Made famous to us plebeians not by the names littering the social registry and its many sad suck-ups (an aside: ahem, our rent is due soon, bitches), but by the much-missed former SF Weekly's "Dog Bites" columnist Laurel Wellman, Nob Hill Gazette just landed another beloved local writer, former Chronicle society scribe Catherine Bigelow. more ›

It's all about sex and land use around here in San Francisco, as kink.com (probably NSFW) moves into the Mission Armory and gets the official not-very-welcome wagon greeting from fifty community members yesterday, who braved the rain to protest the online porn industry. Much to the protestors' chagrin, though, it turns out kink.com has already moved in and started filming, and they didn't need to get permission from anyone to do so. more ›

We're sorry, but that's it. We added the SFGate blog to our Bloglines feeds because we figured that we could just ignore Mark Morford and maybe there would be some good stuff. Seriously, we gave them the benefit of the doubt. more ›

Is it too early for San Francisco 1999 nostalgia? The NASDAQ was peaking, IPs were O-ing, and those dark blue button-down shirts were so in? Remember when they said the only way you could get an apartment was if you could offer your landlord stock options? Remember the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project? Well, in these wintry economic climes, we miss the go-go 99s -- and we especially miss the ace reporter that covered the whole thing for the SF Weekly and then the Chron, the inestimable Ms. Laurel Wellman. more ›

For those wondering what happens to columnists when they get let go from their respective papers, we're beginning to find out that just like everyone else, they go blog. Oh, Internet, what aren't you good for? Case in point is Glenn Dickey, ex-columnist for the Chronicle who was unceremoniously "reassigned" last fall. While he still writes the occasional story for the Chronicle, his long-running column has ceased to be. So, over the past month, Dickey has gone online with a blog of his own, GlennDickey.com. Could Laurel Wellman be next? Rob Morse? Jon Carroll's cats? more ›

While we have no idea whether Murphy's move was planned or not, we have to say it does appear slightly suspicious considering how many sports columnists have "left" the paper over the past couple of months. We'll find out how serious the Chronicle is about having a golf columnist if they hire somebody to replace him. Our guess is that it will be the Chronicle's new favorite columnist these days- "wire report" (probably to save more money to run those great ads featuring the former Mr. Sharon Stone discussing what a world class paper the Chronicle is). more ›