Santa Clara

Daytripper Alert: Santa Cruz Wine Tasting This Weekend and Next

Braving the curves of Highway 17 offers especially good grapes from over two dozen wineries and food rewards these next two weekends. Dig the non-traditional "here's our garage, taste some wine" spots that may or may not include om-inducing ocean views. "Roots That Rock" is the 24th annual Santa Cru ... More >>

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 >>

Everett Basham, Ballsy Engineer With Bomb, Accused of Threatening Sen. Leland Yee

A Santa Clara man who once worked for Apple's Steve Wozniak is behind bars today after allegedly collecting a cache of destructive devices, including bomb materials and loaded guns, and threatening to harm San Francisco's state Senator Leland Yee. According to police, 45-year-old Everett Basham wa ... More >>

Americans Foggy When it Comes to Cloud Computing, Survey Says

San Franciscans know better than anyone how a bout of fog can weigh on you. But a survey released today claims that when it comes to Cloud computing -- all Americans, not just San Franciscans -- are living in a haze.Citrix, a Santa Clara-based Cloud company, concluded that Americans have no clue wha ... More >>

Steve Jobs' House Burglarized, Kariem McFarlin Arrested

Santa Clara authorities arrested a 35-year-old man who allegedly broke into Steve Jobs' Palo Alto home last month and stole more than $60,000 worth of computers and personal items from the late Apple CEO. Press reports say that Kariem McFarlin of Alameda was arrested on suspicion of residential burg ... More >>

Hotel Workers to Picket Hyatt, Call for Boycott

Updated 4:55 p.m. to show Hyatt's statement about the boycott initiative.The stories coming from Hyatt housekeepers explain why people in 20 cities are rallying to launch a global boycott of the hotel chain: overworked employees, unfair firings, management turning on heat lamps on protesters in the ... More >>

Kamala Harris Busts "Skimmer Operation" That Stole From Hundreds of Chase Bank Customers

Attorney General Kamala Harris used her newly created eCrime Unit to break up two high-tech bank scam operations that ripped off hundreds of Chase customers over the last three years. In both "skimmer operations," the defendants, organized as "crews," replaced the card readers at Chase Bank ATM ves ... More >>

Stephen Martin's Friends Start Social Media Campaign to Help Find His Killers

Less than a week after 31-year-old Stephen Martin died, his friends launched a full-scale online campaign to help police find the men who killed the Santa Clara consultant after San Francisco's Bay to Breakers run last month. Martin's friends are getting the word out about the Justice for Stephen Ma ... More >>

Stephen Martin, Man Beaten After Bay to Breakers Race, Dies

Update: Police released a photo of the persons of interest in the murder of Stephen Martin.  Above is a picture showing a man in a 49ers jersey and a female in an orange tutu. Police are asking for the public's help in identifying them. Martin is pictured on the far right-hand side wearing a gr ... More >>

Jim Crow Returns: New State Laws Could Take Obama Out This Fall

Cruel Summer: Further Excerpts from a 1993 Diary

How Bay Area Corporations Resemble Their (Human) Neighbors

Have a Food Business? A Design Group Wants to Brand You For Free!

​If you win their contest, that is. The Rooster Design Group is pitting San Francisco against New York City and hoping the best city wins. If you win, you'll get help with identity, logo application, package design, a website holding page, plus retail opportunities at swanky digs like Bi-Rite, Who ... More >>

San Francisco Among California's Top Three Job-Creating Cities

​"Pandering to the conventional wisdom," former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller once observed, is "the mortal sin of journalism." There are plenty of journalistic sinners out there, particularly when it comes to the conventional wisdom on San Francisco.Self-consciously middle-of-the-ro ... More >>

Great America Sued Over Gay Slur Doctored Into Photograph

Great America takes the amusement out of amusement park​When on a ride at an amusement park that takes photos of the riders to sell as keepsakes, few people ever expect to see that photo ever again.Which is why Craig Person and Edmund Yang, who took a ride on Great America's Psycho Mouse roller co ... More >>

Judge Halts Weird Online Movie Service Zediva

​In March, Zediva, a really weird online movie-rental service, told Wired that "it doesn't expect legal trouble over its service," which allows users to watch actual DVDs, played on actual DVD players, via the Internet. A couple of weeks later, the Motion Picture Association of America sued Zediv ... More >>

Homeless Veterans' Housing Grant Isn't Enough

What would a voucher get you in San Francisco?​There are more than 136,000 homeless veterans in the U.S., and California has more than a quarter of them. So while the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is patting itself on the back for handing over more than $4 million in grant money to the Bay A ... More >>

San Franciscans Are Too Negative

Debbie Downer. Born and raised in San Francisco ​How quickly we take for granted our City by the Bay. Nevermind the fact that we live within the beautiful backdrop of iconic places like the Golden Gate Bridge. Forget that we won the World Series last year or that we enjoy sex more regularly than m ... More >>

Yep, Apple Is Watching You

What do they know about you?​Is Apple stalking you? The answer is yes. Yes, it is. And that's supercreepy.But hey, this is America: We should be used to Big Brother watching us by now. A new report claims that anyone who owns a iPhone and iPad is being recorded by Apple. Writers Alisdair Allan and ... More >>

Ammiano Bill to Change State's Involvement In ICE Fingerprinting Program

Barter: Fingerprint for a one-way flight to Tijuana​Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has introduced a glut of controversial and liberal legislation in the last week, including lowering the penalty for growing pot. And now San Francisco's comedian-turned-politician has stepped into the mired debate around a ... More >>

Brady Campaign's New Push to Ban Open Carry in California Restaurants

formatted_dad/FlickrThe CA Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is planning a protest Jan. 20 in Manhattan Beach.​The Jan. 8 shooting massacre at a Tucson mall is giving new impetus to a drive to make California eateries gun-free zones. State chapters of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Vio ... More >>

San Francisco Is Still Smoking

​County-by-county smoking data released Monday by the state Department of Public Health reveal ashtray-makers are still doing pretty good business here in San Francisco. According to the California Adult Smoking Prevalence 2008 survey, 13.5 percent of San Franciscans are lighting up. To put that n ... More >>

Dennis Herrera, Running for Mayor, to Farm Out City Attorney Cases

Dennis Herrera doesn't want to hear your legalistic questions about the mayoral race...​City Attorney Dennis "He's Running For Mayor!" Herrera last week announced that, yes, he's running for mayor. Less publicized was a memorandum Herrera sent around the city announcing he plans on recusing both h ... More >>

Anthony Mata Dead, Five Others Critical From Possible Tainted Drugs at Cow Palace Rave

'The Dream' turned into a nightmare for some rave attendees this weekened​The San Mateo County coroner confirmed to SF Weekly that 23-year-old Anthony Mata of Santa Clara is dead following a very bad trip at the weekend's Pop 2010 music festival at the Cow Palace. Along with Mata's death, a handfu ... More >>

SFuture Shock: Bold predictions for the coming year

City: Nurses Will Be Paid More Here Even With Slashed Salaries

City nursing assistants will soon be paid far less to deal with the R.P. McMurphys of the world​The city of San Francisco's response to hundreds of nurses who stand to lose perhaps $14,000 a year in compensation: You don't know how good you've got it. The Department of Human Resources is circulati ... More >>

Supes Fan Flames of Labor Blaze With Survey Stating S.F. Firefighters Work Least, Earn Most Per Hour Among Bay Area Cities

The ongoing pissing contest between the firefighters union and the progressive wing of the Board of Supervisors escalated to the point that they could put out a fire on their own today. The supes released a survey of Bay Area fire departments stating that San Francisco's firefighters work the fewest ... More >>

The City of Industry 49ers? Don't Laugh -- The Team has Done Stranger Things (See: Smith, Alex)

Both of these teams have been bandied about as potential L.A. franchisesMost San Franciscans know City of Industry as the oddly named Los Angeles suburb where we send the monthly checks for our Capital One cards. But, in the near future, we may be sending them something else -- the 49ers. If anyone ... More >>

$50K on Anti-Drinking Ads: Yeah, That'll Make a Dent

How to get spanked by men in pinstripes

End of an Era

As The Apologist takes a bow and asks its final questions, it's time to turn the spotlight on ourselves

A Very Good Year

We look back on the big news stories of 2006 and ask the tough question: Are you an apologist for the year that was?

Repertory Film Listings

Beginner's Mind

Tuttle's magical minimalism

Big Dam Mess

The Environmental Defense Fund embarks on a national campaign to shame San Francisco into restoring the other great Yosemite valley, Hetch Hetchy. But is shame really a good political strategy?

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, September 8, 2004

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Sex and the Single Psychologist

Should Dr. Al Cooper's fuzzy data and controversial subject stop him from becoming a media darling -- or getting a date?

Good Times

Reliving the decade we never had

The Church of Trillin

Our critic, an early convert, attends a revival meeting and genuflects at the altar of Shalimar

Damn, That Hurts!

It's the dirty little secret of male distance runners: bloody nipples

Fair Ball

Love of the national pastime, on display at a downtown art gallery

Letters to the Editor

Week of April 24, 2002

The Mix

Pacific Brim

Dog Bites

You know, there's an election -- hey! -- we said there's a local election coming up

Night Crawler

Past Perfect

Dog Bites

Night+Day

Fire Trek

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?

The Dating Blame

The Bay Area's Together Dating Services franchise regroups in the face of lawsuits and investigations