SF News DA Jenkins’s Office Disqualified From Murder Case, and Boy Is She Upset at the Chronicle’s Coverage After the Chronicle broke a story that DA Brooke Jenkins’s office had been disqualified from a case involving her family member, Jenkins took to Twitter to excoriate the paper’s seemingly accurate reporting on the topic.
SF Politics 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 News Joy Venturini Bianchi Gets Fired From Charity After Chronicle's Major Exposé In a December 2016 expose that floored nearly all of San Francisco society, an investigative team from the San Francisco Chronicle released a scathing report detailing the shady dealings of a well-known bespectacled
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
SF News Local Newspaper Delivery Trucks Carry Nothing Of Value, Reports Local Newspaper Two muggers attempting to rob a newspaper delivery van last week apparently found nothing of value inside the vehicle, the San Francisco Examiner reports today. The deliveryman was doing his early morning paper
SF News S.F. Examiner Now Suing The Chronicle For Predatory Ad Pricing Taking a page out of the Bruce Brugmann playbook, the San Francisco Newspaper Company, which owns SF Weekly, the Examiner and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, has filed suit against against the San
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Chronicle Ducks Behind Paywall, Confounds Readers Notice anything different about SFGate.com today? Probably not, but the paper of record has moved some random amount of special content behind a for-subscribers-only paywall site at SFChronicle.com. Articles on SFGate.
SF News Video: S.F. Chronicle Delivery Woman Peeing In Elevator, Reports S.F. Examiner Sometimes we fret about local media consolidation and sometimes, on days like today, it appears the fourth estate is doing just fine in the Bay Area. Which is why you can practically smell
misc Today in San Francisco History - "Small Boy Defends Himself" Timecapsule: January 14, 1899 In this San Francisco Chronicle story from 1899, a North Beach street urchin defends himself in court. No, we don't know why he was allowed to act as his
misc Today in San Francisco History - "Miss Goldie Griffin Wants to Become Cop" Timecapsule: December 9, 1912 Another item culled directly from the pages of our historical newspapers, this one from the period in which California women had just won the right to vote -- something
misc Today in San Francisco History - "Haberdashery Issue Stirs Butchertown" Timecapsule: November 24, 1899 This item flowed from the pen of some long-forgotten San Francisco Chronicle beat writer, a little piece in which a neighborhood dispute is lovingly detailed. Butchertown was a tough
misc Today in San Francisco History - "A Hoodlum Raid" Timecapsule: October 20, 1880 Sometimes we like to let the past speak in its own words, and even better, on subjects that never show up in history books. Here's an item from an
SF News SF Bay Guardian Wins Case Against SF Weekly With regard to the SFBG vs. SF Weekly (VVM) lawsuit -- you know, the one where the Guardian sued the Weekly and its parent company for predatory pricing practices? where the Guardian's Publisher,
SF News Chronicle Endorses Chain Smoking Muslim for President It's that time of the year for all the big papers to weigh in on their choice for President and yesterday, the Chron weighed in and announced that they are going to support
SF News Ta-da: Your New <i>SF Chronicle</i> Editor, Ward E. Bushee! Former editor of The Arizona Republic, vice president of The Cincinnati Enquirer, and top editor for the Reno Gazette-Journal and the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Bay Area's Ward E. Bushee was just named
misc "Leg Bones for Baseball Bats" - 1902 San Francisco Chronicle Researching San Francisco history means spending way too much time sitting in the dark. In the library, we mean, staring at microfilm of old newspapers. Hours of scanning those scratched and blurry archives
misc Photo du Jour 31 Today's goes to Dede. Why? Because we're in a "faggy" mood, that's why. Look, whatever sins she committed against poor little Sean were swept under the rug after bearing witness to last year's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: San Francisco's Icer Air 2007 at AT&T Park You should know all about Icer Air by now. We've followed this event from controversial beginnings in 2005 and some growing pains last year in 2006. Skiing down Fillmore was awesome, but Icer
Arts & Entertainment nugget o' history: Anniversary of a Flesh Wound The violent melodrama characterizing the recent murder of a journalist investigating "Your Black Muslim Bakery" has conjured the entire Bay Area history of political violence into our memories. Dan White, James P. Casey,
Arts & Entertainment Bauer On LAist On Bauer? Food Flap! You know how sometimes we point out when an out-of-town publication takes an outside-in look at our fair city? We've pointed to such pieces in the L.A. Times and the Economist even
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'In Vino Veritas' -- And Sometimes Other Stuff: SFist Alum Writes About 'Fruit Wine' Derrick Schneider has an excellent food-focused blog called "Obsession With Food." He also wrote for SFist regularly for quite a long time, most notably his still-popular SFist in the Kitchen series. So of
Arts & Entertainment Media Critic Singles Out Chron For Most Likely To Go All-Electronic When we talked to Phil Bronstein, the publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle, a few weeks back, he told us that "the Chronicle will continue to be packed with talented journalists who will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section Round Up We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here are our favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: Sun-heated ovens are examined. Good: thought to help save the planet, low(ish) cost,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section Round Up We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here are our favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: Ouch! Tres Agaves appears to have slipped. Who wants "watery tequila jus flavored" chicken?
misc Week Around The -Ists Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. Due to some sad shootings in