The voice mail said: “This is Terry. Something happened… I might not see you for a while. Anyway, I’m glad you weren’t here and didn’t…
Posts published in “Day: February 3, 2010”
There is a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco a few blocks from my parents’ house. The Garden is indistinguishable from dozens of other Chinese restaurants in Beijing-By-The-Bay: harsh fluorescent lights, black metal chairs that look like they were stolen from a VFW Hall in Fresno, a pair of grubby tanks in which lobsters and fish await the executioner’s pot. A place where rock cod and appetites come to die.
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comforta-bly then I shall begin. A brief column this week as I have had little time to…
Paula Patterson was appointed interim principal at Point Arena Elementary in November of 2006 by Point Arena Superintendent Mark Iacuaniello. Iacuaniello and his lockstep school…
UNCONFIRMED reports say the Boonville Brewery is in escrow, with the sale valued somewhere between $7 and $10 million. The Boont brews were first concocted…
This Week: Marvin Trotter, Congressman Wine Guy, The Walmart of Weed, an MTA boondoggle and much more...
I met Jill a couple of weeks ago and as befits the manager at Brutacao Cellars we sat down to chat with some delicious wines.…
Last week, it rained enough in Tucson for the rivers to run, however briefly. At the same time it rained in the desert, snow dusted the mountains surrounding Tucson. I am not in Arizona to see snow.
The election of Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate by Democratic voters in Massachusetts sends President Obama a message. Voters perceive that Obama’s administration has morphed into a Bush-Cheney government.
Two years ago last December I was hanging out in my Waikiki condo watching the evening news when the top story was about a hiker…
On April 17, 2009, with the edifice of the global economy rotting under an architecture of monumental greed, war deficits, and official hubris, the University of California, Berkeley conducted a groundbreaking ceremony for its Richard C. Blum Center for Developing Economies.