Look, it's no secret that we love headlines around here. Headline writing is a lost art. Don't try to tell us tweets are the same thing. Because they're not. Tweets are hollow cries for help disguised as a description of one's lunch order. Headlines, on the other hand, are designed to get bored subway riders to read your article about the Oakland A's. Which is exactly what this one from today's Chronicle Sports page does. more ›

Yesterday, in an attempt to get Internet readers to click on something as many times as possible, SFGate.com ran a second edition of "You know you're a real San Franciscan if you..." Somewhere along the way, a Chronicle intern picked out this photo of two Muni transfers from photographer Rubin Starset's flickr stream. The problem with that, of course, is that photographers can be a protective bunch (and rightfully so). So, feeling spurned by the Chronicle's failure to keep his proper attribution intact, Starset did what any good citizen of the Internet would do: he ripped all of the content on SFGate and repackaged it as FriscoGate.com. more ›

The Examiner, as we mentioned, was recently sold to a news consortium led by Black Press Group, and taking over as publisher is San Francisco resident Todd Vogt. Today the paper announced that it will be doing away with its right-wing editorial pages, and will be taking on a more strongly local focus. more ›

A small group of East Bay Occupy supporters hopes to put their message in front of thousands of Chronicle subscribers by taking out a full-page ad in the Bay Area's paper of record. The ad itself will be a version of The 99%'s Deficit Proposal, a plan to create jobs and fix the economy drafted up by members of Occupy Washington DC after a Congressional Super Committee's failed to produce their own. more ›

Here's a nice bit of coffee-and-a-paper reading for your Sunday: over on Salon, the site's co-founder Gary Kamiya has penned a nice takedown of the paper of the Chronicle's lackluster Occupy SF coverage. As Kamiya writes (and as you might have noticed), the city's paper of record is, "so obsessed with the Occupy San Francisco movement's illegal encampment, its effects on local businesses and the unruliness of some of its members that they have failed to grasp its historic significance." more ›

After subjecting candidates to lengthy endorsement interviews, the editorial staff at the paper of record has emerged from whatever smokey backroom it is they discuss these things in (The Tempest, probably) and announced their picks for Mayor. Although the paper originally endorsed one of Board President David Chiu's opponents in the District Three election back in 2008, the paper has since come around to his "pragmatic and principled" style and his track record as a proven "problem solver" to name give him their #1 vote. The endorsement comes as a bit of a surprise, given that the paper has been fluffing up Ed Lee all year long, but the editorial staff defended their decision: more ›

Liz Lufkin, who's most recently been the vice president responsible for front-page editorial programming at Yahoo and who once upon a time co-founded SFGate, has been ousted from Yahoo in a reorg. Editor-in-chief Jai Singh, who recently came to the company from the Huffington Post, couldn't find room on his team for Lufkin, as All Things D reports. This means that Yahoo's front page, which sees millions and millions of hits a day, will likely soon be changing, and maybe getting a little less boring? more ›

Look: our stalwart city newspaper has their very own parking spot-turned-public space adjacent to their coffee shop on 5th Street. We somehow have missed it when Chuck Nevius blogged about its arrival a couple weeks back, but now that we've had a chance to lay eyes on it ourselves, we've got to say it's kind of lacking in the whole seating department. Just a mere sliver of wooden bench on which the paper's intrepid reporters can rest their weary legs after a long day spent out pounding their pavement. more ›

It's been quite some time since Chronicle food critic of note Michael Bauer yanked the star from a ho-hum restaurant. Updating his initial two-star review of the Presidio-based food joint La Terrasse, Bauer left displeased compared to his 2007 visit. He rips: more ›

We've already got a smattering of love by way of regional editions of the NYT and Wall Street Journal, and now the Huffington Post is launching a San Francisco edition, as we first heard about in 2008 but the plans got revived back in April. The "internet newspaper" started by the marvelous Ariana Huffington and acquired by AOL just announced on Twitter that the S.F. launch is about two weeks off, so somewhere around July 10th. more ›

On the Bay Citizen's weekend edition, the burning-someone-else's money (but still free) publication reports (sort of) on the Hearst Corporation's sudden decision to (maybe) put a majority of the free content on SFGate.com behind a restrictive paywall. According to the Bay Citizen's many anonymous sources within the city's paper of record, it would appear much of the staff is convinced their parent company will begin charging for a large majority of SFGate.com's currently free content before the end of the month. Unfortunately, none of them seem sure enough about the details to go on the record about it. more ›

In an Inside Scoop post today, Chronicle food critic and man-of-impeccable-taste, Michael Bauer proves he's only in it for the honey. In a partnership with the Marin Bee Company and the paper's Home & Garden section, Bauer's Food & Wine team have selflessly adopted a few colonies of bees whose population is currently "in crisis" (something to do with the world ending in 2012, or maybe just a cold winter in Southern California). Let's hope they fare better than the sabotaged Hayes Valley bee farm. more ›

Chuck Nevius' nostrils are burning. In his column today about the simple economics of human waste, the Chronicle staffer and fairly recent city resident explains the biggest problem facing the community in the our most notoriously smelly neighborhood: "The Tenderloin needs more bathrooms." more ›

Chuck Nevius has penned his latest semi-conservative, grumpy old man screed about the damn nudists in the Castro, and you know what? He's not gonna take it anymore! Nudity is just not right on our fine streets, and there are children to think about. Essentially, Nevius is upset that more people aren't upset, and finds this umpteenth reason that the Sodom of San Francisco is circling the drain. Don't reasonable people have a place here anymore among the freaks? Quoth Nevius: more ›

While we commend "token conservative" Chronicle columnist Debra Saunders for calling out Sarah Palin's blood libel-spewing tribute to herself, we have to wonder why Saunders used three - three! - columns to pat herself on the back for choosing not to print the name of Arizona shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner. more ›

The Chronicle finally noticed today that the new Muni shelters don't really do a whole lot of sheltering. Everyone else already pointed this out back in November, but it's kind of nice of them to validate what we already knew: that no one at the Chron ever actually rides the bus. more ›

"We're obviously not talking about opening without some sections or a tower," said Steve Heminger, executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and member of a panel overseeing bridge construction. "But we are looking at the possibility of opening while some mechanical and electrical work is being completed." more ›

In compiling his list of the top 10 in new SF architecture for the aughts, Chronicle architecture critic John King makes the glaring omission of the Morphosis-designed Federal Building at 7th and Mission. Say what you will about it, but we think it's an innovative and gorgeous piece of architecture, and a game-changer in green office-tower design. Back in November, Curbed listed the building as their #4 of the decade, and just in March of this year, King himself called it "San Francisco's coolest building." more ›

Holy smokes, are you sitting down for this one? Are you sure? Because: SF Chronicle is renting out space to tech companies. Did we just blow your damn mind? Didn't think so. Since it's not really news. But, in an exhaustive article, SF Chron notes that "[t]hree technology companies have agreed to lease the lower floors of The Chronicle building, the first steps in a broader plan to create what the developers and city are portraying as an 'innovation incubation hub' in the Mid-Market district." more ›

While news of another batch of layoffs at the Chronicle isn't particularly newsworthy in this economy, the California Media Workers Guild posted the following missive yesterday. more ›

The man who has spent his local political career championing the rights of the Tenderloin poor, the SRO-dwelling, and the owners of property more likely to be made of cardboard than of concrete, Supervisor Chris Daly is facing further scrutiny by the SF Appeal and Chron yet being defended by the Weekly this week -- all relating to the recent revelation of the purchase of not one but two homes in Fairfield, far afield of the district Daly represents. This of course follows on much e-ink already spilt and spread around in the past week on this subject, which is obvious fodder for Daly's detractors and brings forth a flood of eager defenders. more ›

For those of you who still read print editions of newspapers, did you happen to see 's latest makeover? To be blunt, it looks downright lovely. The font, the sharper images, the cozier size -- all of it works. Much better than the previous format, we think. You know, if print issues are your thing. more ›

This story may not beat the Napa gal who faked her cancer so that she could collect donations and disability, but it comes close! We find today, via SFGate's Mommy Files, that a Chicago Mommy blogger who went by the name of "B" and claimed to be carrying a terminally ill fetus to term, turns out to be one Becca Beushausen, a social worker from Mokena, Illinois who mostly just wanted to work through the loss of a child a few years ago by composing this fiction and finding readership. Her primary readership appears to have been abortion opponents who thought her willingness to carry out God's will by not aborting a baby that was likely to die within days of being born. And as the Chicago Tribune notes, it was only after Becca's posts got 50+ comments and she saw her traffic spike that she became addicted to the medium and let her lies get out of hand. more ›

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As everyone is well aware, print news is dying a slow death, and news organizations everywhere -- like our very own Faded Floozy -- are changing hands or closing up shop completely. Fortune reports that while the NYT may be doing better than many other papers in terms of subscribers (over 800,000), the growth of their web presence, and national ad revenue, they've still had a shit year and several folks with a few extra billion dollars lying around have danced around the possibility of buying The Times Co., which is currently controlled by the Sulzberger family. Billionaire gay media mogul David Geffen was allegedly negotiating the purchase of a 19% stake in the paper in the last several months, but those negotiations fell through. Google also considered the purchased, but decided against it for now. more ›

We're almost certain that more esteemed colleagues like Steven T. Jones and Joe Eskenazi didn't come across a request from a Chronicle reporter to unpublish their items on yesterday's involuntary layoffs more ›

While editorial staff gets pruned today, we're hearing from Chronicle guild members that "No one thinks they're gonna go through with any manager layoffs." (Update: Lesley Guth, Chron manager, was laid off this afternoon.) If there's no one to edit, however, what will the many, many layers of management do all day? more ›

It's rumored that 20 newsroom-based Media Workers Guild employees at the San Francisco Chronicle will be involuntarily laid off today. We're told that a union steward sent a message to its members recommending that, if they are indeed called to HR, to bring a guild representative with them to help protect their interests. Yikes. more ›

Let's face it: The Daily Show blows now, and not in a good way. Comedy Central's fake news has turned into The Capitol Steps for Baby Boomers and Gen Xers. It's the kind of programming progressives and over-educated ilk claim to find hilarious. That is to say, it's the kind of programming they all agreed en masse to find hilarious. And if you watch the show every night, you know that that's not a reactionary statement. more ›