NOISE: O, we come in praise of those random acts of music

08.30.06 - 10:28 am | Music Blogger |

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Yes, Virginia, there's much to catch up on since last week.

Red Hot Chili Peppers and Mars Volta for two, last Thursday at Oakland Arena. The scene was dumpy out in the parking lot before the show -- doesn't this look like the SUV pooped tin? Yeesh, clean up after yourselves, jerks.

Sloppy tailgaitin' Pepper-heads. All images by Kimberly Chun.

We got inside just in time to see the start of Mars Volta's set. Read more »

Memo to reporters covering the escapades of the galloping Conglomerati:

08.29.06 - 3:07 pm | Bruce Brugmann |

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Do not forget to check the Form 8-Ks for juicy information that is usually not disclosed in the corporate press releases of the conglomerati papers and usually not disclosed in their corporate house stories.

For example, the 8-K filing on Aug. 24, 2006, by the MediaNews Group, Inc. (Singleton) with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., disclosed that key Singleton executives got nice bonuses for their work in consummating the Singleton/Hearst deal:

Joseph J. Lodovic IV, president, got a bonus of $l,000,000.

Gerald E. Read more »

Behind the redevelopment initiative

08.29.06 - 2:05 pm | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

I just said something nice about Randy Shaw, so it's time to slap him a fast one. The big story in today's BeyondChron is a gushing testimonial to the efforts of one Biran Murphy O'Flynn to block the city's redevelopment plan for Bayview Hunters Point. Read more »

Wal-Mart for President!

08.29.06 - 1:11 pm | Amanda Witherell |

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by Amanda Witherell

This week Wal-Mart cranked up the PR knob with a new bout of ads touting the company's social worth with the gloss of a dirty politician trying to spin some positive image. According to The New York Times the spots make a point of the $2,300 an average family saves shopping at Wal-Mart and paint Sam Walton as a red-knuckled entrepreneur of yesteryear.

Unfortunately, that image in no way resembles the $312.4 billion, Fortune 500 corporation of today.

Fashion Week for the fierce, pt. II: Being Marke B.

08.29.06 - 10:11 am | Marke B. |

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Fab intern Justin Juul picked up the Fashion Week/Fisher Spooner pieces for me this past weekend. Here's what he had to say.

The press people at Mystery Girl Productions invited Marke B. to the third annual SF Fashion Week sometime last month. Read more »

1000 years of fuck

08.28.06 - 6:29 pm | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond
You learn something new every day. I just learned from the Philadelphia Inquirer that fuck has been in the English language for more than 1,000 years.

They worry abuot that sort of thing in Philly

1000 years of fuck

08.28.06 - 6:25 pm | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

You learn something new every day. I just learned from The Philadelphia Inquirer that fuck has been part of the English language for more than 1,000 years.

I guess they worry about those sorts of things in Philly.

Who's going to control Congress?

08.28.06 - 6:15 pm | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

Chris Bowers offers a pretty detailed analysis on the state of the battle for control of the House at MyDD.com. Hard to read without my glasses on, but worth checking out as the campaign continues.

From bad to worse, the clustered conglomerati cometh

08.28.06 - 2:04 pm | Bruce Brugmann |

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Just in: another example of how things are going these days in the daily newspaper business:

I just got off the phone with Tom Honig, the able editor of the Santa Cruz Sentinel. I had called him to see if the Sentinel was doing any special competitive coverage on the nearby Monterey Herald, one of the "jewels" that the Singleton Conglomerati is buying with the help of Hearst.

Bruce, he said, we just got word today that the Sentinel is up for sale. I said was astounded. Yeah, he said, there are already rumors about Singleton buying. Read more »

Why people get mad at the media, part 8, Business Week/McGraw Hill finally does the right thing and publishes two retractions

08.28.06 - 1:13 pm | Bruce Brugmann |

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As you may remember from my spine-tingling serial blogs, I have now spent more than two weeks scampering up and down the hills and through the bogs with the BW/MH folks in San Francisco and their towering headquarters building in midtown Manhattan. I was trying to get a simple correction on some mistakes it made in its Aug. l4th cover story (“Valley boys: how this 29-year-old kid made $60 million in l8th months.”) Here is a recap and a play-by-play:

BW/MH in its first three lines in its first paragraph in its lead story made two bad mistakes. Read more »