If there is a tipping point for the City's controversial practice of offering special event fee waivers - that is covering the costs of traffic control, police, trash, etc. for events held in the City, history may show that it was Tuesday when the Council approved over $3K in waivers for something.....

Gavin Newsom, the politically ambitious, Google-loving, baby-making, gay-marriage-crusading mayor of San Francisco, is meeting with Twitter CEO Ev Williams today! Possibly on the agenda: How can he get tipsy female relatives to stop using it? Chloe Newsom, who once loudly claimed to a reporter that ...

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman revealed her positions on a wide array of social issues: Explaining her support for Proposition 8, the November measure that banned same-sex marriage, she called it a "matter of personal conscience and my fait...

The California Supreme Court announced today that it will hear oral arguments in the case of Strauss et al. v. Horton et al. on Thursday March 5th. Since Justices don't get paid if they do not issue written opinions within 90 days of oral arguments, a final decision on whether Proposition 8 is an un...

The only thing remotely interesting about San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's bizarre decision to upload his incredibly dull 7.5 hour "state of the city" speech to YouTube is the knowledge that it is sure to inspire parodies. So how dull is Newsom's speech? Well I challenge you to listen to...

Mary Van Note is a girl who knows what she wants: San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom. And even though Gavin’s never heard of her, it’s just a matter of time until he realizes he really wants to bang her. In her IFC.com web show, Mary uses the tricks and trades of dating “how to”...

Last Saturday I attended the launch of the Slow Food Nation Victory Garden at the foot of San Francisco’s City Hall, on a site what was recently an ornamental lawn. The garden, which takes its name from the World War II campaign to get citizens to grow their own food to support the war effort,...

It's been fun Jameth, but I am through playing here. Your friends are assholes. Bye. I was defriended. What the hell happened here?!?! I am just now catching up....

The Alice B. Toklas Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club, a local political institution whose endorsement is a perennial must-have for San Francisco Democrats, has received a letter from Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in which he announces his opposition to the gay marria...

Two-term San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom—famous for his support of legalizing gay marriage—launches an exploratory bid for California governor. He's expected to face opposition from a crowded field of fellow Democrats when Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger vacates in 2010. Via Queerty: New Jerse...