Not the Pink Panther or the artist, but The San Francisco Chronicle's "Pink Section."
"Hand me The Pink Section," we would say -- even after it lost its color.
We're glad Phil Bronstein and his team listened to their readers. We love the distinctive look. We always have. Now, instead of The Datebook being thrown into the recycling bin along with the rest of the Sunday paper, she has a greater chance of hanging around the house -- all week long. At least she will in our house!
We look forward to painting the town pink.
Hopefully, next up on The Chronicle's docket is to bring back the "Sporting Green."
~Jennifer
The Chronicle's Sunday Datebook Editor, Joe Brown, brings the full scoop...
San Francisco Chronicle Pink Section
The San Francisco Chronicle
Welcome back to Pink! The Sunday Datebook arts and entertainment section went pink on Nov. 22, 1959, and its idiosyncratic look quickly became one of those "only in San Francisco" kind of things. It was proof of affection and tradition that when The Chronicle switched to white newsprint two years ago, many of you (and many of us) never stopped calling it "the Pink."
Beginning today, Sunday Datebook is once again in the pink. We've made this change in response to reader requests: In letters, e-mail and focus groups, many of you have told us about the long-standing emotional connection to pink pages, and how you relied on the color to help you find your favorite section. We kick things off with an essay about the color pink, a biography of the Little Man and readers' stories about the Pink section. Also the Movies section, which was a broadsheet pullout section for the past year, returns to the Pink, and we've made our movie listings more comprehensive for the entire Bay Area.
In fact, we've made all the listings more expansive and diverse: Our goal is to make the Pink section your essential seven-day, what-to-do guide for the Bay Area.
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