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
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 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 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,
Arts & Entertainment Village Voice Media Rulers Larkin and Lacey Arrested Oh my. According to the Snitch: Two executives of Village Voice Media, the parent company of the SF Weekly, were arrested in Arizona last night in connection with a story they wrote for
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Go To The Movies: Big <i>Ocean</i> This week's Big Movie: ! It’s a real surprise how divided the critics are about this one! Sure it’s franchising, sure it’s full of top shelf men in designer clothes and
SF News Day Around The Bay --Ha! The guy to your right ran for mayor of Barcelona, and doesn't he look like Matt Gonzalez? By copatbark from the SFist Flickr stream. --John Edwards was in town at Google. So
Arts & Entertainment Back To Indie For The EBX It all seems very amicable, and no one's saying anything about this formally, but it hasn't been a secret that a lot of people have been unhappy with the Village Voice Media's franchising
SF News Going, Going, Sold! Long-standing live music venue, The Ivy Room, in Albany is also closing "as we know it." The current ownership relinquishes the premises in two weeks. Kimberly Chun and the Guardian have the details,
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: Vote for SFist in the EBX Readers' Poll! We love the chicken holding a sword with its foot in this week's Dream Comic. A company that
SF News Off To The Village Voice Our secret boyfriend is breaking up with us! The Village Voice media juggernaut has just announced that our WRTW crush Rob Harvilla is taking over the New York flagship alt-paper's music editorship, replacing
