SF News Dana King To Leave KPIX For Budding Art Career Sad news. Esteemed anchor, journalist, and penis sculptor Dana King, 52, will leave her anchor desk at KPIX effective this week. "I've kind of been living my life in two worlds," said King.
SF News SF Newspaper Tycoon Gets Into One-Sided Twitter Fight With Nancy Pelosi Local print newspaper powerhouse Todd Vogt has thrown some shade at recently-burglarized Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi via Twitter. Vogt — owner of the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Bay Guardian — unleashed a slew
Arts & Entertainment Video: Woody Allen Film Shooting At 14th And South Van Ness While we cannot see the visages of either Allen or Blanchett (though, omfg, white-hot foodie offal cupcake gossip: word is that the two dined together at Jardiniere last week), Jackson West snapped this
Arts & Entertainment Chronicle Columnist to S.F. Men (Straight Or Otherwise): 'You Have No Style' This is disconcerting: Chronicle columnist Caille Millner has sensed something new about San Francisco over the last year. Something fresh. Something actualized. The lovely ladies who call Baghdad by the Bay home are
SF News Neocon Radio Host Michael Savage Rages Over Blackballing Boomer generation-spawned performance artist Michael Savage penned a thoughtful and even-keeled response to local media blogger Rich Lieberman's question about whether or not the neoconservative radio host thinks that he's being blackballed in
Arts & Entertainment Help Burgled Digital Media Nonprofit That Helps At-Risk Youth! BAYCAT, educators and job-finders for underserved youth in the digital media arts, is a local profit notorious for doing damn good work. On Thursday, July 12th, their space in Dog Patch robbed. All
SF News Oakland Tribune Photog Robbed While On Assignment An Oakland Tribune photographer was robbed of her equipment while on assignment on Monday. She wasn't hurt, but certainly shaken. The Tribune reports: "Laura Oda, a chief photographer for the Bay Area News
SF News Watch Ross Mirkarimi Ethics Commission Panel Live The ethics commission panel for embattled San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is going down right now. Among other topics touched upon, a video was screened of Mirkarimi allegedly joking about domestic violence during
SF News Media Descends On Facebook's Less-Than-Stellar Second Day Trading After closing 23 cents above its record-breaking IPO price of $38 on Friday, Facebook's stock dipped 11 to 13 percent to $33.87, at least as of early this morning. Patience will most
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Krug Champagne's Publicity Stunt At Burning Man Backfires Krug Champagne summoned the wrath of many Burners (almost one year later!) after they staged a crass publicity stunt involving "society bloggers" at Burning Man 2011. As many of you know, Burning Man
SF News Aubrey Huff's Anxiety Disorder Prompts Local Media Mental Health Disclosures It was announced yesterday that Aubrey Huff will be placed on the disabled list due to an anxiety disorder, which explains why the first baseman and outfielder suddenly left the Giants. "Obviously, we’
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,
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 News The Bay Citizen, Center For Investigative Reporting Will Join Forces In Bay Area media news today, the Bay Citizen and Berkeley-based Center for Investigative Reporting have announced what the inside media superfans have been whispering about for months now: That they totally intend
SF News Six Reporters Arrested During Occupy Oakland Mass Arrest Mother Jones' Gavin Aronsen wrote a first-hand account of being apprehended at the Occupy Oakland mass arrest on Saturday, along with at least five other credentialed journalists and 400 protesters. Aronsen says this
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(
SF News Canadian Newspaper Company to Purchase SF Examiner SF Appeal breaks news that SF Examiner will be sold to a Canadian Newspaper company Black Press Group. According to a statement later released by the company, the sale expected to close on
SF News Occupy Oakland Has Its Own Newspaper Similar to Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Oakland has its own paper now. It's called Occupy Oakland Tribune. The premier issue features such tidbits as today's general strike (which could the biggest East Bay
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
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Artist Contributes 'New Yorker' Cover With Evil Wall Street Theme Berkeley-based artist Eric Drooker painted this lovely-but-ominous cover, which he submitted to The New Yorker about a year ago, but only this week did the magazine decide it was thematically appropriate for the
SF News Steve Jobs Backlash Begins And just like that, the death and surrounding melee of noted Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has sparked a minor backlash. As we mentioned earlier, several people took umbrage with the fact that a
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
SF News SF Weekly Cuts Noted Editorial Staff Members, Possibly More In some heart-sinking news today, SF Weekly cut some of its staff -- possibly 1/3 of it, according to the grapevine. Most notably, the Village Voice Media paper pruned such stellar talent
SF News Scene from 'Moneyball' Press Junket with Brad Pitt Why, look! It's Brad Pitt. As we mentioned earlier today, Pitt and his special lady friend, Angelina Jolie, are in Oakland today to attend the premiere of the former's latest cinematic effort, Moneyball.
Arts & Entertainment Graph Shows How Journalists See Each Other Now for some insider-baseball humor. David Chon, founder of Spot.Us, devised this spot.on (haHA) graphic showing how journalists view each other. Having penned many an article in our boxer briefs, as
