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The New York Times Company

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    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 >>

  • Film

    June 29, 2011

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

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    June 29, 2011

    Evolution and Big Media

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    Outing of L.A. Times Restaurant Critic a Kind of Rape

    What Ruth Reichl did to keep her identity hidden as critic of the New York Times.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. The restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times is no longer anonymous. In an incident that's caroming around the Twitterverse like the latest from Ruth Bourdain, 16-year L.A. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    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 >>

  • News

    August 12, 2009

    Gavin Newsom's benign betrayal

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    St. Luke's Doctor: DIY Abortions by S.F. Latinas Overhyped in New York Times

    Progressive San Francisco may be a card-carrying pro-choice city where abortions are readily accessible. But just because a hipster chick can wear a snarky T-shirt that could very well  get her burned at the stake in more conservative zip codes hasn't erased abortion's taboo within the city's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2008

    Amusement at the expense of Augusten Burroughs

    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 >>

  • Culture

    April 16, 2008

    YBCA women's show revives the F word

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2008

    SF Weekly's Seven-Day Dish

    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 >>

  • Dining

    February 6, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    December 26, 2007

    The Beth of Times

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2007

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

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    September 26, 2007

    Pages and Pages

    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 >>

  • Dining

    August 22, 2007

    Their Steak Stands Alone

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

  • Dining

    March 21, 2007

    A Little Grilled Gift

    Fresh Mexican fare is just the thing to lure you out of the house and toward the Mission

  • Music

    February 14, 2007

    Mixtape Shmixtape

    Wherein we review Yay Area mixes of the day

  • News

    May 3, 2006

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, May 3, 2006

  • News

    April 5, 2006

    Technology Disassembled

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

  • News

    March 22, 2006

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, March 22, 2006

  • News

    March 8, 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.

  • Calendar

    March 2, 2005

    The Other Hollywood

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

  • News

    June 2, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, June 2, 2004

  • News

    January 22, 2003

    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 of San Francisco

    May 17, 2000

    Best Homemade Gourmet Lunch in Hunters Point

    The Outback Cafe

  • Dining

    April 21, 1999

    Side Dish

    The Outback Cafe

  • News

    July 16, 1997

    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

  • Calendar

    August 9, 1995

    Publish or Perish

    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

  • Calendar

    May 3, 1995

    Slap Shots

    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

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