A light day over on GavinNewsom. Other than the San Francisco Mayor mentioning his morning appearance on KGO 810, here's what we have so far today. GavinNewsomVideo of conversation at Twitter with @EV and @Biz -- [here] about 1 hour ago from web Whatever. It's still better than most of you who yamme...

FILM: Luis Bunuel's Belle de Jour (1966) is a sumptuous, albeit totally pretentious, piece of French eye candy. Fresh off of Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964) -- AKA, the greatest movie in the universe -- Catherine Deneuve plays a bored housewife who moonlights as a hooker while wearing phenomenal ...

SF Entertainment Commission, the mafia-like overlord of entertainment permits, wants more control over San Francisco nightclubs. This time, though, they want club owners to take more responsibility for the trash that lingers outside their venues (i.e., 715 Harrison, 1025 Folsom, wherever women congr...

"Explosive Caesar Salad" by Tiffany Maleshefski Finishing up our Orson trilogy of '09, if you will, here is a review of what makes Orson, well, Orson: the food. Nobody wants Elizabeth Faulkner to fail. Really, how could you? She's totally adorable, super nice, and the most surprisingly huggable punk...

altered image credit: Valleywag Just how she's related to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom isn't clear. She might be his first cousin. What we do know is that Chloe Newsom thinks "books are fer fags!" -- and she's all kinds of awesome. How did we come across her? On Twitter. It all started out when ...

At these prices, Dave Eggers should be institutionalized and brutalized Frances Farmer-style. See, the McSweeney's Store is having a crazy fucking sale. Seriously. For the next three days everything, everything on their store site will cost $15, $10, $5 or $1. What does this unprecedented sale inclu...

“Dan White: Hero. Killing a Queer” sign in front of the Supreme Court building last Thursday, 3/5/08. According to a Field Poll of 761 registered voters, "48 percent of those surveyed would support a new ballot initiative repealing Proposition 8, while 47 percent would favor keeping the ...

Watch my visit to Twitter live at 10:15 AM PST -- [here] about 1 hour ago from web Hey, stop by SFist headquarters after Twitter. We're just one block away! (Pst, bring us a bagel & cream cheese from Caffe Centro? Your editor hasn't put on his face yet. Thanks.) Update 10:33 a.m.: Twitter founders (...

Karen O -- the skinny, tall, retarded kitten-ish frontlady of Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- is the main culprit behind the phenomenon that led most women to believe they could pull of bangs. Here she is tearing up the street of San Francisco Yeah Yeah Yeahs's latest video "Zero," off their March 10-release alb...

FILM: Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Roussillon play parents of an eclectic clan in A Christmas Tale (2008). Critics practically promised this import their first born son when it arrived here in the states -- probably because it's in French -- but have no fear: it's a safe bet for a good couple of ...