Arts & Entertainment Editor's Note: Yeah, Bye After almost seven years at SFist, I end my tenure today as editor-in-chief. And what a remarkable time it's been, yes? The laughter, the tears, the furious commenters, the national press, the frantic
SF News S.F. Chronicle Finally Abandons Paywall It appears that the Chronicle's exclusive content, which has been locked behind that dreaded subscriber paywall since they launched it in late March, has magically appeared today again for free on SFGate, without
Arts & Entertainment Hide Your Startup: Valleywag Is Back It's been four years since Valleywag, the blog-of-record for Silicon Valley gossip and tech industry machinations, folded. Now, Gawker Media has relaunched the site "dedicated to mocking the stupidity, incompetence, and avarice of
SF News Meteorologist Roberta Gonzales Out At CBS5? Say it ain't so, KPIX! Rich Lieberman has word that our favorite meteorologist and color-blocking fashion icon, Roberta Gonzales, is out at CBS 5. And she's going to be replaced (after 16 years!
SF News SF Examiner Just Bought SF Bay Guardian? [Updated] Whoa. According to Rachel Swan at East Bay Express, the SF Examiner just bought alternative weekly SF Bay Guardian. "The owners of the San Francisco Examiner just bought the San Francisco Bay Guardian,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Editor News: Shake-ups At SF Weekly, 7x7 Noted as one of the few faceless critics in town, SF Weekly's formidable and wildly intelligent food editor Jonathan Kauffman will leave the local alt-weekly for Tasting Table, formerly edited by friend of
SF News Matt Smith Heading to The Bay Citizen In the wake of harsh layoffs at SF Weekly, the Bay Citizen has literally saved journalism. Or one journalist, at least: the charity case online newspaper has hired Matt Smith, whose name you
SF News Bay Citizen Editor In Chief Leaving For Greener Pastures The inside media baseball fans at the Appeal have picked up an excellent scoop on some editorial shakeups happening over at the insular Bay Citizen. Executive editor editor in chief Jonathan Weber is
SF News Chronicle Columnist Seeks Attention By Proudly Not Naming Attention-Seeking Arizona Shooter While we commend "token conservative" Chronicle columnist Debra Saunders for calling out Sarah Palin's blood libel-spewing tribute to herself, we have to wonder why Saunders used three - three! - columns to pat
Arts & Entertainment And Here We Are: Divisadero Street Art Incident Explained After our Laser Kitten Vandalized! post went up yesterday, we received a landslide of comments, many of them rightly questioning what makes one piece of artwork more valid than another. A few others
misc Garchik gets all the punchlines: "Upon learning that Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg is Time magazine person of the year 2010, many senior citizens asked, 'What's Facebook?' says Janice Hough. And many young citizens asked, 'What's a magazine?
SF News East Bay Express Loses Longtime Editor SFWeekly has the inside media baseball news from the East Bay, where the East Bay Express has lost Stephen Buel, their editor of over 10 years. Buel, who was also a minority owner
