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Refugee Poet Richard Sun was only kidding when he pulled a gun on his now ex-girlfriend because she went somewhere without telling him. "That was another reason why I had to leave that wretched city," he says, referring to San Francisco. "But not the most important reason." After three weeks of hard-core self-reflection in the slammer ... |
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Green Apple Books Green Apple is one of the Bay Area’s great bookselling institutions, usually mentioned in the same class as City Lights and Cody’s Books. Situated in a non-trendy neighborhood, on a strip known more ... |
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Grape Expectations "Women actually have an edge as far as tasting and subtleties because anthropologically, women are super tasters," said Kim Caffrey (left), owner and operator of Wine, Woman & Laughs, a Napa Valley-based company offering entertaining and educational wine seminars. "They have heightened sensitivity to taste and smell. Having that advantage, they are able to maintain more subtle aromas." ... |
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Mystery Shopping A little over three years ago, desperate for extra cash to supplement my live-in job as personal assistant to a well-known Berkeley academic, I answered a San Francisco Chronicle ad calling for "mystery shoppers." Unlike similar ads ... |
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Sunflower Now that the last sections of dirt road have been paved, it doesn't take much more than an hour to drive from the coast to the hot springs. On even this short trip, it was still necessary for us to stop several times so the ailing Curt could relieve himself. Physicians had probed and poked his rangy frame ... |
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City Lights San Francisco is well known as one of the great literary cities of the world, home to many renowned writers and breeding ground for new literary movements. Less known, the City and the Bay Area also claim what is probably the greatest collection of bookstores in the country. As the ranks of independent bookstores in other cities have been decimated by the "megastore" chains ... |
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