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SF Weekly Sold to Voice Media Group

SF Weekly has been sold. Last night, it was announced the San Francisco-based alt-weekly has split from its parent company, Village Voice Media. It was sold to a new, Denver-based entity in a management buyout: Voice Media Group. The purchase includes the dozen other alternative newsweeklies in th ... More >>

Freedom Under Fire: America's War on Mexicans Has Gone Too Far.

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Appeals Court to Hear Arguments in Lawsuit Against Sheriff Who Jailed Village Voice Media Executives

Joe Arpaio​The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear arguments tomorrow in a lawsuit filed against Arizona law-enforcement officials who falsely arrested two Village Voice Media executives as retaliation for stories printed in the Phoenix New Times in 2007.All 11 judges of the appe ... More >>

Lost Boys: New Research Demolishes the Stereotype of the Underage Sex Worker

Village Voice Media Responds to Clergy

Clergy across the nation took out an ad in The New York Times, calling on Village Voice Media company, which owns SF Weekly, to shut down the adult section of its Backpage.com website. They have also launched a petition in partnership with Change.org.Village Voice Media issued the following statemen ... More >>

Village Voice's Lauren Shockey Dishes Kitchen Gossip at Omnivore Books

​What: Lauren Shockey at Omnivore Books Where: Omnivore Books When: Fri., October 21, 6-7 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: Village Voice's Lauren Shockey, she of the Really Great Name, will be in town to talk about her new book, Four Kitchens: My Life Behind the Burner in New York, Hanoi, Tel ... More >>

Underage Sex Trafficking: What the Real Numbers Show

Real Men Don't Buy Girls​Despite what news reports have been saying, the underage prostitution industry isn't exactly as pervasive as it seems. The science behind data showing there's as many as 300,000 child prostitutes has never truly been challenged -- until now. Village Voice Media recently sp ... More >>

Facebook, Twitter: Are They Enabling Child Pornographers?

Another kind of social network?​Mexican journalist and activist Lydia Cacho apparently thinks so.In a recent trip to San Francisco, Cacho, who has written about child prostitution in Cancún and tussled with powerful businessmen and politicians in her home country, said that social-media sites suc ... More >>

Our SXSW Party: Wu-Tang Clan, Erykah Badu, Wild Flag, and More

​And so we join the SXSW deluge: Village Voice Media, the parent company of SF Weekly, yesterday announced the details of our annual SXSW party: We'll deign to spare you any unfortunate lyrical references to the Wu-Tang Clan but it is headlining. Other eyebrow-poppers you'll want to check out ... More >>

Giffords Shooting: Was it Politics or Just Mental Illness?

Critical Condition​It's easy to blame the incendiary rhetoric of vociferous Tea Party Republicans for the recent shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona Democrat who remains in critical condition after she was shot in the head on Saturday. But in Phoenix, 113 miles from Tucson wh ... More >>

Weather Shoots Down Christophe Hille's A16 Reunion

Caleb Ferguson/Village VoiceChristophe Hille, right, with Nathan Foot.​In a holiday redemption story worthy of the Hallmark Channel, Christophe Hille ― who left A16 in 2006 to seek farm-to-table fortune in New York, most recently at Northern Spy Food Co., which he co-owns with Nathan Foot †... More >>

Return to Sender

How Would Immigration Reform Look if the Feds Got Off Their Duffs?

An Opportunity to Stand Up

SF Weekly Parent Company to Underwrite Legal Challenge to Arizona Immigration Bill

​Last week, there were some murmurs among local bloggers about whether SF Weekly would suffer as a result of a proposed city boycott of Arizona businesses because of the Grand Canyon State's harsh new immigration law. Editors at SF Appeal and SFist raised the prospect of city officials refusing to ... More >>

An App for Drinks and Apps

Bay Guardian Foiled In Latest Money Grab

​Not so long ago, the Bay Guardian was drumming up sensationalistic headlines by claiming it might force SF Weekly parent company Village Voice Media Holdings into bankruptcy in order to collect on a $21 million judgment in its below-cost pricing lawsuit against the Weekly. The Guardian even got a ... More >>

Dozens of Neighbors Speak Out Against Bay Guardian Cellular Antennas

​Dozens of Potrero Hill residents are lending their voices to a campaign opposing efforts by the owners of the San Francisco Bay Guardian to erect cell-phone antennas atop the newspaper's offices at 135 Mississippi StreetThe newspaper's neighbors tell SF Weekly that they have collected as many as ... More >>

Pic of the Day: Please Don't Take This Literally

​ And the win of the day goes to Village Voice New Media Director Bill Jensen, who shared this little piece of corkboard genius with the world. Follow us on Twitter at @alexiat and @sfweekly.

Earth Days

Bay Guardian's latest brain vomit — and our response

Dear Guardian: Since You Aren't Much Good At Making Fun of SF Weekly, We'll Do It For You

Sorry, lady. We can't find the joke, either. Yeah, so, in the Guardian's April Fools issue this week, the SFBG attempts to be lighthearted and make fun of Gavin Newsom (fish in a barrel) and us -- and once again proves that progressives just aren't funny. Why, progressives? Why? What is it about ... More >>

A Poetry Moment

Movie Marathon

The S.F. International Film Fest starts this week and keeps going year-round.

A Boy Named Sue

Ka-Ching!

The Guardian hits the jackpot — but don't count the money yet, Bruce.

Ka-Ching!

Editor & Publisher Blogger Joins the Fray

The Mars Volta's Bedlam in Goliath Album Review, Stream and MP3 Download

The Police, Daft Punk, and DethKlok Among The Top National Concerts of '07

More Proof That Yelpers = Uneducated Morons

SF Weekly Owners Lacey, Larkin Jailed, Released After Grand Jury Story Breaks

The Roller Girls of the OC: It's VVM ChainSmoking 09.24.07

Judd Apatow, Johnny Rotten and Timberlake: It's VVM ChainSmoking

Herpes, Cruising and Papis: It's VVM ChainSmoking

Fags, Brownies and Funnies: It's VVM ChainSmoking

Bird Flu Creator M.I.A. Infects SF's Rickshaw Today

Unfair Lawsuit Act

SF Weekly moves to dismiss the Guardian's lawsuit, which is light on witnesses and evidence

David Downs

David Downs

Unfair Lawsuit Act

SF Weekly moves to dismiss the Guardian's lawsuit, which is light on witnesses and evidence

You hate us. You really, really like us. -- The Nation's confused take on Village Voice Media

Journalism 101

Dear Reactionaries: If you think the New Times merger spells trouble for local music, read this column

Vote Like This, Dammit!

Brugmann's Brain Vomit

Cleaning up the latest drivel from San Francisco's leading bull-goose loony

Pent Up

Knowing drama -- in the biblical sense

Film Pak's Punch

Love against the machine

Warning: Deconstruction Ahead

The Village Voice thinks postmodern deconstructionism explains the S.F. Board of Supervisors; but why invoke Derrida, where ignorance will serve?

Unextended Play

Putting the compact back in compact disc