On Sunday in Palo Alto, several noted folks attended Steve Jobs' memorial service at Stanford. Among the list of attendees? Rupert Murdoch, notes Gawker—Rupert, if you recall, was in San Francisco on Friday taking part in Gov. Jeb Bush's privatization of education summit at the Palace Hotel—as well as a slew of other important people paying their respects to the recently deceased Apple co-founder. more ›

Folks involved in the rapidly-growing Occupy SF and Occupy Wall Street movements will converge on the Palace Hotel today. Why? Well, nothing to do with the hotel itself, that's for sure. (The Palace is simply too gorgeous for ire.) Because Florida Governor Jeb Bush and media ghoul Rupert Murdoch will fly over on their brooms to take part in the Foundation for Excellence in Education conference, a nonprofit headed by Bush. more ›

Media rascal and likely criminal Rupert Murdoch will be in town on Friday, kicking it at the Palace Hotel (2 New Montgomery) while "addressing the National Summit on Education Reform at the invitation of a nonprofit run by presidential brother and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush," reports SF Examiner's Amy Crawford. more ›

So, you didn't like Microsoft, did you? Well, how about News Corp.? more ›

Oh my God, you guys, no way. Get this: the New York Post was wrong. What's next: Intelligent Design? Celebrity weddings? Our meth-induced epiphanies that the CIA, in cahoots with the Norteños, are reading our emails and listening in on our phone calls? See, it seems that "[n]o slingshots have been found" and that the NY Post was wrong. And we refuse to believe anything Rupert Murdoch-related is less than perfect. more ›

With Facebook winning over many of its users these days, MySpace is all set to open up a San Francisco location near AT&T Park in an effort get hip, or something like that. more ›

Basically, it's the rule of all the -ist's that each -ist gets to cover anything that has some tangential connection to it's place of locale. Which means that one of the things that we could cover if so we wanted to is O.J. He was a local boy after all and played for the pre-Walsh 49ers. We've even gotten a few e-mails wondering where our O.J. coverage is. Well, all of that is true. So here's your bit of O.J. news for the day: all things O.J. are being cancelled more ›

Man, here we are all nostalgic listening to Endtroducing, and the blogosphere pays us back with some serious synchronicity -- all sorts of funky-fresh music! We're totally drooling over this new Soul Sides compilation from O-Dub, on vinyl no less! Kid Kameleon posts not one, not two, but three mixes from three different DJs, including one of his own. Mesh SF presents a "motherlode" of the 40oz. show. And while this is kinda old, we were reminded by Jason Schulz that Podbop will let you sample lots of bands that happen to be in town. more ›

Well, we haven't had a chance to watch Current TV because somehow it ended up in Comcast's "Premier Tier," and we're not about to pay an extra five dollars a month after reading these reviews: more ›

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