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The Mercury News

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    Golden State Warriors Are Probably Moving to San Francisco

    There is an immediate bit of good news accompanying the reports that the Golden State Warriors are moving to San Francisco: There's a strong chance the team will finally trash the comically antiquated "Golden State" part of the name, which it absurdly adopted when it moved from San Francisco to Oakl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Mark Zuckerberg Now Worth $20 Billion More: How Many Hoodies Will That Buy Him?

    This morning, Facebook CEO and hoodie aficionado Mark Zuckerberg changed the world for the second time when he rang the bell, making his multi-billion-dollar company officially public. As Mike Cassidy from the Mercury News so aptly put it: It was like "Christmas, New Year's, Diwali, Tet, Fiestas Pat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    San Francisco Man Arrested in "Savage" Santa Cruz Murder

    A San Francisco man with "extensive history with police" was booked into Santa Cruz jail last night after police found him hiding bloody clothes shortly after a woman was stabbed to death in broad daylight.Police arrested the 44-year-old man, who has not yet been identified, and charged him with bru ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    New Lawsuit Says Neil Young's Fire-Starting Lincoln Continental Hybrid Was Unsafe

    JackRickard.blogspot.comNeil Young and the LincVolt​Only a crazy (read: legally negligent) person would convert a 1959 Lincoln Continental to run on a hybrid of gasoline and electricity. That's the argument in a new lawsuit filed against a firm owned by Neil Young, whose custom-built hybrid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Oakland Tribune to Move Back to Downtown

    Ironically, don't count on it to give you the correct time​Just two months ago, the Bay Area News Group announced sad news -- it was cutting jobs and consolidating newspapers, delivering most of its content under the name the East Bay Times. However, the media group is now reversing course, saying ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Hells Angels: Turns Out, You Probably Shouldn't Mess With Them

    Can't we all just get along?​The Hells Angels saga has evolved into a a television-like drama involving guns, bikes, funerals, and exhuming dead bodies. The San Jose Mercury News is reporting this morning that sources say the man who allegedly shot and killed a fellow Hells Angel during the funera ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Music Links: Local Jazz Legend Eddie Marshall Dies at 73, Stream the New Girls Album, and More

    Curtis ThomsonJazz drummer Eddie Marshall passed away this week.​ Bay Area jazz legend Eddie Marshall dies at 73. [SJ Mercury News] 10 great local songs from August. [The Bay Bridged]

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Links: Bayview Man Who Allegedly Killed Himself in Police Shootout Was a Rapper, Vinyl Is Sexy, and More

    Kenneth Harding​Kenneth Harding, the 19-year-old man whom police say shot himself in the midst of a gun battle with police in the Bayview this month, was a gangsta rapper. [SF Examiner] The CEO of Berkeley-based music streaming service MOG prefers to listen to vinyl. [Mercury News]

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Safeway May Pour Wine, A Haunted Bar, and the Second Nopalito

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Wine tasting at Safeway? Maybe. Haighteration reports there is an "Instructional Tasting" liquor license application pending for the Duboce Triangle Safeway (2020 Market at Dolores). While no one at this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Majority of San Francisco's Illegal Immigrants Live in the Mission District

    Missionites: up to 15 percent of your neighbors are undocumented.​San Francisco's highest concentration of illegal immigrants lives in the city's Mission District -- a zip code of day laborers, black-market hot dog vendors, and fake document peddlers.The Public Policy Institute of California relea ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 22, 2011

    "Tales of the City": Musical Version of Maupin Is a Very Mixed Bag

    Missionites: up to 15 percent of your neighbors are undocumented.​San Francisco's highest concentration of illegal immigrants lives in the city's Mission District -- a zip code of day laborers, black-market hot dog vendors, and fake document peddlers.The Public Policy Institute of California relea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Music Links: PJ Harvey's Strange Headwear, Shannon & the Clams' Clothing Advice, Rad Female DJs, and More

    PJ Harvey photo by Ray Chavez/San Jose Mercury News​What the hell was PJ Harvey wearing on her head at the Warfield Thursday night? [Mercury News]Sartorial advice from members of the incomparable Shannon and the Clams. [The Bay Bridged]

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Q&A with Katie Sullivan Morford of Mom's Kitchen Handbook

    Joe MorfordKid nutrition blogger Katie Sullivan Morford.​Registered dietitian Katie Sullivan Morford is a food and nutrition writer with more than 20 years of professional writing experience. She's been published in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Cooking Light, Bon Appétit, Sel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Lady Gaga as a Mom, Graham Nash Loves Eminem, Tune-Yards' Cool New Video, and More

    Graham Nash doesn't like much new music, but guess who he does like? Eminem. [SF Gate]The new video for Tune-Yards' "Bizness" is amazing. [The Bay Bridged]

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Turns Out Songbirds Can't Fly: Joan Baez Falls Out of A Treehouse

    Sleeping in trees is nice (yes, we've tried it!); falling out of them is not. Joan Baez discovered that songbirds can't fly earlier this week, when she fell 20 feet out of a treehouse at her Woodside (Peninsula) home, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    Would Gas Have to Cost $9 a Gallon to Meet Emission Goals?

    Fill 'er up -- for $135!​Those of us not named Rush Limbaugh know that in order to prevent the world from devolving into a giant Mad Max set, we've got to drive less. So as California's politicians and environmental regulators set ambitious emission reduction targets to combat global warming, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    PG&E's '100 Riskiest Pipelines' List Could Be Released Today

    WiggsWill your neighborhood make the list? ​What's worse than not knowing if you're living atop a high-risk PG&E pipeline? Knowing you are. After Friday's entreaty by the California Public Utilities Commission that PG&E provide a list of the specific locations of its 100 riskiest subterran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Meg Whitman's Atherton Home To Play Host To 1,000 Nurses

    Heading to Atherton -- in droves​If Meg Whitman wanted someone to look at her aching back or curious rash -- well, she need not even leave the home. The California Nurses Association is planning to cart up to 1,000 or more of its members to the Republican gubernatorial nominee's Atherton domicile ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    Santa Clara County Allows Voter Registration Via Electronic Signatures

    ​Santa Clara County has taken a historic step by allowing residents to register to vote electronically, the San Jose Mercury News reports.The new procedure allows people to register using touch-screen devices such as iPhones and iPads, and is the result of a proposal by the Silicon Valley firm Ver ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Battle of the Blogs

    ​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Take a victory lap around your laptop: Congratulations to Carolyn Jung, who came in second for best food blog in a competition by the Association of Food Journalists. Jung's blog Food Gal clocked in behind Between Meals by Chron senior critic and exec food ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2009

    The Great American Food and Music Fest: The Good, The Bad, and The Hungry

    Marisol Segal If you actually got food, there was reason to celebrate.(View our full slideshow of the event)We won't sugarcoat it: Saturday's Great American Food and Music Fest was riddled with major problems, from the almost immediate failure of a cashless wristband debit system for purchase ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Dismissed Reporter Sues MediaNews Group, Alleges Race Discrimination

    A former reporter at the Monterey County Herald has sued the Northern California newspaper and its parent company, MediaNews Group, alleging that he was underpaid and then fired because of his race. MediaNews, headed by press mogul Dean Singleton (pictured), is also a major presence in the Bay Area ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2008

    Why the 'Black Friday Story' Is the Enemy of Real News

    By Peter JamisonThe professional world offers few examples of desiccated ritual more perfect than those to be found on newsstands the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when daily papers across the country give over their front pages to the annual Black Friday story. Every year, without fail, unlucky repo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 29, 2008

    A Poetry Moment

    By Peter JamisonThe professional world offers few examples of desiccated ritual more perfect than those to be found on newsstands the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when daily papers across the country give over their front pages to the annual Black Friday story. Every year, without fail, unlucky repo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2008

    Former Employee Flicks Off Mercury News on Flickr

    By Peter JamisonThe professional world offers few examples of desiccated ritual more perfect than those to be found on newsstands the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when daily papers across the country give over their front pages to the annual Black Friday story. Every year, without fail, unlucky repo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2008

    Leeches, Live Snakes Play Role in Choosing Stanford Mascot

    By Peter JamisonThe professional world offers few examples of desiccated ritual more perfect than those to be found on newsstands the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when daily papers across the country give over their front pages to the annual Black Friday story. Every year, without fail, unlucky repo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2008

    Santa Clara Ice Cream Man Accused Of Sexually Inappropriate Comments

    By Peter JamisonThe professional world offers few examples of desiccated ritual more perfect than those to be found on newsstands the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when daily papers across the country give over their front pages to the annual Black Friday story. Every year, without fail, unlucky repo ... More >>

  • News

    December 19, 2007

    Paper Chase

    The Guild is up against a cost-cutting mogul and declining revenues, but the union continues to seek converts

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2007

    Bay Area Journalism: A Little Less U-N-I-T-Y

    The Guild is up against a cost-cutting mogul and declining revenues, but the union continues to seek converts

  • News

    February 28, 2007

    Must Work for Free

    By not paying their interns, some Bay Area publications may be violating the state labor code

  • News

    December 24, 2002

    The Poindexter Effect

    Digging into the architect of Total Information Awareness unearths good news: Ordinary Americans value civil liberties

  • Dining

    May 15, 2002

    Winners and Losers

    How an S.F. food critic sent a chill through the room at a national awards ceremony

  • News

    August 29, 2001

    Dog Bites

    Overpriced Sports Star Joins Local Team; Light Reading; A Match Made in Heaven; A Suggestion for Rearranging the Deck Chairs at Salon.com

  • News

    March 7, 2001

    Dog Bites

    FuckedCompany.com’s Super Happy Fun Slander Corner

  • News

    October 11, 2000

    Dog Bites

    Take Out the Trash; Trouble in the 408?; Trouble in the 650; Even Fuzzier Math

  • News

    August 2, 2000

    A New War of Words

    Are you ready for a real newspaper rivalry?

  • News

    July 19, 2000

    Dog Bites

    I Just Ate a Cake and I Hate Myself; Please, No Phone Calls; Art for the Masses; We're Number ... Seven!

  • News

    April 28, 1999

    We're Honored

    I Just Ate a Cake and I Hate Myself; Please, No Phone Calls; Art for the Masses; We're Number ... Seven!

  • Calendar

    January 6, 1999

    Mecklin

    I Just Ate a Cake and I Hate Myself; Please, No Phone Calls; Art for the Masses; We're Number ... Seven!

  • Calendar

    February 4, 1998

    Beat the Press

    I Just Ate a Cake and I Hate Myself; Please, No Phone Calls; Art for the Masses; We're Number ... Seven!

  • News

    December 24, 1997

    Dog Bites

    I Just Ate a Cake and I Hate Myself; Please, No Phone Calls; Art for the Masses; We're Number ... Seven!

  • News

    July 16, 1997

    Quieter South of the Border

    Corporate shifts at Knight-Ridder cost the Merc control of its Mexico City news bureau, the last such source of Mexico news in the Bay Area

  • Calendar

    May 7, 1997

    Unspun

    Corporate shifts at Knight-Ridder cost the Merc control of its Mexico City news bureau, the last such source of Mexico news in the Bay Area

  • Calendar

    February 12, 1997

    Night+Day

    Corporate shifts at Knight-Ridder cost the Merc control of its Mexico City news bureau, the last such source of Mexico news in the Bay Area

  • Calendar

    October 9, 1996

    Slap Shots

    Corporate shifts at Knight-Ridder cost the Merc control of its Mexico City news bureau, the last such source of Mexico news in the Bay Area

  • News

    May 8, 1996

    Chatterbox

    Corporate shifts at Knight-Ridder cost the Merc control of its Mexico City news bureau, the last such source of Mexico news in the Bay Area

  • News

    September 27, 1995

    Dog Bites

    Corporate shifts at Knight-Ridder cost the Merc control of its Mexico City news bureau, the last such source of Mexico news in the Bay Area

  • News

    August 23, 1995

    Great Moments in the Bay Area Feel Good/Feel Better History

    Corporate shifts at Knight-Ridder cost the Merc control of its Mexico City news bureau, the last such source of Mexico news in the Bay Area

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