Arts & Entertainment SFnopes, Vol. 1: Which Of These Seven San Francisco Urban Myths Are True Or False? Everyone knows that Mark Twain never uttered the “coldest winter” quote and that Lombard is not really the crookedest street. But what other San Francisco lore that’s commonly bandied about happens to
Arts & Entertainment 7x7 Ceases Print Operation, Will Become All-Digital In the second stunner piece of news regarding local media outlets of the last four months, 7x7 magazine announced this morning that they are ceasing print publication after their March 2015 issue. They
Arts & Entertainment You Can Get 7x7 For Free Again Fantastic, amazing news for every single SFist reader who's commented (or just thought) "I miss Brock": You can now read his sterling prose, on lovely high-quality stock, for free. SFist's former editor Brock
SF News Local Shelter Magazine Shutters It's a day of inside media baseball, as yet another locally-based publication has left us. This time, the deceased is California Home+Design, an upmarket print and online shelter magazine, which Tuesday closed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Magazine Insists You Devour Three Chickens Before You Die Every year, local magazine 7x7 publishes a definitive list of 100 local things you absolutely must eat before you die. Which makes us wonder if we're in some kind of Final Destination situation.
SF News 7x7 Editor Chloe Harris Decides To Buy Publication A drop of inside-baseball publishing news for your consideration: Chloe Harris, Editor-in-Chief of noted local mag 7x7, went ahead and bought the entire publication, thus living many an editor's pipe dream. Though she
Arts & Entertainment Glossy Mag News: 7x7 Gets Its Spine Back, SF Mag Scores New EIC Hey, you. Yes, you. Sitting there glazed-over and glassy-eyed from staring at your preferred choice of online viewing. Listen up: did you know that changes are afoot in the world of local print
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink '7x7' Names Bar Tartine's Fried Bread and Chairman Bao's Pork Belly Bun To Their (Improved) Big Eat List 7x7's annual list of the 100 Things to Eat [in S.F.] Before You Die has just hit the web, in slideshow form this time. The editors over there have shaken things up
Arts & Entertainment 7x7 Magazine Moving to SOMA After almost a decade in Union Square, local lifestyle magazine 7x7 will pack up their staplers and Post-Its and move to SOMA—glorious, rad, joyous, dirty, homelessy, wealthy South of Market. The publication(
Arts & Entertainment Chloe Harris Named New '7x7 Magazine' Executive Editor The tony overlords at 7x7 Magazine named Stylebistro editor (and, above all else, former SFist style editor) Chloe Harris their new executive editor. In addition to having worked within the fashion media realm
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: 7x7 Hot 20 Nominations Due Today Confess! You want to be nominated for 7x7's Annual Hot 20 Under 40, don't you? Of course you do. It's on your list of 100 things to do in SF before you die,
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, at 7x7 Magazine: Premonitions of San Francisco's Future What with the city's attention so clearly fixated on Ingleside and Silver Terrace, 7x7 Magazine wants you to be aware of these little-known San Francisco neighborhoods: the Mission, Hayes Valley, and Dogpatch. It
misc Hey, What's The Deal? Yelp Gets Excited about Armory Tours, Discount 7x7 Subscriptions and Singing Bowl Therapy Since you live in a classy major American metropolitan area, you've probably noticed an abundance of discount sites shilling for local businesses at deep discounts. We recognize you are a busy person with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Selected: Favorite S.F. Carne Asada Burritos San Francisco's much-loved (and overstuffed!) carne asada burritos have been put to the test. What test? The taste-test. Ryan Farr (4505 Meats), Prisca Chen (winner of burrito judge contest on 7x7.com), Matthew
misc <em>7x7</em>'s Hot 20 Under 40 Revealed Things sure have changed since the Hartle era at la-di-da 7x7 Magazine came to an end. For example, it's now less la-di-da. And we like that. Another example? This month the local mag
misc Phrenological San Francisco: Another Wacky Neighborhood Map from <em>7x7</em> For their Fall Arts Preview, 7x7 has produced yet another kooky neighborhood map, this time using the theme of phrenology, and like, human tendencies? Or something? Anyway, we live somewhere in the vicinity
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Map: Fancy SF Coffee Shops View SF COFFEE MAP in a larger map Behold! A map showcasing artisan, if you will, coffee shops in San Francisco. Ooh la la, is right. We plan on making it a life
SF News New Blood At 7x7 Magazine Look for local glossy 7x7 to receive a fresh new tone and feel. Maybe. Because the two top leaders there are gone. Todd Sotkiewicz is now the magazine's president, replacing Tom Hartle. Sotkiewicz
Arts & Entertainment <em>7x7</em> Scored Tickets to Brian Wilson Show, We Did Not On Saturday, former Beach Boy Brian Wilson performed an intimate concert at SF's Art Exchange to promote his new album, That Lucky Old Sun. As Allie Pape at 7x7 writes, "As was to
misc <i>7x7</i> Gets Hyperlocal In an attempt to get in on the hyperlocal (ugh, that word) trend, glossy rag 7x7 interviewed pretty people about their favorite places to go in specific San Francisco neighborhoods. Above, Mission district
SF News Who Is the Most Stylish Person In SF? Oh, God. The ladies at opened up nominations for their "2009 style council." That is to say, you get to vote from this pool of candidates for most stylish person in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment 7x7 Correspondent Tries to Get Garrison Keillor To Admit He's a Perv Leilani Labong, conducting an interview for the most recent 7x7, tried her damndest to get Garrison Keillor (who was just at City Arts & Lectures on Saturday) to admit that his new collection
misc Happy Birthday, Pooch! When the above-reproach Catherine Bigelow laid out the accomplishments of newly middle-aged "PR pro" Lori Puccinelli Stern, she left off our favorite: defender and fellow bee-savior of Holy Mother of San Francisco. Let
SF News 7x7's Tackles Valencia Street 7x7 Magazine's Ert O'Hara and Jessica Battilana take on San Francisco's pricey yet independent Valencia Street. They tackle such topics as where to get the best coffee (which they describe as an "intensely
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 7x7's Premortem Tasting Menu The editors at 7x7 came up with a surprisingly decent list of things you should shove in your mouth before you die. (See, the girls on Maiden Lane do too eat!) "The Big
