SF Politics Supervisor Aaron Peskin Says He's Entering Rehab for Alcohol, Apologizes for 'Tenor' of His Public Relationships Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who over the last year has been called out on social media a couple of times for sounding drunk during Zoom meetings of the SF Board of Supervisors, announced Thursday that he is entering a treatment program for alcohol abuse.
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #10 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Standouts: (There are no major standouts this week) 2. Enchanted - Soundtrack: We are thinking that the only
SF News What Would You Do with Barry Bonds' Ball? The dude who plunked down $752,467 to get the home-run ball that is #756 has decided to put it up to an online vote as to what to do with it. If
SF News Tenderloin Housing Clinic Moving to Evict Documentarian? Update: See Paul's comment below about why they had to do what they did, and what they're doing about it. Are there quiet, law-abiding people on Sixth Street? Sure, but it's hard to
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: <i>Red Without Blue</i> Mark and Alex grew up as extremely close brothers in Missoula, Montana. As they entered adolescence, both realized they were gay, and in struggling to come to terms with that, both entered into
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Go To The Movies: Big <i>Knocked</i> How can mainstream comedy be dead when is all about inventive delivery? (Get it? "Delivery?") Stronger than Judd Apatow’s last bluntly-titled summer comedy (The 40-Year-Old Virgin), Knocked Up stands up to both
SF News The Mayoral Minder There's a profile of Phil Ginsburg, the new mayoral chief of staff, in today's Chron. Basically, it's a hard job, Ginsburg took a $75K paycut when he took it, and he was nonplussed
Arts & Entertainment Bald Britney's (Maybe) Coming To Town You gossip mavens probably already know that Ms. Spears performed lip-synced a brief but dance-intensive 15 minute set in San Diego and LA earlier this week, under the name "the M+Ms." Well,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight watches Infamy Tonight, learn about graffiti street artists as SF360 Film+Club returns to Mezzanine to celebrate the URB Next 100 Issue with a screening of Doug Pray’s film, Infamy. The film is an
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SF News We Have a Best MUNI Line BART? Yep, BART won as the Best MUNI line with almost 1/3rd of the vote. In terms of actual MUNI lines, the winner is the F Line, with 17%. In third came
SF News Gavin Speaks! The big money quote? Gavin channeling Popeye to say "I am who I am, imperfect and a work in progress." He also denied cocaine use, said he was going to Delancey Street almost
SF News Today In <i>As The Gav Turns</i>: Friends With (Sick Leave) Benefits You think Gavin Newsom'll shave off all his hair next, just like rehabbing Britney Spears? Okay, so where were we the last time we checked in with the Ruby Rippey-Tourk sick leave investigations?
SF News News About The Mayor Hey, does anyone know what the mayor of San Francisco's up to? --M&R report that Gavin has been attending rehab sessions every day this last week -- some as individual sessions
misc Around The -Ists Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we
SF News The Twisted History Of The Mission Armory The Armory's got an only-in-San-Francisco history: It was built in 1912, after the original armory burned down in the 1906 earthquake, for the National Guard. In 1976, when the National Guard moved to
Arts & Entertainment Just Say "No, No, No" Gavin We don't mean to pour on the haterade, but we couldn't help but dedicate Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" to Gavin. In a perfect world, he would dance around to this song every morning while
SF News Today's Installment of <em>As the Gav Turns</em> ANYWAYS, let's take a look at all the big picture stuff out there, starting with the rumor that DiFi wanted Gavin to resign. This morning, the rumor was completly denied by DiFi's people.
SF News Rehab is For Quitters Now granted, there have been rumors about Gavin boozing it up for a long time. And there have been all sorts of stories about him doing Mayoral type things while being a little
SF News Don't Recycle Those Mailers! Since Greg doesn't live in an even-numbered district, he's asking in particular for any good Districts 4 and 6 mailers, or anything "freaky" from District 8 -- but will accept all your flyers
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: <i>The Proposition</i> Joining the crown filing into the The Proposition, it was sort of surreal to see the SFist logo flash across the screen, as one of the sponsors of the Festival. Go us! As
SF News So Long Rusty Just wondering, but how long will it be before we start seeing a "Rehab Rusty" movement? Also changing at Whatever The Hell It's Named Now Park is that Splash Landing will no longer
SF News A's Brand Baseball: 41 Losses Never Felt So Good The Giants and the Mariners are bad this year. Here at A's Brand Baseball, we take no special pleasure in writing that, nor do we do so in order to taunt the other
SF News Your San Francisco Giants Beat L.A.! When the Giants signed Benitez, the thinking was that a closer stabilizes things in the bullpen. Everyone knows their roles and so everyone can concentrate on doing what they need to do-- bullpen
