SF News Beloved 98-Year-Old Science Editor Retires From The San Francisco Chronicle A toast to David Perlman: A journalist and colleague extraordinaire retires https://t.co/Rd6eMTZCxe via @sfchronicle pic.twitter.com/UulmEzWBo9— joegarofoli (@joegarofoli) August 3, 2017 77 years after joining the San Francisco
SF News [Update] Online Fact-Checker Snopes.com Reaches Out For Donations In Midst Of Ownership Dispute Snopes.com, the 23-year-old fact-checking website devoted to keeping the internet honest, is in the midst of an ownership struggle that, according to one side of the dispute, is threatening the future of
Arts & Entertainment SF Chronicle Columnist David Talbot Quits Over Low Pay Like all things, we knew at the get-go that it was destined to end...but still, we're a little surprised. After a six-month run, SF Chronicle columnist David Talbot has hung up his
SF News New Local Website Launches Called 'The Frisc' "The Frisc is a new site. We share voices and tell stories about our city in flux," says the intro copy for a new local content site on Medium. Founded by Anthony Lazarus
Arts & Entertainment C.W. Nevius Resurfaces As Sports Writer For Santa Rosa Press-Democrat When he departed his post as a thrice-weekly columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle last fall, it wasn't clear if Nevius was planning for a semi-retirement, perhaps kicking back to write a memoir
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco News Site Hoodline Acquired By VC-Backed Content Aggregator Since its founding as neighborhood blog "Haighteration" in the early 2010s, the news website that grew into the network known as Hoodline has become an invaluable resource for San Franciscans eager to stay
SF News SF Bay Guardian Returns! (In Digital Form) Fans of the San Francisco Bay Guardian remain frustrated and sore over the abrupt 2014 shutdown of the once venerable progressive paper. But, as staffers at the time promised it would, the SFBG
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
Arts & Entertainment Reddit Launches Upvoted, A Comment-Free Original Content Site In the world of online media, saturated though it may feel, we should all be grateful for any new publications that open their doors in an age when so many have closed, or
SF News KTVU Makes Another Unfortunate Error Calling San Bruno 'San Burno' Does everybody remember the infamous on-air gaffe in which a KTVU anchor read a series of offensive joke names she thought were actual Asiana Airlines pilots, in the wake of the 2013 crash
SF News Stanley Roberts Of 'People Behaving Badly' Suffers Stroke, Seems Fine Stanley Roberts, KRON 4's host of "People Behaving Badly," is in many ways the self-appointed conscience of San Francisco. So, brace yourselves because god knows what kind of crappy behavior people will get
SF News Techies Buy The Defunct Bold Italic News arrives today that well-liked San Francisco online publication The Bold Italic is returning from the dead thanks to a just-announced deal by two local tech professionals to purchase the site's assets. Though
SF News In New Deal, The New York Times Will Publish Some Articles Directly To Facebook In a deal that is expected to be announced Wednesday and has been anticipated for some time, the New York Times will publish select articles directly to Facebook, a place where news is
SF News The Bold Italic Ceases Operations In the latest significant announcement reflecting rapid shifts in the San Francisco media landscape, The Bold Italic announced today that it would cease its operations effective immediately. The web — and briefly, print — publication
Arts & Entertainment Vaguely Profane Associated Press Headline On SF Gate Leaves Us Scratching Our Heads I admit it, I live in a lovely glass house, from which I endeavor not to throw stones. I make typos, oftentimes embarrassing ones, on a regular basis. Did I tell you about
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Angry Public Blasts SF Restaurant Over Anti-Kid Policy That They Don't Actually Have Grotto confusion? It's an issue for two Northern California restaurants, especially when one announces they they'll give noisy kids the boot, and another says that they welcome the little critters with open arms.
SF News Cox Media Group Hands Bay Area TV Stations KTVU And KICU Over To Fox In an interesting (to media nerds) trade, the owner of Bay Area television stations KTVU and KICU has traded them to FOX Television Stations in exchange to stations based in Boston and Memphis.
Arts & Entertainment 10 Great Perfume Ads (Plus One Of The All-Time Worst) In honor of tomorrow's SF Artisan Fragrance Salon—as well as Barbara Herman, author of Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume and vintage perfume blogger at YesterdaysPerfume.com, and her
SF News New Median Construction Will Require Longest Golden Gate Bridge Closure Ever The Golden Gate Bridge's $26.5 million movable median barrier project is underway, with construction expected to begin this fall. But since the median has to be assembled on the famous Bridge, officials
Arts & Entertainment Video: Godzilla Set To Destroy San Francisco, As So Many Movies Do The first full length trailer for the most recent version of Godzilla was unleashed on the internet Tuesday, with predictably breathless results (An apparent 69,400 news reports at publication time, wow). We
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 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
SF News The NRA Is Now Suing S.F. Over City's Gun Magazine Ban The National Rifle Association is officially not gonna take it anymore when it comes to San Francisco's tyrannical anti-gun agenda. Now, they've taken it upon themselves to sue the city of San Francisco,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tweet The (Doomed?) Chronicle Food Staff Your Thanksgiving Queries! The revered Food writers at The Chronicle are some of the best the country has to offer. From Michael Bauer to Jon Bonné to Paolo Lucchesi, just to name a few, they stand
