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Pizzeria Delfina Set to Open Palo Alto Location

Pizzeria Delfina will open its fourth location on Emerson Street in Palo Alto in the fall, a spokeswoman told SF Weekly. Owners Annie and Craig Stoll signed a lease for a building formerly occupied by the Empire Tap Room at 651 Emerson Street, which closed in April, said Ashley Bellview, a spokeswo ... More >>

Marin "Fairy" Busted for Halloween Heist of Accused Marijuana Dealer

A Marin County woman donning a fairy costume was booked into jail after she allegedly attacked and robbed an accused Novato marijuana dealer on Halloween. According to news reports, 21-year-old Molly Ann Blumberg was with two other women on Oct. 31 when they went to 46-year-old David Murray Randolph ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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]

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]

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 >>

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

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]

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 >>

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]

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

A Poetry Moment

Former Employee Flicks Off Mercury News on Flickr

Leeches, Live Snakes Play Role in Choosing Stanford Mascot

Santa Clara Ice Cream Man Accused Of Sexually Inappropriate Comments

Paper Chase

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

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

Must Work for Free

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

The Poindexter Effect

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

Winners and Losers

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

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

Dog Bites

FuckedCompany.com’s Super Happy Fun Slander Corner

Dog Bites

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

A New War of Words

Are you ready for a real newspaper rivalry?

Dog Bites

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

We're Honored

Mecklin

Beat the Press

Dog Bites

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

Unspun

Night+Day

Slap Shots

Chatterbox

Dog Bites

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