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San Francisco Chronicle Stops Using Term "Illegal Immigrant"

Language frames discourse. Which is why liberals say "global warming" and "estate tax," and conservatives say "climate change" and "death tax." This sort of dichotomy has been most apparent in ongoing immigration debate, which has birthed a wide range of synonyms: "undocumented immigrant," "illegals ... More >>

The Amazing Kaepernick: Play-Faking the Culture

Bass Instincts: How Bassnectar Came to Rule American Dance Music

Slideshow: Bassnectar in San Francisco

Top 10 Reasons Bay Area Indie Bands Move to Brooklyn

Bay Area bands move to Brooklyn. It's just a thing that happens. You've got your Morning Benders (ahem, POP ETCs), your Royal Baths, and now S.F. gloom-gaze outfit Weekend trading Oakland (formerly S.F.) for the hallowed grounds of Williamsburg or Bushwick or Greenpoint or wherever. But why? Why do ... More >>

Marijuana Is Career Poison for Olympic Athletes who Are Not Named Michael Phelps

While he never raced against Jim Thorpe in the decathlon and never competed against the color barrier, American swimmer Michael Phelps can nonetheless lay claim to the title of greatest Olympian. His 22 medals won over three separate Games allow him this.Judo practitioner Nicholas Delpopolo is no Mi ... More >>

The Tower Records Project Wants Your Help Remembering the Former Record Retail Giant

If you're one of those music fans who actually buys recordings -- instead of, you know, downloading your entire library out of ignorance, stupidity, and/or laziness -- chances are you remember Tower Records, the iconic, Sacramento-based chain whose abandoned locations still haunt certain San Francis ... More >>

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 >>

SFO Travelers Leave Behind $15,908.02 in Loose Change

​We all know that flying is a painful experience -- the security lines and baggage fees, capped off by the overall unpleasantness of your fellow travelers. To make matters worse, we're tossing free money at the airports to help fund our utterly miserable experiences. USA Today found that in 2010, ... More >>

Women's Funding Network Sex Trafficking Study Is Junk Science

Schapiro Group data wasn't questioned by mainstream media.

Eat Your Words

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 >>

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Rhetoric

Breaking News: Ward H. Bushee Replaces Embattled San Francisco Chronicle EIC Phil Bronstein

Blogos-Free

Since the paper is called the Examiner, shouldn't it take a closer look at what's going up on its Web site, and pay for it?

SF Weekly Music Awards 2007 Program

Full Nelson

Can pro basketball's second-winningest coach put the Warriors back on the warpath? Don't count him out too quick.

Intrepid Antiwarriors of the Libertarian Right Stake Their Rightful Claim to Power

Looking into the endearing obsession known as Antiwar.com

News That Fits

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

Not Your Mother's Peace Movement

Major anti-war groups change strategy, hoping to win over mainstream voters the Bush administration can't ignore

Rebuilding Credit

San Francisco's Providian Financial was once the most despised company in the credit card industry. Now, after a humbling fall, it just wants to be loved.

What the Hell Is Copia?

At Robert Mondavi's new $55 million foodie mecca, you'll find seminars on goat cheese and mustard; surrealist movies; a SPAM exhibit; wine tastings; figurines of pooping Catholics -- everything, in fact, but the answer to that question.

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.

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

Almost Famous

Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell isn't Carrie Bradshaw. Like, really.

By His Own Creed

Ethan Hawke stars in Hamlet

That Was the Wit That Was

Decades after he left the stage to teach math in Santa Cruz, the voice of legendary satirist Tom Lehrer still echoes

Jamba Liar

One of California's best Cajun chefs goes on the lam after a Bay Area con game is busted

Savage Love

Net Loss

How LatinoNet -- the poster child for Washington's attempt to empower the poor with technology -- wasted money and networked almost no one

Hemoglobin Goblins

How do people play with blood in public? Jack Boulware counts ze vays.

Recordings

Drug Story (Part I)

Discovered by brain researchers in the early '60s and resurrected by bodybuilders in the late '80s, the semi-illicit compound GHB is now marketed on the club and smart-drug circuits as a sexy wonder drug. But beware GHB's knockout punch.

Beauty Knows No Pain

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