reports that, at Sunday's Celebrity All-Star game at AT&T Park,
SF News Political Junkie: Costco Ross! Well, how surprised were we to see, nestled in among the articles about Kirkland brand disposable diapers (page 61, they're now selling them in 38-day packs) and tips on furniture-shopping at the warehouse
SF News Political Junkie: Who's That? In flipping through today's Examiner, SFist Jim snapped a picture of this picture, underneath the article about the Newsom-Daly drug use fight. We recognize Gavin Newsom, sure, but who's that other guy? That
SF News Political Junkie: Any Questions? That's right: if Mohammed won't come to the mountain, the mountain will come to Mohammad -- Supervisor Chris Daly's gone and started the process of putting a new proposition on the ballot for
SF News Political Junkie: Scheduling Conflicts Soooooo.... guess who is having a mayoral event that very same day???? In order to qualify Mayor Gavin Newsom for the ballot this coming November, we need your help. We are going to
SF News Political Junkie: Ambush! Okay, we'll admit it. San Francisco local politics as of late has been, shall we say, BORING. Boring boring boring boring. No shouting matches, no chicken suits, no revelations from either underage drinkers
SF News Political Junkie: Conan O'Brien's Newsom Jokes! Do you guys think it's true that Gavin Newsom refused to do anything with Conan O'Brien when Conan was in town last week because his feelings were hurt by Conan's jokes about him?
SF News Political Junkie: Chicken Or Jerk? We gotta say, we got chills watching this video. Entitled "Walkaway Mayor," GavinWatch has compiled a collection of all the times a certain city official refuses to answer direct questions from the press.
SF News Political Junkie: Gavin's Rubber, We're Glue Update: When we originally called this post "Gavin's Rubber, We're Glue," we didn't mean THAT kind of rubber. How the hell did we miss this? Check out the first few seconds of anti-Gavin
SF News Political Junkie: Watching The Watchers As the political season starts to heat up, there's so many bloggers monitoring politicians' activities that we're thinking we need to start a new column, the _____Watch. There's so many people needing to
SF News Political Junkie: Oh No He Didn't When we last left the Leno vs. Migden contest, there was much gnashing of the teeth over these two progessive titans matching up. As SFist Rita put it, What Would the Progressives Do?
Arts & Entertainment NoisePop Film Fest: <i>You're Gonna Miss Me</i> The crowd inside was raucous, befitting a man who's an icon not only to 60s psychedelic fans but also 70s horror-metal ones -- a woman stood up and started shouting something about making
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Our Composite Picture! From yesterday's Chronicle article about Newsom stalker Han Shin: Inside [Shin's car], police found a map of San Francisco with the location of the mayor's building highlighted and a line following streets from
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 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 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 Political Junkie: Daly Stache Sighted! Don't worry, folks, we have word that . This picture is going to haunt our nightmares tonight. Thanks to Luke Thomas from the Fog City Journal for passing it along! he's shaving it off
SF News Political Junkie: Chris Daly Mustached We went to our very first Ross Mirkarimi Third Friday art show yesterday, and had a very nice time -- loved the eggnog! We also picked up the following piece of gossip: Chris
SF News Can Someone Explain The Significance Of This To Us? Breaking news on a Friday afternoon -- Gavin Newsom's chief of staff Steve Kawa has resigned. Stated reason: "I want to spend more time with my amazing family." Okay, an announcement made at
SF News Political Junkie: Gavin's Blue Tie We are really in no position to judge Gavin Newsom for wearing the same blue tie to numerous events, since we wear black pants and a gray sweater like every single day of
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Everybody Into The Pool Pat Murphy of the Sentinel was also there with the color commentary, reporting that Daly went into the splash with his wife Sarah, for a bid of $18,500. In reading Pat's article,
SF News Political Junkie: You're E-Vited! That Cubist-y gavel graphic Daly's picked to illustrate the evite is -- as is the greeting line: "Dear Mayor Gavin Christopher Newsom," as if some other Gavin Newsom, whose middle name is Edward,
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Dunk Tank! The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Center is sponsoring their 16th Annual Celebrity Pool Toss this Tuesday (tomorrow the 17th) from 6-10 p.m., where brave local celebrities volunteer to be tossed into the swimming
