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Tech Workers Fuel San Jose Medical Marijuana Scene, Employers Give Up on Drug Screening

It was only a few years ago that spooked-out city leaders in San Jose declared that medical marijuana dispensaries had taken over their town. Today, there are still more than 100 dispensaries in the South Bay city, many more than are in San Francisco and the East Bay combined. And they're thriving, ... More >>

Medical Marijuana: Feds Show Little Interest in San Jose, Where Dispensaries Are Illegal

Aside from strikes at the medical marijuana industry's most vocal, visible, and influential leaders, little rhyme or reason has accompanied the federal Justice Department's crackdown on California cannabis.U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag offered no comment or explanation as her office shut down roughly o ... More >>

Newspaper Drama in the South Bay Gives Other Newspapers Something to Write About

There's nothing we enjoy more than a petty newspaper fight, especially one that includes the phrase "put down the news rack."Down in the South Bay, the San Jose Mercury News was busted with news racks from competing papers inside a dumpster at the Merc's headquarters, including those belonging to th ... More >>

Fiona Apple Announces New Bay Area Shows in Support of 'The Idler Wheel'

Hey, Fiona Apple is leaving her house and hitting the road to support that new album whose title begins with The Idler Wheel and continues for 20 more words that you can't remember. That mouthful is certainly one of the most anticipated releases of the year (and it's out tomorrow!), so it's a bit ex ... More >>

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

Steve Tausan Identified as Hells Angel Killed at Funeral

Another shooting ​Update (3:10 p.m.): The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner's Office says it was Steve Tausan who was shot and killed Saturday during a funeral for another Hells Angel. San Jose police are keeping unusually quiet about the weekend shooting where a Hells Angel was killed after a g ... More >>

Free Weed: Bystanders Grab Up Bags of Pot Spilled on Road After Truck Crashes

nadinecueto via Flickr Best crime story of the week!​Dude! Free pot in San Jose. Police are scrambling to find pedestrians and motorists who snatched up bags of marijuana that fell from a truck illegally carrying it through the South Bay. According to the Mercury News, the trucker was transporting ... More >>

Jay-Z and Kanye West Reschedule Watch the Throne Tour

You'll have to wait two more months to Watch the Throne.​Last week, Jay-Z and Kanye West announced their Watch the Throne Tour. It was scheduled to stop at San Jose's HP Pavilion on October 16, but apparently all royal marriages take time, and now there will be a two-month delay.

'Girafa' Pleads Guilty to San Jose Graffiti Charges, Fined $38,000

A guilty conscience?​San Francisco resident Steven Free, known by his graffiti writer's moniker of "Girafa," has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of felony and misdemeanor vandalism in San Jose, agreeing to pay $38,000 in fines.San Jose cops arrested Free in 2009 on 10 felony vandalism counts. As ... More >>

San Jose: How Deep Does the Inferiority Complex Go?

Do you know the way to San Jose?Greg Dewar/Flickr​In its never-ending quest to be San Francisco, it's so clear that San Jose will go to great lengths to take away anything or anyone that makes the City by the Bay, well, the City by the Bay. Funny as this faux rivalry might seem, there are two poli ... More >>

San Jose Gets Plastic Bag Ban San Francisco Needs

​Yesterday, San Jose became the largest city in the nation to ban plastic bags. San Francisco can always note that we were first to this bag-banning parade. But it warrants mentioning that San Jose's ban is better and smarter than our ban. In addition to curtailing the use of plastic carry-out bag ... More >>

South-Bay Electro-Poppers the Limousines Sign to Dangerbird Records

The Limousines​Build-up an electro-pop duo with as much radio appeal as San Jose's the Limousines -- whose single "Very Busy People" got lotsa love from Live 105's airwaves -- and you're bound to get somewhere. This year's single "Internet Killed the Video Star" took the band to even larger audien ... More >>

Marijuana Roundup: The Year In Pot

​How was your 2010? For the cannabis community, it was a wild flip of the calendar, with dispensaries opening and closing, police raiding, a medical cannabis luminary thrown in jail for meth charges -- and we vaguely remember something about a legalization ballot measure. There's still time y ... More >>

San Francisco Giants To Get Second Victory Parade -- In San Jose

Alan EskenaziAre Aubrey Huff -- and his beer and Rally Thong -- headed to San Jose's festivities? ​For members of the San Francisco Giants hoping to spend their $318,000 World Series bonuses -- do you know the way to San Jose? The team -- collectively, the entire team -- will serve as the honorary ... More >>

It' Ain't a Bar Fight Till Someone Breaks Out the Crowbar

A crowbar's proper use, illustrated​If you're boozing it up at a bar and someone whips out a screwdriver -- that's probably no big thing. But when the crowbar comes out, it's time to run. That was the case earlier this week at a tavern that shall remain unnamed in the vicinity of San Jose and 29th ... More >>

$2,500 Reward Offered To Nab Swan's Killer

​San Rafael's In Defense of Animals -- which we last touched base with when they offered a reward to catch whomever decapitated goats in San Jose -- has once again made it both fun and profitable to bust animal abusers. The group pledged $2,500 toward the arrest and conviction of whomever killed M ... More >>

Cop 'Arrests' 15-Year-Old For Having Sex With Officer's Daughter

'A cop's daughter is not somebody you mess around with...'​Use an officer's daughter, go to jail. That's the lesson a San Jose motorcycle cop is accused of imparting upon his 14-year-old stepdaughter's paramour. In an incident caught on cell phone camera, the as yet-unnamed officer showed up at th ... More >>

Sexpert: Handcuffs For 'Kinky Fun,' Not For San Jose Sex Police

​Maybe barging into the house and handcuffing your stepdaughter's teen lover is the way hardass cops roll in San Jose. We're pretty sure the Sex Police smack-down struck fear into the hearts of horny boys everywhere -- especially ones going to Pound Town with the daughters of men in blue. But San ... More >>

Decapitated Goats Lead to Reward Offer

KPIXOne of the unfortunate animals in question...​If you know who decapitated three goats and left the bodies in full view near San Jose's Alum Rock Park -- and you've been sitting on the information -- perhaps $2,500 might loosen your tongue. San Rafael's In Defense of Animals is offering a rewar ... More >>

Mitsuwa's Japanese Food Fair Starts Today in San Jose. We Call Shotgun

Luis ChongA stall at last year's Hokkaido Fair at Mitsuwa.​The Japanese Gourmet Foods Fair, aka Umaimono Gourmet Fair (umaimono means "yummy stuff") kicks off today at Mitsuwa Marketplace in San Jose. It ends June 6. The annual event is part of a series of four-day weekend festivals promoting ... More >>

Pot? Check. Taxes. Check. Step Three: Profit.

Meanwhile, in San Jose...​San Jose took a step toward welcoming medical cannabis into its fair city on Tuesday night -- 14 years after state voters approved medical cannabis, six months after pot clinics began sprouting up in Northern California's largest city and about five months after a city c ... More >>

S.J. Pot Rush Over? City Shuts Down First Club, Albeit Briefly.

​It wasn't a raid by kevlar-clad law enforcement and no medicine was seized, but medicinal cannabis advocates still felt a twinge of anxiety -- you can take something for that, we hear -- when the city's first pot club, the San Jose Cannabis Buyers Collective, received an eviction notice from ... More >>

Does This Giraffe Look Guilty? Net Tightens Around Renowned S.F. Graffiti Artist 'Girafa'

Late last month, San Jose cops made an announcement that reverberated like a shock wave through the ranks of local graffiti fans. Police in the South Bay metropolis believed they had unmasked the prominent artist-vandal known as "Girafa," a graffiti "writer" -- as such auteurs prefer to be called -- ... More >>

"The Future Project": Sunday Will Come

San Francisco One of the Most Affordable U.S. Cities for Families. No, really!

Forbes magazine recently came out with a list of America's Best and Worst Cities for Families. The publication looked at the 40 most populated metropolitan areas according to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and then used the Economic Policy Institute's Basic Family Budget Calculator to dete ... More >>

Oakland A's Owner Announces Desire for Team to Play In San Jose -- But Can't Be Bothered to Go There

It's home "crowds" like these, in a stadium with all the charm of botulism that spurred Oakland A's owner Lew Wolff to seek greener pasturesDo you know the way to San Jose? It's a good bet that more Americans know that snippet of the old song (written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for Dionne Warwi ... More >>

Seen in San Francisco: Canine Boozer Orders Hair of the Dog That Bit Him

Don't worry: The greyhound was 21 (in dog years). Apparently, the effects of the recession have trickled down to man's best friend, who feels the need for a bracer or two at the end of a long day -- though the animal tells us it's just to "take the edge off."San Francisco dogs don't go in for your ... More >>

San Francisco's Bitterness Toward Our Glamorous SoCal Neighbors Shows Through in the Stands

If the media hyperventilates when this guy shows up at a ballgame -- your city might have an inferiority complexWhen a spokeswoman for San Jose's mayor last week told SF Weekly that Gavin Newsom didn't belong on a Washington, D.C. junket along with the boss men of San Jose, Los Angeles, and San Dieg ... More >>

Saturday Night: Feel the Bass at the Voodoo Lounge

Ticket Giveaway: Melendez VS. Thomson at the HP Pavillion on 6/27

George Michael Visits HP Pavilion in June

New Call of Duty 4 Maps Previewed at San Jose GameStop March 28

Insiders Take on the Slow Decline of the Mercury News

Kanye West, Rihanna Play HP Pavilion in April

Taste of Chaos Tour Promises Whole Day of Musical Shittiness

'Pandemonium' 'Screaming' and Other Earthquake Observations

SFoodie: Maple and Mustard-Glazed Wild Canadian Leopard Salmon

SFoodie: Maple and Mustard-Glazed Wild Canadian Leopard Salmon

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