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America’s Cup wanted to be like NASCAR — too much
America's Cup officials likened their upcoming San Francisco races to NASCAR on the water. And as it turned out, it is more like NASCAR than they might like. Just as the 2001 race-related death ...
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19115 anime fanatics descend on San Jose for FanimeCon Video
Notice more people in costumes milling around downtown San Jose? FanimeCon is in town, the annual convention celebrating all Japanese animated characters. Here two attendees waiting in a really long registration line tell Managing Editor Shana Lynch what they're looking forward to this weekend. Crowds lined up outside the Fairmont San Jose to register for this year's FanimeCon. If you ...
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Harbaugh Looks for Young WRs to Emerge
San Francisco travels to division-rival Seattle to face the Seahawks in prime time on Sunday night. The overall series is tied at 14 games apiece, but under head coach Jim Harbaugh, the 49ers are 3-1 versus Seattle. The teams split the 2012 series, with each team winning on their home ...
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Gordon Rees Oakland lease First sign of S.F. flight
Gordon & Rees LLP is expanding with a new Oakland office at 1111 Broadway in City Center -- a sign that a spillover from San Francisco is coming east. The firm leased the entire 17th floor, about 24,000 square feet, to house 120 employees who will move from its headquarters at 275 Battery St. in San Francisco's Financial District. The workers moving to Oakland include its ...
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Once controversial Cathedral Hill hospital gets quiet OK from planners
St. Luke's Hospital rebuild, now that city officials and California Pacific Medical Center have settled on a compromise and buried the hatchet. The Planning Commission ...
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Movie Review
Office Space
"Office Space" should have started with a brief dedication: "This film is dedicated to anyone who has ever worked in a cubicle." This film, the first live-action offering from Mike Judge, creator of "Beavis and Butt-head" and "King of the Hill," is a wry tale of vengeance against cubicle culture, and anyone who has ever worked in one will find much to laugh about. I, for one, have worked in a cubi ... ...
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Googles next moonshot High-altitude wind startup Makani
super fantastic story , Bloomberg Businessweek today reported that Google X, Google's lab for wild and crazy inventions such as Google Glass (wearable computer glasses) and Google's self-driving car, is also buying Makani Power. Makani makes high-altitude wind power generating devices that use unmanned, ultralight planes tethered much like a kite to a tall base to capture wind energy ...
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Restaurant roundup creole creations grass-fed butter more ramen
This week's Bay Area restaurant scene saw more action in Berkeley, where a creole joint leaves little to be desired and a new coffee joint shows how local is really done. In the South Bay, Patxi's Pizza goes above and beyond its service requirements with a three-wheeled pick-up service for patrons. Here's this week's restaurant ...
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Phil Matier Santa Clara In Shadow Of San Francisco’s Super Bowl Spotlight
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- This week’s vote by the NFL to play Super Bowl L at the new Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara in 2016 – and name San Francisco as official host city – will create an interesting dynamic between SF and the South Bay. Former Mayor Willie Brown thinks that the symbol of the Super Bowl really is San Francisco--not necessarily the stadium where the game is ...
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Manningham Starts Running Cutting
Mario Manningham has been rehabbing his injury at 49ers headquarters this offseason and has been in good spirits about the setback he suffered in his first year in San ...
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Best-selling local food and beverages
Hungry? Thirsty? Check out some of the top-selling products of local Bay Area food producers. Check out this week's top 25 list of the Largest Food and Beverage Manufacturers in the Bay Area, which can be found in this week's print edition of the San Francisco Business Times. Companies revealed some of their bestselling products. Our slideshow at right shows a few of the ...