Step right up! Step right up! The Gavin Newsom San Francisco carnival is coming to town! SEE .... the horrors that abound in the San Francisco Housing Authority! GAWK..... at the desperate lives of people trying to get by in the sub-standard apartment units provided by the city! GASP..... at the pitiful amounts of money residents try to live on! And then.... open your wallets! Won't you help.... for the children? We're not even really......

San Francisco socialites have been fellated for far too long by such hard-hitting glossies as 7x7 Magazine and San Francisco Magazine. Hell, even the pages from new society (excuse me, “philanthropy”) rag Benefit Magazine -- "the Lifestyle of Giving” is its tagline, God help us -- might lead you to believe that the upper crust would like nothing more than to head over to Bayview-Hunters Point and act as human shields from gunfire, saving the......

Yes, that's genuine North China Leopard fur on display over in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. These big cats are now so rare that the museum is mostly where you see 'em. The new exhibition Nan Kempner: American Chic at the de Young Museum is proving popular. You've probably missed the vintage couture sale of part of her wardrobe in New York but you can still see the best stuff of the original social X-ray......

Today's random survey comes to us from Men's Health which listed San Francisco as the #1 city in their "Top Five Cities to Find a Mate" survey. San Jose is listed at #3, making this neck of the woods the hook up capitol of the country. San Jose was also listed as one of the Top 5 best cities for hooking up by Jane Magazine (don't ask us how we know that) but SF was nowhere to be seen (couldn't find a link, but trust us on this). ...