Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, at the Chronicle Building... Treehugger scribe and occasional SFist contributor Jerry James Stone and Meredith May kick in atop the Chronicle Building at Fifth and Mission and frolic with the bees. Sweet.
SF News SF Chronicle Front Page Evokes Mild Bestiality As Mission Mission already pointed out, The Chronicle's front page photo today seems -- how can we put this bluntly? -- sexually charged. To say the least. While the shot without the canine
SF News SF Chronicle Prints 3D Ad In Friday Edition If you buy a print version of the SF Chronicle today, you will find pop-out 3D glasses and a full-page 3-D ad (page A3). The three-dimensional magic shows a man's body and head
SF News SF Chronicle Agrees With Mehserle Verdict Well, that was fast. The San Francisco Chronicle has declared involuntary manslaughter "the right verdict in Mehserle case." Way to wait a day or two to let things settle. Or sink in. Sheesh.
SF News Ray Ratto to Leave Chronicle for Online Realm Sports writer Ray Ratto is jumping ship at SF Chronicle. SF Weekly reports, "Word out of the San Francisco Chronicle newsroom is that Ray Ratto, the paper's longtime prolix sports columnist, is leaving
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Explains Star Rating System We love reviews that rate in star form. Or thumb form. Or snap form. Those who claims otherwise are pretentious, liars, or both. Why? Because it's convenient, eye-catching, and allows the reader to
SF News <strike><em>SF Chronicle</em> To Throw Party For Gavin Newsom</strike> Gavin Newsom To Host Focus Group For <em>SF Chronicle</em> (Updated) Oh, what fun. Objectivity takes a back seat to what will hopefully be a swank bash for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. See, along with Bloomberg, the SF Chronicle is throwing a party
SF News Chron Writer Arrested for Growing Weed In Weed Oh no! Tom Sienstra, cherished Chronicle writer and host of the much-loved Great Outdoors With Tom Stienstra, was pinched last week by the fuzz for growing marijuana for sale. Over 60 pot plants,
SF News One of the Best Subheadlines You'll Ever Read Plucked from this article in the Chronicle, we look forward to other subheds like "snow cold" and "Earth round."
SF News SF Chron to Farm Out Stories to Fan-Generated Sports Reporting Site Look out, Chronicle sports writers -- your bosses seem to think a bunch of fans can do just as good a job of covering sports as you can, for a fraction of the
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 News Breaking: SFGate Headline Brazenly Alludes to F-Word We are highly offended that, in a headline, SFGate uses an acronym that includes a letter that stands for the word "fuck." Loony SFGate commenters are, of course, nutting over it as well.
SF News Recycling Terorrists? In Our Blue Bins? by Chris Jones C.W. "Phone It In" Nevius is complaining about one of his favorite topics in today's Chronicle: "recycling rustlers." How many columns can one guy write about industrious homeless people
SF News The Case of the Missing Newsom Op-Ed Piece Solved Conspiracy theorists freaked the holy hell out this morning over a piece penned by Phil Bronstein -- one that was critical of Gavin Newsom as California's next governor -- which was pulled. Or
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 Reading This Post Will Make You Want to Kill a Getty (Except Vanessa, That Is) Oh God. SF Chronicle's City Brights, a last-grasp kind of web-log that features local "luminaries" writing about their mental bowel movements, has a new member to the team. Two of them, actually: Peter
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold the Bauer After making a TV appearance at some sort of Minnesota State Fair, Eater kicked off a search for famed SF Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer's elusive visage. (Oh God. Speaking of TV, did
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 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
SF News Texas Resident SFGate's Most Prolific Commenter Daring to go where no online writer in their right mind should ever, ever, ever go, SF Chronicle's Ryan Kim profiles SFGate's most "prolific" commenters, Kimble McSweeney, a Dallas resident. (!) During the first
SF News SF Chronicle Unveils New "E-Edition" Prepared to take l'internet by storm, SF Chronicle just unveiled their new "e-edition" (which is sophisticated, high-tech talk for "electronic edition"). What is the "e-edition," you ask? Well, according to the advertisement, it's
SF News Sashay Away: "Top Reporters" Leaving SF Chronicle Alas, it has arrived. Today is the deadline for the Chronicle buyout. If the ailing publication can't get rid of 150 jobs by 5 p.m., the paper will start layoffs next month.
SF News Final Print Version of <em>Seattle P-I</em>: Tuesday, 3/17 It was announced today that Hearst Corporation's other troubled publication, Seattle P-I, will roll out its final print publication tomorrow. Publisher Roger Oglesby just made the announcement on behalf of Hearst. The online
SF News C.W. Nevius Published On Tenderloin Billboard SFist commenter Oskarv sent us the above image taken from that famous billboard at Larkin and Turk. Why? Because weblog naysayer and SF Chronicle scribe C.W. Nevius's golden nuggets of wisdom made
