Esther's era
By Matier and Ross

If there was anyone who embodied the exuberance of the Willie Brown years, it was the comely Esther Hwang, the San Francisco mayor's personal scheduler turned pin-up calendar model and Web page phenom.

So what's she up to lately?

From the looks of things, she's still promoting her assets at Esther.com -- and still occasionally commanding the mayor's attention.

Just this week, the mayor dropped by Club Jazz Nouveau in the Cannery for the fifth annual Esther.com Christmas Toy Drive, a benefit for Esther's favorite local charities.

And Esther is still working on that budding film career -- her agent says production is finally supposed to start this coming year on a Hitchcock- type thriller she's starring in and helping produce.

All this, mind you, while attending night school to get her law degree.

Not only that, but somewhere in between she's had time to produce her latest swimsuit calendar -- on sale, we're told, nationwide at Tower Records.

"They're selling like crazy,'' says her press agent, J.R. Bottoms