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Google Glass to Be Built in U.S. By Foxconn

The clamor for American jobs includes a clamor for American-made consumer goods. This may change when iPhones double in cost -- or when tiny American fingers start making soccer balls and tennis shoes for overseas markets. But for now, American companies are hopping on this very PR-friendly bandwago ... More >>

Google Exec to Visit World's Other Mysterious, Totalitarian Empire

Google's Eric Schmidt is headed to the anti-Google country of North Korea where the American Internet guru is going to conduct mysterious business in the world's most mysterious country. His travel partner, New Mexico's former Gov. Bill Richardson has told media outlets (vaguely) that the trip is ... More >>

Chick-fil-A: Anti-Gay Marriage Chain Set to Open More Bay Area Restaurants

Chick-fil-A, the fast-food chain that San Franciscans reamed last month, has given the gay marriage movement a few more potential Bay Area locations to stage future kiss-ins. According to media outlets, the Atlanta-based chain bought property in Novato in Marin County this past month with the hopes ... More >>

How to Watch Kiss and Motley Crue Tonight Without Feeling Shame

That's right, folks. Tonight, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, Mountain View's Shoreline Amphitheatre is playing host to absurdist rock royalty, Kiss, and its even sleazier counterparts, Motley Crüe. Obviously, it will be a spectacle for the ages. But how does one go and bear witness to this riot of ridic ... More >>

Leland Yee, Champion of Shark Fin Soup, to Tout More Politically Correct Broth

​State Sen. Leland Yee, the enigmatic San Francisco politician known for his past brushes with the law and diverse array of stances on major policy issues, positioned himself last year as an opponent of a ban on shark fin soup, the Asian delicacy that depends on grisly fishing methods. That turned ... More >>

Leland Yee, Champion of Shark Fin Soup, to Tout More Politically Correct Broth

Leland Yee likes all types of soup​State Sen. Leland Yee, the enigmatic San Francisco politician known for his past brushes with the law and diverse array of stances on major policy issues, positioned himself last year as an opponent of a ban on shark fin soup, the Asian delicacy that depends on ... More >>

Obama Talks Jobs at LinkedIn

​On his swing through the West Coast, President Barack Obama stopped in Silicon Valley today where he answered questions for an hour at LinkedIn's campus in Mountain View. His main focus: Jobs. He deftly turned almost every question from the audience back into a endorsement; for his newly propos ... More >>

Rock the Bells Brings Classic Hip-Hop Debuts to the Stage

Sheila Himmel, Curator of 'San Francisco Eats,' Talks

San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library​After spending an hour or so at the Main Library earlier this week, poring over the menus on display at San Francisco Eats, I spoke to curator Sheila Himmel about the exhibit, which will be up until March. Himmel was a longtime restaurant ... More >>

Bill Graham's Sons Sue Over Lost Dylan, Aretha, and Stones Posters

Bill Graham​Legendary local concert promoter Bill Graham's sons are suing the man left in charge of his estate for allegedly selling valuable music memorabilia without informing them, the Chron reports.The suit concerns 100 sets of posters advertising shows by the Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, ... More >>

Monday Hangover: Air Guitar, Matt and Kim, Tom Petty, Faust, Live 105's BFD

Summer has arrived people. You know what that means: there are several hours during he day in which you can wear shorts (in select city micro-climates) before you start freezing to death and regretting your wardrobe choice. But that's what weekends are for: drinking enough to feel comfortable in sho ... More >>

Is Google Squared a Content-Snatching Death Star?

This search engine is fully operational...​Google is a "digital vampire" in the words of Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton. Furthering the vampiric metaphor, the search engine exists to "just suck on your blood," in the words of HDNet owner Mark Cuban. Taking things to the next step, the Mountain View comp ... More >>

Google Should Really Stick to its Core Competency

​Google Image Search FAIL via Megan McCarthy's Facebook. Click to enlarge. In the estimation of many an Internet pundit, yesterday's launch of Google Buzz was pretty much a buzzkill. After briefly giving the rumored "Twitter-killer" a go ourselves, we'd like to offer yet another suggestion to the ... More >>

Google's Iron Curtain: Are Chinese Government Hackers Responsible?

In a monumental statement earlier today, Mountain View based Google announced that they were no longer censoring their search results in China -- and that if the Chinese government did not agree to these non-censored search results this would lead to a Google pull-out."We have evidence to suggest th ... More >>

Zeppelin Hovering Over San Francisco Wants Your Spit

Our future looms overhead ...​San Franciscans lucky enough to be enjoying our lunch outside today were interrupted by the less-than-appetizing sight of a gargantuan pair of chromosomes looming over our heads. This zeppelin, which belongs to Airship Ventures, currently features advertising from the ... More >>

Noe Valley and Mission residents say Google shuttles are evil

Shoreline Food Fest is an Odd Assemblage of TV Stars, Local Chefs, and Aging Rockers

The Super Bowl of food? Let's hope the half-time show is betterAn unusual group of local chefs, TV food celebrities, and Boomer bands are coming together at Shoreline this Saturday for the Great American Food and Music Fest. "There'll be more deliciousness per square inch than you will find anywhere ... More >>

Marin Youth Center Kids Land N.A.S.A. Gig

N.A.S.A."hey, pass the mic"The young artists of the Marin Youth Center (MYC) are over the moon--almost. Having just announced the release of the MYC compilation album Many Thoughts/One MYC (available on CDBaby now ), which proves it is possible for today's youth to record curseword-free rap music, ... More >>

Modern-Day Rube Goldberg Gets the Ball(s) Rolling With Hypnotic Mecahanical Art Puzzle

Aaron Geman tried to wheel his "Mechanical Puzzle Prototype" into the San Francisco alley surreptitiously, but it was too late. He was spotted and, before he could utter a word in protest, a dozen guests at a wedding being held across the street bounded over the blacktop like shoppers at a Black F ... More >>

Upcoming Great American Food and Music Fest Features Bobby Flay, Guy Fieri, Marshall Crenshaw, Little Feat, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy -- and an Astounding Array of Eats

There'll be plenty for both foodies and music lovers to enjoy at the Great American Food and Music Fest, a one-day event running from noon to 10 p.m. on June 13 at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View.Chef and Food Network star Bobby Flay is the host, and will demonstrate his famed grilling te ... More >>

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Nice Guys Finish First

The Positive Coaching Alliance asks hard-bitten coaches to fill out workbooks and recite management jargon. It also has them saying things like, "I want to go back and relive my childhood and be coached like this."

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The road to music snobbery is paved with the music of Radiohead

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Week of February 26, 2003

Comedy of Errors

The all-female Shakespeare troupe Woman's Will stages a quality production in parks around the Bay Area

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The Luniz and the boom-market for East Oakland rap