Arts & Entertainment Popular Columnist's Departure From The Chronicle 'Was Not Entirely Voluntary' Two weeks after a longstanding San Francisco Chronicle columnist retired to great fanfare, an interview reveals that the beloved writer might have been forced into dropping the pen. As previously noted, SF Chronicle
Arts & Entertainment 'Dear Abby' Easter Egg For Retiring Chron Columnist Jon Carroll & Dear Abby team up to leave @sfchronicle readers a nice little Easter egg on Carroll’s last day. pic.twitter.com/cj70iPsPBL— Rich Saskal (@RichSaskal) November 20, 2015 After a
misc Quote du Jour: Jon Carroll On Newsom SF Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll had this to say this morning regarding Gavin Newsom and the discreet charm of underage men. "When you elect boyish charm, you also get boyish behavior." In related
misc SFist Video: <i>Hillary's Inner Tracy Flick</i> from Slate Video If you like that movie from Reese Witherspoon called Election, as many people do, you might also like this funny 90-second video from Slate.com. And speaking of Clinton video, check out local
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Those Carbon Offset Bumper Stickers They'll promise to start offsetting and then send you back the sticker (or a framed certificate if you're trying to offset something non-automotive like an entire wedding) Good idea? How much do they
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Recent coyote "execution" still reverberates [Update: Coyotes run with their tails down, as shown. This is a fox, while this is a coyote. (Links fixed.) One is small, the other is big. In GGP, one has a white-tipped
SF News Asian-American Embarrassment: An Update Okay, first up -- what's the latest with Gavin Newsom's stalker, Mr. Purple Gloves? Well, persistent reporters at the Chronicle managed to get Han Shin on the phone last night, where they had
SF News Today in Bakers Dozen First the news: it's sounding like the police are trying to send the case up to the DA and the DA is pushing it back to the police. Which means nothing is happening
Arts & Entertainment It's O'Reilly vs. Carroll What with PageF-----gate going on, Fox News has to be desperate these days to stir things up. After all, misidentifying politicians' political parties can only work for so long before even Fox News
SF News What's Eve Up To Today? --9:30 a.m. Wander on into work. Remember to wear real clothes and not blogger pajamas. --10:00 a.m. Tour of the office Komodo dragon cage with Phil Bronstein. --10:47
Arts & Entertainment The Chron In the Blogosphere Anyways, first they started off by letting some of their hipper writers-- Peter Hartlaub, Mark Moford, and Aidan Vaziri (for the record, we're pro-Vaziri)-- let loose on the Culture Blog. That was
SF News Can You Hear the Drums, Gerardo? Doing some damage control, Gerardo wrote an editorial in Monday's Chron trying to explain what he meant when he said he didn't think we needed a military. What he wanted to say is
Arts & Entertainment Sean Penn in Iran; SFist Struggling To Care Look, you've probably noticed lots of other people talking about this, and look, it's not like we don't care about the Middle East or Iran or anything (hey, we read both Persepolises, we'll
Arts & Entertainment SFist Raves: Bad Reporter As you can probably tell, we have kind of a love/hate thing going on with the Chron over here at SFist HQ. But since it's Raves Thursday, we're highlighting the love! And
Arts & Entertainment Who's Blogging Now And for those of you wondering just what Glenn writes about on his blog, it's what every other blogger is- Britney pregnancy rumours and are the Killers merely cool or way cool. No,
