San Francisco (magazine)

Infobox Magazine
title = San Francisco


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image_caption = Gurbaksh Chahal on June 2008 Cover
publisher = Modern Luxury
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language = English
category = Culture
frequency = Monthly
editor = Bruce Kelley
editor_title = Editor in Chief
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country = flag|United States
website = [http://www.sanfranmag.com www.sanfranmag.com]

"San Francisco" is an American monthly magazine devoted to San Francisco Bay Area culture, including arts, food, and entertainment. It is published monthly by [http://www.modernluxury.com Modern Luxury] publications.

History

There have been two separate San Francisco magazines published in San Francisco. The first was started in the 1970's and published for several years until becoming defunct.

The second magazine has its roots starting in 1955, when San Francisco public broadcasting station KQED-TV began publishing a programming guide called "KQED in Focus". The program guide began to add more articles and took on the character of a regular magazine. The name was later changed to "Focus Magazine" and then to "San Francisco Focus". [ [http://www.kqed.org/about/history/1950s.jsp "About KQED: The 1950s"] , "KQED.com".] In 1984, a new programming guide, "Fine Tuning" was separated off from "Focus", with "Focus" carrying on as a self-contained magazine. [ [http://www.kqed.org/about/history/1980s.jsp "About KQED: The 1980s"] , "KQED.com".]

The name 'Focus' was used and continued to be used because there were unanswered legal and trademark questions in regards to, 'San Francisco Focus' being able to call themselves 'San Francisco magazine' due to the former existence of the original publication in the 1970's.

In the early 1990s, "San Francisco Focus" was the recipient of number of journalism and publishing awards, including a National Headliner Award for feature writing in 1993. In 1997, KQED sold "San Francisco Focus" to Diablo Publications in order to pay off debts. [ [http://www.kqed.org/about/history/1990s.jsp "About KQED: The 1990s"] , "KQED.com".] In 2005, "San Francisco Focus" was resold to Modern Luxury Media (a nation-wide conglomerate of city and lifestyle magazines), who re-branded the magazine as simply " San Francisco". [ [http://www.sanfran.com/files/pressroom/ModernLuxury_release1.pdf "San Francisco" magazine re-launches in a new format that redefines city and luxury magazine publishing"] (press release), Modern Luxury Media, October 18, 2005.] It is not publicly known how and if the issue regarding use of the name, 'San Francisco' for the title was resolved.

Awards

American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME)
"ASME'S "Ellie" Awards are the Oscars of Publishing"

* Finalist, Public Interest: "Innocence Lost," by Nina Martin, November 2004
* Finalist, Public Interest: "Trouble in the Presidio," by Kerry Tremain, December 2001
City & Regional Magazine Awards (CRMA)
"The CRMA's annual awards honor the best city and regional publications throughout the country."

* Gold Award, Civic Journalism: "Innocence Lost," by Nina Martin, November 2004
* Bronze Award, General Excellence, 2003
* Bronze Award, Reporting: "The Brobeck Mutiny," July 2003
* Bronze Award, Special Issue: "Think Green," June 2003
* Silver Award, Special Issue: "Our Dot-com Decade: What Really Happened," April 2002
* Bronze Award, Reporting: "What Just Happened Here?," April 2002
* Bronze Award, Food and Dining Criticism: Josh Sens's monthly review "Critical Dish" ("The Best Restaurant," July 2002; "Now We're Not Cooking," September 2002; "A Maison of His Own," November 2002)
* Bronze Award for General Criticism: Dana Goia's classical music criticism ("Good Lord!," December 2001; "Glass Appeal," October 2002; "Moulin Rogue," September 2002)

Maggie Awards
"The Western Publications Association honors the "Best in the West" in editorial and design excellence in magazine, periodical, and online publishing."

* Best Feature Article/Consumer: "What Happened to Black San Francisco", Sept. 2006, by Jaimal Yogis
* Best Feature Article/Consumer: "What it Really Means to be Green," June 2003
* Best Regularly Featured Department, Section or Column/Consumer: "City Journal"
* Best City & Metropolitan/Consumer: April 2006
James Beard Awards
"These are the highest honors in the land for food journalism."

* Finalist, Best Feature Writing, "King of the Mall," Maile Carpenter, August 2004
* Winner, Best Feature Writing, "Eating in Michael Bauer's Town," Maile Carpenter, August 2001

ee also

*San Francisco Review of Books

References

External links

* [http://www.sanfran.com Official site]