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Gavin Newsom Says the Year for Marijuana Legalization in California Is 2016

As the most powerful man in the room milled aimlessly about the bar of the United Irish Cultural Center on Friday, looking for someone who recognized him as United States Congressman, all the attention was focused where it always is whenever Gavin Newsom is in the room: right on the lieutenant gover ... More >>

The New Cold War: The Tech World Is Fighting a Costly Battle

There Are No Conservatives Worth Following on Social Media

"Follow liberally," exhorts Liz Heron. "You never know who will lead you to discover something unique or important." This is one of "The Rules of Social Media" that Fast Company thinks we all should adhere to. Heron, who runs social media for the Wall Street Journal, doesn't mean "liberally" in a p ... More >>

Yes, We Can Blame Facebook and its CFO for Stock Debacle

It's easy, and to a large degree proper, to blame the people who bought into Facebook's dog of an IPO for their own losses. It was no secret that the company's prospects were highly uncertain. But that doesn't mean that others can't be blamed as well, or that investors are the only ones hurt by the ... More >>

Joyless Comic Strip's NYT Parody Falls Flat

There seems to be a wide and growing divide between people who appreciate healthy portions of meaty journalism and those who prefer a media diet of bite-sized snark snacks full of empty calories. In this context, "old media" outlets like The New York Times can never win, no matter what they do. Even ... More >>

New York Times to Sell Press Democrat, 15 Other Papers

​Another Bay Area newspaper shake up is imminent. The New York Times Company announced this week that it's selling The Press Democrat, the Bay Area's fifth largest newspaper. Romenesko shared the news yesterday, explaining that the Santa Rosa newspaper as well as 15 other regional papers, includin ... More >>

India Wants Facebook to Prescreen User Content

​Sometimes it's hard to refrain from going libertarian. Okay, not really, but whenever governments try to pass or enforce absolutely clueless, sledgehammer-blunt laws governing the Internet, it's a challenge not to simply give up hope that enough politicians will ever understand the basic concepts ... 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 >>

Too Legit to Google: MC Hammer Is Starting a Search Engine

Finally: A search engine with moves like MC Hammer​In perhaps the greatest gift to headline writers unleashed on the blogosphere this minute, Bay Area hip-hop figurehead, ordained Christian minister, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass regular MC Hammer announced some curious news in S.F. this week ... More >>

Google Thumbs Nose at Antitrust Regulators

​You can't say Google doesn't have balls. Despite increasingly heavy antitrust scrutiny by the federal government, the Internet behemoth is charging ahead with a deal that brings all kinds of potential for cornering a market. It will pay $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility, a leading maker of hand ... More >>

The Pushback Against Food Trucks Goes National

Jeremy Brooks/FlickrThe Curry Up Now line: alarming or promising?​ On Sunday, the New York Times' Kim Severson wrote an op-ed knitting together all the cities where the food-truck backlash is flaring. New York is pushing food trucks out of Midtown, and Seattle and Raleigh, N.C., are considering n ... More >>

"Page One": Producer Kate Novak on Getting Inside the New York Times

Evolution and Big Media

Classy Des Jardins and Butter-Bomb Desserts: This Week in Food Bloggery

Jeffrey-Anthony/SF Weekly Flickr pool​ Highlights from the blog this week: 1. Peter Jamison talked to Iso Rabins about the Health Department's shut-down of the Underground Market, which may be permanent. But the market attracted New York Times coverage! And thousands of people! Uh... 2. Carina O ... More >>

Wikileaks' Julian Assange and NYT's Bill Keller Trade Barbs at UC Berkeley

Matt Smith Assange via skype ​Julian Assange is a paranoid, misguided, smelly bag lady -- not an open government hero. And New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller? Well, he is a cynical dissembler interested more in covering his own ass than telling the truth.A couple hundred journalists, incl ... More >>

Vegans Help Japan, Nate Appleman Tweaks the Burrito, and Puppies Heart Cabbage!

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • The earthquake, aftershocks, tsunami, and subsequent devastation in Japan are heavy on the minds of pretty much everyone with a soul. It's heartbreaking, and the absolute WORST. If you're looking for ways to he ... More >>

Food Events for the Weekend of Jan. 28-30

John BirdsallCookies! See Sat., Jan. 29.​Friday through Sunday, the area's tastiest happenings. Sat., Jan. 29: Cookie Jar Throwdown Omnivore Books on Food, 3885a Cesar Chavez (at Church), 3-4 p.m. For their first cooking contest of 2011, Omnivore Books is keeping it simple with a cookie bake ... More >>

Worse Than Sarah Palin, 7-Eleven Sees the Light, and Cuddling Chickens

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Paul McCartney's one-legged ex who everyone hates, Heather Mills, is turning out to be a kinda coo-coo-for-Cocoa-Puffs activist. In a good way. I think. Anyway, she owns a chain of vegan restaurants in England ... More >>

Silk Nog, Blogger Blowout, and Vegan Las Vegas!

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • First things first, Silk Nog is baaaaaack! "The bitch is back" is a phrase I reserve for two things: Elton John and Silk Nog. Both are creamy, spicy goodness, music to my ears and mouth, respectively. In fact, ... More >>

NYT Cookbook Ultimate Potluck Draws SF Chefs and Mixologists

​Former New York Times editor and current columnist Amanda Hesser will celebrate the release of The Essential New York Times Cookbook in San Francisco in just the right way, by hosting an "ultimate potluck cocktail brunch" thrown by SF Food Wars. While SFFW is known for its lively culinary battle ... More >>

Why Do You Review Some Little Mexican Restaurant When You Should Be Tackling Wayfare Tavern?

Lara HataI like a Torta Gorda quesadilla as much as I do a Delfina pasta.​Today's "Ask the Critic" comes courtesy of J. B. at Grub Street SF, who writes in his weekly summary of restaurant reviews around the city:In a summer rife with so many notable openings, both large and small, we don't totall ... More >>

Should Authorities Ease Regulations on Small, Local Food Vendors?

Jesse Friedman/FlickrShould sellers at events like the SF Underground Market be exempt form normal licensing regulations?​Our favorite morsels from the Web. The LA Times Monday picked up AP writer Dinesh Ramde's report on licensing restrictions easing for small food vendors in Maine and Wisco ... More >>

From @ Platform to Ad Platform? Twitter Announces @anywhere

​Perplexing the business-model hungry pundits with a difference of just one letter, Twitter CEO Ev Williams surprised the crowd today at his SXSWi keynote by announcing not an Ad platform but an @ platform, a way to further integrate Twitter's data into third party platforms without implementing a ... More >>

Sick of Ice Cream? Try Boccalone's Mixed Salumi Cone

T. PalmerWho needs ice cream when you can get a meat cone?​Nduja, the heavenly spicy soft salami by Boccalone (One Ferry Plaza at Embarcadero), was recently and cleverly dubbed the "Lady Gaga of pork products" by the New York Times, but out-of-towners don't get to experience in-store specials such ... More >>

New York Times' YouTube Investigation: Bicyclists Sometimes Run Stop Signs

​The odd media war unfolding in San Francisco -- in which major dailies establish editions here while local periodicals fade away -- advanced in a new direction Friday, with a page A-19 story in the New York City edition of the New York Times titled "San Francisco's Cyclists Facing Backlash for Fl ... More >>

Still Fit to Print?

Green Day Featured in New York Times

Jim Wilson/New York TimesIn the(ir) DNA: Green Day We've still got a few days to go before Green Day's new album, 21st Century Breakdown, drops (on May 15, if you're wondering). And Bay Area audiences might be sick of the pop-punk superstars already, after a recent frenzy of live shows at mostly sm ... More >>

TiVo Alert: Dysfunctional Family Re-Opens Fancy-Schmancy Restaurant

By Meredith Brody You may have noticed that there's precious little new stuff to watch during the holidays - a period which The New York Times describes as "a profound holiday slumber of repeats and musical specials." But we can't even find any musical specials, and are reduced to re-watching A Co ... More >>

New York Press Part Three: The New York Times Magazine Food Issue

Amusement at the expense of Augusten Burroughs

YBCA women's show revives the F word

SF Weekly's Seven-Day Dish

Looking for a Good Melt, SF Weekly Bumps Into Fondue Fred

Medical pot can get you fired, court says

The Beth of Times

Meatpaper -- It's What's For Dinner!

Pages and Pages

Their Steak Stands Alone

Great meat outweighs the decor, discomfort, and dimness at Bobo's

Mixtape Shmixtape

Wherein we review Yay Area mixes of the day

Technology Disassembled

A columnist defends himself, blames his bosses, and steps deeper into the ethical morass of accepting gifts

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, March 22, 2006

The Free Press

When do gifts to journalists turn into a conflict of interest? When a New York Times writer gets his computer repaired.

The Free Press

When do gifts to journalists turn into a conflict of interest? When a New York Times writer gets his computer repaired.

The Other Hollywood

The finer points of porn in "Ravished: Retro and Recent Kink"

All the News That Fits

Our favorite hometown daily paper writes up a Berkeley controversy over an anarchist's quotes — but drops the quotes

Best Homemade Gourmet Lunch in Hunters Point

The Outback Cafe

Quieter South of the Border

Corporate shifts at Knight-Ridder cost the Merc control of its Mexico City news bureau, the last such source of Mexico news in the Bay Area

Publish or Perish

Slap Shots