What Kyle Cost the Chronicle
Bay Area sports fans are used to painful seasons, but usually it’s a chronic pain. Especially with the Niners, the usual season sees poor play spread out over the entire season. We aren’t disappointed, because we never expected much. Then there was today. Today, 49er faithful and Bay Area-bandwagon hoppers alike felt the most acute sort...
Blogging can’t escape infection in Contagion
[Spoiler info: This post doesn't give much away, but if you're the type who prefers to know nothing before seeing a movie, steer clear until you've seen it] James Huber wrote about Oakland getting its reps in the baseball-blockbuster “Moneyball” earlier this week. Another relatively new movie giving San Francisco some screen time is the disaster-blockbuster “Contagion.” I had looked forward to...
Giants’ misery lands on doorsteps nationwide
The New York Times’ million or so readers flipped through the paper’s news section today and found a big Bay Area-centric sports spread on A11. The main story was supposedly about the effect of the Giants’ mediocre season on the city of San Francisco, but I couldn’t see how it fit in the news section. The...
Is the night young?
At The New York Times, the answer–apparently–is a resounding yes. The Sunday Business and Sunday Styles sections are two of the most different sections in the Times. But today, readers found big pictures of 20-somethings going clubbing, splashed across both sections–with matching headlines to boot. To give the benefit of the doubt to the Times, this is a juxtaposition of industrious, entrepreneurial youngsters in Silicon...
