Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Casual Batkid Coverage This ABC reporter casually covers Friday's Batkid melee from the ground.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Chronicle To Kill Off Its Food Section, Replace It With 'Artisan' Lifestyle Section [Update] Don't blink. You read that headline correctly. The San Francisco Chronicle, paper of record for legions of Bay Area diners and their unwieldy opinions on food, will close its longstanding Food & Wine
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noted Philosopher Martha Stewart Bashes Bloggers Let's start off by saying that your editor is a believer in Martha Stewart and her teachings. She's one of the few living philosophers able to infiltrate the common world from a comfortable
Arts & Entertainment Today's Techies Are Yesterday's Hippies, And Other Thoughts From The New Yorker As of late, a flurry of national media attention has followed San Francisco's growth and attendant cultural ramifications (take George Packer's recent Silicon Valley piece or this week's meditation on SF's housing crunch
Arts & Entertainment Matt Werner, Mind Behind 'Oakland Unseen,' Talks About Switching To Print, Faking The News, And More Matt Werner, author and tech writer at Google, has had unbridled success with the advent of Oakland Unseen, a popular parody Tumblr billed as Oakland's answer to The Onion. Last Friday, Werner released
Arts & Entertainment Colin Kaepernick Lands On 'GQ' Cover, Poses In Gucci And 49ers Garb Celebrated 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick appears on the cover of GQ this month. In addition to flaunting his inarguably arousing ink and body -- as well as his problematic chin pubes -- the
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Is Second-Best New Restaurant In America, According To Bon Appétit Saison took silver in Bon Appétit's annual best-of listicle. Unfortunately, the magazine devotes too much attention to the restaurant's much-ballyhooed price point. The magazine's noted food critic Andrew Knowlton crunches the numbers: Let's
SF News Ink Death: AARP Mags Boast Top Circulation In Print World, Most Newspapers Struggling The stubborn world of print media took way too long to avail themselves of the digital universe, and here in mid-2013 we are still seeing the fallout. A new audit this week by
SF News Three KTVU Producers Fired Over Asiana Reporting Debacle KTVU sacked three producers over the on-air reporting mess that named the pilots in the Asiana 214 crash as "Captain Sum Ting Wong," "We To Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow.
SF News KTVU Has Fake Asiana Pilot Names Clip Pulled (But Not Really) And just like that, it's gone. No wait, it's not. See, in an effort to squelch the fake Asian pilot name scandal, KTVU filed copyright infringement notices with YouTube regarding the now infamous
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jason Priestly Was In The Mission Filming Canadian Food Show Yesterday Sister Kate star Jason Priestly — we don't have any choice 90210 references since we never really cared for the show; we were Melrose fans — was in town Thursday filming in the city's white-hot
SF News Now Asiana Airlines Wants To Drop KTVU Lawsuit Asiana Airlines has now decided to drop its lawsuit against KTVU for reporting false and racially insensitive names, including "Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Low," and "Ho Lee Fuk." The airline, wanting to
SF News Asiana Suing KTVU Over Pilot-Naming Snafu [Update] Asiana Airlines said today that they will sue Bay Area station KTVU for accidentally broadcasting the now-infamous fake pilot names of flight 214. This comes one week after the airline caused the death
Arts & Entertainment Video: Local News Names Asiana Airlines Pilots "Ho Lee Fuk," Other Racist Names [Updated] Bay Area FOX affiliate KTVU 2 might want to check their NTSB sources a little more closely. The station's news team just aired the (alleged) names of the pilots involved in the Asiana
SF News Is the Media Reacting Fairly To The BART Strike? Well, we're sure some of you are pissed off about the BART strike, and some of youmost likely those of who don't have to suffer commute traumaare more sympathetic to the
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
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Chronicle Ducks Behind Paywall, Confounds Readers Notice anything different about SFGate.com today? Probably not, but the paper of record has moved some random amount of special content behind a for-subscribers-only paywall site at SFChronicle.com. Articles on SFGate.
SF News Downplaying Rape: SFGate Compares Steubenville Rapist To Lovable Eddie Haskell [UPDATE] The media's unyielding urge to defend and apologize for the Steubenville rapists knows no bounds. Just ask CNN newscaster Candy Crowley and general correspondent Poppy Harlow. Now we have another example, this time
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Brief History Of Bi-Rite Divisadero, In Blog Quotes Presented without comment: all the local blog articles we could dig up in the media frenzy leading up to the opening of a grocery store on Divisadero Street. "It’s going to be
Arts & Entertainment After Skewering Hippie School, Jimmy Kimmel Asked To Be Commencement Speaker In a November 27 Jimmy Kimmel Live episode, the titular host poked fun at the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research at HSU, jesting that to get into the school “you have to
Arts & Entertainment Many Americans Think Al Jazeera Are Terrorists, Say TV Experts With the purchase of Current TV this week, Pan-Arab news network Al Jazeera bought a huge base of American subscribers (many of whom didn't seem to know they even had the channel). According
SF News Al Gore Jazeera? Arabic News Network Possibly Buying Out Current TV [Updated] After several months of rumors that Current TV was looking to sell out, Qatar-based, Arabic satellite news network Al Jazeera is reportedly finalizing a deal that would take over the cable news network
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink C.W. Nevius: The Chronicle's Latest Subway Shilling Columnist We've known for quite some time now that former Da Mayor, well-compensated political/sandwich lobbyist and San Francisco Chronicle columnist Willie Brown has been suspiciously vocal about his love for Subway sandwiches. Now
SF News Governor Jerry Brown's Office To Fox News: Please Stop Lying [Update] Last week, the journalistic stalwarts at Fox News printed a striking piece claiming California's 2012 budget deficit would hit $28 billion and cause an exodus of high wage earners from the state. Unfortunately
