What would Batman and Robin think? With its chic industrial/gothic design, the new “market hall” style Whole Foods that opened recently near Lake Merritt in Oakland certainly could be used for a set on the next Batman flick. (Note: we won’t be defending or condemning the corporation itself here. We instead refer you to Mark Morford’s sharp analysis of the friendly giant.) We wish we’d known about the opening day festivities, what with an......

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. But then one David Adams decided that he'd pimp Laurel Wellman's replacement Pati Poblete in our comments (go read it -- it's both poorly written and obsequious). For shame, SPAMmer! You even posted from......

Virgil Porter forwarded us notice that SFGate has set up RSS feeds for some of their more popular coverage items. This means that we can link to and then snark on their coverage that much sooner after it goes up! Just kidding. It does mean that the newsreader set can now watch as articles are posted online. For your convenience, here's the list of links below -- copy and paste into your bloglines account!......