SF News This Week in Willie Brown: A Coronation After our too-brief encounter with Willie Brown at the Palace Hotel the other night, Willie asked us to remind him to "never host another sit-down dinner for a mayor." Apparently, dealing with the
Arts & Entertainment The Very Best Time We Ended Up At Last Call With Willie Brown During a weekend of inaugural festivities at and around City Hall, noted former Mayor and local gadabout Willie Brown threw a party for apprentice-Mayor Ed Lee. Held at the Palace Hotel's Garden Court
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Willie Brown: Willie's Holiday Hangover When last we left Willie Brown before the holidays, the former mayor was returning from tours of Beijing and Cuba where he apparently found things to be surprisingly hospitable. (Except for the part
SF News This Week In Willie Brown: Where In The World Is Da Mayor? Willie Brown didn't write his usual food column this week, as he is currently on a world tour of communist countries. Instead of dining around town, Willie was being swept around Beijing on
SF News This Week In Willie Brown: In Search Of The New York Subway Willie Brown got lost in New York over the long holiday weekend. "I couldn't find the subway in New York," the avid city walker mentions in his Inside Scoop column, but Willie Brown's
Arts & Entertainment This Week In Willie Brown: Searching For Ribs Still wrapping up his post-election coverage, Willie Brown gives us a glimpse in to the charmed world of a local power broker (or not) at the "Run, Ed, Run" victory dinner last week.
SF News This Week in Willie Brown: Post-Election Wrap-Up, Occupy SF Stole his Halloween Candy After Willie's anointed candidate was properly secured in his seat in Room 200, Willie Brown wasted no time calling for retribution from rival campaigns. While downplaying his involvement with Ed Lee's election on
SF News Meanwhile, at Occupy SF... Few can sum up a scene the way blouz can. He writes, "Recently re-elected mayor Ed Lee Willie Brown visits OccupySF this morning with Matier & Ross of CBS Morning edition." [via @QueenKV]
SF News Willie Brown, Rose Pak Lash Out at the Media Over at the Chronicle, City Insider finally managed to get a word in with Willie Brown and Rose Pak at last night's gala. And the pair had some harsh words for the members
SF News Ed Lee Wins First Round In SF Mayor's Race With the people's candidate John Avalos trailing behind, interim Mayor Ed Lee came in first after last night's votes were counted--due in part to absentee ballots filed before election night--but failed to hit
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Willie Brown: Calculating Kamala Harris' Age and Da Mayor's Fried Chicken Endorsement Willie reveals a lot of hidden truths about politicians in this week's Willie's World column, starting with the point that Oakland Mayor Jean Quan needs to realize she's no longer a street activist.
SF News This Week in Willie Brown: Hanging With MC Hammer, Fretting for Ed Lee Although he may have been shilling for his protegé in that notorious YouTube video, Willie is worried for Ed Lee's chances in the November election. Using the large-ish brain he keeps tucked under
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Willie Brown For his first trick this week, Willie Brown is pointing to the grandstands and calling the Republican VP nomination for Hermain Cain. Why? Because a black pizza man is the GOP's only hope
SF News This Week in Willie Brown: Ribbing Brad Pitt and Taking Credit for Steve Jobs' Work Last week we saw Willie shilling for his favorite sandwich shop again, this week Willie classes it up a bit for a charity dinner at Michael Mina, which you may recall recently topped
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Willie Brown Name Checks Subway (Again) For whatever curious reason, former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown loves Subway sandwiches. And he likes to mention it. A lot. Today, the charismatic $5 foot-long deep throater wrote about his three favorite
SF News This Week in Willie Brown: Where to Watch the Man Eat and a Fundraiser with Jane Kim Last week Willie Brown was, for perhaps the first time in his life, not the biggest ego in the room when he made an appearance at Sean Parker's opulent startup party. It's hard
SF News This Week in Willie Brown: Hillary Clinton's Haircut Willie Brown is concerned with two things this week: Food and Women. Which is actually what he's concerned with every week. But this week the objects of his carnal and carnivorous desires are,
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Willie Brown A TV appearance, a department store event and a highly publicized restaurant opening: as the city's most conspicuous reporter, Willie Brown definitely makes his way around town. According to Friday tradition around here,
SF News Here's Willie Brown Telling Pres. Obama to Toughen Up Former Mayor, esteemed Chronicle reporter and food blogger Willie Brown went on Hardball with Chris Matthews this afternoon to discuss the President's dire poll numbers in California (He's at 46% approval rating). Matthews,
SF News This Week in Willie Brown Willie hosted a dinner for LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at Tommy Toy's last week, where he discovered a photograph of himself with a beard, and generally got the standard Willie Brown treatment at
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Willie Brown Willie Brown is in high demand again: between the string-pulling behind the curtain in this year's mayor's race, Willie is now fielding calls from online retailers who need a lobbyist to fight Senator
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Willie Brown We arrive again at Friday, when it's time to check in on former Mayor and noted hat-wearer Willie Brown's weekly escapades. This week: Willie reviews the parklet trend, makes fun of Tom Ammiano,
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Willie Brown After a brief hiatus last week, we're back to check in with Willie Brown's day to day happenings. Let's see what the Da Mayor has been up to: In political news, we suspect
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Willie Brown Willie's most important date this week was his date with the president. The president and all of the San Francisco Giants. In his recap of the Giants visit to the White House, Willie
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Willie Brown The former mayor ate his way around the country again this week. On his usual San Francisco to Los Angeles to DC to New York circuit, Da Gourmayor failed to find any memorable
