SF News SF Examiner's Editor Resigns SF Appeal breaks the news that James Pimentel, executive editor of the SF Examiner, resigned last Friday. Staffers confirm that "several factors" led to his sudden departure. Eve Batey of SF Appeal notes,
SF News Local Online News Site Now Available In Retro Print Form Exhausted with having to read your news online? From the convenience of your home or office? For free? Well, fret no more. Today, local online news site SF Public Press launched a papyrus
SF News Breaking: C.W. Nevius Has Moved to San Francisco One of San Francisco's biggest critics is moving to San Francisco. That's right, the Chronicle's C.W. Nevius -- he of sit-lie love and sex club hate -- announced his residential return today.
SF News Viz Media Snips Staff Viz Media, one of the biggest publishers of creepy manga in the U.S., pruned some of its staff on Wednesday. Publishers Weekly reports that "as many as 55 people were laid off
SF News UC Berkeley to Stop Printing Press Much to our surprise, the University of California at Berkeley still has an operable printing press. But? Not for long. According to CBS 5, "Within weeks, UC Berkeley will shut down its 136-year-old
SF News No 'Under 40' Gays of Note in City that Considers Itself Gayest Following Out Magazine's 'Power 50' list, which failed to mention a single popular powerful San Francisco-based homosexual, The Advocate (the bookish bottom to Out's circuit party top) also came out with their annual
SF News No Powerful Gays in City that Considers Itself Gayest Out Magazine's annual 'Power 50' list came out, if you will, last week. Her Holiness Ellen DeGeneres rules the gays this year, taking the top spot. Politician Barney Frank, Anderson Cooper, butch on-air
SF News Google CEO Slams Bloggers While we know the luminous, chiseled Sergey Brin would never say something so cruel about bloggers, Google CEO and aging Burner Eric Schmidt, while trying to ingratiate himself to the book-sniffing crowd at
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mary Martin & Janet Gaynor Car Accident Report; Wendy Tokuda's Blouse While not the cheeriest Afternoon Palate Cleaner -- this 1982 news report features the tragic report of Mary Martin and Janet Gaynor's (both rumored to be lovers) Chinatown car accident, with the latter
SF News "Bay Area News Project" Becomes "The Bay Citizen" The Bay Area News Project, that much ballyhooed journalism project of awe and mystery, is noted for two things thus far: convincing themselves and other journalists that it could be the second coming
SF News TV Stations Find Michael Savage Ad Too Offensive Performance artist and controversial radio host Michael Savage is screeching mad at local SF television stations. It seems, according to Rich Lieberman, some of them are refusing to air a spot he shot
SF News SF Bay Guardian Sued By SF Weekly's Banks Mommy and daddy, we wish you'd stop fighting. Is it because we're bad? Do you hate us? We promise to be good if you stop hating each other. Because when we read this:
SF News SF Weekly Not Going Out of Business, OK! Despite being ordered by a court to hand over half of its revenue to SF Bay Guardian for illegally selling ads below cost, SF Weekly is not -- not! -- going out of
SF News SF Weekly to Turn Over Half of Revenue to SF Bay Guardian On Tuesday, San Francisco court commissioner granted SF Bay Guardian "half of SF Weekly’s current and future advertising revenue "in a move that could seriously damage the Weekly’s ability to stay
SF News SF Chron to Farm Out Stories to Fan-Generated Sports Reporting Site Look out, Chronicle sports writers -- your bosses seem to think a bunch of fans can do just as good a job of covering sports as you can, for a fraction of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Feed the Need: BBC Covers South Park Food Carts The Twittersphere was all aflutter today as the food cart (and food table) sensation hit South Park, because this time it drew media interest from BBC Radio, some unnamed video outlet and, yes,
SF News KRON4 Loses Traffic Helicopter Sad news for fading local news/infomercial network KRON4. Rich Lieberman has word that the former NBC affiliate lost its traffic copter. "As usual, its a money deal," Lieberman points out, going on
SF News SF Views: Blogging the Mission and Beyond Please join SF Appeal editor Eve Batey and your SFist editor as we welcome former Mission Mission editor and Uptown Almanac creator Kevin Montgomery as we chat about blogging. From the Mission and
SF News Gavin Newsom and Bill O'Reilly Face Off Tonight Gavin Newsom will appear on The O'Reilly Factor today, FOX's anti-everything show hosted by the affectedly conservative, sexually-harassing Bill O'Reilly. SF Examiner reports: The mayor will do his best to discuss several jobs-related
SF News New Blood At 7x7 Magazine Look for local glossy 7x7 to receive a fresh new tone and feel. Maybe. Because the two top leaders there are gone. Todd Sotkiewicz is now the magazine's president, replacing Tom Hartle. Sotkiewicz
SF News Air America Media, Green 960 Affiliate, To Close Rich Lieberman has word that Air America Media, affiliate to the eco-tinged Green 960, will shutdown operations immediately. "Air America Media CEO Charlie Kireker tells staff the liberal radio network will cease live
SF News SF Views Talks About Proposed Muni Cuts Please join us today as our cohost SFAppeal editor Eve Batey and your SFist editor talk to Matt Baume, (author of the this gem on Muni employees' salaries, creator of the helpful Muni
SF News San Francisco's Silver Fox, Mark Ibanez, Jumps To Anchor Chair Mark Ibanez, KTVU's resident sports talking head, will be making a temporary move on Monday to the the anchor's desk. Rich Lieberman reports that the sports anchor will be filling in as anchor
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Spew Your Gastronomic Prowess On <em>Check, Please! Bay Area</em> We love us some Leslie Sbrocco, the host of Check Please! Bay Area. She looks like someone with whom we would want to get drunk. Maybe that's because she's an award-winning author and
