Made famous to us plebeians not by the names littering the social registry and its many sad suck-ups (an aside: ahem, our rent is due soon, bitches), but by the much-missed former SF Weekly's "Dog Bites" columnist Laurel Wellman, Nob Hill Gazette just landed another beloved local writer, former Chronicle society scribe Catherine Bigelow. She starts today as the top-drawer publication's shiny new Deputy Editor & Society Columnist, working alongside longtime Editor Merla Zellerbach. An......

It's all about sex and land use around here in San Francisco, as kink.com (probably NSFW) moves into the Mission Armory and gets the official not-very-welcome wagon greeting from fifty community members yesterday, who braved the rain to protest the online porn industry. Much to the protestors' chagrin, though, it turns out kink.com has already moved in and started filming, and they didn't need to get permission from anyone to do so. The Armory's got......

We're sorry, but that's it. We added the SFGate blog to our Bloglines feeds because we figured that we could just ignore Mark Morford and maybe there would be some good stuff. Seriously, we gave them the benefit of the doubt. But then one David Adams decided that he'd pimp Laurel Wellman's replacement Pati Poblete in our comments (go read it -- it's both poorly written and obsequious). For shame, SPAMmer! You even posted from......

Is it too early for San Francisco 1999 nostalgia? The NASDAQ was peaking, IPs were O-ing, and those dark blue button-down shirts were so in? Remember when they said the only way you could get an apartment was if you could offer your landlord stock options? Remember the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project? Well, in these wintry economic climes, we miss the go-go 99s -- and we especially miss the ace reporter that covered the whole......

For those wondering what happens to columnists when they get let go from their respective papers, we're beginning to find out that just like everyone else, they go blog. Oh, Internet, what aren't you good for? Case in point is Glenn Dickey, ex-columnist for the Chronicle who was unceremoniously "reassigned" last fall. While he still writes the occasional story for the Chronicle, his long-running column has ceased to be. So, over the past month, Dickey has gone online with a blog of his own, GlennDickey.com. Could Laurel Wellman be next? Rob Morse? Jon Carroll's cats? ...

While we may not be big fans of golf, we are, however, big fans of the Chronicle's golf columnist Brian Murphy. Well, more like big fans of his Weekend Water Cooler column that runs every Monday on ESPN.com's Page 2. He loves the Giants, international football, and drinking Guinness at the Haights' own Martin Mack's- three things that we are definitely down with. Which is why we were saddened to read that yet another Chronicle......

Imagine our surprise this morning when we opened up the Chronicle's sports section only to see farewell columns by the Sporting Green mainstays Tom Fitzgerald and Glenn Dickey. Not only that, but right next to each other. Fitzgerald has been writing "Open Season," a roundup of funny quotes, stories and jokes, since 1989, and Dickey has been writing his column since 1971. Both say they are being "reassigned" to writing "sports features" and other......