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Top 10 Bay Area Music Scandals of 2012

The Bay Area music scene had a particular flair for making headlines for reasons other than actual music in 2012. Some of these 10 incidents are totally tabloid, others are cold and criminal, but none of them are boring. From Ecstasy rings and instrument thievery to lascivious infidelity and shockin ... More >>

Ginger Snaps Super Cookies are Sprouted, Sugar Free, and Addictive

Mountain View's Freeland Foods offers a number of quality raw and gluten-free snack items, including bars, chips, and chocolate, but one product is particularly addictive. If you told Cook E. Monster that you had a cookie that was sugar-free and made with sprouted items that is difficult to stop ea ... More >>

Shabuway's Answer to Arnold Palmer: Half and Half Hot Pot

Shabuway recently opened its first San Francisco location and sixth overall in the Bay Area. Launched in San Mateo in 2004, the specialist of the Japanese hot pot style called shabu shabu opened subsequent locations in Mountain View, San Jose, Union City, and Santa Clara before venturing to San Fran ... More >>

I Love That City: An S.F. Mega-Rave Moves to Shoreline

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

I Love That City

A huge new rave moves from S.F. to the Peninsula -- before the first beat even drops.

I Love This City Festival Moved to Shoreline From AT&T Park Parking Lot

Well, it appears that the parking lots surrounding AT&T Park won't be the site of a new mega-rave in San Francisco after all. Citing "production challenges," the organizers of the I Love This City Festival have moved the two-day event to Shoreline Amphitheatre, and opted to offer partygoers free shu ... More >>

An Intergenerational Cookie of Success

​Edna's Success of Mountain View bakes from recipes that have been in the family for three generations, all the way back from when company muse Edna Hickman baked for her own Montana eatery. (With its single table, Hickman's Success Cafe was once listed as the Smallest Operating Cafe in the Guinne ... More >>

Apple, at $153 Billion, Unseats Google as World's Most Valuable Brand

Secret weapon​A surge in estimated valuation from sales of products such as the iPad has landed Apple at the top of a survey of the world's most valuable brands, displacing fellow Silicon Valley juggernaut Google.Financial-research company Millward Brown set the company's current brand value at $1 ... More >>

'Boring' Story: Google Pays $1 in Damages to Couple for Street View Transgressions

To the victor go the spoils​Pennsylvania residents Aaron and Christine Boring -- yes, you may now chuckle at our headline -- have notched a somewhat ambiguous victory in their legal battle against Google's Street View function.While the Mountain View-based company admitted that it trespassed on th ... More >>

Swelter a Little at Tuesday's Hawaiian Cocktail Shake-Off

Sarah_Ackerman/FlickrSomewhere on Maui, people are drinking mai tais. In shorts. ​Chances are you went to sleep last night wearing three layers, a hat, and an extra blanket and were still cold ― nothing like 40-something-degree weather to make you think about visiting someplace warm and gett ... More >>

Locanda da Eva Spruces Up, Things Are Popping Outside San Francisco

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Locanda da Eva in Berkeley shut down for the long weekend to redecorate, and Carolyn A. of Eater SF posts pics of the new look. SFoodie says: niiiiiiice. San Francisco gossip was apparen ... More >>

Protesters Gather At Google Headquarters, Chant 'Don't Be Evil'

techfreep.comGoogle headquarters in Mountain View​Today at noon, roughly 100 people assembled at the entrance of Google's headquarters in Mountain View. According to Yolanda Hippensteele, who was involved in coordinating the rally on behalf of the Save the Internet coalition, protesters hailed fro ... More >>

Is Google About to Launch a Facebook Killer?

Brace yourselves for a series of tech news headlines with the word "killer" in them. According to Digg founder Kevin Rose, Google is about to launch a Facebook competitor, "Google Me." Rose stated on Twitter earlier today that he heard a "huge rumor" from a "very credible source" that Google is abou ... More >>

Is Google About to Launch a Facebook Killer?

Should we brace ourselves for another round of tech news headlines with the word "killer" in them? According to Digg founder Kevin Rose, Google is about to launch a social profile service called, aptly, "Google Me." Rose stated on Twitter earlier today that he heard a "huge rumor" from a "very cred ... More >>

Conan O'Brien at Google: The World Has Completely Changed

Rounding out an unofficial tour of Silicon Valley, Conan O'Brien visited Google's Mountain View headquarters on Wednesday, ribbing Google CIO Vivek Kundra about the company's infamous aloofness: "You guys are so power mad here at Google, You're such entitled A-holes. Hey, Conan's in the area, make ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Black Keys, Common, Les Claypool, and N.E.R.D at NASA Ames

Richard Haick​Black Keys, Common, Les Claypool, and N.E.R.D at Yuri's Night Saturday, April 10, 2010 NASA Ames Q: What Russian cosmonaut made famous for being the first human to orbit earth in 1961 would eventually bring burners, hip-hoppers, rock fans, and space nerds together for ... More >>

Monday Morning Hangover: Sopping Wet

This weekend's torrential downpour was enough to keep us inside with a bottle of Jim Beam's finest, streaming Hallmark made-for-TV Criterion movies on Netflix. But in spite of the wretched weather, we managed to pull on our on-trend galoshes and slog out into the night.Richard Haick​Nerds and musi ... More >>

The Black Keys, Common, N.E.R.D @ NASA Party in Mountain View

There are plenty of space cadets in San Francisco, but Yuri's Night celebrates a man for actually leaving Earth's atmosphere. And it does this with a very Bay Area-style party, combining high technology, creative styling, and a huge dance party. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin officially became th ... More >>

Bay Area News Project Changes Name to 'Bay Citizen'; Starts Hiring

​As of this afternoon, the Bay Area News Project, the F. Warren Hellman-funded bid to reinvent the metro newspaper, has a new, Pulitzer Prize-winning managing editor, a new Web site, and a new name, "The Bay Citizen," with the slogan,  "News/Culture/Community." The new managing editor is Stev ... More >>

Beyond the Wrapped Wiener

Saison: Haute cuisine in the country

Early Bird Special: Saison

J. BirdsallHalibut in smoky seafood broth at a Saison prix fixe from July.​An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review. In any kind of normal economy -- you know, the one where the roast chicken at Zuni was a logical weeknight option when you didn't quite feel like pushing a cart ... More >>

Vegan Eats: Go Raw's Live Pumpkin Bar

​Freeland Foods of Mountain View is a family-owned operation that creates raw and vegan items that defy the usual problems of dryness and rock hard textures. The Live Pumpkin Bar has only five ingredients (sprouted pumpkin and sunflower seeds, date, agave nectar, and sea salt) and has been dried t ... More >>

Sweet Beat: Edna's Cashew Cookies

 A fabulous hybrid of cake and cookie -- plus generous amounts of whole cashews and cashew buttercream to further reel you in -- equals the kind of cookies you find yourself not wanting to share with anyone. Edna's Success of Mountain View uses a recipe that's been in the family for th ... More >>

Organizer Apologizes for Saturday's Nightmarish Great American Food and Music Fest

shaunandjenny/FlickrLong lines and disorganization left festival attendees frustrated.Calling it "the first pancake," an organizer of Saturday's Great American Food and Music Fest published a lengthy apology Sunday for the event, which featured hours-long food lines and angry attendees demanding ref ... More >>

Rock the Bells Announces Bay Area Dates

Rock the Bells 2007, San Francisco America's premier (and possibly only major) hip-hop touring festival, Rock the Bells, has announced the date and venue for the 2009 edition: August 9, at the Shoreline Auditorium in Mountain View. While ASD much prefers the parking lot of the stadium where the Gia ... More >>

Old School Fiesta Turns Violent

Kiss-FMWar perfoms during their shortened set Why can't we be friends? That's the question Latin funk band War probably asked, when their Saturday night headlining slot at KISS-FM's Old School Fiesta, held at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, ended early, due to numerous fights and six r ... More >>

Weekend Hitlist: Slow Food, Chicago and Impossible to Attain Beck Tickets

Stuff White People Like: Google

One Google Guy

Some Quick Google Tips

Google To Back Your Ass Up: GDrive on Horizon

Encore

Free Tickets: The Cure

From symphonies to smoke machines: snapshots of three very different shows

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Music Highlights

From Mahler to Morrissey, the Bay Area has it all this summer.

Dance Dance Revolution

Whole lotta shakin' goin' on

Funny Business

Week 2 of the 47th San Francisco International Film Festival

A Strange New World

Karaoke Dreamin'

The blisteringly harsh world of the Bay Area's competitive karaoke scene is no match for my version of "Three Times a Lady."

Letters to the Editor

Letters from April 4, 2001

Letters to the Editor

Letters from March 21, 2001

Stage

Night + Day

Teaching Genocide

A principal and a teacher battle over a high school Holocaust course

Dish

Night+Day