- Mark Morford
Mark Morford is a popular, award-winning columnist for the "San Francisco Chronicle". His deeply satiric, left-leaning social commentary column is called "Notes & Errata" and is published every Wednesday and Friday in both the print edition, and on the Chronicle's website, SFGate.com. His writing is sometimes controversial, often hilarious and almost always very non-journalistic in style, attitude and tone. - Violet Blue
Violet Blue (born on September 22) is an American sex writer, podcaster, blogger, editor, sex educator, and sex columnist. - Ray Ratto
Ray Ratto, 52, has been a Bay Area sportswriter for approximately 30 years and a sports columnist for approximately 20. Beginning his column-writing career for two now-defunct newspapers, The National (newspaper) and the Peninsula Times Tribune, Ratto then became a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner, and now opines for the San Francisco Chronicle. - Mick Lasalle
Mick LaSalle (born May 7, 1959) is the film critic for the "San Francisco Chronicle" and the author of two books on pre-code Hollywood. As of August 2006, he has written over 1370 reviews ; he has been podcasting his film reviews since September 2005. He is the author of "Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood", a history/critical study of the actresses who worked during the pre-censorship "pre"-Code" era of 1929-1934. - David Lazarus
David Lazarus is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and a weekend radio talk show host for San Francisco's KGO Radio. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. David’s work as a journalist has given him a reputation as an activist in California consumer issues. He was named Journalist of the Year by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists and the Consumer Federation of California. - Carla Marinucci
Carla Marinucci is a political reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, specializing in California state gubernatorial politics. Marinucci is widely considered to be one of the state's most respected veteran political reporters. She has won more than two dozen national and state awards. She is largely responsible for breaking such important stories as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's editorial positions at various bodybuilding magazines that advocate steroid use. - Jon Carroll
Jon Carroll is a columnist for the "San Francisco Chronicle", beginning in 1982. He is featured on the backpage of the Datebook (the newspaper's entertainment section) on weekdays. Locally, he is best known for his moderate-to-liberal politics and his cat columns. On the internet, he is known for starting the Unitarian Jihad movement. Carroll was born in Los Angeles and raised in nearby Pasadena. He attended (but did not finish) UC Berkeley. - Robert Scheer
Robert Scheer, (born 1936) is an American journalist who writes a nationally syndicated op-ed column for the "San Francisco Chronicle" from a left perspective. He teaches communications as a professor at the University of Southern California and edits the online magazine Truthdig. - Debra Saunders
Debra J. Saunders is a conservative columnist for the "San Francisco Chronicle". Syndicated by Creators Syndicate, her thrice weekly column is also carried by townhall.com. Between 1987 and 1992, Saunders was a columnist and editorial writer for the "Los Angeles Daily News". She has previously worked for conservative interest groups and for a Republican leader of the California State Assembly. - Herb Caen
Herbert Eugene Caen (April 3, 1916 - February 1, 1997) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist working in San Francisco. Born in Sacramento, California, Caen worked for the "San Francisco Chronicle" from the late 1930s until his death, with an interruption from 1950 to 1958 during which he wrote for the "San Francisco Examiner." His collection of essays entitled "Baghdad-by-the-Bay" was published in 1949. - Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman is currently the media columnist for The Nation and MSNBC.com. In recent years, he has also been a contributing editor to Worth, Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones, World Policy Journal, and IntellectualCapital.com. He is the author of Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (HarperCollins, 1992 and Cornell University Press, 2000), winner of the 1992 Orwell Award; Who Speaks for America? - Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris is a film critic at "Boston Globe". Before that he wrote for the "San Francisco Examiner", and later at the "San Francisco Chronicle". He also wrote for and edited the Culture section for "Student.Com". He graduated from Yale University in 1997 and grew up in Philadelphia. He now lives in Cambridge. At the "Globe" he reviews films along side Ty Burr. - Phil Bronstein
Phil Bronstein is the executive vice president and editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. He was previously married to actress Sharon Stone. - Tom Lantos
Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos, Ph.D (born February 1 1928, Budapest, Hungary as Lantos Tamás Péter) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1981, representing California's 12th congressional district, located in the southwest part of San Francisco County and the northern part of San Mateo County. He is the chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"' Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling"' on March 24, 1919) is an American poet. He is also the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house; the store and publishing company that published early literary works of the Beat generation, and helped to launch the careers of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. - Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon (1951-) is an American journalist, media critic and antiwar activist. A longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), Solomon is also the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national consortium of policy researchers and analysts which works pro-actively to provide alternative sources for journalists. His weekly column, "Media Beat", has been in national syndication since 1992. - David Sirota
David Sirota is the bestselling author of the books "Hostile Takeover" (2006) and "The Uprising" (2008). He is a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network - both nonpartisan organizations. E-mail him at ds@davidsirota.com. - Robert Graysmith
Robert Graysmith (born September 17, 1942) is a true-crime author of the books "Zodiac"; "Zodiac Unmasked: the Identity of America's Most Exclusive Serial Killer"; "Unabomber: a Desire to Kill"; "The Murder of Bob Crane: Who Killed the Star of Hogan's Heroes?"; "The Bell Tower:The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved" and "Amerithrax: The Hunt for the Anthrax Killer". - Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders "is the host of "RadioNation" heard on Air America Radio and syndicated to non-commercial affiliates nationwide. She is the author most recently, of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (The Penguin Press, 2007) and also BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), an investigation into the women in George W. Bush's Cabinet. Publisher's Weekly called Flanders' New York Times best-seller, "fierce, funny and intelligent." - Paul Avery
Paul Avery (1934 - December 10, 2000) was an American journalist best known for his involvement in the Zodiac Killer and Patricia Hearst cases. He was born in Honolulu, the son of U.S. Navy officer. He was raised and educated in Honolulu, Oakland, California, and Washington, D.C.. He started his career in journalism in 1955 working at a variety of newspapers before joining the "San Francisco Chronicle" in 1959. - Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31 1912 - November 16 2006) was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. An advocate of laissez-faire capitalism, Friedman made major contributions to the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics, economic history and statistics. In 1976, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, … - Armistead Maupin
Armistead Jones Maupin Jr. (born) is an American writer best known for his "Tales of the City" series of novels based in San Francisco. - Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson (born 1955) is a newspaper columnist and assistant managing editor for "The Washington Post". His columns are syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group. In his columns he generally espouses left-wing views, and often criticizes President George W. Bush for his perceived domestic- and foreign-policy failures, especially the Iraq War. He is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists. Robinson was born and grew up in Orangeburg, … - Daniel Terdiman
Daniel Terdiman is a journalist, who has been published in both print and non-print media, including "Time Magazine, The New York Times, Wired Magazine, CNET News.com, Wired News, Martha Stewart Weddings, Salon.com, Business 2.0", and the "San Francisco Chronicle". He writes about a wide range of subjects from hi-tech to the web to sports. He has also made speaking appearances at hi-tech conferences as an expert on electronic game development, … - Errol Morris
Since the premiere of his groundbreaking 1978 film, "Gates of Heaven," Errol Morris has indelibly altered our perception of the non-fiction film, presenting to audiences the mundane, bizarre and history-making with his own distinctive elan. ... Recently, Morris was highly praised for his short film that ran at the front of the 2002 Academy Awards, where he asked an admixture of anonymous and well-known people outside the movie business to talk about what they love about movies. - Don Asmussen
Don Asmussen is an editorial cartoonist for the "San Francisco Chronicle". Asmussen was born in 1967 in Rhode Island. He has worked at the Portland Press Herald, the Detroit News, the San Diego Union-Tribune, and Time Magazine. His current strip is the semi-weekly Bad Reporter created for the San Francisco Chronicle that runs under the slogan, “The lies behind the truth, … - M. H. de Young
Michael Harry de Young (September 30, 1849 - February 15, 1925), an American journalist and businessman, born in St. Louis, Missouri moved with his family to San Francisco, California while he was still young. There, he and his brother Charles de Young founded the "Daily Dramatic Chronicle" newspaper, first published on January 16, 1865. "The Chronicle" was the predecessor of the "San Francisco Chronicle", … - Ben Fong-Torres
Benjamin Fong-Torres is an American rock journalist, author, and broadcaster best known for his association with "Rolling Stone" magazine (through 1981) and the "San Francisco Chronicle" (from around 1982). Due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, Fong-Torres' father, Ricardo Fong-Torres (born Fong Kwok Seung), changed his surname to Torres and posed as a Filipino citizen in order to emigrate to the United States. - Adonal Foyle
Adonal Foyle graduated from Colgate University in 1998 with a degree in History (Magna Cum Laude). He is presently pursuing a Master's Degree in Sports Psychology at the John F. Kennedy University in Moraga, California. Drafted as a first round lottery pick in 1997, he is a veteran NBA Center, now playing for the Golden State Warriors. - Mary Karr
Mary Karr (1955 -) is an American poet, essayist and memoirist. Karr has received acclaim for her literary work from "Time", "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", and "San Francisco Chronicle". Her memoir, "The Liars' Club", published in 1995, was a "New York Times" bestseller for over a year, and was named one of the year's best books. It delves vividly and often humorously into her deeply troubled 1960s childhood, … - Rube Goldberg
Reuben Garret L. Goldberg (July 4, 1883 - December 7, 1970) was an American cartoonist. He earned lasting fame for his Rube Goldberg machines (complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect and convoluted ways). He was posthumously awarded the National Cartoonist Society Gold Key Award in 1980. Goldberg went to Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1900 and earned a degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1904. - Steve Kettmann
Steve Kettmann is an American writer and editor. His first book was "One Day at Fenway," which described a single game between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees on August 20, 2003, from a variety of perspectives. Previously, Kettmann edited "Game Time," a collection of Roger Angell's baseball writing from the New Yorker spanning forty years. Kettmann was a sportswriter for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1990 to 1999, … - Randy Shilts
Randy Shilts (August 8 1951 - February 17 1994) was a highly acclaimed, pioneering gay American journalist and author. He worked as a reporter for both "The Advocate" and the "San Francisco Chronicle", as well as for San Francisco Bay Area television stations. - Jeff Chang
Jeff Chang is an American journalist and music critic on hip-hop music and culture. His writings have appeared in publications such as "URB", "The Bomb", "San Francisco Chronicle", the "Village Voice", the "San Francisco Bay Guardian", "Vibe", "Spin", "The Nation", and "Mother Jones", as well as in his history of hip-hop, "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation", … - Randy Shaw
Randy Shaw (born 1956) is a lawyer, author and housing activist who has played a leading role in San Francisco politics (and national activism) for the last 25 years. In 1980, while a student at Hastings College of the Law, he founded the Tenderloin Housing Clinic -- a non-profit in San Francisco's Tenderloin district that advocates for low-income tenants. He passed the California Bar Exam in 1982, and has served as the Clinic's Executive Director for the past two decades. - Jason Roberts
Jason Roberts is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction. He is best known for "A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler" (2006), a biography of James Holman, the blind adventurer of the early 19th century. He was the editor of "The Learn2 Guide" (Villard) and has also contributed to "McSweeney's Internet Tendency", "The Village Voice", "The Believer", and the "San Francisco Chronicle". - Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith is a lawyer and an award winning author, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, an attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and a special consultant for the Center for Bioethics and Culture. In 2004 he was named by the National Journal as one of the nation’s top expert thinkers in bioengineering. Smith has authored or co-authored eleven books. He formerly collaborated with consumer advocate Ralph Nader, … - Chuck Klosterman
My take on Klosterman is this: if you absolutely must get a pop culture fix by reading about inane movie stars or overrated bands, you might as well read someone who is smart and funny about them, and that person is Klosterman. Although not a metal fan, I loved Fargo Rock City , and found his essays in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs exceedingly funny. - Anneli Rufus
Anneli Rufus is an award-winning American journalist and author. Born in Los Angeles, California, she first went to college in Santa Barbara, then to the University of California, Berkeley. Rufus earned an English degree and became a journalist. She's written for many publications, including Salon.com, the "San Francisco Chronicle" and the "Boston Globe". Currently she is the literary editor for the "East Bay Express", an alternative weekly newspaper. - Katharine Mieszkowski
Katharine Mieszkowski is a senior writer for Salon.com. In 2004, she reported from India for Salon about the outsourcing of technology jobs. Her commentaries have been featured on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and "Living on Earth." A former senior writer for Fast Company magazine, she has also written for the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Magazine, MS. Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and High Country News.
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