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  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Guardian Almost Officially Sold to Examiner, Guardian Building Sold to Developer

    Update: The sale of the Guardian to the SF News Company LLC, which owns the Examiner, was made much closer to official this afternoon. Publishers Bruce Bruggman and Jean Dibble have retired, and Tim Redmond, the paper's executive editor, is now its publisher, too. In a message to its readers, T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Bay Guardian to Get Even More Progressive Under New Ownership

    Although we're shocked, we weren't surprised to read the news this evening that the San Francisco Bay Guardian was pretty damn close to selling out to the San Francisco Examiner, considering rumors of a pending sale had already hit the blogosphere last week. The possibility of a sale became even mor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    America's Cup: What the Hell Just Happened?

    ​In around an hour's time, the Board of Supervisors would have likely approved a sprawling America's Cup development plan that would have committed the city to reimbursing Larry Ellison's Event Authority up to $136 million -- perhaps into the 22nd century. Instead, the city and race organizers yes ... More >>

  • News

    January 4, 2012

    Prop 13: The Building-Sized Loopholes Corporations Exploit

    ​In around an hour's time, the Board of Supervisors would have likely approved a sprawling America's Cup development plan that would have committed the city to reimbursing Larry Ellison's Event Authority up to $136 million -- perhaps into the 22nd century. Instead, the city and race organizers yes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    San Francisco Among California's Top Three Job-Creating Cities

    ​"Pandering to the conventional wisdom," former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller once observed, is "the mortal sin of journalism." There are plenty of journalistic sinners out there, particularly when it comes to the conventional wisdom on San Francisco.Self-consciously middle-of-the-ro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Cedar Hill and Super Duper Open This Week, So Long Spot Bagel, and La Cocina Success Stories

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. BBQ and burgers in the Marina: Urban Daddy rounds up the news of a brisket and ribs place, Cedar Hill, soft opening this Thursday. The Texas-styled joint even shipped its smoker in from the Lone Star stat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Mayor Ed Lee's Business Card Reigns Supreme

    While Mayor Ed Lee has been somewhat coy as of late about his intentions to run for mayor in November, there's no doubt the mayor is getting a thrill out of flashing his business card any chance he gets.Lee doesn't have to be asked twice to whip out his card for all to envy and adore, putting all th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Willie Brown Knows Food, More Changes for Chains, and Japanese Snacktion

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. It appears that everyone is jumping on the reality show bandwagon, and former mayor Willie Brown is no exception. Grub Street reports, via Inside Scoop, that he was in L.A. pitching a series that (on some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    Saison's Owners Are Too Damn Busy, the Yelp Case Is Too Damn Sketchy

    Today in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Grub Street has a word with Saison's Josh Skenes re: what's up with Decantr, which was a wine bar with small plates (SFoodie just loved the chicken liver mousseline) but then became, well ― nothing. The place ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Shmaltz Brewing Graduates to the Hard Stuff

    Jason HenryA Buffalo Trace bourbon barrel, future home of a distillate made from blends of Jewbelation beer.​Shmaltz Brewing was born in a San Francisco apartment in 1996; fourteen years later, San Francisco Business Times included Shmaltz in its "Top 20 Fastest Growing Bay Area Companies." H ... More >>

  • News

    September 1, 2010

    Why Obama's mortgage-relief program failed

    Jason HenryA Buffalo Trace bourbon barrel, future home of a distillate made from blends of Jewbelation beer.​Shmaltz Brewing was born in a San Francisco apartment in 1996; fourteen years later, San Francisco Business Times included Shmaltz in its "Top 20 Fastest Growing Bay Area Companies." H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    Baylinks: Earthquake, Neon Pants, & Free Riders

    So that's what you do!​Stop, drop, and roll! Wait, that's not it. [SFAppeal]The most overly broad "wanted" sign: neon clothes, happy, African American, a heavyset woman [Haighteration]Cell phone association says Gavin Newsom had no Right-To-Endorse Right-To-Know [San Francisco Citizen]

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Local Tech Will Help Sequence Ozzy's Amazingly Vice-Resistant Genome

    Richard Haick"Do not underestimate the anti-aging powers of bat heads": Ozzy Osbourne at a book signing in SF​Ozzy Osbourne, who is now -- wait for it -- a health columnist for the Sunday Times of London, wants to know exactly how it is he's so (relatively) well survived illegal drugs, booze, lega ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Convention & Visitors Bureau Kicks Out Unruly Union

    ​Since its labor contract expired in August 2009, hotel workers' union Unite Here Local 2 has spent months waving signs in hotel-visitors' faces and generally causing a ruckus (this is, after all, how labor actions work) in its efforts to win a new labor contract. Tired of this crap, this week the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    Ask a Stupid Question: San Francisco Business Times Queries Readers on Whether Chris Daly Should Resign

    You say San Francisco Business Times readers would like to see Chris Daly leave? Thank you, Captain Obvious!​In the most cynically skewed push poll since Pepsi unveiled the "America's Choice" cola taste test 22 years ago -- which was also, incidentally, the last time Bronson Pinchot could fill out ... More >>

  • News

    July 8, 2009

    For Entertainment Purposes Only

    The Entertainment Commission is supposed to regulate S.F. nightclubs, but it won't — and often can't — punish scofflaws. The results are sometimes tragic.

  • News

    January 9, 2008

    Readers Respond to Article on SF's New Seismic Standards, or Lack Thereof

    The Entertainment Commission is supposed to regulate S.F. nightclubs, but it won't — and often can't — punish scofflaws. The results are sometimes tragic.

  • News

    November 7, 2007

    Cesar Chavez Area Stabbings and Shootings Contribute to Failed Fanatics Sports Bar and Grill: The Derf Butler Story

    The Entertainment Commission is supposed to regulate S.F. nightclubs, but it won't — and often can't — punish scofflaws. The results are sometimes tragic.

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2007

    News of the Hour -- The Lethal Injection Cocktail, Mike Webb Found Dead, Ted Nugent Found Irritating

    The Entertainment Commission is supposed to regulate S.F. nightclubs, but it won't — and often can't — punish scofflaws. The results are sometimes tragic.

  • News

    January 11, 2006

    Coming soon: The New Roxie

    What happens when an artsy film guy who has gone way into debt hooks up with a school that doesn't know how to run a nonprofit theater? We hope it has a happy ending.

  • News

    August 18, 2004

    Development Pressure

    A look at ethics questions raised by the political activism of the Mission Housing Development Corp.

  • News

    February 4, 2004

    A Tale Worth Retelling

    When an elderly man left the city millions to build apartments for homeless old folks, neighbors tried to block the project. Fortunately, they failed.

  • News

    September 11, 2002

    Rich Conspiracy

    Unless there's been a Newsom/Getty/bin Laden/Bush plot of some kind, how could voters support Care Not Cash?

  • Dining

    November 28, 2001

    Chopped Down

    One gent commented,"It's barely noon and I'm already trashed."

  • News

    October 10, 2001

    Cleaning House

    To work against terrorism, new money-laundering laws will have to be enforced in the world headquarters of cash-washing: the U.S. of A.

  • Dining

    October 4, 2000

    Side Dish

    No Such Thing as Bad Publicity?

  • Music

    February 19, 1997

    Riff Raff

    No Such Thing as Bad Publicity?

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