San Francisco (magazine)

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San Francisco
Editor in Chief	Bruce Kelley
Categories	Culture
Frequency	Monthly
Publisher	Modern Luxury
First issue
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	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 Modern Luxury publications.

1 History
2 Awards
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] 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 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.^[1] In 1984, a new programming guide, Fine Tuning was separated off from Focus, with Focus carrying on as a self-contained magazine.^[2] 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.^[3] 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.^[4] It is not publicly known how and if the issue regarding use of the name, 'San Francisco' for the title was resolved.

[edit] 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