San Francisco Herald
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The San Francisco Herald is a free alternative newspaper in San Francisco, California that comes out monthly. The newspaper is published by Gene Mahoney.
The paper was started and edited by Gene Mahoney in 1995. It peaked in 2001, winning the SF Weekly's "Best Of" Independent Paper of the Year Award. Most of the articles were based on life in San Francisco, and several writers became quite popular in the 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.
All of the writers/artists are friends of Gene Mahoney and contributed to the paper for free in an attempt to help it take off. The web site was, for several years, created and maintained by columnist James Dylan[1]. Other regular writers were or still are musician Steven Capozzola[2], musician Kim Gold[3], Howard Hallis and Harold Rosenbloom. Kim Gold has interviewed many prominent figures for the paper, to include ex-Rolling Stone Editor Ben Fong-Torres, actor/comedian Richard Lewis, comedian Margaret Cho, and 80's bands Bad Company and Berlin. (There is a running inside joke that Mahoney has a "crush" on Berlin's lead singer Terri Nunn, as she has appeared on the cover of the paper numerous times.) Gold also managed to attend several Mill Valley Film Festival's for the paper. The paper can be found in coffee-shops, restaurants and bars in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The "dot.com" bust of 2000 almost killed the paper, as most of the advertisers in the paper relied on the internet companies, yet the paper survived thanks to the editor himself making cold-calls and walking the streets, and the selfless contributions of his friends and writers. Since Mahoney made repeated trips to Los Angeles and distributed the paper there, it didn't make much sense to call it the San Francisco Herald, so in 2005 he prints an alternative paper titled the "California Herald".
