SF News SF Weekly Taking an ‘Indefinite Hiatus,’ Draw Your Own Conclusions About Its Future Just months from the paper’s 40th anniversary, SF Weekly is being put “on hold,” and the continued existence of the city’s last alt-weekly is a questionable proposition at best.
SF News SF Weekly and SF Evergreen Temporarily Cease Printing Over Loss of Advertisers SF’s waning foot traffic amid the COVID-19 crisis recently forced the San Francisco Media Company to stop producing print for SF Weekly and SF Evergreen, in lieu of adequate advertisement revenue.
SF News Troubles At SF Weekly Make National Headlines Though we don't make a habit of covering the Inside Baseball tedium of the local media scene, given that this is a year that's seen multiple publication shutdowns in SF, it seems noteworthy
Arts & Entertainment Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About the Farallon Islands But Didn't Care to Ask On a clear day, you may have seen the spikes of rock jutting out from the Pacific off the coast of San Francisco. If you're new here, you probably asked what those were,
SF News S.F. Examiner President: 'I Will Pimp The Hell Out Of The Show In All 3 Papers' Although he originally said it was "insulting" to suggest that he was attempting to promote Michelle Shocked with a coordinated media effort across three of his publications, S.F. Newspaper Company President Todd
SF News The Apotheosis Of Scott Wiener Continues With 'SF Weekly' Cover Piece, 'SF Mag' Profile Did Supervisor Scott Wiener recently hire a publicist? San Francisco media is rather infatuated with him all of a sudden. He's been the butt of many a wiener joke with regard to the
Arts & Entertainment The 'Weekly' Does Not Get One Direction At All! SF Weekly's music team has been doing this "Worst New Song of the Week" feature, and this week's honoree is the new single and video from the wildly popular British boy group One
SF News Village Voice Sells Alt-Weeklies, Owners Keep Sketchy Backpage.com Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, the two sexagenarian owners of Phoenix-based Village Voice Media's network of 13 alternative weekly papers have agreed to sell off all their publications (including SF Weekly) to separate
Arts & Entertainment Bay Guardian Answers SF Weekly's Call For More Naked Man Parts [NSFW] Exciting developments on your corner store newsstands this week: It's the San Francisco Bay Guardian's annual Northern California Nude Beaches issue! Besides being a handy resource for naturists and free softcore for everyone
Arts & Entertainment British Ex-Pat in S.F. Attempts to Explain the Queen's Bizarre Diamond Jubilee Concert Fans of royalty and the under-employed may have caught some or all of Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee, which unfolded over the course of the last four days in London. The preamble to the
SF News SF MOMA Pulls Ads From SF Weekly Over Sex Trafficking Controversy [Updated] Who said online petitions don't make a difference? According to a press release put out by Change.org and Groundswell, SF MOMA announced on Monday that the museum is immediately suspending its advertisements
SF News Alt-Weekly Cover-Art Smackdown: November 23, 2011 We're doing away with our weekly roundups in which we read the weeklies for you because, well, reading is hard! No, but seriously, it's usually the cover pieces that are of worthy note
SF News Matt Smith Heading to The Bay Citizen In the wake of harsh layoffs at SF Weekly, the Bay Citizen has literally saved journalism. Or one journalist, at least: the charity case online newspaper has hired Matt Smith, whose name you
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
SF News <em>SF Weekly</em> Accuses <em>SF Examiner</em> of Sexist Hiring Practices Adding a pinch of media drama to your Wednesday, SF Weekly scribe Erin Sherbert goes after her former employer, SF Examiner, accusing the editorial staff of sexism. It seems that the last nine
SF News <em>SF Weekly</em> Makes Breakup Song Playlist for Mubarak Ian S. Port over at the Weekly's All Shook Down blog put up one of those 10-song playlists they've been doing, this time a list of breakup songs to "help get Egypt President
SF News We Read the Weeklies: February 2, 2011 It's Wednesday, and we thought we'd save you both the ink-dusky fingers and the trouble of scanning the print weeklies yourselves, and provide you with this tidy paperless summary (with appropriate and inappropriate
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 We Read the Weeklies: December 1, 2010 It's Wednesday, and the Weekly kicks things off for us this week with a grand cover article by Lauren Smiley about the ever growing band of gay nudists who have shown up on
SF News We Read the Weeklies It's Wednesday, and we at SFist are going to revive a long-ago feature in which we tirelessly read, and summarize, the stories of note in this week's alt-weeklies. We like to be service-y
misc Good Job Guys... The <em>Weekly</em> Gives Us an Inane List of Songs to Listen to During an Earthquake So, apparently the Weekly let an intern loose on the All Shook Down blog or something, and they give us (we shit you not) The Top 8 Songs to Listen to During the
SF News Rainbow Groceries Skewered Beautifully Rainbow Groceries, the preferred supermarket for white progressives and artisan ilk, gets the piss taken out of it via SF Weekly's Michael Leaverton. It is, without exaggeration, one of the best things we've
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 Epic Beard Man Profiled We really must draw your attention to today's Weekly, in which Lauren Smiley pens a thoughtful profile of Thomas Bruso, a.k.a. Epic Beard Man. One choice quote: "Bruso is not one
SF News SF Weekly Not Going Out of Business, OK! Despite being ordered by a court to hand over half of its revenue to SF Bay Guardian for illegally selling ads below cost, SF Weekly is not -- not! -- going out of