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The San Francisco Herald is a newsletter/website in San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

, founded by Gene Mahoney. It was a newspaper from its debut in July 1998 until January 2008. As the newspaper/magazine industry rapidly crumbled due to declining advertising and readership, the Herald became a newsletter, with the longer articles and comics appearing solely on its website. The Herald was originally published every other month and then monthly. In its last years as a newspaper it went quarterly.

In 2001 The Herald won the SF Weekly
SF Weekly
SF Weekly is a free alternative weekly newspaper in San Francisco, California. The newspaper, distributed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area every Wednesday, is published by Village Voice Media, a 16-paper alt weekly newspaper chain that also includes the New York City Village Voice and the Los...

's "Best Of" Independent Paper of the Year Award. Most of the articles were based on life in San Francisco, and several writers became popular in the Bay Area. The paper also served as an outlet for Mahoney's own comic pages, "Good Clean Fun", following the adventures of fictional characters Chauncy Dillinger and Lee Harvey Wembley, among others.

Most of the writers/artists were friends of Gene Mahoney and contributed to the paper for free in an attempt to help it take off. The website was created and maintained by columnist James Dylan. Kimberlye Gold has interviewed many prominent figures for the paper, including ex-Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres
Ben Fong-Torres
Benjamin Fong-Torres is an American rock journalist, author, and broadcaster best known for his association with Rolling Stone magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle .-Biography:Due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, Fong-Torres' father, Ricardo Fong-Torres Benjamin Fong-Torres (方振豪; Cantonese:...

, actor/comedian Richard Lewis
Richard Lewis (comedian)
-Early life:Lewis was born in Brooklyn, New York City and was raised in Englewood, New Jersey. His father worked as a caterer and his mother was an actress. Lewis is Jewish. He later attended Ohio State University and was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity....

, comedian Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, and recording artist. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially those pertaining to race and sexuality. She has also directed and appeared in music...

, 1970s band Bad Company
Bad Company
Bad Company were an English rock supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of two former Free band members — singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke — as well as Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell. Peter Grant, who, in years prior, was a key component of...

 and 1980s band Berlin
Berlin (band)
Berlin is an American New Wave/Synthpop band. The group was formed in Los Angeles in 1978 by John Crawford . The band contained Crawford, Terri Nunn , David Diamond , Ric Olsen , Matt Reid and Rod Learned . Learned left during the first EU tour and was replaced by Rob Brill...

. (There was a running inside joke that Mahoney has a "crush" on Berlin's lead singer Terri Nunn
Terri Nunn
Terri Kathleen Nunn , is an American singer and actress. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the New Wave band Berlin.-Biography:...

, as she has appeared on the cover of the paper numerous times.) Gold also managed to attend several Mill Valley Film Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival
The Mill Valley Film Festival is an annual, non-competitive film festival presented by the California Film Institute. Known as a filmmakers’ festival, the annual Mill Valley Film Festival offers a non-competitive environment for exhibiting independent and world cinema.Founded in 1978 by MVFF...

's for the paper. The paper was found in coffee-shops, restaurants and bars in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In 2006 The San Francisco Herald became another edition of the quarterly-published California Herald, as the distribution of the paper increased to many other areas of the Golden State. In addition to San Francisco, there were separate editions of The Herald for Marin, north San Mateo, south San Mateo, Palo Alto, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Redwood City, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, and Hollywood.

In summer 2007 the California Herald debuted editions in San Bruno, Oakland, Alameda, Sacramento, San Luis Obispo, Santa Rosa, Burlingame, Los Gatos, Campbell, Mountain View, Menlo Park, South San Francisco, and San Carlos. Also in the summer of 2007, The San Francisco Herald broke up into nine editions for the following neighborhoods: North Beach, the Haight, the Mission, the Richmond, Pacific Heights, Polk Gulch, the Sunset, Diamond Heights, and Nob Hill.

As advertisers continued to abandon newspapers in favor of the Internet - and the recession of the first decade of the 21st century set in — The Herald ceased print publication. On July 1, 2008 — the tenth anniversary of the Herald — Cal-List.com (an online-only version of The Herald) debuted. In May 2009 — after ten months of Cal-List.com — it was deemed a failure and abandoned, and the San Francisco Herald newsletter debuted, distributed to the same locations as the newspaper version. The Heralds latest (its fourth) website, SanFranciscoHerald.Net, was also introduced. Revenue for The Herald is now made by the marketing of clients' products, services, and events, rather than the traditional model of print advertising.

Columnists and regular contributors

  • James Dylan
  • Steven Capozzola
  • Kimberlye Gold
  • Howard Hallis
    Howard Hallis
    Howard Hallis is an American artist. He is noted for his works of lenticular art, as well as for The Picture of Everything, a massive painting incorporating images of several thousand people and items, both real and imaginary.-Biography:After graduating from UCLA in 1994, Hallis worked as a...

  • Ace Backwords
    Ace Backwords
    Ace Backwords is a former underground cartoonist based in the United States.Backwords published a punk rock tabloid from 1982 to 1984 featuring interviews with Johnny Rotten, Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins, Charles Bukowski, R. Crumb, and Charles Schulz. A collection of his comics, Twisted Image,...

  • Lana Alattera
  • Harris Rosenbloom

The San Francisco Herald is a newsletter/website in San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

, founded by Gene Mahoney. It was a newspaper from its debut in July 1998 until January 2008. As the newspaper/magazine industry rapidly crumbled due to declining advertising and readership, the Herald became a newsletter, with the longer articles and comics appearing solely on its website. The Herald was originally published every other month and then monthly. In its last years as a newspaper it went quarterly.

In 2001 The Herald won the SF Weekly
SF Weekly
SF Weekly is a free alternative weekly newspaper in San Francisco, California. The newspaper, distributed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area every Wednesday, is published by Village Voice Media, a 16-paper alt weekly newspaper chain that also includes the New York City Village Voice and the Los...

's "Best Of" Independent Paper of the Year Award. Most of the articles were based on life in San Francisco, and several writers became popular in the Bay Area. The paper also served as an outlet for Mahoney's own comic pages, "Good Clean Fun", following the adventures of fictional characters Chauncy Dillinger and Lee Harvey Wembley, among others.

Most of the writers/artists were friends of Gene Mahoney and contributed to the paper for free in an attempt to help it take off. The website was created and maintained by columnist James Dylan. Kimberlye Gold has interviewed many prominent figures for the paper, including ex-Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres
Ben Fong-Torres
Benjamin Fong-Torres is an American rock journalist, author, and broadcaster best known for his association with Rolling Stone magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle .-Biography:Due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, Fong-Torres' father, Ricardo Fong-Torres Benjamin Fong-Torres (方振豪; Cantonese:...

, actor/comedian Richard Lewis
Richard Lewis (comedian)
-Early life:Lewis was born in Brooklyn, New York City and was raised in Englewood, New Jersey. His father worked as a caterer and his mother was an actress. Lewis is Jewish. He later attended Ohio State University and was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity....

, comedian Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, and recording artist. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially those pertaining to race and sexuality. She has also directed and appeared in music...

, 1970s band Bad Company
Bad Company
Bad Company were an English rock supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of two former Free band members — singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke — as well as Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell. Peter Grant, who, in years prior, was a key component of...

 and 1980s band Berlin
Berlin (band)
Berlin is an American New Wave/Synthpop band. The group was formed in Los Angeles in 1978 by John Crawford . The band contained Crawford, Terri Nunn , David Diamond , Ric Olsen , Matt Reid and Rod Learned . Learned left during the first EU tour and was replaced by Rob Brill...

. (There was a running inside joke that Mahoney has a "crush" on Berlin's lead singer Terri Nunn
Terri Nunn
Terri Kathleen Nunn , is an American singer and actress. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the New Wave band Berlin.-Biography:...

, as she has appeared on the cover of the paper numerous times.) Gold also managed to attend several Mill Valley Film Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival
The Mill Valley Film Festival is an annual, non-competitive film festival presented by the California Film Institute. Known as a filmmakers’ festival, the annual Mill Valley Film Festival offers a non-competitive environment for exhibiting independent and world cinema.Founded in 1978 by MVFF...

's for the paper. The paper was found in coffee-shops, restaurants and bars in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In 2006 The San Francisco Herald became another edition of the quarterly-published California Herald, as the distribution of the paper increased to many other areas of the Golden State. In addition to San Francisco, there were separate editions of The Herald for Marin, north San Mateo, south San Mateo, Palo Alto, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Redwood City, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, and Hollywood.

In summer 2007 the California Herald debuted editions in San Bruno, Oakland, Alameda, Sacramento, San Luis Obispo, Santa Rosa, Burlingame, Los Gatos, Campbell, Mountain View, Menlo Park, South San Francisco, and San Carlos. Also in the summer of 2007, The San Francisco Herald broke up into nine editions for the following neighborhoods: North Beach, the Haight, the Mission, the Richmond, Pacific Heights, Polk Gulch, the Sunset, Diamond Heights, and Nob Hill.

As advertisers continued to abandon newspapers in favor of the Internet - and the recession of the first decade of the 21st century set in — The Herald ceased print publication. On July 1, 2008 — the tenth anniversary of the Herald — Cal-List.com (an online-only version of The Herald) debuted. In May 2009 — after ten months of Cal-List.com — it was deemed a failure and abandoned, and the San Francisco Herald newsletter debuted, distributed to the same locations as the newspaper version. The Heralds latest (its fourth) website, SanFranciscoHerald.Net, was also introduced. Revenue for The Herald is now made by the marketing of clients' products, services, and events, rather than the traditional model of print advertising.

Columnists and regular contributors

  • James Dylan
  • Steven Capozzola
  • Kimberlye Gold
  • Howard Hallis
    Howard Hallis
    Howard Hallis is an American artist. He is noted for his works of lenticular art, as well as for The Picture of Everything, a massive painting incorporating images of several thousand people and items, both real and imaginary.-Biography:After graduating from UCLA in 1994, Hallis worked as a...

  • Ace Backwords
    Ace Backwords
    Ace Backwords is a former underground cartoonist based in the United States.Backwords published a punk rock tabloid from 1982 to 1984 featuring interviews with Johnny Rotten, Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins, Charles Bukowski, R. Crumb, and Charles Schulz. A collection of his comics, Twisted Image,...

  • Lana Alattera
  • Harris Rosenbloom

The San Francisco Herald is a newsletter/website in San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

, founded by Gene Mahoney. It was a newspaper from its debut in July 1998 until January 2008. As the newspaper/magazine industry rapidly crumbled due to declining advertising and readership, the Herald became a newsletter, with the longer articles and comics appearing solely on its website. The Herald was originally published every other month and then monthly. In its last years as a newspaper it went quarterly.

In 2001 The Herald won the SF Weekly
SF Weekly
SF Weekly is a free alternative weekly newspaper in San Francisco, California. The newspaper, distributed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area every Wednesday, is published by Village Voice Media, a 16-paper alt weekly newspaper chain that also includes the New York City Village Voice and the Los...

's "Best Of" Independent Paper of the Year Award. Most of the articles were based on life in San Francisco, and several writers became popular in the Bay Area. The paper also served as an outlet for Mahoney's own comic pages, "Good Clean Fun", following the adventures of fictional characters Chauncy Dillinger and Lee Harvey Wembley, among others.

Most of the writers/artists were friends of Gene Mahoney and contributed to the paper for free in an attempt to help it take off. The website was created and maintained by columnist James Dylan. Kimberlye Gold has interviewed many prominent figures for the paper, including ex-Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres
Ben Fong-Torres
Benjamin Fong-Torres is an American rock journalist, author, and broadcaster best known for his association with Rolling Stone magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle .-Biography:Due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, Fong-Torres' father, Ricardo Fong-Torres Benjamin Fong-Torres (方振豪; Cantonese:...

, actor/comedian Richard Lewis
Richard Lewis (comedian)
-Early life:Lewis was born in Brooklyn, New York City and was raised in Englewood, New Jersey. His father worked as a caterer and his mother was an actress. Lewis is Jewish. He later attended Ohio State University and was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity....

, comedian Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, and recording artist. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially those pertaining to race and sexuality. She has also directed and appeared in music...

, 1970s band Bad Company
Bad Company
Bad Company were an English rock supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of two former Free band members — singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke — as well as Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell. Peter Grant, who, in years prior, was a key component of...

 and 1980s band Berlin
Berlin (band)
Berlin is an American New Wave/Synthpop band. The group was formed in Los Angeles in 1978 by John Crawford . The band contained Crawford, Terri Nunn , David Diamond , Ric Olsen , Matt Reid and Rod Learned . Learned left during the first EU tour and was replaced by Rob Brill...

. (There was a running inside joke that Mahoney has a "crush" on Berlin's lead singer Terri Nunn
Terri Nunn
Terri Kathleen Nunn , is an American singer and actress. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the New Wave band Berlin.-Biography:...

, as she has appeared on the cover of the paper numerous times.) Gold also managed to attend several Mill Valley Film Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival
The Mill Valley Film Festival is an annual, non-competitive film festival presented by the California Film Institute. Known as a filmmakers’ festival, the annual Mill Valley Film Festival offers a non-competitive environment for exhibiting independent and world cinema.Founded in 1978 by MVFF...

's for the paper. The paper was found in coffee-shops, restaurants and bars in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In 2006 The San Francisco Herald became another edition of the quarterly-published California Herald, as the distribution of the paper increased to many other areas of the Golden State. In addition to San Francisco, there were separate editions of The Herald for Marin, north San Mateo, south San Mateo, Palo Alto, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Redwood City, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, and Hollywood.

In summer 2007 the California Herald debuted editions in San Bruno, Oakland, Alameda, Sacramento, San Luis Obispo, Santa Rosa, Burlingame, Los Gatos, Campbell, Mountain View, Menlo Park, South San Francisco, and San Carlos. Also in the summer of 2007, The San Francisco Herald broke up into nine editions for the following neighborhoods: North Beach, the Haight, the Mission, the Richmond, Pacific Heights, Polk Gulch, the Sunset, Diamond Heights, and Nob Hill.

As advertisers continued to abandon newspapers in favor of the Internet - and the recession of the first decade of the 21st century set in — The Herald ceased print publication. On July 1, 2008 — the tenth anniversary of the Herald — Cal-List.com (an online-only version of The Herald) debuted. In May 2009 — after ten months of Cal-List.com — it was deemed a failure and abandoned, and the San Francisco Herald newsletter debuted, distributed to the same locations as the newspaper version. The Heralds latest (its fourth) website, SanFranciscoHerald.Net, was also introduced. Revenue for The Herald is now made by the marketing of clients' products, services, and events, rather than the traditional model of print advertising.

Columnists and regular contributors

  • James Dylan
  • Steven Capozzola
  • Kimberlye Gold
  • Howard Hallis
    Howard Hallis
    Howard Hallis is an American artist. He is noted for his works of lenticular art, as well as for The Picture of Everything, a massive painting incorporating images of several thousand people and items, both real and imaginary.-Biography:After graduating from UCLA in 1994, Hallis worked as a...

  • Ace Backwords
    Ace Backwords
    Ace Backwords is a former underground cartoonist based in the United States.Backwords published a punk rock tabloid from 1982 to 1984 featuring interviews with Johnny Rotten, Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins, Charles Bukowski, R. Crumb, and Charles Schulz. A collection of his comics, Twisted Image,...

  • Lana Alattera
  • Harris Rosenbloom

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