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USA TODAY

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Should We Be Replacing Chicken With Faux Meat?

    ​This weekend, the New York Times' food-policy opinionator and recipe columnist Mark Bittman, a longtime opponent of processed foods, came out in favor of faux chicken. He's found a chicken substitute so, uh, lifelike in its texture that it fooled him in several taste tests. Ever since his 2009 b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Tim Lincecum Gets Fat, Stops Binging on In-N-Out Burgers

    ​Last year, Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum confessed to reporters that, despite his lanky appearance, he tends to feast on In-N-Out with serious regularity. And he doesn't just order the combo meal. Lincecum -- at 168 pounds -- would down three double-doubles, two fries, and a chocolate-strawberry sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    The Term "Cassette Tape" Is No Longer in the Oxford English Dictionary

    What are these called again?​Alright, for those of you who didn't take the hint when the automakers dropped all cassette players from every car sold in this country, here's the final nail in the dead-tape coffin: "cassette tape" is no longer included in the latest edition of the Oxford English ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Apple Unveils iPhone 5 iPhone 4S Today

    ​Unlike Apple CEO Tim Cook, we're going to cut to the chase and tell you what you really want to know from the Let's Talk iPhone event that kicked off at 10 a.m. today at Apple headquarters in Cupertino. For the tech journalists who sat through the three-hour conference, perhaps a more fitting nam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Fat Cures: Ditch the Anti-Depressants and Pick Up a Pint of Ice Cream

    This is the equivalent of two tabs of E.​Belgian researchers have demonstrated once and for all that fat makes you feel better, according to USA Today. The researchers have showed that the pleasure of eating fatty foods is inconsequential -- it's just the fat that matters -- by piping either a sal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Hilton Hotels Sued for Charging Guests for a Morning Newspaper

    Hey, I didn't ask for that. ​People just don't want to have to pay for newspapers these days. Americans are cancelling their subscriptions in droves. Everyone is still groaning about the New York Times website's pay wall. And now, people are suing Hilton Hotels for allegedly charging 75 cents for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Dinner Costs 5 Percent More Than It Did a Year Ago

    Even Botoxed models register shock at how expensive food has gotten.​According to USA Today, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics just reported that the price of food eaten at home -- as opposed to in restaurants -- increased 4.7 percent from June 2010 to 2011. According to the bureau's national ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Family Farms in Trouble, More Groupon Backlash, Dog for Dinner

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. Jonathan Kauffman is out this week, so Jesse Hirsch is filling in on Talking Points. Teamwork! 1. Small Farms Keep Struggling. There is so much farmer love here in the Bay that we ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Work Is Making Us Fat, Great Tamales in Portola, Zuckerberg Slaughters a Goat

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Desk Jockeys Get Heavier. Both USA Today and the New York Times wrote about a new study that shows that as Americans have shifted from manufacturing or agricultural jobs to sedent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2011

    Why Facebook's 'Whisper Campaign' Against Google Isn't Okay

    ​I'm a big fan of Jack Shafer, Slate's media columnist. But his libertarian worldview sometimes tends to make him go overboard with his "oh, what's the big deal" shtick. That's the case --  somewhat -- with his latest column, wherein he wonders why people are so shocked that Facebook hired ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    Eating Well at Denny's, Eating Pasta in S.F., Parsing Gwyneth's Cookbook

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Healthful chain meals take off. I've scoffed off the "healthy" options on the menus of chain restaurants as the dietetics equivalent of greenwashing. But USA Today just reported t ... More >>

  • News

    March 23, 2011

    Wall of Shame

    CNN, USA Today, and other media organizations got fooled.

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Tim Lincecum's In-N-Out Binge

    The breakfast of champions...​We can't decide. Does Tim Lincecum's new look more closely resemble Iggy Pop or the Christopher Walken "The Continental" character from Saturday Night Live? Consider it food for thought. Speaking of food and thought, we think Lincecum's professed favorite food order a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Marin Independent Journal to Shut Down In-House Printing Press

    The MIJ is going away, technically -- but it's not going anywhere​Countering rumors to the contrary, the Marin Independent Journal's president and publisher said his paper is not curtailing its print run and going online only. "Completely untrue," says Matt Wilson. That being said, it is the ... More >>

  • News

    September 8, 2010

    Travel writer Edward Hasbrouck sues Homeland Security over travel data

    The MIJ is going away, technically -- but it's not going anywhere​Countering rumors to the contrary, the Marin Independent Journal's president and publisher said his paper is not curtailing its print run and going online only. "Completely untrue," says Matt Wilson. That being said, it is the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2010

    Why Can't S.F. Ban 'Formula Restaurants'?

    David D./YelpSubway franchise on Main at Howard in SOMA.​Our favorite morsels from the Web. Thanks to SFoodie's blog sib Noah Galuten of LA Weekly's Squid Ink for directing our browser to USA TODAY, which today records a backlash against efforts by a craggy, scenic town in Utah to keep chain ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    USA Today Duped by iPad Steering Wheel Hoax

    Stories about a website hawking steering wheel mounts for iPads that would enable drivers to do their reading en route started popping up all over the interwebs. The idea, or course, is a safety proponents nightmare, and as one might imagine, it's most likely a hoax. Jalopnik did some rudimentary re ... More >>

  • News

    April 14, 2010

    The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights

    Stories about a website hawking steering wheel mounts for iPads that would enable drivers to do their reading en route started popping up all over the interwebs. The idea, or course, is a safety proponents nightmare, and as one might imagine, it's most likely a hoax. Jalopnik did some rudimentary re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    In Store w/ Recycled Records, Where Vinyl Killed the CD Star

    ​In Store spotlights San Francisco's quirkiest, most beloved, weirdest, and/or otherwise-most-interesting record stores. Our city's unmistakable friskiness and cultural capital emanate from those dusty, creaky, hard-to-find, money-losing, insanely huge, hilariously small, and often-crowded (at lea ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2009

    Still Fit to Print?

    ​In Store spotlights San Francisco's quirkiest, most beloved, weirdest, and/or otherwise-most-interesting record stores. Our city's unmistakable friskiness and cultural capital emanate from those dusty, creaky, hard-to-find, money-losing, insanely huge, hilariously small, and often-crowded (at lea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2009

    Green Day Announces Release Date for New Album

    It won't be out until May, but it's hardly a stretch to call Green Day's upcoming release, titled 21st-Century Breakdown --their first since 2004's American Idiot, which won the Best Rock Album Grammy--one of the most "highly-anticipated rock albums of 2009." Do we sound like film critic Peter Trave ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    Say What? Why California Has No Corruption

    By Peter Jamison As a member of a profession that relies on scandal in the upper echelons of representative government to justify its existence, it was with some chagrin that I noticed the recent rankings of states by level of corruption published in USA Today and the New York Times. (Such comparis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2008

    On Comics: Strong Early Reviews for Leterrier's 'Hulk'

    By Peter Jamison As a member of a profession that relies on scandal in the upper echelons of representative government to justify its existence, it was with some chagrin that I noticed the recent rankings of states by level of corruption published in USA Today and the New York Times. (Such comparis ... More >>

  • News

    April 23, 2008

    Print is dying, but Chron gets glossy new press

    By Peter Jamison As a member of a profession that relies on scandal in the upper echelons of representative government to justify its existence, it was with some chagrin that I noticed the recent rankings of states by level of corruption published in USA Today and the New York Times. (Such comparis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2008

    Dengue Fever Plays Independent in April

    By Peter Jamison As a member of a profession that relies on scandal in the upper echelons of representative government to justify its existence, it was with some chagrin that I noticed the recent rankings of states by level of corruption published in USA Today and the New York Times. (Such comparis ... More >>

  • News

    January 30, 2008

    Ward Bushee to Bring More McNews to Chronicle

    By Peter Jamison As a member of a profession that relies on scandal in the upper echelons of representative government to justify its existence, it was with some chagrin that I noticed the recent rankings of states by level of corruption published in USA Today and the New York Times. (Such comparis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2008

    Nada Surf Releases New Album, Plays Fillmore 3/22

    By Peter Jamison As a member of a profession that relies on scandal in the upper echelons of representative government to justify its existence, it was with some chagrin that I noticed the recent rankings of states by level of corruption published in USA Today and the New York Times. (Such comparis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2007

    The Wachowski Bros Are At It Again With New Film "Speed Racer"

    By Peter Jamison As a member of a profession that relies on scandal in the upper echelons of representative government to justify its existence, it was with some chagrin that I noticed the recent rankings of states by level of corruption published in USA Today and the New York Times. (Such comparis ... More >>

  • Music

    November 21, 2007

    Band of Horses Fend Off a Critical Backlash

    By Peter Jamison As a member of a profession that relies on scandal in the upper echelons of representative government to justify its existence, it was with some chagrin that I noticed the recent rankings of states by level of corruption published in USA Today and the New York Times. (Such comparis ... More >>

  • News

    January 3, 2007

    Porkmistress Pelosi

    Madam Speaker says she wants to tame pork-barrel spenders. Takes one to know one.

  • News

    March 8, 2006

    Hustle & Flow

    He can defend and fly with the best of them. But can the rookie straight out of high school stick in the NBA?

  • News

    May 4, 2005

    Darth Vega to the Rescue

    New Chronicle Publisher Frank Vega has been cast as a villain, but he may be just what the Hearst empire needs to defeat the dark forces of the new economy

  • Music

    October 8, 2003

    Sonic Dissidents

    Stop Bush! Stop the Republicans! Slackers unite: It's time, once again, to "Rock the Vote."

  • News

    August 27, 2003

    News That Fits

    Is shorter ever better? Yes, when it's on the front page of the Contra Costa Times.

  • News

    January 16, 2002

    Dog Bites

    We never would have guessed: Raiders fans are pansies.

  • News

    January 2, 2002

    Chump Changes

    Journalists are playing into the hands of George Bush when they unthinkingly insist that everything is different since Sept. 11

  • News

    May 16, 2001

    Bum Advice

    Ignore the trumped-up complaining; it is time to throw the bums out of the Housing Authority

  • News

    December 6, 2000

    Generation Excess

    A close look at Kibu.com, the teen Web site -- backed by Silicon Valley's elite -- that vaporized $15 million in a matter of months

  • Dining

    July 5, 2000

    Social Grace

    Are you unsure how to behave? Social Grace answers all your toughest etiquette questions

  • News

    July 5, 2000

    You Could Be Jammin'

    There's a way to foil rude cell phone users. But it's illegal.

  • News

    July 5, 2000

    Dog Bites

    Logan Five! Identify!; And the Winner Is ...

  • Calendar

    August 4, 1999

    Savage Love

    Logan Five! Identify!; And the Winner Is ...

  • News

    June 30, 1999

    SF Weekly Wins Newsrack Injunction

    Logan Five! Identify!; And the Winner Is ...

  • Calendar

    January 6, 1999

    Mecklin

    Logan Five! Identify!; And the Winner Is ...

  • News

    March 18, 1998

    Dog Bites

    Logan Five! Identify!; And the Winner Is ...

  • News

    February 11, 1998

    Dog Bites

    Logan Five! Identify!; And the Winner Is ...

  • News

    April 26, 1995

    Beauty Knows No Pain

    Building a Better Body at the 28th Annual Session of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

  • Music

    February 22, 1995

    Kitschy cool

    The Coctails decline to join up with the nouveau Lounge Nation

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