While San Francisco Bay Guardian's Bruce B. Brugmann was railing against a New Times-Village Voice Media merger that is still merely a rumor, his competitors at the New Times-owned SF Weekly were commissioning a handwriting analysis of the outspoken publisher. The handwriting expert says that B3's penmanship suggests that he's smart, respectful, and generous, and that he's "very much in control of himself and .... confident in how he impresses himself upon his environment." She also says he's a few other things as well.

Continue ReadingAnother Skirmish in the Alt-Weekly War in San Francisco

In this week's issue, new editor-in-chief Harry Siegel and senior editor Jonathan Leaf say that the "part of New York that belongs to those who make it their home, rather than those who are passing through, is slowly dying" and call the city "an anachronism" in a time that "technology allows financiers, diplomats and scholars to do their work just as well from Jersey City, Chicago, or Omaha as from Midtown." With those things in mind, they lay out what will be their paper's guiding principles: openness, expansiveness and the idea that "a newspaper must serve an ideal of justice."

Continue ReadingNew York Press Editorial Team Issues Its Manifesto