As it transitions to a new entity owned by the Center for Investigative Reporting, and recovers from burning through $11 million in just over two years, The Bay Citizen has…
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Ashton Kutcher As Steve Jobs In “Jobs”
Steve Jobs movies planned already? While it’s a logical expectation, I really didn’t think that would happen to quickly. We’re all still getting over the fact that the legendary visionary…
NFL Draft: Andrew Luck’s 70-Yard Bomb Marks Pro Day
Stanford Quarterback Andrew Luck had an outstanding Pro Day down on The Farm, as he threw 50 passes, completing 46 of them and in conditions that were less than perfect,…
WonderCon: Will It Return To San Francisco From Anaheim?
Anaheim, CA – The video above represents the sixth time I’ve interviewed WonderCon Director of Marketing and Public Relations David Glanzer (who I always refer to as “Vice President”) on…
Earthquake In Oakland, Felt In SF, 4.0 On Richter Scale
Here’s an update on that Earthquake that was felt in Oakland, but felt in San Francisco and around the Bay Area. It was 4 on the Richter Scale. Here’s the…
Bay Citizen Failing, Spent $11.4 million, On Life Support
Regular followers of my blog will remember my constant criticisms of The Bay Citizen, the online news organization that started with a $5 million investment from the now sadly passed…
Jeff Fluhr’s New Startup Spreecast.com
Jeff Fluhr’s a Bay Area entrepreneur and friend who is best known for his first big startup StubHub.com, of which my company Sports Business Simulations, was one of its first…
Golden State Warriors Owner Disses Oakland On Channel 5 KPIX
Last night, Golden State Warriors Co-Owner Joe Lacob was a guest on Dennis O’Donnell’s sports show on KPIX TV, Channel Five in San Francisco. Dennis asked Lacob about the possibility…
Stanford Cardinal Women Conquer Soccer World, Beat Duke In Final
The Stanford Cardinal Women have done it! They beat Duke in a close contest 1-0, and for their first NCAA women’s soccer title. The Stanford Cardinal Women are National Champions!…
San Francisco Reached One Million Tons Composted On Tuesday
The City’s residents and businesses reached a major milestone Tuesday, in their efforts to help protect the environment – one million tons of food scraps and plants collected for composting…
Occupy Oakland Tells City And Media To Fuck Off
Whatever triggered the City of Oakland’s notice for Occupy Oakland / Occupy Wall Street to leave Downtown Oakland’s City Hall Plaza, the organization’s response to the eviction notice on Twitter…
Al Davis and Steve Jobs: Bay Area Loses Two Raiders in Three Days
Atlanta, Georgia – The Oakland Raiders’ Al Davis and Apple’s Steve Jobs. That the San Francisco Bay Area could lose two icons (two “Raiders,” if you will) in three days,…
Steve Jobs Is Part Of One Big SF Bay Area Family
In reading and listening to the countless remembrances of Steve Jobs, it seemed something was missing. And that idea that there was an incompleteness to all of this stayed with…
Steve Jobs Dies Of Pancreatic Cancer; Apple Store SF Memorial
It was Mom who called to say that “Steve Jobs died of cancer,” and at the time, this blogger was bound for the gym. Instead, the entire evening schedule of…
Chick-Fil-A Breakfast Free Offer At Top Of Trends? People Are Hungry
At first that Chick-Fil-A would be at the top of Google Trends as of this writing would come as a surprise, but when you stop and consider the wave of…
Steve Jobs : Apple CEO Steps Down, Bad For Apple And The SF Bay Area
The news that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is stepping down from his post because he’s, as he put it, “no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO,” is…
The Oakland Tribune is Gone? Yipee!!!
When I got the news that the Oakland Tribune was no more, I could not understand why the reaction expressed above just came out, as “Yipee,” but it did. Spontaneously.…
Libya Rebels Attack Gaddafi Compound, CNN’s Sara Sidner Reports Fallback
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 will go down as a red-letter day in history, because on this day rebels took over Libya’s capital of Tripoli and stormed the Gaddafi Compound. Along…
Oakland USD Loses Second Chief To Problem In Four Years
Yesterday, The Oakland Unified School District lost its police chief Pete Sarna, after the officer, allegedly intoxicated, reportedly went off an an “N-word” laced rant against an African American sergeant…