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San Jose to Get Bay Area's First Soon-to-be-Picketed Chick-Fil-A Restaurant

Start painting those protest signs and reserving your ZipCars now: a tipster has let us know that the forthcoming 40-acre retail village called @First appears to be the home to the first Bay

Arts & Entertainment

Furry Convention Taking Place In San Jose Right Now

Further Confusion, billed at the world's largest anthropomorphic (or "furry") convention, is currently spreading lint and color audacity in San Jose now through the 17th. Guests of honor include Blotch and Paul Kidd.

Woman Attacked By Dogs In San Jose

As a 41-year-old San Jose woman went from her home to her car on Monday night, two pitbulls attacked her. She sustained "major," but not life-threatening, injuries. A neighbor who witnessed the canine

San Jose's Plastic Bag Ban is Better than Ours

Not that we compare ourselves to San Jose that often, but our neighbor to the south has just become the largest city in the country to ban plastic grocery bags. We've been plastic-free

Photo du Jour 752

"The Kettle Corn Man" at Christmas in the Park, San Jose. Shot by Flickr user andertho.

San Jose Man Shoots Self With Nail Gun, Gets Shot By Cops After Confrontation

A San Jose man appeared at the home of his estranged wife yesterday morning around 9 a.m. and attempted to kill himself with a nail gun. Police officers arrived on the scene

SFPD Seek 3 San Jose Men for Kidnapping, Sexually Assaulting SF Woman

Police need your help in arresting three men from San Jose who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a San Francisco woman on Saturday night. It seems, according to BCN (via CBS 5), a 25-year-old

Toddler Falls From San Jose Apartment Window

Now that your editor is a proud godfather, we lay awake at night worrying about the some billion dangers out there facing little children, which are EVERYWHERE. (Hence parenting magazines, which have turned

First Bay Area 2010 Newborn Goes to San Jose

San Jose won bragging rights last night for having the first baby born in the Bay Area in 2010. While Rosa Lee, born at California Pacific Medical Center's California campus in SF, entered

San Jose Cops on the Lookout for Muumuu-Wearing Robber

A San Jose robber who held up a pay day loan store and a liquor store within a week of each other this past July has successfully and brilliantly eluded police. Witnesses were

Possible San Jose Workplace Massacre Averted

A man recently fire from his job at a San Jose recycling plant was arrested yesterday "while on his way to the plant with a loaded handgun hidden in his boot." According to

Police Barricade San Jose Mobile Home After Shooting

A little before 9 a.m. this morning, inside the Chateau La Salle Mobile Home Park located near the Santa Clara County Fair grounds, a double shooting took place. Two people were shot,

San Jose Falcon Brings Slow News Day to an End With Flight

Yesterday afternoon, one of the young female falcons that adorn the roof at San Jose City Hall (named Ilahay, which is "angel" in Persian) took her first flight. According to the Mercury News,

San Jose Spelling Bee Contender Makes it to Finals

The Scripps National Spelling Bee (the annual event where people get to coo at and root for our country's smartest Asperger cases) might have a local winner this year. San Jose eighth-grader Ramya

Today in Death News

Not to be a total bummer this Monday Tuesday morning, but let's get this quick wrap-up over with. Two teens are being held in conjunction with the shooting death of a 13-year-old in

Decision on A's Moving to San Jose Comes in November

A ballot proposition on relocating the Oakland A's to San Jose could be up for a vote as early as November, reports KCBS, following a meeting between A's owner Lew Wolff and San

BART Extension Groundbreaking Today

San Jose just got a little less unsightly. Today, a groundbreaking ceremony took place for the BART extension, which will bring Silicon Valley a little bit closer to the Bay Area. Carl Guardino,

Muni Bart Missing

Bay Area resident Muni Bart Perzov went missing over the weekend. Forty-nine-year-old Muni Bart has been missing since Thursday after Muni Bart sent a text to his girlfriend saying Muni Bart would be

SJ Suicide Twitterer Speaks Out

Citing a difficult divorce, which would explain the desire to follow online a Hollywood actress of-a-certain age, the woman who Twittered her attempted suicide to Demi Moore spoke to the press recently. If

Morning Earthquakes

Two small earthquakes struck the Bay Area over the weekend. First, a 3.5-magnitude quake centered 10 miles north of downtown San Jose rattled Sunday morning at 7:47 a.m. Then, a

San Jose emergency room shut down after chemical spill

A Hazmat team has closed San Jose Valley Medical Center's emergency room after an unknown chemical exposure. At least 37 employees, 47 patients were given Silkwood scrubdowns. The toxic mess, it seems, came

San Jose to do Away with Yellow Lights

A staple of San Jose aesthetics, yellow sodium lights might soon become a thing of the past. According to the Mercury News, "the city is looking to replace its 62,000 streetlights with

Spanish Speaker Assaulted in San Jose

White San Jose resident Scott Pontzious was arrested and charged with a hate crime yesterday. The 28-year-old, English-only zealot was pinched after allegedly attacking another man because he was speaking Spanish on his

Silicon Valley Looking for First-Ever Poet Laureate

In an attempt to compete culturally with more richly textured areas of California (i.e., San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Buttonwillow), San Jose is looking to land its first poet laureate. According to

San Jose City College Starts Campus-Wide Smoking Ban

Initiating one of the toughest city college smoking bans, San Jose City College has kicked off an extreme no-smoking ban. In addition to the typical smoke-free rules inside of all buildings, the ban