Bay Guardian Shuts Down After 48 Years: Does Anyone Care?

 The Bay Guardian --after 48 years, is shutting down. The reason: no money.

Does anyone care? I do. For the love of life.

SFist says some staffers say the left-wing alt will live on in some form. Translation: It's still shutting down.


The Guardian in its early days offered inspired journalism and thought-provoking writing on a variety of subjects, most notably its coverage of San Francisco City Hall. And although it had a tendency to consistently go way over the top on its advocacy style, it was nevertheless worth the price of admission: free. The print edition was a lively read and the restaurant reviews and club listings were one of a kind.


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SF Weekly Has Strong Pizza Fetish

  I enjoy SF Weekly. It has quirky stories that resonate well within the SF city limits and mostly churns out decent content. Sometimes even better than decent.

Then again, like most of your freaky alternative weekly news sites, they can become overly cute and resort to a lot of redundant material. I mean, a lot.

Take pizza for example.

Like today.

Or here, recently. And here too.

I think I get the idea that pizza images look good on computers and that pizza makes people compelled to eat a lot of pizza like me inclined to want to read on, it's a given --even for me who should know.

Then again, in the case of SF Weekly, it's gone way over the line. A medium with eight slices and pepperoni, black olives, and mushrooms would have sufficed.

SF Weekly ordered the Kitchen Sink.

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