SF Weekly
SF Weekly was a free alternative weekly newspaper in San Francisco, California, that was distributed every Thursday, and was published by the San Francisco Print Media Company. The paper has won national journalism awards, and sponsored the SF Weekly Music Awards. History. "SF Weekly" was founded locally in the late 1970s by Christopher Hildreth and Edward Bachman and originally named "San Francisco Music Calendar, the Magazine or Poster Art". Hildreth saw a need for local artists to have a place to advertise performances and articles. The key feature was the centerfold calendar listings for local art events. The  paper was bought by Village Voice Media (then New Times Media) in 1995. In September 2012, Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan and Jeff Mars bought Village Voice Media's papers and associated web properties from its founders and formed Voice Media Group. Four months later, "SF Weekly" was sold to the San Francisco Media Company, owners of "The San Francisco Examiner" and the "Weekly"s long-time rival "San Francisco Bay Guardian", giving the publishers control of three of the four major English-language newspapers in San Francisco. In 2014, San Francisco Media Co. became fully owned by  Black Press. The "Bay Guardian" was closed in 2014, leaving the "Weekly" as the only print alternative weekly in San Francisco. In December 2020, Clint Reilly Communications bought "SF Weekly" together with the "Examiner", and announced in September 2021 that at the end of that month it would cease publication "for the foreseeable future". The online version, of the recently closed "SFWeekly", hardcopy periodical of the same name in San Francisco, now promotes mail-order bride websites. SF Weekly Music Awards. The annual SF Weekly Music Awards were based on a popular vote for nominees and were announced in October  at the Warfield Theatre. Controversies. Armenian genocide. With an October 30, 2007 Op-Ed blog entitled "SF's Needs to Kill Its Armenian Genocide Resolution", Benjamin Wachs stirred controversy due to remarks deemed to be extremely offensive by descendants of survivors of the Armenian genocide by pondering what gift would most appropriate for his girlfriend to celebrate Armenian Genocide Day. The "Weekly"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s former web editor David Downs responded by musing "If there was a genocide, then why is there so many left of you around to bitch?" Ethics. The "SF Weekly" was the subject of ethical controversy in  Jan., 2006, when a column about the AVN porn awards misidentified the event's location and honorees. The paper's editor had apparently altered a column about a different event from years before. In July 2015, after Matt Saincome wrote "Counting Cards at Graton Casino", the casino notified "SF Weekly" of its intention to pull tens of thousands of dollars in ad buys, the publisher of "SF Weekly", Glenn Zuehls, reportedly demanded that SF Weekly staff remedy the advertiser with a favorable cover story, by directly assigning the story to a reporter. Section::::"Bay Guardian Company, Inc. v SF Weekly, et  al.". "The San Francisco Bay Guardian", another free alternative weekly newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area, sued "SF Weekly" in civil court, alleging that it tried to put the "Bay Guardian" out of business by selling ads below cost. The "Guardian" won the suit in March, 2008, and was granted $6.2 million in damages, a figure that swelled to $21 million with antitrust penalties and interest by June 2010. After the verdict, the "Guardian" obtained court orders allowing it to seize and sell the "Weekly"s two delivery trucks and collect half of the "Weekly"s ad revenue. Headquarters . The offices of "SF Weekly" are on Market Street. Previous locations have included: 225 Bush Street, 55 Francisco Street, Suite 3800 of 185 Berry Street (China Basin Landing), and 425 Brannan Street.