GrowSF, the billionaire-backed right-wing PAC has launched a poll asking people if they would vote for Manny Yekutiel if he got back in the race.

Thousands of you voted for your favorite hidden gems in a community tradition dating back over half a century. Drumroll please... here are your 52nd annual Best of the Bay Readers' Poll winners! ˚⟡⊰⋆:💎:⋆⊱⟡˚

Confused about the big-money propaganda onslaught against the billionaires' tax? "Even if all the billionaires in California moved away, it would take 25 years before the lost income taxes matched what Prop 40 raises," writes @saikatc in this op-ed.

"It’s hard to wrap our arms around consciousness because we can’t get outside of it to look at it cooly, clinically, objectively," says Michael Pollan in his 48hills interview, in advance of his Tue/13 Cal Performances appearance.

“She leaned back and crossed her arms, and she said, ‘You think you can interview me?’” remembers Bea Arthurs documentarian Dan Watt. “And I was like, ‘Yeah.’” The film screens with @framelinefestival.bsky.social across the Bay next week.

"Imagine my surprise to find in my mail a campaign flyer opposing Proposition I, the Affordable Housing Guarantee Act, making the outrageous and false claim that if passed it would send money to a 'slush fund' for 'nonprofits,'" writes Chris Carlson.

"If you were standing around a run-of-the-mill gay club with your friends," writes @supermarke.bsky.social of reactions to Manny Yekutiel's campaign withdrawal. "And some dude came up and kept grabbing your dick, even after you said no, how exactly would you feel?"

The chair of the SF Democratic Party has admitted what’s been clear for months: the party endorsed a candidate for supervisor who was accused of sexual misconduct. But unless everyone who voted for Yekutiel resigns, nothing will change but the names.

Los Angeles is about to spend almost half a billion dollars on affordable housing, and the money will come from a tax on very-high-end real estate sales—precisely what Mayor Daniel Lurie is opposing in San Francisco.

"Floggers were flogged, whips were whipped, puppers were pupped, and—despite some comments that there were less than usual fabulous acts of public indecency—all sorts of naughtiness was to be had." Check Jon Bauer's jubiliant Folsom Street Fair shots!