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Major Shen Yun Exposé: Dancers Not Allowed to Get Treated for Medical Injuries, Paid Only $12,000 a Year

The NY Times just dropped a massive exposé on our favorite butt of jokes Shen Yun, but there’s nothing funny about the fact that the troupe is sitting on more than $250 million, while paying its dancers $12,000 a year and forbidding them from getting medical treatment.

Business & Tech

New York Times Sues OpenAI, Microsoft Over Use of Copyrighted Content

In what may prove a pivotal legal moment for the artificial intelligence industry, the New York Times has filed suit against OpenAI over the unauthorized use of years of journalistic content in the training of its generative AI models.

Lengthy Times Piece About SF Fire Commissioner Assault Case Tries to Counter 'Doom Loop' Narrative

The New York Times is, somewhat recently, trying to counter the "doom loop" narrative about San Francisco that the SF Chronicle first promoted, and that the Times itself contributed fodder to earlier in the year.

Heather Knight Files Her First New York Times Story, and It's About San Francisco's Beleaguered Reputation

Heather Knight's first byline as San Francisco Bureau Chief for the New York Times is a story about how everyone in the country — including self-satisfied New Yorkers who haven't been here in years — has bought into the narrative that SF is a hellhole now.

Chronicle Columnist Heather Knight to Become SF Bureau Chief for New York Times

Longtime Chronicle staffer Heather Knight, who has been the paper's most-noted weekly columnist on San Francisco's foibles, politics, and more for the last five years, has landed a job as San Francisco bureau chief for the New York Times.

Bay Area Sports

New York Times Completely Guts Its Sports Section, Sources It to SF-Based The Athletic

The NY Times will now source its sports coverage from SF’s The Athletic, which has poached a ton of prestigious sportswriters, pulled $140 million in VC money, was bought up by the NYT, though has never shown a profit.

Billionaire SF Standard Financier Gets Guff for SF-Bashing (and SF Chronicle-Bashing) In NYT Op-Ed

A Sunday New York Times op-ed from the money-man behind the SF Standard reads like a formulaic Mad Libs SF-trashing hit piece, but his attacks on the rival publication The San Francisco Chronicle raise questions about his real motivations.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

San Ho Won and Abacá Recognized on NYT Best Restaurants List

Fast on the heels of Bon Appetit's 50 Best New Restaurants list, we have another national best-of that picked out two SF restaurants that Bon Appetit's editors passed over.

Pendulum Swings and National Press Decides San Francisco Is Cool Again

Suddenly, some editors on high have decided San Francisco is OK again, and still very pretty, and maybe it has something to do with the Presidio Tunnel Tops opening?

New York Times Editors Again Take Secret Pleasure In 'Bay Area Exodus' Headline

While there's no denying there has been an exodus of city residents during the pandemic that is driving down rents, did the Times need to go with the headline "They Can't Leave the Bay Area Fast Enough"?

The New York Times Profiles A Guy Who Regularly Picks Over Mark Zuckerberg's Trash

The New York Times continues to want to sensationalize San Francisco's ever-increasing wealth and income disparity — despite Manhattan being the capital of such disparity.

Arts & Entertainment

SF's Aquatic Park Gets New York Times Praise From Swimming Folk Icon

Loudon Wainwright III is many things to many people — the guy behind "Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road)", the "singing surgeon" on M*A*S*H*, a multiple Grammy nominee and

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

New York Times Apologizes After Acting Like Boba Tea Was Brand New Trend

'New York Times’ amends boba tea story after reader outcry https://t.co/jtA6E4wgSz pic.twitter.com/DOdDA5IRW4— Eater (@Eater) August 17, 2017 An article in the New York Times this week about

The New York Times Found Five Republicans At UC Berkeley And Talked To Them

"I’m from Tennessee, where I’m called a commie. At Berkeley I’m a right-wing reactionary." https://t.co/71bOF7wwXL pic.twitter.com/NCxtyRrn5n— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 8, 2017

Berkeley Chancellor Pens Op Ed: 'We Are Under Attack From Both Sides'

UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks took to the New York Times today with an op-ed concerning both the Ann Coulter speech kerfuffle and the ongoing use of the campus as a locale for

San Francisco Remains The Nation's Most Childless City

For most of the last two decades, San Francisco has been among the country's least age-diverse places, boasting one of the lowest concentration of families with children under 18 of any major US

In Bizzaro Interview With Maureen Dowd, Peter Thiel Says Fake Wrestling Is Real And No One Cares About The Supreme Court

Over "a four-hour dinner of duck and chocolate dessert" New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd interviewed Trump transition team player Peter Thiel, the Paypal co-founder and early Facebook investor who still serves on

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Was Pete Wells Doing A Service, Or Just Being An Elitist Dick, In Panning Oakland's Locol?

The biggest food-world story of the week has turned out to be New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells's unexpected and unexpectedly terrible review of Locol in Oakland, the ostensibly revolutionary new model

Peter Thiel, VC Billionaire Outed By Gawker, Writes NYT Op-Ed About Why He Helped Sue

Gawker Media, bankrupted by a lawsuit regarding the website's release of a sex tape involving Hulk Hogan, is up for auction today, and the New York Times is using the occasion to offer

Tomorrow's Tech Campuses, Built On Yesterday's Hippie Commune Space Dreams

Technology giants Apple and Google have strange, new corporate campuses on the horizon, the New York Times Style Magazine, T, has noticed: Google's a slightly downsized tent-like structure and Apple's a very large,

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

SFist Interviews: Mark Bittman On His Bay Area Turn From The Times To A Vegan Food Startup

"This isn’t about ‘veganism,’" writes Mark Bittman in an essay published today on the website of the Purple Carrot, the food startup he's joined as Chief Innovation Officer. Moving on from his

Times Article Celebrates Airbnb, Fails To Mention Writer Is Spouse Of Company Investor Marc Andreessen

In a forehead-slapping conflict of interest that probably anyone in Silicon Valley could have pointed out to the New York Times, that publication's style magazine, T, lauded a list of five entrepreneurs “harnessing

Arts & Entertainment

Video: The New York Times Spends 36 (Very Rosy) Hours In San Francisco

The New York Times travel section is blowing up your local spot. In the latest in their series, the paper spends 36 hours in San Francisco (perhaps all they could afford?) and seems

Soylent Schmoylent: The New York Times Drinks Silicon Valley's Powdered Protein Kool-Aid, Again

Though it might as well be, Schmoylent isn't a parody of Soylent, the meal replacement beverage invented in 2013 by a 24-year-old who later constipated himself to keep from flushing the toilet. No,

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