Arts & Entertainment 'The Advocate' Once Again Tries To Convince Us That San Francisco Isn't Gay Enough Even though The Advocate is barely even a publication anymore, they have a website and some sort of shoestring budget and every January they update their idiosyncratic, totally arbitrary list of the gayest
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
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 S.F. Literary Map: Do You Live In A Famous Author's Apartment? Do you live at 891 Post, 620 Eddy, 1155 Leavenworth, or 20 Dashiell Hammett? If you do, you're walking the hallowed halls of one of Dashiell Hammett's apartments. But there's nary a neighborhood
Arts & Entertainment This Will Be The Most Irritating Thing You See Today Ooohhh, that wasn't very nice of us. Consider it some well-aged snark for lunch. But, come on: all this needs is a girl with bangs playing the ukulele for her boyfriend sporting a
Arts & Entertainment Photo: 'Underwear Bomber' Article Meets Unfortunate Ad Placement Today's print edition of The Chronicle features a story about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, sentenced to life in prison for attempting to bomb a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day 2009 with explosives tucked
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 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 <i>SF Chronicle</i> Unveils New Look For those of you who still read print editions of newspapers, did you happen to see San Francisco Chronicle's latest makeover? To be blunt, it looks downright lovely. The font, the sharper images,
Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers Insists Print Not Dead San Francisco's favorite writer Dave Eggers was honored the other night in New York City for his charity work at 826 Valencia -- the organization that tutors kids in writing skills and now
SF News Sign of the Times: Print Publishing Where The Onion used to be on Cortland in Bernal Heights. The Onion, as SFist pointed out last week, ceased print editions in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
SF News David Geffen In Line to Purchase <i>The New York Times</i>? As everyone is well aware, print news is dying a slow death, and news organizations everywhere -- like our very own Faded Floozy -- are changing hands or closing up shop completely. Fortune
SF News No More San Francisco Edition of <i>The Onion</i> It's a sad day, area men and women: Today's editions of the The Onion in San Francisco and Los Angeles will be the last. The paper was said to be laying off editors
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 Phil Bronstein Vists The Colbert Report Let's face it: The Daily Show blows now, and not in a good way. Comedy Central's fake news has turned into The Capitol Steps for Baby Boomers and Gen Xers. It's the kind
SF News Nancy Pelosi Asks AG for Help with Ailing Papers What with the Seattle P-I shutting down its print operations, and SF Chronicle clinging to life, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked Attorney General Eric Holder to make changes in antitrust restrictions so that
SF News TMZ's Harvey Levin Speaks at Cal's School of Journalism Inexplicably managing not to spray the room with gunfire or hurl himself out of the nearest open window, TMZ's Harvey Levin spoke to students enrolled at the "elite" Graduate School of Journalism at
SF News SF Chronicle, Union Reach Deal Less vacation time and longer work weeks for the same pay might be in store for SF Chronicle employees after the paper and the California Media Workers Guild reached a tentative deal yesterday.
SF News Sacramento Bee Snips 128 Jobs Sigh. The Sacramento Bee tells AP that they plan on "cutting 128 jobs, or 11 percent of its workforce, as revenue continues to fall in the beleaguered newspaper industry." The death toll by
