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The Other 'Burbs: Michael Jang's Family Photos Defy the Brady Bunch

Twitter Fetishists Can't be Stopped

The horrific heaps of misinformation that spewed from Twitter and other social media services during the Boston Marathon bombing saga haven't slowed down the Twitter fetishists. If anything, they've doubled down. For some reason, these people believe that Twitter represents some kind of earth-shat ... More >>

Gay Couple Is So Convincing Even Fox News Thought Their Love Was Real

Here's something that should shake any doubts you have about that whole Fox News being a "credible source" thing. The conservative news station ran a story the other day with its usual babble about how women should stop being so confused, make peace with themselves, and find a man to marry so tha ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

The Muslim Is Coming

Rick Santorum, 1975 Loretta Lynn Has Something to Say to You

This morning, a Wyoming gasbag who backs Rick Santorum puked up some ridiculous words on TV news for all us Internet people to laugh at. (This is what TV news is for.) Big-money Santorum super PAC donor Foster Friess told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell: Back in my days, [women] used Bayer aspirin for con ... More >>

"Big Miracle": Saving the Whales Doesn't Save Any Laughs

Trent Arsenault, Local Sperm Donor, Upsets Family for Using Photo of Baby That's Not His

​​Lauren Stromquist, a mother from Minnesota, was struck with a feeling of familiarity when she read a Fox News story on Bay Area sperm-machine Trent Arsenault. She recognized the blonde Silicon Valley worker as her former neighbor in Pleasanton -- the guy she once went to a farmer's market with ... More >>

Bob MacKenzie: So Long to a Real Individual

The eulogies for longtime KTVU feature reporter Bob MacKenzie will be sure to mention his wit, charm, and, of course, ability to reel in audiences as only a storyteller can. All of this is true -- but, first and foremost, MacKenzie was, in a business moving increasingly toward homogeneity, an indivi ... More >>

Fox News Twitter Account Hacked, Claims President Obama Assassinated

Don't believe Fox News​No worries, folks: Barack Obama is still the leader of the United States, much to the disappointment of Fox News followers. The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that some idiot hackers thought they'd have a little fun with Fox News and give us another reason not to ... More >>

Is it Osama or Obama Bin Laden?

Fox News probably doesn't think there is a difference between Osama and Obama​Twitter was abuzz after Fox News made the Freudian slip yesterday when announcing that Obama, not Osama, bin Laden is dead. Sure, the names are off by only one letter, but that one letter spells the difference between th ... More >>

You Are My Shiny Star

Rapping Weatherman Resurfaces (VIDEO)

He's baaaaaack!​You don't need a weatherman to tell you today is looking glorious. You don't need a rapping weatherman -- well, ever. Be that as it may, readers may recall how local TV station and numerology casualty KRON last year saw fit to hire Nick Kosir, the Rapping Weatherman. First, KRON ge ... More >>

Weed-Smoking Giants Fans Burn Up The Internet (VIDEOS)

'People smokin' weed over there!' By the way, that is a vintage, pre-1993 jersey on the Giants fan.​Really, we'd hoped to wait off and post this article at 4:20, but we just couldn't help ourselves. Dallas-area newscaster Newy Scrubbs' rant about weed-smoking Giants fans prior to yesterday's first ... More >>

S.F. Bedbug Website Spawns Bogus Trend Stories Nationwide

Louis De Vos, Université Libre de BruxellesNow you see me...​The website Bedbugregistry.com, run by San Franciscan Maciej Ceglowski, takes pains to note that its anonymous reports of insect sitings should not be taken as hard evidence of a plague. But that hasn't stopped newspaper and television ... More >>

Rapping Weatherman Nick Kosir Quits on San Francisco

The Rapping Weatherman is M.I.A.​Not long ago, SF Weekly reported that KRON-TV had gone and hired Nick "The Rapping Weatherman" Kosir -- but wouldn't let him rap. It turns out, however, that Kosir's tenure in San Francisco was not unlike a summer storm: It was brief, tempestuous, and left everyone ... More >>

Rapping TV Weatherman Leaves S.F. After Two Days on the Job

Turns out he won't be droppin' rhymes or forecasts in S.F.​Not long ago, SF Weekly reported that KRON-TV had gone and hired Nick "The Rapping Weatherman" Kosir -- but wouldn't let him rap. It turns out, however, that Kosir's tenure in San Francisco was not unlike a summer storm: It was brief, temp ... More >>

Mattel Launches News Anchor Barbie

Putting the "fox" back in Fox News.​Just when you thought certain airheads on network cable news couldn't get anymore plastic, Mattel has immortalized the entire profession with its very own Barbie. Actually she won in the inaugural global vote. While the popular vote went toward a computer engine ... More >>

'Rapping Weatherman' Nick Kosir Hired By KRON -- But He Won't Be Rapping

You won't be seeing anything like this from Nick Kosir on KRON. You may see sunny weather, though.​KRON general manager Brian Greif confirmed to SF Weekly that he has, indeed, hired Nick Kosir, the "Rapping Weatherman." But Kosir will have to find a new nickname -- and won't likely be telling view ... More >>

'Rapping Weatherman' Nick Kosir Hired By KRON

The rapping weatherman brings it ... to San Francisco​Rich Lieberman's Media 415 site is reporting that KRON is hiring a new weatherman. Now, talent comes and goes (mostly goes) with brutal regularity here in the world of Bay Area televised news. But what makes this internecine media report of a p ... More >>

George Hatton Smithey, Found Hanged in San Quentin Cell, Had Just Beaten Death Penalty

George Hatton Smithey beat the death penalty -- but instead died by his own hand​George Hatton Smithey, the San Quentin death row prisoner found hanged with bedsheets in his cell Saturday, had just won a legal motion to have the possibility of the death penalty eliminated -- horrifying the survivo ... More >>

What Is "Wealth?"

Report: John Mark Karr, Reputed Pedophile, Formed Cult of JonBenet Lookalikes

​John Mark Karr, the creep-o who falsely claimed in 2006 to have murdered JonBenet Ramsey in 1996, has upped his creep-o ante. He's allegedly gotten a sex change, started a JonBenet Cult, and made death threat to one escaped cult member, a 19-year-old San Francisco woman who was once Karr's fourth ... More >>

The Cartel

Report: FBI Arrests S.F. Man for Scores of Phone Threats to Pelosi

'Hello, Nancy...'​The Associated Press today reported that the FBI has arrested a San Francisco man for scores of threatening phone calls he made to Rep. Nancy Pelosi's California and Washington, D.C. homes. It is alleged Gregory Guisti -- who will be arraigned tomorrow -- also dialed up Pelosi's ... More >>

Who's Your Amy Bishop?

​Like many of you, I read the Amy Bishop story in this week's Sunday Times while gaping in wonder. Bishop is the bat-shit science professor who went on a shooting rampage, killing three colleagues, after she was denied tenure at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.As it turns out, there were p ... More >>

Sea Lions Mysteriously Vacate Hyde Street Pier, Lose Out On National Coverage

And then there were none...​Back in August, a group of more than 100 unruly sea lions swarmed the Hyde Street Pier, claimed it for themselves, and seriously pissed off nearby boat owners, fishermen, swimmers, and especially Port of San Francisco wharfinger Hedley Prince. (Here's our cover sto ... More >>

KTVU Channel 2 Won't Replace Ross McGowan -- Longtime News Interviewer's Duties Will Fall Upon Existing Staff

For those who grew up in the Bay Area, Ross McGowan has been like the caretaker at the Overlook Hotel in The Shining: He is the morning interviewer. He has always been the morning interviewer. He will always be the morning interviewer. Until Oct. 2, of course. Then he's retired. And in a sign of the ... More >>

As You Were

The Nobody's Business Diner

By Meredith Brody How does this menu sound to you: tomato basil soup, market pasta salad, salad du jour, organic spinach salad, Philly cheesesteaks, roasted local veggie melts, organic baked French fries, steamed organic broccoli, organic pears? Or this one: zucchini bread, French dip au jus, roas ... More >>

Last-minute Election Laugh via MoveOn.org

Chronicle City Hall Reporter Going to KGO-TV

'Tragedy' makes fun of news media's tragic lack of perspective

Crash Test Dummy

The loudest, boldest comic actor around takes an endless victory lap

Inside the Savage Nation

He adored beatniks, trolled the streets of North Beach in a beret, and was once Timothy Leary's gatekeeper, and now he packs a gun.

KRON's Last Gasp

How a once-proud San Francisco television station became ground zero in the nation's most controversial experiment in local TV news.

Is Anybody Watching?

In its struggle for cable eyeballs, Al Gore's S.F.-based Current TV is off to a rocky start

Best TV News Anchor

Good News

Will Ferrell's Anchorman is dumb, and funny, as hell

Sex and the Single Psychologist

Should Dr. Al Cooper's fuzzy data and controversial subject stop him from becoming a media darling -- or getting a date?

Mad as Hell

Network zeroes in on the intersection of personal ambition and public media

More At 11:00

An Exclusive Look at Secret Plans for Revolutionary Change in San Francisco Television News

The Poindexter Effect

Digging into the architect of Total Information Awareness unearths good news: Ordinary Americans value civil liberties

The Product

Heath Ledger's in no rush to be a star. Why's everyone else in a hurry?

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

Slap Shots

Unspun

Beat the Press

Anchors Awry

Up Close and Personal sinks lower than the intellectual wasteland of the TV news it depicts