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Ten of the Raiders' Last 12 First Round Picks Are no Longer on the Team

In the 2000 NFL Draft, the Oakland Raiders used their first-round pick to select Sebastian Janikowski, a damn kicker. People laughed. People taunted. People thought the Raiders were crazy. And that would turn out to be one of the team's smarter first-round picks. This week, the Raiders released D ... More >>

49ers Who Appear in "It Gets Better" Video Deny Making the Video for LGBT Youth

Looks like the 49ers' PR department might be clocking some overtime this week. After 49ers player Chris Culliver made his public apology for his grammatically-incorrect anti-gay remarks, his teammates Ahmad Brooks and Isaac Sopoaga took over the spotlight with their own dumbass remarks. Apparent ... More >>

Hepcat Michael Wolff: Facebook is 'Square'

When you're trying to decide what's hip and what's square, there's really only one place to look: Michael Wolff writing in USA Today. Wolff is a serial Internet failure who is nevertheless a highly successful self-promoter. The two don't go together at all, especially considering that he promotes h ... More >>

Why ESPN's Rick Sutcliffe Is Wrong About Deporting Melky Cabrera

On Monday, ESPN baseball analyst Rick Sutcliffe was on ESPN radio and said this about Melky Cabrera: You know, it makes you mad. First of all, this guy is over here in the United States on a working visa. He broke the law. What's he doing still here? I mean, forget the 50-game suspension from baseb ... More >>

LeBron James and the 2001 Oakland Soldiers

This week's feature story, Swoosh Dreams, describes how the Oakland Soldiers became one of the best travel basketball teams in the country. The program's co-founder, Calvin Andrews, believes that the Soldiers' rise can be charted along three turning points. The first was when Izzy Washington, the ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Wall of Shame

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

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 >>

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 >>

Travel writer Edward Hasbrouck sues Homeland Security over travel data

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 >>

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 >>

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

Still Fit to Print?

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 >>

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 >>

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

Print is dying, but Chron gets glossy new press

Dengue Fever Plays Independent in April

Ward Bushee to Bring More McNews to Chronicle

Nada Surf Releases New Album, Plays Fillmore 3/22

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

Band of Horses Fend Off a Critical Backlash

Porkmistress Pelosi

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

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?

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

Sonic Dissidents

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

Dog Bites

We never would have guessed: Raiders fans are pansies.

Chump Changes

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

Bum Advice

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

Social Grace

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

You Could Be Jammin'

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

Dog Bites

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

Savage Love

SF Weekly Wins Newsrack Injunction

Mecklin

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

Kitschy cool

The Coctails decline to join up with the nouveau Lounge Nation