SF News 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,
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 New York Times Wags Its Finger At California's Drought Following Governor Brown's announcement last week about mandatory cutbacks in water usage, the New York Times has suddenly decided to take California's worsening drought seriously with a whole package of pieces discussing things
SF News New York Times Wants Silicon Valley To 'Grow Up?' Not So Fast! After Uber henchman Emil Michael bragged about his bright idea to spend $1 million to investigate "shady" journalists' private lives (and "Dude, Where's My Uber?" star Ashton Kutcher stepped in right beside) the
SF News The New York Times Warns That Silicon Valley Bubble Might Be Ready To Pop And Ruin Us All The bubble! The tech bubble! The Silicon Valley bubble! There's so much bubble talk that we expect some pundits to start traveling like Glinda the Good Witch (UberBubble rides, coming soon to a
Arts & Entertainment New York Times Columnist Confuses (Female) Beach Blanket Babylon Performer With Drag Queen Yesterday, the New York Times, which is a newspaper based in New York City (get a rope), wrote an article about Tuesday night's San Francisco Giants game. As one might expect, the Times
SF News 'Tech Workers Are Not Robots,' Says Mayor Ed Lee In Intriguing NYT Interview In an interview with the New York Times, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee all but french kisses the city's tech industry, the people in it, and all that it embodies. (Understandably so.) Which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Is The Greatest Restaurant, Ever New York Times food critic Pete Wells, who describes his time at Saison as [o]ne of the most compelling" and "one of the most maddening" meals he's ever had, penned an interesting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The NY Times Went to 20 S.F. Bars in 4 Days ... ... and all we got was this limp pub-crawl roundup. Yes, we like getting national kudos as "one of this country's great bar cities", and the gorgeous put-it-in-my-mouth photo sets the piece up for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NoPa Is The New Mission, Says New York Publication Hey, everybody, the New York Times has discovered San Francisco again! And this time it isn't about the Mission. Well, almost. The gray old lady sets its book-sniffing sights on NoPa — known to
SF News NYT Now Intrigued By Our Demand-Based Parking System The front page of the New York Times website right now is a story about San Francisco's new demand-based, variably priced parking system, which they claim is already making parking spots easier to
Arts & Entertainment 'New York Times' Names Oakland Number-Five Place To Visit In 2012 Don't get us wrong: We hella love Oakland, in all its urban, slightly dangerous, Brooklyn-in-the-90s sort of glory. But excuse us if we chuckle a little finding it on a list of places
SF News 'Quan Lied' Front and Center on NYT Homepage Oakland mayor Jean Quan is standing firm. She is not resigning, or so she announced on Friday, after she was booed off the City Hall stage Thursday and after she was largely responsible
SF News 'New York Times' Makes Fun of Us Re: Mayor's Race The NYT finds the situation in S.F., with "anywhere from 9 to 37 people running to become mayor," quite amusing. The headline: "San Francisco Is Awash With Mayoral Candidates," and the story
SF News Behold Tim Lincecum's <em>New York Times Style Magazine</em> Cover Featuring an adorable cover shot of the two-time Cy Young Award winner, SF Giants star Tim Lincecum will appear in this week's T Magazine, the gray old lady's weekly style rag. You can
misc NYT Reporter Tours Pixar Campus, Wets Herself The New York Times sent Carpetbagger writer Melena Ryzik on a tour through Pixar in Emeryville, and she gushes, "Pixar's about as a cool a place to work as anyone can imagine!" Why
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A <em>NYT</em> Reporter Calls Sixth Street a 'Gourmet Ghetto' With Bad Parking Citing the opening of Passion Café, along with the presence of Split Pea Seduction and Tu Lan, NYT reporter Scott James (who's listed as a local novelist and Emmy-winning TV journalist) declares Sixth
SF News Woman Driver Re-enacts 1909 Cross-Country Journey in 100-Year-Old Car Somehow we missed this late last week, but Emily Anderson of Seattle arrived in San Francisco on Thursday after completing a cross-country trip from New York in a reconstructed 1909 Maxwell D.A.
Arts & Entertainment New Film With Script by Eggers and Vida Gets Scathing Review The new film Away We Go, directed by Sam Mendes and with a script by local literary it-couple Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, received a gut-punch of a review by A.O. Scott
Arts & Entertainment <em>NYT</em> Gives Mixed Review to SF Ballet's "Jewels" Alastair Macaulay, writing for The New York Times, gave a rather stilted and mixed review of the San Francisco Ballet's current staging of Balanchine's "Jewels," honoring several of the dancers but getting fussy
SF News Bronstein Emerges Unscathed After Dowd Date Maureen Dowd is kind of an idiot. And we mean that in the nicest way possible, because she seems so smart. But then she goes off and writes this. In her most recent
SF News San Franciscans Like Obama, Hate Two and a Half Men, Says New York Times Those left-wing extremists, Sarah Palin gang-rapists, and Zionist hoodlums over at the New York Times came to town to write about politics and San Francisco. (No, not about the increasingly-retarded local SF political
SF News Quote of the Day: Newsom's Green Ego Mayor Gavin Newsom, who seems to be getting a decent amount of ink in the Gray Old Lady these days, says the following about recycling: It's purposefulness that could otherwise be construed as
SF News Melanie Morgan Gets the Boot Politically-correct, conservative KSFO talk show host Melanie Morgan annonced yesterday that her contract would not be renewed due to financial issues over at KSFO's corporate parent, Citadel Broadcasting Corp. Co-host of the Lee
misc Coi and Ugbuntu Make NYT's Top Ten List Sure, these places look like the types of fine dining establishments none of us could afford. Nevertheless we were delighted to read in this morning's New York Times ("Coast to Coast, Restaurants That
