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 News Chronicle Workers Will Protest Tomorrow With 15-Minute Smoke Break, Red Clothing To protest the Hearst Corporation's plan to shoulder San Francisco Chronicle employees with an additional health care burden, members of the Chronicle staff plan to step away from their desks at precisely 3:
SF News SF Chronicle Demands Fair Health Care Via Online Campaign We here at SFist need to rib the Chronicle or SFGate now and then. In turn, they need to send us angry emails demanding our phone number. It's a dysfunctional relationship, but it
SF News (Updated) Debra Saunders Slams Obama for Sporting Bike Helmet Self-consciously conservative Debra Saunders, The Chronicle's anti-gay "token conservative," tried to make a funny yesterday. Or rather, in a failed attempt to sound Coulterian, she slammed President Obama as a total "wuss." Why?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The <em>Chron</em> Names Charlie Kleinman and Josh Skenes as Rising Star Chefs This past weekend the Chron's food staff revealed their picks for the Rising Star Chefs of 2010, and it's an all-male slate this time around. Last year's list had two women on it,
SF News CA Underemployment Rate Hits 22% Long seen by economists as a truer marker than the traditional unemployment rate, CA's underemployment rate hit a shocking 22% in September. Per the Chron: "That figure includes 1.9 million jobless Californians,
misc <i>Chron</i> Columnist Catalogs "Vile" Fast Foods; We Think They Look Kinda Good We know it's, like, not cool around these parts to admit one's love of over-processed, non-organic, industrially farmed fast food. And maybe it's just that we haven't had breakfast yet, but we couldn't
SF News Analog-to-Digital Switch Impacting Elderly, Poor and SFGate Technology Writer After more than 60 years of broadcasting in analog, television stations across the nation made the switch to digital today -- following on an Obama-mandated six-month delay so that more outreach could be
SF News Homeless Memorial Plaques Matier & Ross were all over this nugget of news today: bronze plaques will be placed in locations where the city's homeless have died. The "memorials" will be placed in Chris Daly and
SF News Tastes Great AND Less Filling The raise came about thanks to Proposition J, which we all passed in 2002. The proposition said that at $37,858, the members of the board needed a pay raise, which seems kind
SF News Phil Bronstein Named Editor-at-Large of Hearst Newspapers Division, SF Chronicle; New Editor TBA It was announced today that SF Chronicle's editor, Phil Bronstein, will be "shifting his role from running day-to-day operations in the newsroom to taking on broader strategic responsibilities at the paper and for
misc American Football Spectacular: Donohue's Deceit, Garcia's Return, And Delicious Garlic With the perpetual rebuilding process that is the San Francisco 49er franchise, every so often an old part of old successes will cycle back through SF. This Sunday, Gilroy’s second-most-favorite export returns
SF News Chron Employee Stalker Goes to Jail Oh this is bizarre. And scary. An old man was arrested today for not following a "restraining order that prohibited him from having any contact with employees of The Chronicle." Oh my. It
Arts & Entertainment SFGate Dupes a Few Trolls In an effort to tame the trolls, SFGate's site (as well as a few others like ThinkProgress) use software from an outside company that implements a unique "block user" function. This feature blocks
SF News Ew: 58,000 Gallons of Spilled Fuel Close SF Beaches After yesterday's fog-induced Cosco Busan/Bay Bridge crash -- resulting in 58,000 gallons of fuel and 8,000 gallons of "heavy-duty bunker fuel oil" spilling into the Bay -- Baker Beach, Crissy
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: SF"Chron"-Gate! Most people can't comprehend our near OCD level obsession with Chris Daly, Ed Jew, Gavin, and the Board of Supes. So, we're cool when people ask us questions like, "How do you know
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Sleeping According to the Chron, Tapioca Ed, did, however, have the time to pen an essay for the Sunset Beacon (which has not yet put Jew's essay online, but you can read last month's)
Arts & Entertainment Let's Go To The Movies: Big Fish The current contribution to the mass spoon-feeding that is the summer blockbuster schedule is . Not as strong as the first film and far stronger than the second (which stunk like dead kraken), World’
Arts & Entertainment Not So Fast, Chronicle The revelation that the leaker was defense attorney Troy Ellerman might have gotten Williams and Fainaru-Wada off the hook, but it put the Chronicle on it. See, the problem is that the leaker
SF News Brittanie's Fake ID? According to Sunday's Matier and Ross (posted on the 'Gate Saturday evening, which is why this is going up now), the Chron did some investigating and has confirmed that, based on her voter
SF News Emporium Reopening The new Westfield will host the city's first Bloomingdale's (which will be the largest on the West Coast), a fancy Burke-Williams day spa, will connect to the current San Francisco Centre mall (with
SF News All Together Now The case becomes even more intriguing because Walker, who as far as we can tell is not now nor has ever been a Texas Ranger, has already told the Feds that they can
SF News The Bubble Taketh Away, And The Bubble Giveth Okay, so it’s not a great time to flip your house, and rents are rising, but there are still some real estate developments that are not bad news. Retail rents across San
SF News American Football Spectacular: Your Santa Clara 49ers' Stadium Preview Welcome to American Football Spectacular for 2006 season. We hope you enjoyed your offseason, and are poised for the joy of our National Football League preseason previews. This week, after years of dithering,
SF News Aftershocks Well, it's April 19, 2006, and the goodwill created by celebrating disaster disaster has now officially dissipated. The Chronicle reports that numerous public officials are disgruntled at various protocol lapses that left them
