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
misc Just Sayin': <em>SF Weekly</em> Is Looking Dangerously Thin We know it's a shit time for media in general, and we're all chasing after the same few advertising dollars, but the latest issue of SF Weekly, with the glossy purple cover and
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
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.
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 The <em>Weekly</em> Profiles Theresa Sparks, SF's First (Potential) Transgender Supervisor Our guest Day-Around-the-Bay aggregator Chris Daly pointed you to this cover piece about Theresa Sparks in the new issue of SF Weekly last night, but having just read it ourselves during a long
SF News SF Public Access TV To Be Taken Over by Non-Elderlies A new piece by Lauren Smiley in SF Weekly chronicles the demise/transitioning of our local public access TV org, Access SF. The upshot is that Comcast doesn't cover operating expenses anymore, and
SF News Daly Move Watch 2K9: Daly and Wife Paid $545K Cash for Fairfield Homes The man who has spent his local political career championing the rights of the Tenderloin poor, the SRO-dwelling, and the owners of property more likely to be made of cardboard than of concrete,
SF News <i>SF Weekly</i> Gets All 'To Catch a Predator' on Airplanes Not sure if any of you caught this story in the Weekly this week, but just in case you didn't, and just in case you have kids, make sure to train them in
Arts & Entertainment Dorks, "Freebird" Masters Gather at Air Guitar Championship Anna McCarthy at the Weekly's All Shook Down blog has this fun review of Saturday's Air Guitar Championship at The Independent. The event was a two-day regional spectacular in which winners move on
Arts & Entertainment <i>SF Weekly</i> Offers Up Some Summer Fun Under $15 The Weekly's big undersized Summer in the City issue is out, and in it they're offering up a few suggestions of stuff to do on the cheap (under $15), including heading over to
misc <i>SF Weekly</i> Takes on the Whole "Service Animal" Mess You've probably noticed that there are a great many "service animals" on Muni and elsewhere these days, and this is due in large part to the laxness with which the City's policy on
misc <i>SF Weekly</i> Catches On to 'Funemployment' Whether you're an optimist or a pessimist, getting laid off from your job in the shittiest economy in decades isn't exactly swell news, but certainly we live in one of the best cities
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vote, Baby, Vote... For Your Favorite Restaurant in SF The SF Weekly Best of 2009 Readers Poll, while clearly accurate in such categories as Best Blog, was perhaps skewed by a campaign to vault Pasta Pomodoro to the lofty position as the
misc Congratulations to this Year's Best of San Francisco Winners Hot off the presses is SF Weekly's annual Best of San Francisco issue. Here are some highlights. Everyone's favorite, Mission Mission, came away with Best Neighborhood Blog. SFist Richard, aka Sparkletack nabbed Best
misc Anti-<em>SF Weekly</em> T-Shirt We just spotted this and thought we'd share, especially since many of you have been quite vocal in your annoyance with Weekly reporter Matt Smith's prudish stance on allowing Kink.com employees to
SF News SFBG vs SF Weekly: Questions, Answers, Dire Straits Been waiting forever for some choice SFBG v. SF Weekly drama? Well, wait no more. A golden-brown batch of it just came out over at SF Weekly, complete with libel accusations, Sabine women,
misc SF Weekly Heads Back to Court SF Weekly (Village Voice Media) returned to court yesterday in an attempt to overturn the anti-competitive verdict ruled against the alt-weekly in March. (For all the courtroom drama, read SF Weekly's take here
SF News Village Voice Media Editor Michael Lacey Says N-Word, Journos' Lids Flip Oops. We cannot accurately report whether Lacey used the "-ga" or "-ger" suffix. As far as we know, no one will dare print the word-- word--in its entirety regarding this story. He later
SF News Singing Guy Returns to Board of Supervisor Meetings With Aplomb Thanks, CUIP-SF, for sending the following clip our way. Walter (AKA singing guy at the Board of Supervisor meetings) has returned, folks. As we mentioned yesterday, he was reported to have made a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *COMEDY/THEATER: Rejoice, mama's boys of San Francisco. According to SF Weekly, "Judy Gold and award-winning playwright Kate Moira Ryan traveled around the U.S. for five years, interviewing over 50 Jewish women
misc Quentin Tarantino Drinks Up at Zeitgeist We were first told of QT's presence while in line for the bathroom (yeah, there's no way we're using those porta-potties). There were musings among those waiting to pee as to whether a
SF News Tim Redmond Responds to SF Bay Guardian's Lawsuit Victory After a local jury found SF Weekly guilty of illegal predatory pricing and awarded the local alt weekly a cool $6.39 million (the verdict subject to "treble damages," which bring the total
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 Day Around the Bay Prince Harry goes to war and stuff. Or something like that. We didn't get much farther than the picture at right. [SFBG] Check out a most brilliant car crash in Noe Valley. [Curbed]