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Potential For Graft Suggested Among Super Bowl Committee Donors

We've got some more Super Bowl intrigue for you today: The Super Bowl 50 Host Committee has received millions of dollars in contributions from both individuals and organizations as it prepares for the

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Hate San Francisco's Proliferation Of Walgreens? Blame Willie Brown

According to the Walgreens "store locator," the drugstore/emergency cat litter shop/place to grab gum and milk has around 50 locations across San Francisco, quite a feat given our city's notorious opposition

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Day Around The Bay: Lightning Struck The Golden Gate Bridge

Lightning struck the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on Monday https://t.co/SWwlqKT99L pic.twitter.com/OJUlTU8o5D— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 10, 2015 Lightning struck the Golden Gate Bridge

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Willie Brown Just Invited The Whole Town To An Open Bar Tomorrow

If you happened to miss the politically tinged, folksy charm of Willie Brown's Willie's World column in the Chronicle on Sunday, you may have missed an important invitation. Brown casually notes, as if

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'G' Chahal Now Being Sued By Employee He Allegedly Threatened To Beat Up, Called A 'Terrorist'

Gurbaksh "G" Chahal's once-good name — after earning his millions by age 25, he appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show — is once again being dragged through the mud. This time, a lawsuit reported by

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Willie Brown Admits To Helping Accused Abuser Skirt Charges, Says It Was Ethical

Yesterday it came out that tech exec Gurbaksh 'G' Chahal may have wiggled out of 45 felony counts of domestic violence by paying $1 million for help from former San Francisco Mayor and

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Tech CEO Gurbaksh Chahal Reportedly Paid Willie Brown To Make Domestic Violence Charges 'Go Away'

After the August 2013 arrest of founder and CEO Gurbaksh "G" Chahal on 45 felony counts of domestic abuse, Silicon Valley ad tech company RadiumOne reportedly sought to "do whatever it takes" to

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Former SF Mayor Says Muni Is A Lost Cause

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown's love affair with the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency is clearly at an end, after an up-and-down romance that's spanned decades. What's replaced Muni in the mayor/

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'Shadowy' Alliance With Big Names Attached Wants To Kill Warriors Arena Project

Smooth-talking PR pro Sam Singer, whose efforts of late have been focused on ousting SF Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, has a new target in his crosshairs: the Mission Bay Warriors Arena development. After shifting

Arts & Entertainment

Get Vodka-Drunk At The Miss Russian SF Beauty Pageant This Sunday

Did you know San Francisco had its own beauty/talent competition only for Russian expats? Well, we do. And it's actually a semi-finalist race in preparation for the Miss Russian California pageant that

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Willie Brown Says Newsom Should Be Hillary's Veep, Calls Peskin A 'Troll,' And Likes <i>Furious 7</i>

This week's Willie's World is full of terrific tidbits from the man we all once called Da Mayor. First off he'd like everyone to know that Gavin Newsom should be Hillary Clinton's most

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Why Are Ron Conway And Marc Benioff 'Escorting' SF's Anti-Gay Archbishop?

It appears that Jeb Bush isn't the only conservative figure SF tech gazillionaires Ron Conway and Marc Benioff pal around with: according to former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, the two are also

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Video: How Accurate Were Former SF Mayor Willie Brown's Oscar Picks?

Willie Brown, San Francisco's Assembly speaker-turned-mayor-turned-lobbyist-turned-columnist, has been wrong about a lot of things in his column for the San Francisco Chronicle: that Bill Cosby's accusers are liars, that anti-eviction protesters should target

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Willie Brown Defends Bill Cosby Against Rape Allegations, Says Longtime Pal 'Can't Disprove A Lie'

On CBS yesterday morning, Willie Brown, San Francisco's 41st mayor and author of the autobiography Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times , reportedly came to the defense of his embattled friend Bill Cosby.

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Willie's Weekly Ramblings: Da Mayor Wants Da Olympics

Willie Brown, the Assembly speaker-turned-mayor-turned-lobbyist-turned-columnist, who the Chron inexplicably continues to hand a megaphone to, has bestowed upon the city another window into "Willie's World," where San Francisco continues to vie for the

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The SFUSD's Trying To Bribe Parents Into Sending Their Kids To New Willie Brown Middle School

Officials with the San Francisco School District are apparently scrambling to lure students to a new Bayview middle school, going as far as considering a plan to allow enrollees the chance to attend

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Photo Gallery: Marissa Meyer, Nicky Hilton and Nancy Pelosi at the SFS Gala

The SF Symphony Gala happened two weeks ago, but that won't stop us from going all Us Weekly on you with pictures of the well-heeled at the glamorous party. These patrons dropped up

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S.F. Officials Snub Levi's Stadium Ribbon-Cutting, Willie Brown Laments

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — who finally announced today that he’s an official lobbyist — vented in his Chronicle column, Willie's World, about the Levi's Stadium ribbon-cutting ceremony on July 17, essentially

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Willie Brown: 'Waiters Don't Need A Higher Minimum Wage' (Unless They Work At Subway)

Apparently, it's not just restaurant and bar owners that are fretting over the impact an increase in minimum wage might have on business! Former San Francisco mayor, now alleged lobbyist and SF Chronicle

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Happy 80th Birthday, Willie Brown!

San Francisco's perpetual mayor and #1 power luncher Willie Brown turned 80 years young yesterday. We here from SFist would like to wish a very happy birthday to the city's avuncular octogenarian! Da

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Willie Brown Turns On The San Francisco Chronicle

Was it just last week that San Francisco's former mayor turned newspaper columnist, Willie Brown, said our "increasingly unsafe" (for pedestrians and cyclists; drivers seem to be doing OK) streets are our own

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Western Span Of Bay Bridge To Be Named After Willie Brown Today

After all the handwringing and grousing, the western span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will be renamed today after former San Francisco Mayor and state Assembly Speaker Willie Brown. Current San Francisco

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Deviled Egg News: Willie Brown Is Insane

Former San Francisco Mayor turned lunatic Willie Brown stopped by Wayfare Tavern recently. Much to his dropped jaw's horror, the downtown restaurant no longer serves the deviled eggs Mr. Brown so desperately, so

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Willie Brown Has Some PR Advice For The Tech Industry; NYT Discovers The Tech Boom Backlash

Willie Brown's Sunday column in the Chron turns out to have been kind of prescient with regard to the tech industry's growing PR problem. Just as he was suggesting that tech company's start

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Feinsten Considered For China Ambassador Post? Anne Gust Brown For Senate?

Maybe he's just trying to quash last week's rumor in the bed so that his puppet good friend Ed Lee doesn't get any serious traction for the position of U.S. Ambassador to