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Crass and talented teens win Slam Dance Audience Award for Bindlestiffs

Punchlines and laughs galore in this offbeat coming of age story.

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Black Sabbath to release new album and tour worldwide in 2012

First album in 33 years

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Rapper Heavy D dead at 44

Rapper died of “health-related” cause

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Los Angeles

“Twilight” cast immortalized outside Grauman’s Chinese Theater

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Getting to Know

Getting to Know: Carolyne Neuman is NOVI

A rising electro-pop sensation

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Food and Drink

Blast West

The Castillo family continues to wow with their Limon Rotisserie concept

Slowly roasted, Peruvian-style cuisine

Eating in the West

The top 10 activities and restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area

A real concierge weighs in

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Life in the West

Tougher state and federal air quality standards, combined with cleaner burning engines on new vehicles today, have cut air pollution from cars and trucks across California by more than 85 percent since the 1970s, with peak smog levels in the city of Los Angeles dropping some 70 percent. (Thinkstock)
Earth and Environment

SMOG levels improving in Los Angeles

Is it possible?

Low natural gas prices, competition from China and other factors helped sink innovative American solar panel maker, Solyndra, despite its having received $535 million in government loan guarantees. But the Obama administration is not deterred and has renewed efforts to force utilities to derive significant percentages of their power from cleaner, greener sources. (Media credit/Zachary Graham via Flickr)
Earth and Environment

Why Solyndra failed

It was SO promising…

Colin Treverrow and Derek Connolly (Photo Credit/SteveHeller)
Blast Boston

Endearing time-travel comedy impresses at Sundance

Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly discuss Safety Not Guaranteed with Blast.

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Reporting live from the Sundance Film Festival

Check in during the festival for interviews and updates

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Bay Area News

Criminals to heroes: California penal system trains inmates to be firefighters

Fire camps teach the incarcerated real life skills and gives them a new lease on life.

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E3 2011

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E3 2011

Modern Warfare 3 All Access: Bigger, Badder, more emotional

Blast goes in depth with the world’s most anticipated game

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E3 2011

Ace Combat Assault Horizon E3 2011 Trailer

Arcade flight thriller

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Gordon Ramsay to open steakhouse in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS — World-renowned chef, Gordon Ramsay, will be opening his first Las Vegas restaurant, Gordon Ramsay Steakhouse, in the Paris Las Vegas Resort in Spring 2012. The restaurant, which will be replacing Les Artistes Steakhouse, will add to Ramsay’s string of restaurants around the globe. Ramsay, who has hosted television, shows such as “Hells [...]

Blast West

Solyndra requests approval for $500,000 in bonuses despite bankruptcy filing

FREMONT, Calif. — After filing for bankruptcy on Sept. 6, the California solar panel manufacturer Solyndra LCC is now asking a Delaware judge to approve approximately $500,000 in employee bonuses. The Huffington Post reported the potential bonuses would be distributed to nine equipment engineers, six general business and finance employees, four facilities workers and two [...]

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