Our favorite band at our least favorite Museum… Free show.  Check it out.  Later  DJ Bonobo @ Supperclub. Oh, and Bagel Ted is putting together a cool sounding event at Bottom of the Hill with Love is Chemicals.  Best thing: you can do it all.  Sid is early (6)  Ted is later (9) then Supperclub til you cant take anymore fun.

 Hillary had two California campaign co-chairs: SF Mayor Gavin Newsom & LA Mayor Antionio Villaraigosa. She won California and LA, but Newsom failed to deliver SF.  Yup underdog Barack Obama, who was endorsed by all of the progressive SF Supes took SF.

 Hillary saw, firsthand, what SF voters are just starting to learn according to a recent David Binder poll: Gavin Newsom is all talk (and money and hairgel).  The poll found that Newsom’s strong supporters are down from 42% to 25% and that voters are finally noticing that MUNI is getting worse, homelessness is worse, and homicides are out of control.

Gavin, you only won re-election because you were unopposed.  You will not get into the Governor’s Mansion unless you spend some time in SF fixing these issues.  People are starting to notice that nothing has happened in four years.

image by Brettwayn.

You already know about the pillow fight right.  Now you also know about the Party at Pink with Pink Mammoth.

Other stuff tonight: VD Massacre over at Popscene (@ Rickshaw this month) sounds fun with DJs and a live set by The Kills.  There’s always 1984 @ Cat Club if theres a song you just cant get out of your head. What else? Club Neon’s 4th annual underpants party @ our favorite bar, The Makeout Room. Von Iva @ The Hemlock.  VD Massacre @ Cafe du Nord.

What did we miss?  Send it in and we’ll do an update if its not naptime

UPDATED: Amazingly Newsom’s new Director of Greenwashing, Wade Crowfoot is actually being paid with funds intended to hire a safety & training specialist for MUNI.  Remember that next time your Aunt Thelma gets run down by a bus. 

How best to fund a relection campaign?  Run the costs through your budget for homeless programs.  Whatever doesn’t fit….well, steal it from MUNI.  Gavin Newsom, you are an asshole. Move on. Move out.  Go to Washington or Sacramento or where ever your Republican benefactors want to send you.

Dick.

Sexy Mayor image source: Kanaka Pacifica.

 Tonight, D Miles, the god of rolleskating in golden gate park, black rock city, and all charted lands.  brings rolling disco to cell space. Somehow, this has something to do with the independent film festival… which you should also check out, if you know whats good for you.

Later? How about bootie at DNA.  That sounds like a good night

photo by orginal milkz.

Unbelievably,  Obama beat Hillary yesterday. He won more states and more delegates (except that she might steal insider superdelegates at the convention… but thats another story) Never mind the fact that she had a two year headstart and was 25 points ahead only two weeks ago.  Better yet, Hillary had to loan her own campaign $5mm because she is running out of money.   Now is the time to jump in and make history. 

Help Barack Obama get the message out:  make a donation to his campaign to make history!

Woah, baby. Barack is already racking up decisive victories and its only 5pm! It’s gonna be a long night for Hillary, Bill, Gavin and the whole ‘political expediency’ crew.  Barack is gonna clean house.  See you tonight at an election party near you: the SF Bay Guardian election party @ The Kilowat and the Barack Obama victory party at the fairmont.

Go Obama!

image credit: Kristina B.

Yes we can (unless you are registered green… then no you can’t). Otherwise go cast a vote for Obama, for a better day. For a better country.

The 3rd annual mighty breaks is the place to stay dry tonight.  All your favorite local DJs in one night.

Other stuff:
Dalva sounds fun
Indie Rock @ The Rickshaw with the opening of indiefest
Some weird Edwardian Party @ Great American Music Hall with Rube Waddell
Thats enough.  Or stay in and we will see you tomorrow at DNA for pop rox or Temple for Mark Farina.  no?

Above, SF Mayor Gavin “Nimby” Newsom describes the flight attendant’s “great hooters” to a reporter after his first class flight to Davos, Switzerland for the 4th year in a row.

You guessed it: after a week in Hawaii, on vacation and hiding from bad zoo press and a few weeks of party politics in Iowa , our world class, world famous Mayor is back to Davos, Switzerland.  As he does every year, Gavin Newsom is missing most of the US Conference of Mayors to hob nob with movie start and the super rich.  Btw, have you noticed yet that Gavin Newsom never appears in any news stories with bad news (oil spills, negligence and death at the zoo)   This dude has truly checked out… his work here in SF is done.   Clinton is clearly counting on Hillary and her New York connections can repay the favors when he runs for Governor in 3 years. 

In his first term as SF Mayor, Newsom has been on a world tour: Ireland, China,Los Angeles,London, Switzerland, Manilla, Japan, LA,  Iowa, Boston, Chicago, New York, Washington DC…. the list goes on. The man barely has time to pop into his City Hall office for a quicky.

Meanwhile, the SF homicide rate spirals out of control (2005 homicides were the highest in a decade, remained out of control in 2006, with another ten year record in 2007), traffic deaths increase, and Muni continues to fall apart. In fact, all of these issues have GOTTEN WORSE EVERY YEAR under the Newsom Administration.

How weird is it, anyway, that 50% of Newsom’s campaign funding to pay off debt from his last run came from Southern California donors and 25% from outside of California? What is he promising these people? Could he be so focused on jumping into national politics that he simply doesn’t have time to be Mayor of San Francisco?

Mayor Newsom,please come home… you have a job to do!

photo credit: George Nikitin/AP