SF News Facebook To Relegate Clickbait Headlines To Special Place In Timeline Hell Thank you for clicking on this meaningful headline and welcome to an article with useful information. There were other options, I would presume, like "you won't believe what this one social network is
SF News 7x7 Editor Chloe Harris Decides To Buy Publication A drop of inside-baseball publishing news for your consideration: Chloe Harris, Editor-in-Chief of noted local mag 7x7, went ahead and bought the entire publication, thus living many an editor's pipe dream. Though she
SF News The NRA Is Now Suing S.F. Over City's Gun Magazine Ban The National Rifle Association is officially not gonna take it anymore when it comes to San Francisco's tyrannical anti-gun agenda. Now, they've taken it upon themselves to sue the city of San Francisco,
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
SF News S.F. Chronicle Finally Abandons Paywall It appears that the Chronicle's exclusive content, which has been locked behind that dreaded subscriber paywall since they launched it in late March, has magically appeared today again for free on SFGate, without
Arts & Entertainment Hide Your Startup: Valleywag Is Back It's been four years since Valleywag, the blog-of-record for Silicon Valley gossip and tech industry machinations, folded. Now, Gawker Media has relaunched the site "dedicated to mocking the stupidity, incompetence, and avarice of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food & Wine Bestows Lots Of Dudes With 'Best New Chef' Accolades Food & Wine editor-in-chief Dana Cowin, as Grub Street pointed out, spent Monday tweeting clues about this year's gaggle of the magazine's Best New Chef award winners. The biggest leak, so to speak,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tomorrow: 'Lucky Peach' + Mission Chinese Food Party On Wednesday, Lucky Peach's "apocalypse" issue hits newsstands. What's a newsstand? No idea. Haven't the foggiest. But you should try to grab an issue of it while you can. Lucky Peach is a
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 Cute: Bookstore To Transform Into Record Store For Michael Chabon Book Release In an effort to promote noted scribe Michael Chabon's latest work, Telegraph Avenue — a fictional piece about "longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Editor News: Shake-ups At SF Weekly, 7x7 Noted as one of the few faceless critics in town, SF Weekly's formidable and wildly intelligent food editor Jonathan Kauffman will leave the local alt-weekly for Tasting Table, formerly edited by friend of
SF News Arnold Schwarzenegger Needs Your Help Writing 'Total Recall' Erstwhile California Governor, former Mr. Universe and estranged father Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn't made much progress in the eight months since he announced he would be putting pen to paper to write his autobiography,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Favorite Part Of Bi-Rite's 'Sweet Cream & Sugar Cones' Involves '80s Ice Cream, Yelper Love April is a big one for ice cream and print publishing. Two noted ice cream shops in the Mission District, Bi-Rite Creamery and Humphry Slocombe, are coming out with recipe books. So, if
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Literal Sign Of The Times "Literal Sign of the Times" by Ariel Dovas.
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
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
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
Arts & Entertainment Celebrate Zoetrope's Summer Issue, July 19 Featuring new fiction from Stuart Dybek, as well as Emily Ruskovich and May-Lan Tan making their literary debuts, the summer issue of Zoetrope features a cover designed by Beck. Yes, that Beck. You
SF News Thrasher Magazine Co-Founder ID'd as Man Who Committed Suicide at SFPD Station The man who shot and killed himself outside the SFPD Mission Station on Valencia Street was identified today as Eric Swenson, a 64-year-old San Francisco resident who was also the co-founder of popular
SF News Meanwhile in Vacaville: Newspaper Bomb Injures Elderly Man An elderly man in Vacaville was injured by an explosive device hidden in his Sunday newspaper yesterday. When the man went to retrieve the paper from his lawn the hidden device exploded, alerting
SF News Publisher of <em>SF Weekly</em> Moving to <em>The Village Voice</em> SF Weekly Publisher (and an all-around swell chap) Josh Fromson will leave the city's noted alt-weekly to take over at The NY Village Voice. Both SF Weekly and The Village Voice are owned
SF News Peter Hartlaub Rides His Old Chronicle Paper Route Back before print publishing turned into a creepy fetish for navel-gazing journalists looking to emulate their leader, there was a time when people used to purchase and then have delivered their e-information in
