SF News SF Bay Guardian Returns! (In Digital Form) Fans of the San Francisco Bay Guardian remain frustrated and sore over the abrupt 2014 shutdown of the once venerable progressive paper. But, as staffers at the time promised it would, the SFBG
Arts & Entertainment Former SF Bay Guardian Publisher Marke Bieschke Talks Fundraising, Progressive Media, And Bringing Back The 'Best Of The Bay' It's been a little over a year since local progressive media standard-bearer the San Francisco Bay Guardian ceased print operations in a cost-cutting measure by their relatively new owners, Canada-based Black Press and
SF News SF Bay Guardian Shuts Down, Staffers Say It Will 'Live On In Some Form' [Updated] According to an email sent to employees of the San Francisco Media Company and shared with SFist, the conglomerate that owns the San Francisco Examiner, SF Weekly, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian,
SF News Renters And TIC Owners Pitted Against Each Other In Current Real Estate Climate We are back, once again, to dot-com-boom levels of Ellis Act evictions, begging the question of whether rent control really exists in any real way. And is there a way to protect longtime
SF News 'SF Bay Guardian' Presents the 2012 Offies, Excludes Ross Mirkarimi If there was one local political story that most occupied the hearts and minds of San Franciscans in 2012, it was the domestic violence case and subsequent public shaming of former supervisor turned
Arts & Entertainment Former Guardian Reporter Becomes Character on HBO's 'Treme' Local journalist A.C. Thompson, who recently returned to the Bay Area after spending three years in New York, is the model for a character on the new season of HBO's series Treme,
Arts & Entertainment We're Honored: SFist Wins SF Bay Guardian 'Best Blog' Award (Again) For the second year in a row, readers selected SFist as the Best Local Blog in the SF Bay Guardian Best of the Bay. Aw shucks. Thanks to those of you who voted
misc We're Honored... SF Bay Guardian's annual "Best of San Francisco" issue came out today. And? SFist won Best Local Blog in the Readers Poll category. (Aw shucks, San Francisco, thank you so very, very much!
SF News Snark vs. Condescension? <em>SF Weekly</em> and <em>SF Bay Guardian</em> Debate On "Forum" For those of you following the SF Weekly/VVM versus San Francisco Bay Guardian fight -- which one, you ask? the one about money, whether or not San Francisco is the worst run
misc Tease for Big News or April Fool's Prep? SF Bay Guardian City Editor Steven T. Jones has us all aflutter. According to his Twitter messages, something big will go down in tomorrow's issue of SFBG. Something real big. He wrote the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Beatropolis: Oh joy! Beatropolis has returned! (Not that they really went anywhere, but it always feels like forever when they're not around.) Anyway, Beatropolis' special brand of dance rock, live drum 'n' bass,
SF News Day Around the Bay Merry Martin Luther King Jr. Day. [Examiner, Nature abhors a vacuum, SF Bay View, Beyond Chron] The TLDR spat between SF Bay Guardian and SF Weekly continues at a steady, confusing pace. [SFBG,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Cinewhores Present Midnight Cowboy (1970): Although tame by today's smut-filled standards -- oh, you heard right! -- Midnight Cowboy has the distinction of being the only X-rated film to have ever snagged
SF News Saturday, Saturday, Saturday: Migden vs. Leno Rematch For those of you somehow not tempted into becoming a part of Van Santian art -- or, you know, if you sport a vagina -- might we suggest catching round II of the
Arts & Entertainment Economics 101 with the SF Bay Guardian's Steven T. Jones This reading list is the result of a conversation that started innocently enough on the SFBG's blogs, in a post about homelessness in Golden Gate Park and, tangentially, the Spanish American War. When
SF News Marke Bieschke On The Presidential Debates And who better to breakdown and break through all of the rhetoric than SF Bay Guardian's Marke Bieschke (AKA Super Ego). He'll be a pundit on CBS Radio, on a panel discussion to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- HIJK, the Invisible Cities (voted "Best Indie Pop Band" by savvy SF Bay Guardian readers), and Show Me State: Oakland "math-rock" (!) art band HIJK celebrates the release of their latest work. DJ
Arts & Entertainment Feel Better, Bruce! Yesterday, we were shocked to find this picture of our homeboy, SF Bay Guardian publisher Bruce Brugmann, posted on his blog. Thankfully, we went back to his blog today, and were relieved to
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 1: Strips, Teases, and Gags The Alternative Press Expo (or APE) was this past weekend at the Concourse here in San Francisco. The show, which is put on yearly by Comic-Con International, features indy and small press creators
SF News Update on Josh Wolf Oh wait, where were we. The event will start 7:30pm at the Balazo Gallery on 2183 Mission Street. Speaking will be Assemblyman Mark Leno, SF Bay Guardian Publisher Bruce Brugmann, (attention SFist
misc Shameless Self Promotion Yet Again Maybe it's because we love the idea of folks going through the pain in the ass intrusion of "registering" with real (or false) personal information in order to vote for us. Maybe it's
misc SFisting: Our Famous Local Sex Podcasters, For Reals While we loved the SF Bay Guardian's podcasting piece last year, we felt kinda like the Chron needed a pat on the head and a cookie when they ran yet another lame duck
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: An Interview With Dan Leone. Before we talk with Dan, let's wrap up the Yucatan definitely-not-yuck-a-thon: since last week we had the opportunity to sample City Blend Cafe's cochinita pibil. City Blend is a coffee shop on 16th,
