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Raiders fans including Dr. Death (No. 26) protest outside the NFL meetings in San Francisco. (Photo by Eric Branch) The National Football League is holding spring meetings in downtown San Francisco today and Wednesday, and one of the subjects is the race to move to Los Angeles, with the Raiders and San Diego Chargers planning a stadium in Carson and the St. Louis Rams offering a separate plan to build at the site of the old Hollywood Park racetrack in Inglewood. A small group of keep-the-Raiders-in-Oakland... Читать дальше...

After directing “Deliver Us From Evil,” her Oscar-nominated 2006 documentary chronicling sex-abuse cases in the Roman Catholic Church, Amy Berg set her sights on directing a narrative feature. “Since ‘Deliver Us From Evil,’ I have been getting a lot of scripts and a lot of meetings with people,” the 44-year-old Berg said at the quaint Venice (Los Angeles County) home she shares with her dogs. [...] the stakes are high for the characters in her dark first narrative feature, “Every Secret Thing.” Based on the novel by Laura Lippman... Читать дальше...

It’s no mean feat to spend months meticulously planning a gala. Let alone one honoring a globally revered artist. So when award-winning singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell was recently hospitalized, the music world held it’s collective breath. But the beat never wavered at SFJazz when Mitchell was unable to attend the organization’s recent gala where founder-Artistic Director

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., isn’t worried that, absent a Senate vote, key provisions of the Patriot Act are slated to sunset on May 31. The GOP presidential hopeful told “Meet the Press” Sunday that a federal appeals court found the data-gathering authorized under the Patriot Act’s Section 215 is unconstitutional — so it really ought to stop. In his book, “The Great War of Our Times,” former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell addresses the “skyrocketing rise in the threat of small-scale attacks” abetted... Читать дальше...

Justin Smith celebrating (AP Photo/Ben Margot) More than Jim Harbaugh, more than Trent Baalke, and just as much as Frank Gore – if anyone embodied the 49ers’ brief, three-year playoff run – it was Justin Smith. After 14 years of outstanding play, Smith announced his retirement Monday in a conference call with local media. Smith said he never considered a formal announcement, wearing a suit, in front of cameras. “You guys are not going to get me in a room and make me cry.” he said. Smith may have inspired the team’s recent playoff runs on Oct. Читать дальше...