San Francisco Chronicle

Chronicle Staff Fights Their Health Care Squabble on Twitter

After launching its hard paywall on Sunday, the San Francisco Chronicle looked to its social media-savvy reporters -- and their prodigious Twitter feeds -- to help sustain traffic on its new "premium" website. Instead, the reporters launched a massive Twitter strike over the calloused health care p ... More >>

Oh God It Is Present-Buying Season. Quick, Buy Everyone Cookbooks.

This isn't on anyone's lists yet, but we'd still recommend it.​Piling on the retailers of America, who would like all red-blooded Americans, Christian or no, to participate in Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the food media has come out with a strong message to shoppers: Buy cookbooks for Christmas. ... More >>

The Crab Boats Are on the Water, and Fresh Dungeness Is Coming Soon

​Yesterday, the San Francisco Chronicle broke the news that the Dungeness crab strike was over and the boats were heading out to set their traps. As SFoodie had reported before Thanksgiving, the Bay Area's Dungeness crab season began on November 15, but local fishing boats were striking in order t ... More >>

The Chronicle and the GGRA Go After Food Trucks

Yesterday, the San Francisco Chronicle published a flawed story about the negative impact that food trucks are having on surrounding restaurants. The Chron story, which makes the owner of Chronicle-reporter watering hole Tempest Bar its primary character, reports that the spread of food tr ... More >>

Facebook Page Dedicated to 'Fix the Richmond'

​San Francisco, a competitive news market that has been home to a number of pioneering media enterprises, has also led the way in one journalistic sub-genre: Nagging government over the pace of infrastructure repairs. The now-defunct "Chronicle Watch" feature of the San Francisco Chronicle was per ... More >>

SFoodie Has a New Editor: W. Blake Gray

W. Blake Gray​SFoodie is pleased -- more than pleased, actually -- to announce that we have a new blog editor: W. Blake Gray. If you've been following the local food press, you'll be familiar with his name. Blake has been writing about wine in the Bay Area for more than a decade. He's been a sta ... More >>

Off the Grid: 5M Launching at Minna and Fifth St.

Google MapsThe newest Off the Grid is part of the Intersection 5M project on the ground floor of the Chronicle building. Food trucks will park in the tunnel.​Organizer Matt Cohen got the green light yesterday from the city's street gods, aka the Interdepartmental Staff Committee on Traffic and ... More >>

Rounding Up San Francisco's Cult Restaurants

Steph W./YelpCult member enjoying a cafe au lait at Tartine.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. E-mag Poor Taste nails down what it tags the 100 greatest cult restaurants in America. Cult restaurants? That means places with rabidly devoted customers, a measure of tourist appeal, relatively c ... More >>

Ragazza Boxes It Up, Papalote Savors the Sweet Taste of Victory ― Again

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. You know how old recipe books you don't really cook from anymore become dust collecters on the shelves, or languish, their covers curling, on the floor next to the nightstand? Well, Inside Scoop re ... More >>

Everyone Sing the Bay Area Media Songs!

Joyce GoldschmidGet out your banjo, Warren, and sing the company song!​On May 26, financier Warren Hellman invited throngs of hangers-on to a Great American Music Hall bash to celebrate the launch of the Bay Citizen, the news nonprofit he tossed $5 million.The highlight, apparently, was an offici ... More >>

Delmond Carter Shot Dead in Bayview -- 19th Homicide of the Year

View Larger Map Delmond Carter, 31, was discovered Saturday morning in a Honda Civic in the parking lot of a housing project not far from the corner of Ingalls Street and LaSalle Avenue in Bayview-Hunters Point. He was shot dead, making him the 19th homicide of the year. The San Francisco Chronicle ... More >>

'SF Weekly Is Not Going Out of Business'

​That's word from our bosses. Sorry, Brugmann -- it's still too early to declare "mission accomplished" on your plan to use an obscure state antitrust law to snuff out the competition. (Oh, the irony!)Earlier this week, a San Francisco Superior Court commissioner ordered SF Weekly to give half of ... More >>

So You Say You Want a Constitution. But Are You Ready to Double Down?

We here at The Snitch have followed the long-running murmurs about a future state constitutional convention with interest. After all, in a state as saturated with moneyed interests and crippled by partisan hackery as California, just what rough beast might be born from a thorough redesign of our met ... More >>

Berkeley Students Roll a Fatty

dailylifeofmojo/FlickrAgain we have to ask: Why?​Food history was made yesterday when a group of U.C. Berkeley students and volunteers made the world's longest California roll in Sproul Plaza. Reports from the Oakland Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle detail hundreds of amateur sushi makers ... More >>

List: The Chronicle looks on the bright side

Our Picks for the Four Hottest Tickets at This Weekend's SF Chefs.Food.Wine. Fest

​This weekend's first-ever SF Chefs.Food.Wine culinary festival is a chance to get up close and personal with local food and wine talent through tastings, classes, and even a cocktail contest. The cost might make you balk (ticketed events are $40 and up, day passes $150), but keep in mind that ... More >>

Apparent Ponzi Scheme Advertised in Sunday Chronicle, Fraud Investigator Says

Banking experts qualify the service being hawked in this San Francisco Chronicle ad as a potential Ponzi schemeReaders skimming the ads on page D-2 of the Sunday, July 12 San Francisco Chronicle might have been surprised to see an extraordinary investment opportunity in a quarter-page advertisement ... More >>

Chronicle Reports on Closure of Church -- Tiny, Open-Air Church Along the Busline

God will be arriving in two minutes, 12 minutes, and 24 minutesPeople who live in glass houses ought not to throw stones -- though, as Demitri Martin notes, a better motto would be "No stone throwing regardless of housing situation. Don't do it. There is one exception though. If you're trapped in a ... More >>

Guild: Chron Layoff Count From Past Two Days Reaches 39; 151 Have Departed Since March

The Media Workers Guild announced this afternoon that the final tally for the San Francisco Chronicle's two-day layoff binge was 39 departed Guild workers: 18 on the newsroom side and 21 in advertising, ad production, and other commercial departments. As reported yesterday, the Chron dismissed a num ... More >>

Hammer To Fall: Layoffs Resume at Chronicle

In a sad spin on the righteous adage, layoffs delayed are not layoffs denied. Last month, a number of San Francisco Chronicle employees told us that staffers were bracing for the "final" round of layoffs, which was supposed to come on April 17. Well, it didn't -- which led staffers to tell us they f ... More >>

Welcome to San Francisco, Capital of Anti-Muslim Hate Speech

And you thought JROTC was badIs San Francisco, political-correctness capital of the known world, secretly a bastion of anti-Muslim hate speech? That's the impression you'd get these days from reading the publicity broadsides from the Washington, D.C.-based American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee ... More >>

The Labor Lobby

S.F. unions do a lot of lobbying. They just don't report it.

More Details Due Today on Chronicle's Potential Union Deal

Sorry Jinx. We're laying you off.The only factor delaying the announcement of a time and place for a possible Thursday union vote on whether to accept the San Francisco Chronicle's latest offer is the securing of "a large enough facility" -- which, sadly, would have been a lot harder to do a decade ... More >>

Chronicle Newsroom to be Decimated

Stop the presses! Actually, don't do that -- even we here in alt-weekly land don't want to see the demise of the city's last paid-circulation daily paper, the San Francisco Chronicle. But things are looking grim over at Fifth & Mission. Today, the union that represents Chron reporters met w ... More >>

Will DMC-12 Time Travel Fuel Chronicle's 'New Era' Initiative?

According to graphic data retrieved by SF Weekly's computer-assisted reporting team, a "New Era" initiative announced in the Feb. 1 San Francisco Chronicle may include time travel with the help of a specially modified Northern-Irish-made sports car fitted with a flux capacitor and other devices. Und ... More >>

Chron Redesign: It's a Brave New Font-tier

New. Improved?The San Francisco Chronicle debuted its much-touted redesign on Sunday, with additional changes appearing in today's paper. Modifications include a new, softer headline font and stories divided by three horizontal lines instead of one. In a time when most publications are cutting back, ... More >>

Chron's anniversary surprises

Chronicle Armageddon?

In the second paragraph of the final post of SFGate.com's "World Views" blog, Edward Gomez teases what reads like an impending massacre at the Chronicle. To wit: "...Numerous other, familiar features of this website will also be disappearing, and a notable number of employees from the S.F.Gate/San ... More >>

Buy Line

In these desperate times, the Chronicle considers desperate measures.

San Francisco Chronicle To Cut 125 Positions

Stop Whining

Breaking News: Ward H. Bushee Replaces Embattled San Francisco Chronicle EIC Phil Bronstein

Cold Serial

The infamous Zodiac killer inspires another dead-end film

This Movie Sucks

The Daily Lickspittle

Journalism has a lot of problems, but too many of them are manifestations of a sycophantic attitude toward the big-e Establishment

Veg-Out Vegetarian Guide to San Francisco Bay Area

Love the capsule reviews; wish it didn't skip African joints and pad its pages

alt.war

Traditional media mislead the public about the war in Iraq as a media revolution makes traditional media increasingly irrelevant

Papered Over

The Chronicle turns its back on the people of Bayview-Hunters Point

Read It and Weep

In answer to the Chronicle, we submit our own list of things that make us cry

A Silver Lining

Save the Wrapping Paper

Glow; Bacar; Bliss Bar

Dog Bites

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Dog Bites

Chatterbox

Chatterbox

Great Moments in the Bay Area Feel Good/Feel Better History

Chatterbox

Chatterbox

Wunderhair?