Photo credit: sfjim123/Flickr Once again this past Saturday, it was Anonymous versus Scientology as people gathered at the SCS headquarters in San Francisco to celebrate L. Ron Hubbard's birthday by protesting the religious, money-making pyramid schemes he founded. And just like last month's anti-Scientology bash, those Guy Fawkes masks used in the film version of V for Vendetta were all the rage.......

A very sincere thank you to the reader who forwarded along this picture of former Mrs. Gavin Newsom Kimberly Guilfoyle with her baby boy Ronan Anthony Villency. All together: awwwwwww! And this got us thinking: what's going on with the rest of Gavin's squeezes these days? Here's the results of our Google searching! Sofia Milos: The Scientologist girlfriend! Sofia (watch out, the site plays execrable music when you load it up) was recently spotted at......

Ah, the Aliotos -- they run this town! Patriarch Joseph Alioto was the mayor of San Francisco from 1968-1976, in office not only during the building of the Transamerica Pyramid but also through the Zodiac murders -- while daughter Angela Alioto is a former Board of Supervisors president (and chicken-suit renter), while granddaughter Michela Alioto-Pier is a current Board of Supes member (and Hottest Supervisor emerita -- hm, maybe it's time for us to do......

Sofia Milos works the red carpet at the Golden Globes, wearing a dress that looks straight outta 1999. Praise Xenu! By SFist Elaine......

The polls are closed on our Vote For Your Favorite Gavin Newsom Date election and the votes are counted! And your winner, by a commanding lead, is..... BRITTANIE MOUNTZ! Your results are in pie graph form above -- but if you can't read the names and numbers in those little wedges, here they are in legible form: --Brittanie Mountz -- 68.3% --Sofia Milos -- 10.5% --Erin Brodie -- 9.4% --Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom Villency -- 6.1%......

....for your favorite Gavin date! As you'll see, Brittanie Mountz has a commanding lead (perhaps with some assistance from her sorority?), but that shouldn't discourage you from sounding off with your opinion either! Links to (at least some) of our coverage on these women here. We'll tell you right now we voted for Kimberly: 'cuz she's the OG -- the Original Gavin-Girl. No one does it better! Who's Your Favorite Gavin Date?Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom VillencySofia......

It's been awfully quiet on the Gavin Newsom dating front, hasn't it? Well, if our mayor won't create gossip for us, we'll have to do it ourselves! So we're announcing the official Favorite Gavin Newsom Date poll! Whom did you like the best? Was it loose cannon Kimberly Guilfoyle -- or maybe you preferred the devoted Scientologist Sofia Milos? What about barely-legal Brittanie Mountz, or the current (for now) and fully-legal Jennifer Siebel? Or maybe......

BREAKING NEWS..... BREAKING NEWS.... MAYOR HAS RETURNED TO GEL STOP. HAIR HAS RESUMED PREVIOUS CONFIGURATION STOP. [yes, we know, the stop means period, so there is technically no need to put a period after it -- but it's hard to read like that is all. We're just thinking about your reading comfort!] Yes, folks, it's true -- the floppy-haired Matt Gonzalez look sported by Mayor Gavin Newsom was for one day only. Awwwwwww! We're back......

--Sofia Milos is back in town. --Maria Shriver admires Gavin's partying skills. (And yes! He did have a pair of ceremonial scissors!) --Rob Anderson tells his side of the Matt Smith story about his lawyer and his bikes in SF plan. --The SFPartyParty notes the irony in Gavin Newsom donating his parking space to make a performance art park last week, when he keeps insisting on making an actual park into a parking space on......

--Another successful Folsom Street Fair! --Another successful Dragon Boat race! --Another successful Burlingame Pet Parade! --Another successful Love Parade! Article by Catherine Rauschuber, pictures by Luke Thomas from the Fog City Journal. See also the Sentinel's coverage, some of which is NSFW. (Luke's pictures are okay for work.). --Happy birthday, Jaynry Mak! --Give Gavin a raise (Sofia Milos makes an appearance later in this item as well). --District 6 candidate Rob Black gets the all-important......

Last week's winner, the SF Weekly: Matt Smith on defrauding the retarded. Chris Daly thinks the SFSOS flyer about him is funny. Cover article: graffiti artist Vulcan. Win a free copy of season 2 of the American Office. Meredith eats outside. Vashti Bunyan, the Silver Jews, and the Headphone Festival. Next up, the Guardian. Hey, Vashti Bunyan and the Silver Jews again! Tim Redmond had a nice time at the Sue Bierman memorial, but didn't......

If you notice a change in the usual Dr. Phil and local news-centric programming at KRON 4 tonight, don't worry, you aren't going crazy; the channel is. Since the WB and UPN have merged to create the CW (all country and western music, all the time!) many former affiliate stations are adopting Fox's new network, MyNetworkTV. (Why KRON 4, which was neither a UPN or a WB affiliate, is adopting this new network remains......

Man, we were all set to start up a new column about our new favorite reality show "Who Wants To Be A Superhero?" (which is tied as our new favorite show with our other new favorite reality show, HGTV Design Star. Project Runway and So You Think You Can Dance are our other favorite reality shows.) So the premise of Who Wants To Be A Superhero is that Stan Lee, of Spider-Man and Fantastic Four......

The Chron's Leah Garchik gets all the good dirt -- she breaks the news in Friday's The In Crowd that Gavin Newsom has parted ways with Scientologist/actress Sofia Milos. Your gossip hounds at SFist are bereft. On the bright side, this does give us a new fantasy to contemplate -- that Gavin charters a flight down to Barbados for Memorial Day, goes all The Graduate at the Guilfency nuptials ("KimberLEEEEE! KimberLEEE!!!"), and the two of......

Dum-dum-da-DUM, dum-dum-DA-dum..... -- that's right! SF's own J.Lo, Kimberly Guilfoyle avant Newsom, has announced that she's getting married in Barbados on Memorial Day, in three weeks! Who's the lucky mayor TV personality? Eric Villency, who hosts the TV show iDesign, a decorating show on the Fine Living network. Okay, Sofia Milos is kind of a C-list celebrity, but no doubt that CSI: Miami outranks cable channel 182. We've been looking around for their wedding registries......

Congratulations to Cement Brunette for winning our Second Gavin Caption Contest, with the entry: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and girlfriend Sofia Milos seen rehearsing their "I've Had The Time of My Life" Dirty Dancing number for the upcoming California Democratic Convention variety show.. Ha! In other news, we saw some more movies for the SFIFF, including the controversial The Bridge, about suicides off the Golden Gate Bridge. We also saw the Yeah Yeah Yeahs,......

Thanks to all for entering our Second Gavin Newsom SFist Caption Contest! We've been cracking up reading your hilarious entries! And the winner is...... San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and girlfriend Sofia Milos seen rehearsing their "I've Had The Time of My Life" Dirty Dancing number for the upcoming California Democratic Convention variety show. Hee hee! Commenter Cement Brunette, we'll be getting in touch with you to figure out where to send your prizes. Runners-up......

We had so much fun with our first caption contest that we're doing it again! What in the Sam Hill is going on here between Gavin Newsom and girlfriend Sofia Milos, at Danielle Steele's party for the Nick Traina Foundation? Post your captions in the comments; best caption wins unspecified prizes! The picture is from this Sunday Swells society column. The caption given by the ever-diplomatic Chronicle is "The GavLos share a tender moment." We......

We've gotten two emails, so we're starting a new column: "I Saw Gavin Newsom." Reader ALCSupporter writes in:

Guess who I saw last night at the Asian Law Caucus dinner? Gavin Newsom. He showed up, made fun of the items in the silent auction, didn't bid on anything, and then made a prompt beeline to the only non-Asian female in the room and started touching her.

It was Saturday night at Tosca - got there around 11 pm and the Gav was there in a very fancy tux, surrounded by a lot of other tux wearers and a ravishing, though all-too-plastic for my taste and kind of spaced-out-looking, Sofia Milos. At one point it looked like that Gav was heading back to go to the bathroom so I got up myself to go cruise him...but alas he just stood in the hallway and whispered into the ear of one of his companions. Was it secrets of Scientology? I know not. Nor do I know where they'd come from, but everyone seemed happy and deliciously enthused by their own company. The Gav schmoozed with Matt Dillon, who was fresh from being stalked by SFist MiHi. The Gav and Matty Dillon were exactly the same height!

Well, all right, we didn't get in the New York Times by name. But their slurpy Sunday Styles article about our glamorous gad-about-town mayor and his Scientologist/actress girlfriend did mention that "[b]logs in . . . San Francisco have fueled online chatter about the couple." (emphasis added). We're going to assume that's us! We'll take it! Rest of the article's all blah blah blah, is he in the pocket of Scientology, what about the North Beach building issue, Sofia Milos describing Gavin as "perfect" (what says perfect like a sagging murder solve rate?) , and one gem: an item noting that at a party last weekend, Gavin "took over the bongos for 45 minutes." Nothing says "so totally not annoying after 2-3 minutes" like bongo drums! Check out Catherine Bigelow's pictures of the party in Swells -- or just enjoy the mayor's previous bongo excursion, above. Gavin on the drums by 1115...

Let's check in with San Francisco couple of the moment, CSI: Plumpjack -- how's the love blossoming between Mayor Gavin Newsom and actress/Scientology activist Sofia Milos? Leah Garchik reports that CSI: Plumpjack made an appearance at Willie Brown's 72nd birthday party, hosted up in wine country by big Democrat donor Darius Anderson, and then on Sunday afternoon, they caught a showing of that spelling bee musical. Are we the only ones who find that an interesting choice, in light of all of Newsom's press releases about being dyslexic? And we're not sure if this is CSI: Plumpjack related or not, but SFist Jon pointed out to us that Newsom's doing a press conference tonight at 6:30 p.m. with John Travolta, where Newsom and the star of Battlefield Earth are scheduled to "exchange gifts." It's ostensibly to promote the arrival of Qantas Air to SFO, but -- who wants to bet that Travolta's "gift" is a copy of Dianetics? (Travolta says he's glad Qantas is flying to San Francisco as I formed a great attachment to the city over the years." We're sure he has!) Oh, it's so TomKat! Soon Gavin will be striving to give birth silently too! Picture of Sofia Milos and John Travolta at Scientology event...

Gothamist posts on the capture of a NYC perv thanks to Little Brother and a camera phone. They also scour the city for vodka martinis and Shamrock shakes and spot the friend from the Wonder Years at a city law firm. New York police think that Littlejohn is their man. Houstonist is no stranger to megachurches or stripmalls or mega-strip-churchmalls. The children of Houston are under assault by unknown forces as this week a playground......

Gavin Newsom's beleaguered this week! So beleaguered we're breaking it down into two posts! Newsflash one: The Chron reports that various city supervisors are annoyed that Gavin makes no effort to communicate with them, calling him "isolated." To wit: *Chris Daly says that Newsom never bothered letting him know that the budget committee needed to approve more money for the police academy before going to the press and whine-whine-whining that Chris hates him. "Basically he's......

Wow, Gavin Newsom must really like big hats. (Yes, commenter Matt, we know you like big hats too.) Leah Garchik reported in yesterday's The In Crowd that when CSI: Plumpjack made their triumphant reappearance in San Francisco, Gavin took actress/Scientology activist Sofia Milos out for an evening of fun in North Beach -- first, a performance of Beach Blanket Babylon and then an apres-show at the Tosca bar. Hm..... now who was the last local politico we heard about taking a controversial dark-haired television personality on a date to Beach Blanket Babylon and the Tosca? .....oh right! That would be Gavin Newsom! Dude, it is cold to take the new girlfriend to the exact same places you took the ex-wife. Don't those memories of getting your picture taken there with her by Harper's Bazaar there mean anything to you? This is totally like when Bill Clinton gave Monica Lewinsky the same book of poetry he gave Hillary. ...

Hooray to us! We have now officially flogged the Gavin Newsom & Sofia Milos thing to death. But hey, we got in the paper of record -- thanks, Swells! We'd like to thank everyone who made this possible, including SFist Jon, who came up with the naming contest idea in the first place. And the winner of the First Annual Name That Newsom Couple is...... CSI Plumpjack!!!! Congratulations, commenter Dave! We'll be getting in touch with you to get your address to send you some fine, fine SFist swag. Looks like we should have had one extra entry, though -- the hot, hot name of "Milos + Guest." Leah Garchik reports that Getty Images has a picture of CSI: Plumpjack up on its site, with the caption "Actress Sofia Milos + guest arrive at Elton John's Academy Awards party." Is Getty Images affiliated with the same Gettys that funded Newsom's campaign? Are those checks made out to "plus Guest" as well? And finally, yesterday's Two Cents featured the question: "Would you rather read about Newsom's love life or potholes?" Is the Chron so hard-pressed for newsprint that there isn't room in the paper for both? Photo of "Sofia Milos + guest" by David Livingston, from Getty Images...

Okay, folks, it's your last chance to enter -- final call for entries in the Fake Tales of San Francisco Contest! Win a JT LeRoy DECEITFUL tank top and undies, and possibly movie passes to the premiere of "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things" (if we get that arranged) with your fakest San Francisco story -- email it to us, or leave it in the comments below. Whether you've got a story about a clean and sober rave attendee living with hipsters in the Marina, or a mayor dating a Scientologist (no way!), send it on in and we'll announce the winner tomorrow. We've got some great entries already, but yours could still win! And speaking of mayors dating Scientologists.... don't forget to help us crown another winner, in the Name That Couple! contest. Pick your favorite Gavin Newsom/Sofia Milos couple name from the ones listed below. Don't worry if you've already voted -- we've disabled the cookie feature so you can vote as many times as you like! The winner of that contest is getting some SFist swag of our choice. We'll announce the official winner of that tomorrow too! (Though the exit polling is superb on the link below).

Gavin Newsom + Sofia Milos! We can't get enough! So, like the New Yorker cartoon caption contest, this is where you get involved. We've scientifically picked the six finalists in the Name That Couple contest -- vote for your favorite! To encourage election fraud, we've also turned off the "prevent multiple votes" functions, so vote as many times as you like! What Should We Call Gavin + Sofia? CSI: Plumpjack GaFia the GavLos NewSof SoGav......

When the Chron bites, it bites down hard -- check out today's editorial about Gavin Newsom whining about his love life. Funny, he didn't seem to mind the publicity when he was posing on the carpet. Since news hit that Mayor Gavin Newsom was seen kissing "CSI:Miami" star/scientologist Sofia Milos at a North Beach cafe, he has been a bit on the defensive side -- complaining about all the media attention and the hardships of maintaining a private life. Maybe we would feel a little more sympathy for him if it weren't for those haunting images of the mayor and his soon-to-be-ex-wife Kimberly Guilfoyle all snug as two bugs on a billionaire's rug for a Harper's Bazaar spread. . . . . You can't call the media on the carpet when you willingly lie down and pose on it for them. Good an excuse as any for us to haul back out the retired so-best carpet picture itself! ...

Brangelina..... TomKat.... Bennifer 2.... Filliam H. Muffman -- every celebrity couple of the moment has a fun blended name! So help SFist come up with the it name of the moment for our hot couple of the week -- Gavin Newsom and Sofia Milos! Gavia? Newlos? L. Gavin Hubbard? Post your suggestions in the comments and we'll give the best one some SFist swag! You'll have to settle for more goofy pictures of Gavin and Sof., as we try and figure out just exactly how US Weekly does those pictures where they combine the couples' faces together and call it, "What Will Their Baby Look Like?" (SFist Jackson is working on it even as we speak.)...

Oooh, we hope Gavin starts jumping up and down on Bruce Pettit's City Desk Newshour couch next! Matier and Ross report that Gavin, a tireless warrior for nookie, eagerly accepted an invitation from his latest conquest, CSI Miami actress Sofia Milos, for a trip to LA. A stay at the Chateau Marmont -- where he could see Jessica Simpson, also canoodling while waiting for her divorce to become final; maybe some strolling down Melrose, and then a benefit dinner for the "Citizens' Commission for Human Rights." Sounds great, right? A little work, a lotta play! Whoot-whoot! Well. It turns out Sofia Milos is a very active Scientologist. And the innocuously-named Citizens Commission for Human Rights? A Scientology-funded organization that advocates against the use of psychiatric drugs. You remember, the group that went after post-partumly depressed Brooke Shields. Oh, we get it now! This'll be great for the mentally ill homeless population -- Care Not Lithium! (what is it with our town and the Scientology medical controversies, anyways?) Aides pointed this out to Newsom. (It's not like they hide it or anything -- their website says that Kurt Cobain died from psychiatric drug use. Funny, we always thought Kurt Cobain died from a gunshot wound to the head.) Newsom was like, whatevs, and went anyway. That guy is desperate for love! Unrelated, but amusing, picture of Globetrotter Gavin at last year's March Gladness tournament....