It is important for organizations like this to survive. There is some very good writing here, and I…read moreurge folks to check it out. We need alternatives to the Chron pablum and Bay Guardian knee jerkism. But the website is a mess, and has been since inception---and this is a predominately web-based outfit. I tried to send a message to the editor on the "contact" page, and the page just disappears when you hit "send". No confirmation. I later attempted to comment on a story, but the CAPTCHA image did not display. This is trying with two separate browsers--Firefox & Chrome (with a Mac). Also, you search "San Francisco news", or "Bay Area news" on Google or Bing, and SFPP doesn't come up (at least after 10 pages). It seems to me a decent website would be a fairly high priority for these folks.

2nd Print Edition comes out on Thursday, November 11, 2010 featuring in-depth reporting on Pier 70…read moreredevelopment and proposed development of the Cargill Salt Flats in Redwood City and more...

Found the June magazine somewhere in Fisherman's Wharf, and really liked the recommendations…read more Looked all over the city for the July edition, and eventually found it at the Westfield Mall. They really need to increase their distribution, as its a pretty good read. They do give preference to advertisers, and repeat some articles. Nevertheless, it has a lot of interesting content, and is a good reference to start with, and use Yelp, Zagat's et al for updates and reviews.

i pick this magazine up from the information desk at the street level of the san francisco shopping…read morecentre. it's a decent magazine to browse through, especially since it's free. catered more towards tourists of course, but it's pretty good at giving ideas of what to do around the bay area when you run out of your own ideas...

I have worked with Wilsted and Taylor for several months publishing my book. I chose them after…read moreconsultation with a couple of museums who had worked with them. MY entire experience was fabulous. Everything was extremely businesslike and they did exactly what they said they'd do for the price they quoted me. I am very pleased with my book. I feel like I made a couple of new friends, especially Christine who was in charge of the project and Melody who is a charming person and a talented editor who made suggestions although it was always clear it was my book. I recommend W&T without reservation.

What a pleasure it is to work with publishers who value books and care about customers. I've…read morepublished two books through Wilsted & Taylor, and found them unusually considerate, fair, and responsive. Quotes have been clear, in writing, and did not change once the bill was due. This firm receives an 'A' for integrity!

CD Rom Today... then boot/mac addict... then Maximum PC... (mac addict still around too).... Years…read moreand years have passed and i have always enjoyed immensely this mag. In all its iterations... not including the mac version which i don't read. They have always provided hardware specific reviews with day to day abuse of the review systems, video cards, sound cards, printers, cameras and whatever is computer geek testable... The reading is light with a bit of sarcasm here and there from very knowledgeable editors. The mag comes with a monthly CD that usually has some cool apps to try and so on. Recommend it above most other computer mags out there.

MaximumPC is without a doubt the best magazine of its type. The reviews are consistent, the editors…read moreresponsive to emails, the content is relevant and substantive. They also have a website where the content is free. You can even download previous issues in .PDF format for free. I've been a subscriber since 1999 and continue to renew.

I love zyzzyva and the writers and writing community it supports. it doesn't feel fussy; it feels…read morecharming and engaging and intimate, like a good and true and sassy friend. i didn't realize there was a yelp page for it until i belatedly read howard junker's blog asking for people to yelp it, so here i am. when i lived in l.a. (before coming back to the City), i caught a reading of zyzzyva writers at the awesome skylight books, and howard was even there. it was a great night. not just because of the free wine and cheese. it felt familial in a literary way. the wine and cheese did help. i admit it.

With stories and poems that both your…read moreanarchist-genderbending-all-black-wearing-comparative-literature-grad-school-attending friends and your Oprah's-Book-Club-reading relatives can enjoy, ZYZZYVA is San Francisco's best literary journal that doesn't include DVDs, combs, stories by Icelandic authors, and color pages. It's also the city's best literary journal that comes out on time. Yeah, McSweeney's, you know I'm talking to you.

I never understood why people write reviews for places that are closed but I just have to do this:…read more This is my grandfather's newspaper. He started it in 1960 and ran it until the day he passed away in January 1975. My uncle then ran it on and off into the 80s. This newspaper was a way to unite the Portuguese community who had left their country to come to the Bay Area. Some of the articles may have been less newsworthy than others like the full page spread on my parent's wedding, but my grandfather loved people and loved life and loved his family and this paper was his passion and his way to bring that all together. I typed the word "Portuguese" into a Yelp search and this is the only listing that came up. I thought that was pretty amazing and I felt it was a sign that I should write about this paper and what it meant to my family and my grandfather, a wonderful man (I am told) who I never had the pleasure of meeting.

Back when the other review here was posted, I would have felt the same way. Probably a three or…read morefour star review in my case, because I'm a slightly tough grader, but I would have agreed with much of the text. However, over the past year, the magazine has essentially ceased to exist. It is pretty much a copy of the same publisher's Oakland Magazine with a different cover. Very little independent content. They've unloaded most of their columnists and writers. Unfortunately, this means that the bulk of each issue is about Oakland and the rest of the East Bay. It adds up to a mediocre regional magazine, not a local product.

This is a beautiful magazine. I love the photography and layout. I love their by the numbers…read moresection. They do a best of Alameda, I wish they would add more catagories and do an online submission hint hint hint...

While the Economist is a great source of news, they have increased their subscription rate far in…read moreexcess of inflation and have now decided to have their print subscription customers pay for the Economist to advertise itself (they substituted extracts from their 1873 magazine in the July 27th double edition in place of mailing out the August 3rd edition).

If anyone is considering purchasing a multi-year digital subscription for $445, be aware the…read moreadvertisement for this misrepresents the offer. Two times, separated by weeks, they were told this thru Chat. They agreed it misstates facts and twice said "IT" would fix it. Yesterday I received another email containing the same apparently deceptive "bargain". Whatever is the motive, the offer makes the price seem far better than it is. Given the effort to ask them to correct this, and their refusal to do so, the obvious conclusion is they choose to intentionally mislead the buyer with a known falsehood to add subscribers. If I am a math idiot, they've had two live opportunities to point that out. A sad commentary on what I believed to be a reputable enterprise.