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  • Warner may face strict CA action for Twitter outburst

    Australian Test batsmen David Warner is likely to be charged with detrimental public comment for his Twitter outburst under Cricket Australia's (CA) code of conduct, delivering a setback to his leadership aspirations. Condemning Warner, CA's high-performance chief Pat Howard had confirmed that Warner will be disciplined after using the social networking site to launch a savage attack on cricket ...

  • Oakland Effect Police say Melrose and 50th is latest crime hot spot

    Month on month, crime is up in our hot spot. With one murder, seven robberies, one shooting and seven residential burglaries, every category saw an increase since the last Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council for police District 27 met. And my particular block, it turns out, was the worst spot in the neighborhood."Melrose and 50th is one of the hot spots this month," said our local ...

  • Shirakawas decisive vote in ambulance deal prompts Santa Clara County scrutiny

    In December 2009, Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr. flew into the San Diego airport, rented a Grand Marquis and headed to a marina Marriott for a five-day taxpayer-funded trip. With the county's vital ambulance contract soon up for bid, Shirakawa and his chief of staff, Eddie Garcia, asserted that they were conducting a tour of the "WestMed" ambulance service, ...

  • Super Bowl vote 49ers Bay Area prepare for NFLs decision Tuesday

    On Tuesday, 32 of the country's richest and most powerful people will file into a 15th-floor executive boardroom overlooking Boston Harbor. They'll lock the door behind them and take their seats in high-backed leather chairs around a large mahogany table for exactly one hour and 15 minutes.At 10:30 a.m. PDT, the NFL team owners each will write just two words -- "San ...

  • Community Corner Bay Area Nonprofit Encourages A Smart Summer

    SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – As Bay Area families gear up for summer activities, one local organization says it’s important to avoid summer learning loss, or ';brain drain.'; ';Basically kids will forget,'; Ed Caballero is Executive Director and Co-founder of Edventure More, a nonprofit enrichment organization that includes summer camps for kids pre-K through 8th grade ...

Movie Review

Down by Law [DVD]

Down by Law [DVD]

In Jim Jarmuschs minimalist comedy Down by Law, three men are stuck in a prison cell together, two of whom are so much alike that they immediately hate each other, and the third of whom might as well be from another planet. The first two men are Jack (John Lurie) and Zack (Tom Waits), whose rhyming names only underscore how interchangeable they are. Both men exist somewhere near the bottom ... ...

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  • Neighbors complain of smell San Francisco bacon restaurant shut down

    A San Francisco restaurant owner says he's out of business after complaints about the smell of bacon led to a discovery the eatery lacked proper health permits. Jim Angelus, the owner of Bacon Bacon, said the restaurant will shut down at the close of business Friday. Neighbors complained last summer about the smell and alleged Bacon Bacon did not properly dispose of grease. The San ...

  • Taxi Dancer in the Santa Barbara Harbor

    The breakwater at the Santa Barbara Harbor is a great place for an evening walk. Of course you have to be willing to risk a rouge wave making you a little wet, but usually it’s possible to navigate without getting too much of a shower. Last night it looked like there was potential for a nice sunset, initially the clouds didn’t get as much color as I’d hoped for. But a little ...

  • Best Places To See Jacarandas In Bloom In Los Angeles

    , or blue jacarandas in full flower. Other cities have them, too: Bangalore, Adelaide, Mexico City, Zimbabwe, Buenos Aires. But only in California do jacarandas bloom twice and with such intoxicating luminescence. The California poppy had a terrible year this year. The state flower barely made an appearance in the deserts outside L.A. The week of the California Poppy Festival in Lancaster last ...

  • Fremont is US new manufacturing hub thanks to Silicon Valley

    In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than $60,000 each.Down the road in another plant, crews slice solar cells, place them under glass sheets and create panels that ship by the boxful to Europe. Elsewhere in this town, industrial workshops and laboratories buzz with ...

  • As eye momentum-building sweep vs. Royals

    Perfect lineup construction may not statistically win too many games across a 162-game season, but Ned Yost's decision to move Alex Gordon to the three-hole and Billy Butler to cleanup has undoubtedly made an impact. Since making the move nine games ago, the Royals have scored 40 runs. Gordon is 14-for-35, while Butler is 12-for-37 with two homers and 11 RBIs. The two accounted for three ...

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