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Gavin Newsom

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2013

    Proposition 8: Rob Reiner, Gavin Newsom, and Others React To U.S. Supreme Court Hearing

    After the U.S. Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments yesterday about the federal Proposition 8 lawsuit, movie director and American Foundation for Equal Rights board member Rob Reiner, California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, and others weighed in about the historic proceeding. "This case has always ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2012

    Current TV To Air Health-Conscious "Currently: Feeding The Need" Series Featuring Wolfgang Puck and Mary Sue Milliken

    Around Thanksgiving, more than any other holiday, we think about food. (And not just what we plan to serve alongside the turkey.) We're grateful for food, and we think more consciously about those who don't have enough food, and those who don't have access to good quality food, and are suffering bec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Decision Overturning Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Prop. 8, Stands, Federal Judge Says

    ​Updated at the bottom with reaction from Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and the American Foundation for Equal Rights. One small step for mankind today as Chief U.S. District Judge James Ware said it was okay that a gay jurist struck down Prop. 8 -- the California law banning same-sex marriage. The g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Web Surfing: A Roundup of News from L.A. Food Blogs & Beyond

    -- Local food stylist Adam C. Pearson gets hauled off a plane for his tattoos. [Daily Dish] -- A profile of The Spotted Pig's April Bloomfield. [The New Yorker] -- A fat tax? No. Let's be free! [The Christian Science Monitor] -- Lindsay Lohan kicks her dad out for showing up unannounced with Chin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Happy Meals Are About to Get A lot Less Happy

    Mario Anzuoni, ReutersTo our children's dismay, Happy Meals may become healthy meals​ California kids will now have fewer incentives to ditch mom's homemade organically grown, tofu steak dinners for Happy Meals, thanks to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. On Tuesday, the Board took ste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    Gavin Newsom Abel Maldonado Vote Results: Papers Call Race For Newsom, But Maldonado Not Conceding

    San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom​By Hillel Aron San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has won the California lieutenant governor's race, defeating the Republican incumbent Abel Maldonado, according to the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. Nevertheless, in his victory speech, News ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    L.A. County Vote 2010: Results for Propositions 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 And California Governor, Attorney General, Etc.

    Here's how Los Angeles County voters weighed in on November 2010 Election Day as of about 1:15 a.m. Wednesday morning, with 67% of precincts counted: Proposition 19 Legalize Marijuana: YES 582,228 45.39% NO 700,389 54.61% Proposition 20 End Gerrymandering: YES 693,803 57.25% NO 518,10 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Bill Clinton Rallies College Students For Jerry Brown At UCLA

    Ted SoquiJerry Brown addresses a rally at UCLA, flanked by Gavin Newsom and Bill Clinton​Not long ago, Jerry Brown listened to an old presidential debate between himself and Bill Clinton."It was very acrimonious," Brown said on Thursday. "I landed some very good punches and so did he."Brown said t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Where's Gavin Newsom? Democratic Heavyweight Willie Brown Questions San Francisco Mayor's Low-Profile Run for Lieutenant Governor

    San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom​San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is taking heat for running a low-profile campaign for California lieutenant governor, with former San Francisco Mayor and Democratic party insider Willie Brown questioning Newsom's tactics. "It's nice to see San Francisco Mayo ... More >>

  • News

    June 24, 2010

    Villaraigosa's Five-Year Free Ticket Spree

    The Los Angeles mayor's usurping of anticorruption rules could spread to pols across California

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado Sidesteps College Tuition Controversy

    Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado​When California State University trustees passed a 5 percent tuition hike for undergraduates last Friday, Lieutenant Govenor Abel Maldonado, who sits on the board of trustees, was sure to vote against the fee increase. Why? Maldonado, a moderate Republican in a state ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Gavin Newsom Challenges Abel Maldonado in Lieutenant Governor Race

    San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom​San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom glided easily through the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor yesterday, and now readies himself for a competitive general election race against Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado, a former state senator from Santa Maria ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Gavin Newsom Complains About Oil Fee, Janice Hahn Votes for Herself

    Ted SoquiL.A. City Councilwoman Janice Hahn​As California voters head to the polls today, Democratic candidates for lieutenant governor hit the radio airwaves and, of course, voted for themselves. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, the front-runner in the lieutenant governor race, made an app ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Democrat Gavin Newsom Wins Lieutenant Governor Nomination

    Patrick Range McDonaldS.F. Mayor Gavin Newsom walks in the L.A. Gay Pride Parade in June, 2009.​San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has won the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor, beating out Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn. With 25 percent of statewide precincts reporting, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Janice Hahn Rolls Out TV Ad for Lt. Gov. Bid

    With less than a week until the June 8th primary, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn has rolled out a TV ad in support of her dark horse bid to win the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor. Titled "Janice Hahn Carries on the Fight," the ad reminisces about her father -- the late ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    Newsom Fund Raising Machine Out-Hustles Hahn

    In his run for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has raised much more cash than his rival, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Sunday.Ted SoquiL.A. City Councilwoman Janice Hahn​"As of May 22," the new ... More >>

  • News

    May 27, 2010

    Lieutenant Governor of Paper Clips

    Janice Hahn, a product of the L.A. City Council, hopes to be a heartbeat away from governor of California

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    Queer Town: Gavin Newsom Wins Big Gay Endorsement

    Equality California, one of the most powerful and politically-connected gay rights groups in the state, has endorsed San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom for his run for lieutenant governor, which is no surprise to us. Patrick Range McDonaldS.F. Mayor Gavin Newsom works the crowd at L.A. Gay Pride Parad ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Times Endorses Newsom in Lt. Gov.'s Race

    ​Not a great day for Janice Hahn, the L.A. councilwoman who hopes to be the state's next lieutenant governor. This afternoon her hometown paper endorsed her rival, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.The L.A. Times editorial concedes that Hahn knows the job, but they're not so comfortable with the id ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    Queer Town: Gavin Newsom Loses Another Gay Endorsement

    On Monday night, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, a candidate in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor and a darling of the gay rights movement for allowing same sex couples to marry in his city in 2004, has lost yet another endorsement contest involving a gay political group.Patrick Range ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    Janice Hahn Breaks Out the Hand Sanitizer for Dem Convention Weekend

    ​Back in December, Councilwoman Janice Hahn wrote an open letter to her opponent in the lieutenant governor's race, Sen. Dean Florez, urging him to "avoid a costly and divisive fight" by joining in a pledge not to seek the Democratic Party endorsement."As we have seen in the past," she wrote, "see ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    San Francisco Airport Takes Racially Tinged Swipe At LAX

    An image from SFO's video.​A video marketing the advantages of flying into San Francisco International Airport from Australia and New Zealand seems to take a racially charged swipe at Los Angeles International Airport, which is the only other direct California destination from those nations. ( ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    California Has Highest-Paid Legislators In The Nation

    ​On a day when backers of an initiative seeking to make California's legislature part-time said they failed to collect enough signatures to get it on the ballot, the California Citizens Compensation Commission issued a survey that reveals the state's do-nothing lawmakers still get the highest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Gavin Newsom Makes His Run For Lt. Governor Official

    ​San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom made his expected run for California Lt. Governor official Friday morning. He made his announcement on KPIX television in San Francisco. The 42-year-old will run against Los Angeles city Councilwoman Janice Hahn and state Sen. Dean Florez. Newsome dropped out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Gavin Newsom Likely To Announce For Lt. Gov. Friday

    ​San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who pulled out of the state gubernatorial race, will likely officially announce that he'll run for lieutenant governor Friday, the Los Angeles Times reports. The paper states that he's been lining up donors and support for the run. He took out papers for the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2010

    Newsom Seeks Crackdown on Texting During Public Meetings

    ​San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, soon to take on Janice Hahn in the lieutenant governor's race, is proposing a crackdown on lobbyists texting the Board of Supervisors during public meetings.Apparently this is a common practice, and Newsom argues that it lacks transparency. Lobbyists get to say t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    In Lt. Gov Race, Janice Hahn Slams Gavin Newsom, Again!

    The Los Angeles Times blogged this morning that Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who's running for lieutenant governor, launched a "first salvo" against potential rival San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who's considering a run for the same office. L.A. City Councilwoman Janice Hahn​The v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2009

    Will Mayor Be Emboldened To Dive Into Gov's Race?

    A Los Angeles Times/USC poll over the weekend stated that California Democrats are not happy with having only one major gubernatorial candidate, Jerry Brown, who has not even officially announced his intent to run in 2010. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's withdrawal from the race last month made t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    Newsom Hands Democrats' Gubernatorial Nod To Brown

    What promised to be a race filled with Democratic powerhouses has been handed to just one man who hasn't even announced he's running. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom today announced he's dropping out of the race to become the Democratic nominee for governor next year.Newsom​The announcement was a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Bill Clinton and Gavin Newsom Campaign in L.A.

    California gubernatorial candidate and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is making a campaign stop in L.A. today, with former president Bill Clinton appearing with him at a news conference at Los Angeles City College in East Hollywood -- where they plan to talk about "green technology." Patrick Range ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    The Care & Feeding of Compost: The Etiology of Dirt, and Thus Your Market-Driven Dinner

    Photo credit: Diane CuA wheelbarrowful of dirt​If you work your way down the food chain, traveling, say, from the quail fry with grits, chard, slab bacon and maple jus on the menu at Animal to the rows of chard and thus to the field in which the vegetables are grown, you will eventually come t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    Gavin Newsom Picks Alex Padilla to Chair His Gubernatorial Campaign

    Alex PadillaWith L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa now out of the running, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom has named State Senator Alex Padilla (D-San Fernando Valley) as the chairman of his 2010 gubernatorial campaign. According to Associated Press, Newsom, in town to preside over a town-hall meetin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    Composting: What to do with Really Fallen Fruit, Bad Take-out, Old Old Media

    If you cook at home a lot, if you have kids who can't feed everything they won't eat to their dog, if you have a garden or would like to, if you have an orange tree that catapults its fruit faster than you can make marmalade, if you've spent any time at all contemplating the landfill univer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2009

    Villaraigosa won't run for governor, Jerry Brown must be thrilled

    Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa just announced he will not run for California governor on Wolf Blitzer's The Situation Room on CNN, with a backdrop of the Los Angeles Magazine cover emblazoned with the word "Failure." The mayor says he plans to focus on the major economic problems facing L.A. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    The Economist: "Villaraigosa Is Not Finished Yet"

    "Mr. Villaraigosa is not as Latino as he seems," opines Britain's The Economist. "Intellectually he is no match for Mr. Brown, nor ideologically for Mr. Newsom. But he is a Machiavellian politician, ready to make or cross allies."And these are the mayor's good points, according to the article's uncr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Bass Whopper Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-L.A.) gave 80 members of her staff bonuses totaling about $350,000. Minority leader Mike Villines (R-Clovis) laid out about $201,000 to his employees. L.A. TimesNever on a Sunday -- or Tuesday, Wednesday . . . L.A.'s City Council approved  Mondays-and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2009

    Gavin Newsom: Governor Whether We Like It or Not?

    It's become a selling point of some restaurants and cocktail lounges to announce that they are not staffed with actors-in-waiting -- their waitresses are committed to being waitresses and their bartenders have no higher ambitions than to pour you the best drink. It's a candor that's eluded some of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    Gavin Newsom Makes Play for L.A. Cash

    Over the past couple of weeks, the L.A. press has been making big, and predictable, noise thatSan Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has been treading on L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's supposed turf--both politicians will probably run for governor in 2010--and attemptin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    Obama Visits Los Angeles, Leno and Orange County

    If you're thinking of getting a glimpse of President Barack Obama, here's his itinerary from City News Service, and Yo! Venice offered a link to the signup sheet for attending the Town Hall (but alas, the seats are now all gone). It will be interesting to see whether the President announces any Los ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Feds Probe Inglewood Cop Shootings The Justice Department announced it will investigate Inglewood's police force and instances in which its members have shot unarmed civilians and allegedly used excessive force. L.A. TimesAnna Nicole Smith Figures Arrested The late Anna Nicole Smith's friend and att ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2008

    The Bold and the Restless: Gavin & Antonio

     File it under Boys Will Be Boys, but with 2008 about to end (and no Obama appointments in sight), California's two swingin'est mayors are now only months from possibly declaring their intentions to run for guv in 2010. Both San Francisco's Gavin Newsom and L.A.'s Antonio Villaraigosa remain im ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2008

    Feinstein would clean Newsom's, Villaraigosa's clocks! Gawker squawks!

    A hot new Field Poll shows Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom are unpopular statewide, and lag so far behind U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein that Di-Fi would sail into the California governor's post if she ran today. This news after Gawker, based in Manhattan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2008

    Queer Town: Opponents of Gay Marriage Release New TV Ad

    The Yes on Prop. 8 campaign has released a new television ad today, featuring San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Frank Schubert, campaign manager of ProtectMarriage.com, the umbrella group leading the fight to ban same sex marriage in California, also asks supporters to donate $3.6 million in the com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2008

    Villaraigosa abandoned by Ace Smith?

    Has Antonio Villaraigosa fallen so far back in the 2010 race for California governor that his former consultant and negative research hound Ace Smith, who dug dirt on Villaraigosa's mayoral rivals, is migrating over to help Attorney General Jerry Brown become governor? The San Francisco Chronic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2008

    Queer Town: Gay Marriage Promises

    On Wednesday, the California Supreme Court refused to take Proposition 8 off the November ballot. The anti-gay marriage measure will now go to the voters...and gay rights activists will need the state's political stars to follow through on their promises. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is importan ... More >>

  • News

    March 17, 2005

    Cue the Fat Lady

    Cultural barriers go tumbling down the aisle

  • Music

    February 17, 2005

    What We Talk About When We Talk About Harp Players

    Joanna Newsom is a riddle wrapped in heartstrings

  • News

    August 19, 2004

    Gay Marriage Squabble

    Why California’s Supreme Court ruling was a lost battle, not a lost war

  • News

    May 20, 2004

    So Goes the Gay Nation

    Same-sex-marriage activists set their sights on California

  • News

    March 11, 2004

    No Wedding Bells in WeHo

    West Hollywood struggles to keep up with San Francisco

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