- The strange, partially SF-based story of the International Business Times, an online news company that owns Newsweek. There's San Francisco-based employee exploitation, a cultish religion, and more! [Mother Jones]
- The [BBC] visits City Lights, finds San Francisco to be among the "most literate" cities of the world. Aw, thank you.
- Le Video, which had threatened to close at the end of this month, now has an [Indiegogo] campaign to avert just that. At publication time, they'd reached nearly half their goal of $35K.
- So often, we link to blog posts from people who visit SF and bitch about it. But not today! Here's a lovely post from a first-time visitor who describes SF as "such a beautiful, clean, active city," and is already planning a trip back. Thank you, Amber! [Girl With The Red Hair]
- How seriously do we need to take an article that contains a bunch of pictures of "The Tenderloin" that are actually not of the Tenderloin? An article that's headlined "San Francisco's Twitter Employees Must Step Past All These Homeless People To Get To Work"? Oh, it's from [Business Insider], got it.
- South Bay alt-weeklies change hands. [SJ Business Journal]
- The Golden State Warrior's Andre Iguodala says his bobblehead's skin tone is too light. [Huffington Post]
- An Oakland sideshow is actually dedicated to [KRON]'s Stanley Roberts. Really.
- The [SFChronicle] left the Virgo horoscope out of Sunday's paper,. Tinfoil-hat enraged report on the cover-up from local website and print mag TK.
- KTVU news van is broken into in Oakland, thieves got "a LiveU portable camera-backpack system used for live broadcasting, a laptop computer, a tripod and other gear." [SF Gate]
- [Streetsblog] makes the case for keeping Sunday parking meter enforcement on track.
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