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  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Does Groupon Hurt a Restaurant's Ratings?

    Does Groupon bring out the trolls?​The selling point of daily deal sites like Groupon and LivingSocial has long been that they bring in new customers and new revenue. Though there's concern that the online-deal market is saturated, deal sites may bring in as much as $1 billion in revenue this year ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Dave Duerson, Former NFL Safety Who Shot Himself, Had Brain Trauma

    Illustration by Doug Fraser​Another startling indication of the potential prevalence of football-related brain degeneration came to light yesterday, as the disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) was diagnosed in the autopsied brain of deceased Chicago Bears safety Dave Duerson.The ... More >>

  • News

    September 29, 2010

    Head Case

    Experts say ex-football players with head injuries often end up in the criminal justice system. Former USC lineman Chris Brymer is exhibit A.

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    Judge (Sort of) Realizes Absurdity in Slapping Music-Sharing Students with Huge Fines

    Francesco Marino / FreeDigitalPhotos.net​Strike one up for common sense -- and another one down for the Recording Industry Association of America.Earlier today, a federal judge cut the penalty against convicted music file-sharer Joel Tenenbaum by a factor of 10 -- from $675,000 to $67,500 -- after ... More >>

  • News

    May 6, 2009

    Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings

    Francesco Marino / FreeDigitalPhotos.net​Strike one up for common sense -- and another one down for the Recording Industry Association of America.Earlier today, a federal judge cut the penalty against convicted music file-sharer Joel Tenenbaum by a factor of 10 -- from $675,000 to $67,500 -- after ... More >>

  • News

    April 29, 2009

    Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings

    Francesco Marino / FreeDigitalPhotos.net​Strike one up for common sense -- and another one down for the Recording Industry Association of America.Earlier today, a federal judge cut the penalty against convicted music file-sharer Joel Tenenbaum by a factor of 10 -- from $675,000 to $67,500 -- after ... More >>

  • News

    March 25, 2009

    Gathering Storm

    They pile up their stuff to the point of fire danger and rat infestation. A task force is taking on this nearly insurmountable problem.

  • Film

    March 12, 2008

    He'll Be Your Mirror

    Don't blame Funny Games Michael Haneke if you don't like what you see.

  • News

    August 30, 2006

    Looted

    How an eccentric architect with a penchant for pre-Columbian relics rocked the antiquities world and became the de Young Museum's most mysterious donor

  • Film

    December 1, 2004

    Anatomy of a Sumbitch

    Overnight, a would-be auteur destroyed his future

  • Film

    October 13, 2004

    The People's Historian

    A documentary on Howard Zinn shines with the light of its subject

  • News

    January 28, 2004

    A Question of Risk

    Plans for a biodefense "hot lab" at Lawrence Livermore have ecologists, disarmament advocates, and mainstream scientists up in arms

  • News

    March 14, 2001

    Magazine Dreams

    Will San Francisco finally get the city magazine it deserves?

  • News

    December 8, 1999

    Small Wonders

    Local scientists are shrinking chips and wires to atomic scale, revolutionizing the electronics industry. But most of the nanotechnological advances you've read about are outsized hype.

  • Music

    January 21, 1998

    Riff Raff

    Local scientists are shrinking chips and wires to atomic scale, revolutionizing the electronics industry. But most of the nanotechnological advances you've read about are outsized hype.

  • Culture

    August 27, 1997

    Stage

    Local scientists are shrinking chips and wires to atomic scale, revolutionizing the electronics industry. But most of the nanotechnological advances you've read about are outsized hype.

  • News

    February 14, 1996

    Hinkle, Hinkle, Little Star (Part II)

    There are two joys in life - making things and breaking things - and pirate journalist Warren Hinkle has excelled at both

  • News

    February 14, 1996

    Hinckle, Hinckle, Little Star (Part I)

    There are two joys in life -- making things and breaking things -- and pirate journalist Warren Hinckle has excelled at both

  • News

    June 7, 1995

    Whats Shakin at Epicenter?

    The Mission's punk collective turns 5

  • News

    May 24, 1995

    Mal on the Street

    Verbal Prankster Mal Sharpe and his partner, Jim Coyle, bushwacked San Francisco in the early '60s, posing absurd man-in-the street questions to the unsuspecting. Taping the encounters, the dup invented a shtick that was part comedy, part performance art

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