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  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    SOPA, Limbaugh, Komen: This Is What Happens When the Mob is Right

    ​There is far too much cheerleading for the "wisdom of crowds." The undiscerning among us, often motivated by an understandable (if often mindless) disgust with institutions, tend to employ buzzwords like "crowdsourcing" and to preach the idea that "the people" are always right even if "the people ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    Rupert Murdoch on Twitter: Insipid and Pedestrian

    ​It's sort of hard to believe after all this time, but I still regularly see people making fun of Twitter as if it's just a bunch of morons saying moron things. Okay, it is mostly that when taken as a whole. But I see very little of that kind of thing because I generally don't follow morons. Twitt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    The Year in Music Booze: Six Artist's Beverages That Made 2011 One Long Hangover

    Rock 'n' roll culture died in 2011. It's got nothing to do with your opinion of Bon Iver, but everything to do with Rolling Stone. The former leading voice of modern music upheld its immaculate reputation this year... by starting an official wine club. It's filled with bottles branded with imagery f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    Jane Goodall's Fight Over Baby Food, Chairman Bao Wants to Race, and More Pizza

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. We can honestly say we didn't see this one coming. Jane Goodall, mother to all primates, is suing local celebrity chef Tyler Florence's baby food company Sprout. Grub Street shares, via the New York Post, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    Why Are Tech Journos Suddenly Interested in News Corp. Scandal?

    ​When I was a staff editor at the tech-news site CNET News.com in the late '90s, one of the top editors there used to insist that we "localize" big news events by writing about how they were being covered and discussed on the Internet. So, for example, the death of Princess Di and the impeachment ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2011

    "Famous Food" on VH1: Guilty pleasure

    ​As we watched a real New Jersey housewife fight with a fictional New Jersey Big Pussy, we realized celeb-reality has officially taken over food TV. VH1's "Famous Food" is the latest food show to pop up on a previously non-food channel, a trend the Los Angeles Times wrote about recently. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    San Francisco Examiner Sure Seems to Love Hiring White Dudes

    Them's the facts​Why the San Francisco Examiner gives its lone female columnist, Melissa Griffin, a full body photo to accompany her prose is one of those questions you ask, but then you kinda don't want to know the answer. As we all can see, in contrast, the newspaper's male columnists have nothi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Apple Stonewalls Efforts to Prepare Steve Jobs Obituary

    Steve Jobs​Apple is trying to hinder reporters' efforts to keep a stored obituary of CEO Steve Jobs up to date, according to the New York Post.In advance of the 2011 Worldwide Developers Conference, which starts today in San Francisco, Associated Press reporters called around to refresh quotes on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Eating Lion Meat, Athletes Abandon Taco Bell, Waiters With Elephant Memories

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. Jonathan Kauffman is out this week, so Jesse Hirsch is filling in on Talking Points. Teamwork! 1. Lion Meat for Sale. The Daily's investigative piece on lion meat sales has been rock ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    SF Politicians Criticize NY Post Story on Alleged Strauss-Kahn Rape Victim's HIV Status

    Dominique Strauss-Kahn​Every once in a while, San Francisco politicians surprise you. The city's Board of Supervisors is justly acknowledged for its symbolic gestures at the local level -- banning plastic bags, expressing support for cop killers, and the like. But the span of officialdom's tut-tut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Calorie-Counting Apps, Coca-Growing Locavores, More Creepy Legislation

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media.​1. Is Meal Snap for real? MobileCrunch just posted word of a new calorie-counting iPhone app called Meal Snap. The premise: You take a picture of a dish, you add a caption, and the ... More >>

  • Music

    December 15, 2010

    Michael Jackson, Zombie

    The dark art of posthumous releases

  • Film

    December 15, 2010

    "All Good Things": Little truth in true-crime story

    The dark art of posthumous releases

  • Film

    November 17, 2010
  • News

    October 6, 2010

    Labor Pains

    A fight between two unions here could set the course of the U.S. labor movement.

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    Thea Miller, S.F. Realtor, Claims Match.Com Predator John Egan Scammed Her For $250K

    Brokenhearted -- and broke​Thea Miller, a San Francisco Realtor and divorced mother, has won a default judgment against a Match.com Lothario she says scammed a quarter of a million dollars out of her. John Egan allegedly sweet-talked Miller's credit card number away from her by posing as a suave a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2010

    The Crazy Eight: 2009's Most Scandalous Moments in Celebrity Food Gossip

    Andrew CrowleyBrit celeb chef Heston Blumenthal's restaurant allegedly poisoned 500 people in 2009.​Murders! Poisonings! Runaway grooms! The year in celebrity food gossip reads like a script for The Young and the Restless. Behold these crazy eight moments: 8. A household name in his native UK, che ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Chron Parent Company May Expand Empire. Just Not Print Empire.

    With all the bloodletting at the San Francisco Chronicle this year, local readers could be forgiven the impression that all is not hunky-dory in the financial universe of Hearst Corp., which owns the Chron. But despite the newspaper's steady stream of layoffs, there are now indications that Hearst h ... More >>

  • Film

    October 28, 2009

    The Yes Men Fix the World is a cheerful quest for social justice

    With all the bloodletting at the San Francisco Chronicle this year, local readers could be forgiven the impression that all is not hunky-dory in the financial universe of Hearst Corp., which owns the Chron. But despite the newspaper's steady stream of layoffs, there are now indications that Hearst h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

    Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Chicken shit: Seriously? According to Slashfood's Sarah LeTrent (who got it from the New York Post) a former finance director at J. P. Morgan has reportedly spent the last few years trying to crack KFC's 11 secret herbs and spices. He may be clos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2009

    Slow-Sex Movement Picking up Speed: Documentaries, Books, and an Upcoming Lecture Series from SF's One Taste

    Nicole Daedone -- the founder of San Francisco's orgasmic meditation center One Taste (and pictured above) -- is all about intimacy. And lately, that intimacy has been getting broadcasted into the stratosphere. After a front-page story in the style section of the New York Times o ... More >>

  • News

    November 5, 2008

    Living Without LeRoy

    With her new memoir, literary co-hoaxer Savannah Knoop steps out of JT LeRoy's shadow. But can she step out of Laura Albert's?

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2008

    TiVo Alert for Broadway Babies - ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

    With her new memoir, literary co-hoaxer Savannah Knoop steps out of JT LeRoy's shadow. But can she step out of Laura Albert's?

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2008

    'Drawing criticism' at the NY Post, and other Astonishing Tales

    With her new memoir, literary co-hoaxer Savannah Knoop steps out of JT LeRoy's shadow. But can she step out of Laura Albert's?

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2008

    On Comics: Stars align for 'Iron Man'

    With her new memoir, literary co-hoaxer Savannah Knoop steps out of JT LeRoy's shadow. But can she step out of Laura Albert's?

  • News

    February 13, 2008

    Osama Hunter Greg Shade Captured on IndieFest Doc American Hero

    With her new memoir, literary co-hoaxer Savannah Knoop steps out of JT LeRoy's shadow. But can she step out of Laura Albert's?

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2008

    The Slingshot Heard Round The Bay, Or Maybe Not

    With her new memoir, literary co-hoaxer Savannah Knoop steps out of JT LeRoy's shadow. But can she step out of Laura Albert's?

  • Film

    November 21, 2007

    Like a Complete Unknown

    With her new memoir, literary co-hoaxer Savannah Knoop steps out of JT LeRoy's shadow. But can she step out of Laura Albert's?

  • News

    May 23, 2007

    Sealed With a Dis

    A powerful Bay Area trial lawyer with political connections tries to keep details of his messy divorce from going public

  • Calendar

    December 22, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    A powerful Bay Area trial lawyer with political connections tries to keep details of his messy divorce from going public

  • News

    May 26, 2004

    Puppy Love

    Dogster hosts photos and profiles of almost 20,000 canines

  • News

    December 31, 2003

    The Oracle of San Francisco

    No, not that jerk-led software behemoth down the Peninsula – the real Oracle, with the surefire, bet-the-house prophecies you deserve

  • News

    October 1, 2003

    Glub Glub

    In which our first solo sail nearly becomes our last

  • News

    April 16, 2003

    A Duty to Hack

    Adrian Lamo, the 22-year-old "homeless hacker" famous for raiding New York Times computers, pursues his vision of public service by cracking another major corporate network. It's a crime, of course. It's also what he was born to do.

  • News

    April 10, 2002

    What the Hell Is Copia?

    At Robert Mondavi's new $55 million foodie mecca, you'll find seminars on goat cheese and mustard; surrealist movies; a SPAM exhibit; wine tastings; figurines of pooping Catholics -- everything, in fact, but the answer to that question.

  • Film

    October 24, 2001

    Reel World

    Filmmakers organize an artistic response to Sept. 11 and its aftermath

  • News

    June 13, 2001

    Dragon Bites

    A Beautiful Day to Be Irradiated; We Have Plenty of Lines Open; Annals of Blowback; Press Release of the Week

  • Film

    January 12, 2000

    Reel World

    International Film Financing Conference, George Kuchar, Write It

  • Music

    April 7, 1999

    The House of Tudor

    International Film Financing Conference, George Kuchar, Write It

  • News

    June 17, 1998

    Dog Bites

    International Film Financing Conference, George Kuchar, Write It

  • Culture

    May 17, 1995

    A Bang and a Whimper

    I Was Looking packs a theatrical jolt; Remains is merely jolting

  • Calendar

    April 5, 1995

    Night+Day

    I Was Looking packs a theatrical jolt; Remains is merely jolting

  • News

    March 15, 1995

    Proboscis Job?

    The foundering Nose snorts Editor Jack Boulware out of a gig

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