SF News City Hall Power Player And Infamous SFist Sock Puppet Peter Ragone Reportedly Returning To SF Hey, do you guys remember Peter Ragone, the former communications director for then-mayor Gavin Newsom who became of figure of San Francisco fun after it was revealed that he was posting sock-
SF News Day Around The Bay --Turns out rescuers totally missed the car of the missing Alameda County woman and her priest friend, even though they got exact directions from 911. [Chron.] --An Oakland Tribune sports columnist apologizes for
SF News Day Around The Bay --...and as promised, here's the back of the Ed Jew calendar, from reader Jake. Thanks, Jake! Irony alert! Can you guys see the "please contact me if you have problems
misc Top 5 Comments of The Week: Non-Audio! Hey, everyone -- here are the semi-arbitrary Top 5 Comments of the Week. For this, our fourth week of doing it, we thought it'd be a swell idea to try it
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies And next up, the SF Weekly. Know why? Because SFist was voted READERS' CHOICE BEST BLOG!!!!! Yay! We're so excited! Thank you, SF Weekly readers! There's no link
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Well, all of San Francisco politics is trivial, isn't it? Get that confirmed at tonight's 4th Annual Political Trivia Contest, featuring Chris "Whiskers" Daly, Ross Mirkarimi, and
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Shoots Back The folks at NBC 11 gave Gavin Newsom a camera, and asked him to take photos of his life for their "Moving Pictures" series. During the promos, we started cracking up
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Our Composite Picture! From yesterday's Chronicle article about Newsom stalker Han Shin: Inside [Shin's car], police found a map of San Francisco with the location of the mayor's building highlighted
misc Bay Area Wanderer: This One's For You, Peter; No Matter Your Name Today * Bay Area Wanderer: Market and Church, San Francisco Padding through the Castro a couple days back before the rain came to town, a familiar name turned our head. Was your inspiration, Peter Ragone?
SF News RagoneWatch (A Day Late) Here's our Caption Action entry for the picture above! Oscar winner Al Gore, Oscar-less Leonardo diCaprio, and our pick in the pool for Best Supporting Actor (in the role of
Arts & Entertainment New And Improving Thomas Adding to the SFist thrills, we've also profiled the man who shot the cover of the book, named Merkley. Here's Merkley's flickr shots of Hayes's
SF News Peter Ragone By The Numbers We've learned so much about mayoral communications director Peter Ragone from this article in the Sunday Chron! Since it's a Sunday (and there's no Swells today), we&
SF News Gavin Newsom's Next Trip Gavin's trip is occasioned by the 50th anniversary of San Francisco's sister city relationship with Osaka, and he's going with a delegation of 45 people, including Jeff
SF News Today in <em>As the Gav Turns</em> As SFist Rita mentioned, Gavin has figured out that the best way to not have there being any sort of impropriety regarding Alex Tourk's severance using city coffers is by agreeing
SF News Gavin News Fatigue We've got it just as bad as you! Nevertheless, here's the three items we found in our listless online trolling today that still managed to catch our eye. --GavinWatch
SF News Meet John Nelson Hey everyone, in the midst of all this Ruby Rippey-Tourk madness, guess who showed up for a photo session and interview with the Chron? That's right -- Peter Ragone's
SF News Update on SFistGate! Eh, we made that up. Barbara Taylor actually got a hold of Gavin at some Global Climate Summit (probably the one about what to do with all the reservoirs and our lack of
SF News SFistGate Online So please pardon us if we've become a little obsessed in following the online coverage of SFist Jon's exposé and evening news report -- but look what we've
SF News SFist on TV And the best part? Now that we've managed not to embarrass ourselves too much on the radio, you get to see if we can survive going on TV and not completely
SF News Stuart "Fare Hike" Sunshine Fails Upward, Lands in Mayor's Office We don't have anything funny to say about this one -- we're simply at a loss. Rumor had it yesterday that Gavin picked Stuart Sunshine to be his new Deputy
SF News Gavin's Sock Puppet Now, the internets is a free place so if Peter wants to respond, he's more than welcome to. In fact, welcome aboard, Peter-- we're actually a little flattered that
SF News RIIIIIII-COLA!!!! And it's not necessarily because he's missing Question Time. No, he's also missing out on the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a less exciting but probably more
SF News Who's Attacking Newsom Now! So... who's on this week's list? Let's bring 'em out! --Aaron Peskin and Ross Mirkarimi!: Luke Thomas at Fog City Journal reports that Supervisors Peskin and
Arts & Entertainment Happy New Year's We came across this video on GooTube for Propaganda New Year's Eve Party at Laszlo, featuring SFist fave Brittanie Mountz doing what she does best. Love the stunna shades, Brittanie! No
SF News Who Wants To Run For Mayor? We'd have a sad face too if the Chron came out against our position on Question Time, some mayoral pipsqueak in Santa Clara was out to eat our Niners lunch, and
