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Carl Icahn's Move on Netflix Spells Trouble

The last thing Netflix needs right now is Carl Icahn, but there he is, his dour puss looming above Los Gatos as he buys up shares in the company and makes noises about how he thinks it should be run. The trouble is that he has no idea about how it should be run, and all he cares about is pulling in ... More >>

Top 5 Ways Bleacher Report Rules the World!

Human Traffickers Won't Get to Pocket Profits Made off Slavery Under New Bill

Two state bills passed through the state Legislature today that force convicted criminals to give up any profits they make from trafficking minors into California. The trafficking cash would be funneled into helping the emotionally traumatized victims, Attorney General Kamala Harris said.Senator Mar ... More >>

Bouncer Finds a Loud Homophobe at the Pilsner Inn

Meet Livefyre, Our Sleek New Commenting System

Today, we here at SFoodie say goodbye to Disqus and hello to Livefyre, the new commenting system for this and all other SF Weekly blogs. Livefyre is pretty cool -- futuristic, even -- so we're excited for you to get acquainted. Here's a rundown of some key features: Tag your friends on Facebook and ... More >>

Meet Livefyre, Our Awesome New Commenting System

Today, we here at The Snitch say goodbye to Disqus and hello to Livefyre, the new commenting system for this and all other SF Weekly blogs. Livefyre is pretty cool -- futuristic, even -- so we're excited for you to get acquainted. Here's a rundown of some key features:Tag your friends on Facebook an ... More >>

Human Traffickers Will No Longer Be Able to Keep Their Profits Under New Legislation

It only makes sense that human traffickers convicted of enslaving young girls should have to pay -- literally. A new state bill passed through committee today would force those criminals to give up any profits they make from trafficking minors in California. San Francisco Senator Mark Leno authored ... More >>

Facebook Just Keeps Getting Worse

​Over the years, whenever Facebook has made changes, people have inevitably complained --  on Facebook -- about the changes Facebook made to Facebook. "I'm leaving Facebook," those people would declare, on Facebook. Of course, few of them ever actually left Facebook. Until recently, I have ... More >>

Phil Bronstein Resigns from the Chronicle

​Former Chron editor Phil Bronstein confirmed today rumors that he is indeed leaving the newspaper after more than three decades with Hearst. However, Bronstein, 61, isn't leaving the news business.The 61-year-old tells us he will be taking on a larger role at the Center for Investigative Reportin ... More >>

Copyright Fight the Subject of Juvenile Flamewars

​To the uninitiated, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce might sound like a larger version of local chambers of commerce: something like the Elks or the Rotary Club, where dull businesspeople get together for dull meetings to eat rubber chicken and to "network." But the U.S. Chamber is the largest lobb ... More >>

The Franchise Episode 3 Recap: Got Heem!

​Over the past few weeks, I've complained that The Franchise has too often focused on establishing and teasing out narratives rather than using their access to its best advantage. The first two episodes spent most of their time introducing the audience to players, sometimes more than once, and ... More >>

H1-B Visa Program Creates Caste System for Silicon Valley

Harold Camping, Rapture Predictor, Suffers a Stroke

Camping suffers a stroke​Just as Harold Camping, the man who let us down with his failed Rapture prediction last month, was fading from the news cycle, he resurfaced over the weekend after news broke that the Alameda preacher suffered a stroke. The 89-year-old Evangelical preacher reportedly had a ... More >>

Why Facebook's 'Whisper Campaign' Against Google Isn't Okay

​I'm a big fan of Jack Shafer, Slate's media columnist. But his libertarian worldview sometimes tends to make him go overboard with his "oh, what's the big deal" shtick. That's the case --  somewhat -- with his latest column, wherein he wonders why people are so shocked that Facebook hired ... More >>

San Francisco Finally Apologizes to Bobby Badfingers for His Six Days in Jail

This tale has no snappy ending.​After nearly three years trying to get recopense for a six-day 2008 jail stint he says was unfair, Bobby Badfingers, the world's fastest finger-snapper, has received an apology from City Attorney Dennis Herrera:"On behalf of the San Francisco Sheriff's Department, w ... More >>

Nudists Chicken Out On TSA Scan Protest

No naked protest at the airport. Looks like everyone has to run...​You know how these things go. All talk, no action.Rusty Mills planned, organized, researched, and recruited other nudists for his naked protest of the TSA airport scanners. But in the end, he didn't get enough volunteers, and has c ... More >>

Nudists Planning Airport TSA Protest. Cops Planning Arrests.

In your dreams, TSA​The TSA might just get the chance to make good on its claim that the agency has no problem with people going through the airport security line naked. San Francisco nudist Rusty Mills -- whom you may recall from our recent cover story -- told us he was heartened by the news ... More >>

If Facebook Tied to Syphilis -- What Diseases Linked to Other Sites?

You don't even have to leave the Internet to find syphilis on Facebook... ​According to British researchers, Facebook users get a new friend, just like MySpace users get "Tom." That friend? Syphilis. Simply put, users of the site met lots of interesting folks, "friended" them, and, Step Three, syp ... More >>

Amid His Other Troubles, Newsom's Fantasy Football Team Tanks

​You may remember a cute little story from the summer in which local mayors Gavin Newsom and Ron Dellums participated in a Yahoo fantasy football league -- with the winning mayor to receive a healthy little donation to the charity of his or her choosing. Newsom -- and his right-hand men -- won our ... More >>

R.I.P.: Annie's Social Club to Close on New Year's Eve

​We received word today that SOMA hang-out Annie's Social Club, will cease business after New Years. The news was issued via a weekly email newsletter (sent out to the Yahoo newsgroup [sf_indie])Subject: This Weekend at Annie's Social Club, plus some sad news...We hate to do this, but there is som ... More >>

Chron's Bronstein Lashes Out at New York Times For 'Borrowing' Anecdote -- That His Paper 'Borrowed' Too

Hey Phil Bronstein -- how do you like them apples?​San Francisco Chronicle editor-at-large Phil Bronstein yesterday reminded the Bay Area of a use for newspapers any puppy owner is well aware of when he inaugurated a journalistic pissing contest. It was a move he may soon regret. In what was decid ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Noe Valley and Mission residents say Google shuttles are evil

Barrel House’s secret formula: Cool shows, free admission

Straight Outta Half Moon Bay, Sam's Chowder Van to Debut This Summer

Sam's Chowder House lobster roll is coming to S.F. soonSam's Chowder House of Half Moon Bay has plans to go mobile this summer with Sam's Chowder Van. Fish and chips, lobster rolls, fish tacos, and ceviche cooked out of a 24-foot vehicle will soon hit the campuses of companies such as Ora ... More >>

Funemployment: Jobless young San Franciscans are welcoming the worst recession of their lives with open arms. Too bad the party can't last forever.

IM Conversation, Purportedly from S.F. Fraud Suspect, Sheds Light on Bizarre Palm Springs Case

Kaushal NiroulaThe recent arrest of San Franciscans Kaushal Niroula, Daniel Garcia and a bevy of alleged cohorts in an alleged Palm Springs identity theft scam, provided a glimpse into an apparently illicit world where a band of young, attractive men used the casual, all-male intimacy of the San Fra ... More >>

Reporter: Government Has Struck Out in Bonds Case -- Prosecution Won't Resume

Since 2003, Marin writer Jonathan Littman has intimately covered the government's investigation and prosecution of Barry Bonds and other athletes ensnared in the BALCO scandal. He's shown up at nearly every court hearing and sifted through thousands of pages of court documents. And he's confident in ... More >>

Listomania: If You've Got a Little Time on Your Hands!

By Meredith Brody We love lists, as it happens, almost as much as magazines and their cover blurb writers do (as in Cosmopolitan's invariable "365 New Sexual Positions!" and O the Oprah Magazine's "53 Ways to Give Your Looks a Lift" and Allure's "52 Tips for Irresistible Hair, Makeup, Skin - and At ... More >>

Mayor Proposes 712 Job Cuts in SF Government

Hand it to Mayor Gavin Newsom's office for upholding the bureaucratic tradition of euphemism. In a statement today outlining the mayor's plan for addressing San Francisco's revenue shortfall this year, estimated at up to $125 million, Newsom calls for "solutions" -- in the form of spending cuts and ... More >>

479° Degrees Popcorn is Hot

Who wants to read books about the Internet?

This Ain't Your Children's YouTube ...

Google bought YouTube for something like a bazillion dollars last week. Is this a deathknell for the popular video clip service, or the start of an even bigger, better Internet library?

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, December 7, 2005

Volunteers

Fear, loathing, and the Chronicle's voluntary termination incentive program

Butt Boards Up!

Riding the rapids and the placids of Cache Creek

Letters to the Editor

Week of February 2, 2005

alt.war

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

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Tales of the North Pacific

What a 62-year-old man can teach shellshocked dot-commers as he sails from Osaka to San Francisco. Alone. Again.

Dog Bites

Fangxaminer; Mourning the Passing of the Arts; Looking for the New Bohemia

Coulda Been a Contender

Scrounging for cash in the strangest places, the creators of the karate-themed Adventures With Kanga Roddy children's TV series infuriate investors

Net Profits

Downloadable music sites are promising musicians a brave new world of mass exposure, but guess who's actually cashing in?

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