While no one in their right mind could accuse Sarah Palin of fostering an environment of violence that resulted in Saturday's Arizona shooting rampage - as SFist dutifully noted, accused shooter Jared Lee Loughner is sanity-esstrangerd and thus acted alone - her now infamous, career-ending "Don’t Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!" map was an unfortunate bit of timing and thoughtlessness. more ›

We know it's a shit time for media in general, and we're all chasing after the same few advertising dollars, but the latest issue of SF Weekly, with the glossy purple cover and the terrific cover story by Ashley Harrell? Kind of skinny, no? We don't mean to get all up in their shit, and they do have seven full-page ads in the issue — and it ain't like the Guardian or 7x7 haven't also been in the pin-thin club of late — but we're just sayin. We don't want to see you waste away to nothing... we're just sayin. more ›

Here's a morsel of alt weekly-vs.-alt weekly news to fill your belly: last Tuesday local alt weekly SF Bay Guardian was "granted its motion to intercept the income of the SF Weekly." The Weekly, if you recall, were branded as a bunch of predatory pricing hooligans against the Guardian in 2008, with the latter publication receiving a $21 million settlement. more ›

The first of the Bay Area alt-weeklies to do their "Best of the Bay" contest is the corporate one, SF Weekly. And since one of the categories is Best Blog, we'd totally be flattered and honored if you would uphold your constitutional duty by voting for us. We can't really say we'd give you anything for voting for us, but we will tell you that everytime you do, an angel get's their wings. Contest ends May 4th so go, go, go! more ›

Sorry for the delay in reading your alt-weeklies this week; there was a comical mixup in our attempts to implement the weekly switchoff between us and SFist Sarah L. We'll try again in a few weeks, and we also briefly considered just not doing something this week, and then we thought, . So here we are! more ›

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