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  • Super Bowl 50 Local leaders get ready for Bay Areas biggest party ever

    BOSTON -- The Bay Area began a 33-month countdown to its biggest party ever on Tuesday after NFL owners chose the 49ers' new Santa Clara stadium to host the league's most-anticipated Super Bowl. The NFL's golden anniversary title game is coming to the Golden State in 2016, and now the planning begins: After a day of jubilation, local leaders have a Super Bowl-sized to-do list that ...

  • BART to decide on relaxed rules for bikes on trains

    The BART board appears ready to drop its ban on bringing bicycles on trains during rush hour after a survey found few rider complaints during a one-week test of relaxed rules in March.The board is expected to vote on the issue Thursday. However, two BART directors said they want to lift the ban only conditionally and decide in five months whether to make the change permanent.The concern is ...

  • Inside the secret Symantec building that keeps websites safe

    Paul Meijer, senior director of operations for Symantec's identity and authentication business, stands next to rows of locked servers in the highly secure data center at Symantec's secretive facility in Mountain View, Calif. on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012. Symantec provides security, storage and systems management solutions for small businesses to global organizations. (Gary Reyes/ ...

  • Golden Gate Bridge jumper rescued by passing sailors

    A father-daughter sailing duo came to the rescue of a man who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on May 20, 2013. (Justin Sullivan/Getty ...

  • NHL San Jose 2 Los Angeles 1

    Antti Niemi was solid in goal for the San Jose Sharks, who evened their Western Conference semifinals series with Los Angeles with a 2-1 win in Game 4 Tuesday. Niemi had 22 saves in the win, ...


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Machete

Machete

In a strange case of faux sleaze-art imitating faux sleaze-art imitating real sleaze-art, Machete unwittingly proves one of the fundamental truisms of exploitation cinema: The trailer is always better. As most know, Robert Rodriguezs new Mexploitation action epic is based on a fake movie ... ...

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  • San Francisco Houston to host Super Bowls in 2016 17

    (45 mins ago) San Francisco and Houston got the nod as Super Bowl hosts on Tuesday in a decision announced at the NFL Spring Meeting. San Francisco will host Super Bowl 50 in February of 2016 and Houston will host Super Bowl 51 in February of 2017, the league announced, AFP reports. The Super Bowl will return to the Bay Area thanks to the 49ers' future Santa Clara home, recently named ...

  • Bowl means party time in S.F.

    Mayor Ed Lee, right, wearing the Warriors' colors after a ceremony for the team Tuesday, celebrates the Super Bowl deal with former Mayor Willie ...

  • SFMTA approves Central Subway contract with Tutor Perini despite concerns

    Contractor Tutor Perini's deal to install 1.5 miles of underground Muni tracks has been criticized for not hiring more local or minority-owned ...

  • TSA might soon allow knives on planes despite outcry

    Facing stiff opposition from within the airline industry and scrutiny from Congress, last month, the Transportation Security Administration tabled its proposed policy to allow knives back onto aircraft. But the delay was only temporary, and agency Administrator John Pistole has remained vague about any plans to revive the proposal. Industry observers say it could be quietly re-implemented as ...

  • Growing diversity of San Mateo County’s courts reflects larger trend in California

    A former public defender, Judge Donald Ayoob was appointed to the San Mateo County Superior Court bench in 2010, bucking a longtime trend of appointing prosecutors or civil litigators to the ...

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