SF News <em>Rolling Stone</em> Blasts Anti-Gay <em>Rolling Stone</em> Anti-gay marriage and hateful citizens, unite! A fake Rolling Stone based in Africa has been dishing out "one of the most vile and hateful anti-gay screeds," ever! And the real Rolling Stone, which
misc <em>7x7</em>'s Hot 20 Under 40 Revealed Things sure have changed since the Hartle era at la-di-da 7x7 Magazine came to an end. For example, it's now less la-di-da. And we like that. Another example? This month the local mag
Arts & Entertainment This Weekend: Listen to These People at SF Zine Fest Although SF Zine Fest is all about tables and tables of choice zines, comics, phenomenal DIY doodads, and more -- psst, be sure to read Laura Beck's article on making her very first
Arts & Entertainment Litquake 2010: Winona Ryder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Patti Smith The lineup for this year's Litquake, San Francisco's tribute to the written word, looks like a smashing one. Why? Because it vboasts a special appearance by a very special cinematic legend and infamous
SF News San Francisco Bay Guardian's Damage Award Upheld Looks like the folks at SF Bay Guardian can expect payment from SF Weekly -- at least so declares the state appeals court. According to KRON 4, "In a 3-0 ruling on Wednesday,
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 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 Man Delivers Own Obit, Then Hangs Self Dark news here, folks. A sick Placerville man, according to Associated Press, "delivered his own obituary to a newspaper then hanged himself from a nearby bridge." The body of Allan Leo Peters II,
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
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 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 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 SFBG To Seize SF Weekly's Rent Check? Here's a morsel of alt weekly-vs.-alt weekly news to fill your belly: last Tuesday local alt weekly SF Bay Guardian was "granted its motion to intercept the income of the SF Weekly.
misc Blogging Protip: Thwart SFGate's Copy/Paste Sneakiness Under the impression that online internet world wide webloggers are swiping their golden nuggets of wisdom without linkage, SFGate recently infused their site with inane cross-scripting nonsense that automatically adds a url link
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meredith Brody, <em>SF Weekly</em> Part Ways A "polarizing" figure in the SF food community, Meredith Brody was a memorable one during her tenure at SF Weekly. Yesterday, Eater tell us, Brody parted ways with SF Weekly. Brody's writing was
SF News <em>WSJ</em> Editor Confused By The Internet Pompous Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson is, for lack of a better word, dim. And old. Case in point, he was, for some inexplicable reason, asked to speak at Web Summit
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <em>Gourmet</em> Magazine Ends Run After 70 years in print, Gourmet magazine will call its November issue its final one. While rags like Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country (oh, come on, the latter is nothing short of genius;
SF News Wall Street Journal and The New York Times to Print SF Editions Here's some days-old news for you to chew on, folks. In a move that has some editors at The Chronicle defecating in their hermetically-sealed bubble, both The Wall Street Journal and The New
SF News More Chronicle Layoffs While news of another batch of layoffs at the Chronicle isn't particularly newsworthy in this economy, the California Media Workers Guild posted the following missive yesterday. Chronicle Unit Chair Michelle Devera issued the
SF News No Kidding Sad news, handful of you. The Printed Blog, the newspaper (leaflet?) that plucked items from the world wide web and printed said posts on paper, is now dead. Founded by Josh Karp six
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,
SF News Chronicle (Reporter) Doesn't Believe In Publishing News That Hurts Their Feelings We're almost certain that more esteemed colleagues like Steven T. Jones and Joe Eskenazi didn't come across a request from a Chronicle reporter to unpublish their items on yesterday's involuntary layoffs But we
SF News Poll: What Will All of That SF Chron Management Do All Day? While editorial staff gets pruned today, we're hearing from Chronicle guild members that "No one thinks they're gonna go through with any manager layoffs." (Update: Lesley Guth, Chron manager, was laid off this
SF News Chronicle Layoffs Today It's rumored that 20 newsroom-based Media Workers Guild employees at the San Francisco Chronicle will be involuntarily laid off today. We're told that a union steward sent a message to its members recommending
