Sunnyvale

Surprise, Surprise! S.F.'s Rental Market Is Twice as Expensive As the National Average

Anyone who has searched for an apartment in San Francisco could appreciate the proverb "A drowning man will clutch at a straw." The process sucks. Open houses draw dozens of competitors, some who eagerly inform the landlord that they're willing to pay $200 more in rent and hand over the first-months ... More >>

Antwon's Twisted Vision: Sex Rap, Punk Vibes, and Kid Rock

Menlo Park Cop Busted "Killing Time" With Prostitute Gets His Job Back

A Menlo Park police detective who was caught with his pants down -- literally -- is back patrolling the streets after prosecutors dropped charges against him for soliciting a prostitute. Officer Jeffrey Kenneth Vasquez was arrested in Feb. 2011 in Sunnyvale after he was found naked in a Motel 6 wi ... More >>

R.I.P. Tony Sly, Singer of South Bay Punks No Use For a Name

Sad news in the Bay Area punk scene today: Tony Sly, the singer and guitarist for San Jose pop-punk outfit No Use For a Name, passed away this morning, according to his record label, S.F.'s Fat Wreck Chords. Sly was only 41. "One of my dearest friends and favorite song writers has gone way too soon ... More >>

Vegan Foie Gras: Rau Om's Tofu Misozuke Matches Tastiness With Principles

​It smells like a Japanese restaurant, looks like a loaf of foie, and delivers a taste reminiscent of foie lathered in mayonnaise. Rau Om's Tofu Misozuke, made in Belmont, is about as close to foie gras as a vegan can ever taste without violating principle.Tofu Misozuke uses Miso Cured Tofu, made ... 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 >>

Feliciano Valencia-Santiago Confesses to Murdering Woman Found in Garbage Bag

Confesses​Feliciano Valencia-Santiago, the man accused of murdering a San Jose woman and dumping her body in a garbage bag, has reportedly confessed to the heinous crime. According to media outlets, police say that during an interrogation, Valencia-Santiago admitted that he killed Maria Esther Oro ... More >>

Feliciano Valencia-Santiago Accused of Murdering Maria Esther Orozco, Woman Found in Garbage Bag

Feliciano Valencia-Santiago ​SF Weekly told readers about the disturbing and gruesome discovery a Sunnyvale man made in his front yard last Sunday: A garbage bag filled with bloody body parts. Police quickly identified the victim as Maria Esther Orozco, and now they've identified the suspected kil ... More >>

Human Body Parts Found in Garbage Bag

Not what you expect to find in your garbage ​Sunnyvale police are bewildered by a Sunday morning grisly discovery: A bag of body parts found on a sidewalk in a quiet neighborhood. Someone called police at about 10:10 a.m. on Sunday to report they had found a garbage bag that looked as if a body wa ... More >>

San Francycle: Riding to Work Doesn't Make You an Athlete

​If you're like us, you spend an hour or so on your bike every day, from home to work and then back, then maybe to the supermarket, and occasionally over to a friend's house or up to Corona Heights to watch the sunset. Wouldn't it be neat to keep track of your rides so you know how far you've gone ... More >>

Bay Area Newspapers: How Much Longer Until They Are Extinct?

It's worse than you think.​So you think the Bay Area's newspapers are bad now - they are only going to get worse. A new survey shows that local newspapers will continue to strip away what little staff and resources they have left. Newspapers will get leaner, despite the fact that they have already ... More >>

News Media Continues Its Slow Decline

Newsroom Jobs Down 49.4% in Bay Area, 36.4% in U.S.

The good ol' days ​Bay Area news jobs have shrunk by nearly half in the last decade, which is a worse showing than newsrooms overall nationwide, which declined by about one-third, according to a new federally funded report. Not that we needed a federal report commissioned to tell us that the marke ... More >>

Reuters Sued: S.F. Bloggers Demand Overtime, Meal Pay

This is a fight best left to Veronica Corningstone ​A San Francisco writer is leading a class action lawsuit against media giant Thomson Reuters, claiming the company worked them to the bone without paying them overtime or giving them proper meal breaks.Jason Beahm, a local attorney and journalist ... More >>

Spice Hound Settles Into 331 Cortland Marketplace

Alex HochmanTammy Tan's spice shop is now one of six vendors at the 6-month-old food market in Bernal Heights.​A simultaneous welcome party and anniversary celebration went down Saturday at 331 Cortland, the six-stall food marketplace in Bernal Heights. The welcome party was for Spice Hound, T ... More >>

NorCal Brewers Score Big at the Great American Beer Festival

Brian YaegerSocial Kitchen brewmaster Rich Higgins, manning the SF Brewers Guild booth in Denver.​As the 51-week wait for next year's 30th Great American Beer Festival begins, let's look back at the last few days in Denver, where 462 breweries converged inside the Colorado Convention Center, a ... More >>

Paul Devine, Apple Exec Accused of Massive Kickback Scheme, Kept $150K in Shoe Boxes

​ Ever have problems figuring out what to do with those old shoe boxes? Paul Shin Devine apparently doesn't. Prosecutors claim feds found roughly $150K squirreled away in the home of the former Apple global supply manager, as well as more than $20,000 in foreign currency. The massive amount of cas ... More >>

Paul Shin Devine, Apple Manager, Arrested For Allegedly Leaking Company Secrets

Paul Shin Devine is, allegedly, one bad apple​Talk about a rotten apple. Paul Shin Devine, a mid-level manager at Apple, was arrested on Friday on charges he pocketed more than $1 million in kickbacks from multiple Asian suppliers of iPhone and iPod parts in exchange for spilling company secrets. ... More >>

There Was an Election Last Night. As if You Gave a ****

At least Coakley's people hit the streets. And that dude​ San Francisco, there was an election last night. And you went to the polls. Or at least some of you did. You also went to happy hour, the laundromat, or maybe the refrigerator. Wherever you went, whatever you did, three out of four of you f ... More >>

Sun Kissed

And the Happiest Place in America Is ... Sunnyvale?

Be well...​If there were a list compiled of how many lists a city is listed in -- well our city of San Francisco would be tops on that list. So I'm always reticent to write about some national rankings the City by the Bay finds itself on. That being said, we just stumbled across one that's interes ... More >>

SFGate Article on 'Diaper-Free Babies' Craps Out Debunked Notion that Diapers are Overwhelming Our Landfills

But the cute bear wants me to buy disposable diapers...​Like many of you, I was more than a bit amazed at an article yesterday on SFgate, in which a woman with the Marx Brothers-worthy name of Willow Lune explained her raison d'etre: Pushing a diaper-free lifestyle in which one's children can be t ... More >>

Funemployment: Jobless young San Franciscans are welcoming the worst recession of their lives with open arms. Too bad the party can't last forever.

Turner Around

Black electronic acts break beats and assumptions

Yahoo's Shine for Women is Dull

Bay Area Jobs Outlook II - Public Employees Retiring En Masse

Black Friday, Meet Buy Nothing Day -- Discuss

Brian Boitano and Barry Manilow Ice Skate into AT&T Park

And a Teen Shall Lead Them

How 15-year-old Ben Casnocha brought e-government to Cupertino, Menlo Park, Burbank, and other cities across California

Brain Drain

We know words like "propinquity." So are we smart enough for Mensa?

Letters to the Editor

Week of June 4, 2003

Culture Klatsch

When the Burning Man folks met the Air Force guys, the desert camping tips flew

Letters to the Editor

Week of June 19, 2002

Gentlemen, Start Your Power Saws!

Power Tool Drag Races. What else do you need to know?

Cell Therapy

Bay Area researchers are using a particular cancer to produce neuronlike cells that, when injected into the brain, seem to reverse the effects of stroke. Is the treatment a historic medical breakthrough, or a reckless ploy to attract investors?

That Secret Shame

You don't have to be embarrassed to read romance novels anymore. With modern themes and better writing, Bay Area authors are helping to make the genre almost (gasp!) respectable.

Letters to the Editor

Mental Breakdown; Criticisms and Compliments; Corrections

Global Village

Making the rounds of Fisherman's Wharf bars, you'll meet people from the Philippines, Bulgaria, or even Alameda

Paul's Still Not Dead

But Jon Kelly's still doing backward speech analysis -- Dubya to "Make a Monica"; Britney on self: "Baby, I'm really sick. Save me, will ya?"

Letters

Letters

Music.competition

With MP3s under attack and major labels designing new standards, three Bay Area firms try to corner the market on online music

Zoom Lens

Riff Raff

Letters

SFO3 1996

Night Crawler

Fire Trek

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?