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San Francisco Bay Area Will Host Super Bowl L in 2016

The Bay Area will host Superbowl L in 2016. The decision, voted on by NFL team owners today, was not much of a surprise. The league has been eager to reward franchises that build new stadiums-- the 49ers, whose $1.2 billion Santa Clara stadium will open in 2014, follow in the recent footsteps of the ... More >>

Photos: 99.7 Now FM's Triple Ho Show Goes Gangnam Style

Psy, Carly Rae Jepsen, Owl City, Austin Mahone, Cher Lloyd, and more 99.7's Triple Ho Holiday Concert San Jose State Event Center Arena Dec. 14, 2012 It was pretty much the pop one-two of the year: Carly Rae Jepsen and Psy, plus a bunch of slightly less ubiquitous names from the new pop universe of ... More >>

Tasty Burritos Come With a Warm Welcome at Victor's

When you walk into Graciela Mendoza Moreno's restaurant, she will surprise you with a compliment. "Guapo!" or "Guapa!" she shouts ("Handsome!" or "Beautiful!") to every customer who enters Victor's Mexican restaurant in SOMA. She stands at the helm of the burrito assembly line, beside the mild and s ... More >>

Live Review, 3/10/12: Drake Gets Chatty in San Jose

Drake A$AP Rocky, Kendrick Lamar, Chase N. Cache Saturday, March 10, 2011 San Jose State Event Center Better than: Eating canned beans in the dark while combing through all the Drake memes on Tumblr. Halfway through his set at the San Jose State Event Center on Saturday, Drake broke the color line ... More >>

California Colleges Are Not Medical Marijuana Friendly

​For some, cannabis and college may go together like ... well, beer and college, or massive debt and college (and if you manage to show up to 8 a.m. lectures reeking more of Cypress Hill than frat row, points for diversity, anyway).  This is not the case in California, at least not when talki ... More >>

Q&A: Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister on Touring with Megadeth and His Forthcoming Solo Album

Rightfully worshipped by headbangers and punks alike, Motörhead and its iconic founder, bassist and principle songwriter Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, have been grinding out their influential brand of balls-out rock for nearly four decades. Founded after Lemmy was fired from British space-rock outfit Hawk ... More >>

Seducing Charlie Barker's Amy Glazer Talks About Meaninglessness, Media, and Women in Film

Amy Glazer, a theater and film professor at San Jose State University, has directed plays for Bay Area theaters including the Magic Theatre, Traveling Jewish Theatre, SF Playhouse and Marin Theatre Company. She has also made films based on plays she's directed, including her most recent, Seducing Ch ... More >>

Saturday: Stevie Nicks Thanks Fans for Her Time at the Fillmore

Stevie Nicks October 8, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Unicorn sightings. Stevie Nicks spent quite a few moments of Saturday night's performance at the Fillmore marveling that she was onstage at the Fillmore, the place where she once attended concerts by the likes of the Byrds and Jimi Hendrix and ... More >>

Stevie Nicks Will Play the Fillmore in October

Warner Reprise​Earlier this year, Menlo-Atherton High School graduate and former San Jose State University student Stevie Nicks released In Your Dreams, her first album in a decade -- timed with the 30th anniversary of her solo debut, Bella Donna. Today, she announced a trio of shows back in t ... More >>

Willie Brown Not Returning Chronicle's Calls

Hello, operator? ​During Herb Caen's heyday, he shared lunch with Willie Brown every week. When the Chronicle tabbed the latter to fill the former's long-empty shoes three years ago, the paper was desperately hoping it could, once again, win readers with an eccentric man about town. Brown, of cour ... More >>

Muslim Photographer Surveils His Own Life in a Post-9/11 World

No Bids Yet For Tommie Smith's Gold Medal

For sale​Yesterday, we reported that former San Jose State University sprinter Tommie Smith -- the man famously raising a black-gloved fist in a Black Power salute during the 1968 Olympic Games -- was selling off his medal and track spikes. Astoundingly, the $250,000 minimum price tag (not includi ... More >>

Tommie Smith Selling Gold Medal (PICS)

...Step three: Profit​Want a Gold Medal? Start training. Or, start saving. Tommie Smith, the former San Jose State track star immortalized when he and fellow San Jose teammate John Carlos gave Black Power salutes on the medal stand in 1968, is hawking his gold medal. You can put in your bid here a ... More >>

The Week In Event Names: The Good, The Bad, The WTF

South Carolina death metallurgists Lecherous Nocturne play Wednesday at the DNA Lounge​This post-Fleet Week week should be a good one for concerts around here. Below, for your consideration, are some upcoming shows whose names (or participants' names) tickle the imagination, the gag reflex, or the ... More >>

Jeff Garcia and 'The Jerseys That Should Not Be'

Et Tu, Jeff?​Jeff Garcia is one of my favorite football players of all-time. I first saw him play -- in person no less -- in October of 1990 when he very nearly led San Jose State to upset a damn good Cal squad in Berkeley. The Bears held on, 35-34. He next crossed Bay Area fans' paths when he pla ... More >>

You Can Listen to Heavy Metal While Gardening, Though

Election 2010: Democrats Look Safe in Bay Area -- For Now

Rep. Jerry McNerney: First off the island?​With all the sturm und drang gripping the Democratic party as the fall election approaches -- some observers are forecasting a Republican take-back of the House of Representatives, prompted by widespread anger over the economy and some of President Barack ... More >>

51st State: A Roving Taste of American Regional Food Downtown

51st StateThe truck parks weekdays in three downtown locations.​The 51st state: Would that be Puerto Rico? Gitmo? According to Francesca Salcido, the 51st state is a state of food. Salcido and partners Nathan Smith and Daniel Gutierrez rolled out their downtown mobile eatery two weeks ago. S ... More >>

If BART reopens its public restrooms, then the terrorists win

Who Likes Cops? Survey Claims Police-for-Hire More Popular than SFPD

A survey conducted by a San Jose State professor indicates that many customers of the Patrol Special Police, a quasi-public security service whose officers have been walking the streets of San Francisco since the days of the Gold Rush, prefer the specials to their counterparts in the San Francisco ... More >>

Local Warming: Climate change comes to S.F.

Say It Ain't So! USF Rugby Considers Shaving the Maniacal Mustache Look.

Too brilliant to last?​Last season, the University of San Francisco's rugby squad lost every game it played -- including a drubbing by a San Jose State team that hadn't won a game in five years. But USF looked great.  How's that? While the "Defenders of the Faith" weren't the most adept rugby ... More >>

Last Night: Dethklok, Mastodon, Converge and High on Fire

​Metalocalypse Tour with Dethklok, Mastodon, Converge and High on Fire Nov. 21, 2009 San Jose State Event Center Better than: Getting your ass whupped by Glenn Danzig's cartoon twin. It takes a pretty stellar concert lineup to coax even the most fanatical San Francisco music fan all the way to S ... More >>

This Week's Slideshow: Rob Zombie at San Jose State

​Photographer Richard Haick went down to San Jose State to capture a performance by Rob Zombie, the hard rock- and horror movie-cult legend whose fans are nearly as colorful as his stage shows. Check out his Rob Zombie slideshow here.  

Field of Dreams: San Francisco Semi-Pro Team Gives Locals Chance to Stretch Baseball Career Into Extra Innings

San Francisco Seagulls outfielder Dan Fernandez plays wallball in Minneapolis' Metrodome. Back in the old days -- when kids played baseball instead of videogames featuring baseball -- young people attempted to cheat mother nature by squeezing an extra inning or two out of a game when, clearly, it ... More >>

Joshua Redman, Lily Allen and Valentino: Your Weekend Hitlist

April is already here and there are lots of great things to do -- this weekend alone is filled with fabulous movies and concerts. Spend the days playing in the sun and the cold windy nights taking in some San Francisco culture.Friday night, get your sax on with Joshua Redman at Yoshi's. The legendar ... More >>

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Why Is Barry Bonds' Case Front-Page News? Because the Media 'Think We're Stupid'

Barry Bonds in his new home uniformThe sight of Barry Bonds, in uniform, performing in front of packed crowds is not a new one. These days, however, the uniform appears to be a dark suit and striped tie. And the crowds are gathered at his ongoing perjury and obstruction of justice trial.Certainly, a ... More >>

Say What? Why California Has No Corruption

By Peter Jamison As a member of a profession that relies on scandal in the upper echelons of representative government to justify its existence, it was with some chagrin that I noticed the recent rankings of states by level of corruption published in USA Today and the New York Times. (Such comparis ... More >>

Kids These Days More Concerned With Term Papers, Lunch, Than Welts, Diarrhea

Students at San Jose State University were more preoccupied with homework, lunch and gossip about holiday vacation plans than the possibility they may someday break out in soaking nighttime sweats, suffer weeks-long intense fever, spew endless diarrhea and find unusual lesions on their tongues ... More >>

The Roots, Gym Class Heroes Visit Bay Area in Oct.

Beyond Pottery Barn

Shows at Jack Fischer and Marx & Zavattero break the ceramics mold.

The Weekend Hitlist 4/11 - 4/13

The USF Dons Have Gone from National Champs to National Chumps

Bones of Discontent - Andrew Galvan carves a unique, controversial role in relocating Native American skeletons

The Best Art Prints on the Web: Creep Machine's Josh Curates His Top 5 of the Week

Watchdog Catfight

Activists aren't happy about the deal struck between Clint Reilly and Bay Area media barons

The Little Tribe That Could

As descendants of San Francisco’s aboriginal people, the Muwekma Ohlone Indian tribe seldom gets much respect. But that could be about to change.

Poor Grade

No Justice, No Peace ... Whatever

In the country’s putative activist capital, all the protests and rallies may do more to sow apathy than draw people to the cause.

Grabbing for the Ring

City officials are trying to lure the Summer Olympic Games to San Francisco for 2016. Do you think it's a good idea? Find out where you stand!

Icky Boyfriends

A Love Obscene

Father of a Nation

As head of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Kevin Gover single-handedly gave the Koi Nation land rights. Now, he's stepped through the revolving door to hawk the tribe's plans for a Bay Area casino.

Festivals and Fairs

Open Sesame

Big Bird, Elmo, and Bert in the flesh

Misplaced Priorities 101

Amid a drastic budget crisis, why is the California State University system spending $400 million on computers? And where is the money coming from?

Inner Demons

They're S.F.'s new pro football team. They've got second-rate players, an untested product, and a concept with a history of failure. But that's OK -- they have a great marketing plan.

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N., A Play for None and All

Night + Day

Night Crawler