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Give 'Em Hill: Thanksgiving tidbits, served warm and smothered in snark

class="subhead">Firing up the bird Under no circumstances whatsoever. I don't care if the world is ending and this is the last Thanksgiving meal on earth. I don't care if it's in a swanky restaurant or a Swanson's Hungry Man TV dinner. No way, no how, ...

From ANGELA HILL, Inside Bay Area,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Jack London,  Cost Plus, Inc.,  Tim Burton

Forum highlights seniors' health service needs

state's over-65 population doubles in the next 25 years, said Peter Szutu, CEI president. OAKLAND — Helen Chen, chief medical officer at the Center for Elders Independence, has news for the upcoming generation: You're gonna get old. "They'll be in ...

From ANGELA HILL, Inside Bay Area,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Competitive Enterprise Institute,  Nancy Skinner (politician),  Joan Buchanan

Weekend food drives could mean feast or famine for many a Thanksgiving table

turkeys. We've received 150 as of right now," he said, explaining that the birds are distributed with grocery bags to families in the area as well as cooked up for the mission's large outdoor meal on Thanksgiving Day. "It's pretty concerning for us, ...

From ANGELA HILL, Contra Costa Times,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Salvation Army,  Jackie Smith,  John Anderson (politician),  Brian Higgins,  Boy Scouts of America

Give 'Em Hill: The road to the future is paved with $20 Tribbles

Relax, folks. Clearly, the world will not end in 2012 as has been predicted by doomsayers who fear a catastrophic convergence of a wayward planet named Nibiru and the end of a cycle in the Mayan calendar. Nor will our demise come that year from some ...

From ANGELA HILL, Contra Costa Times,  14 Nov 2009
Related Topics: John Cusack,  Gene Roddenberry,  eBay Inc.,  William Shatner

Rehabilitated birds released on Berkeley shoreline Friday, two weeks after being injured in Bay oil spill

to go back in the water. The birds released Friday were found on Halloween or Nov. 1 in Alameda, mostly along Crown Beach, Ziccardi said. A Dunlin shorebird slowly and cautiously makes its way to the water after being released by the Oiled Wildlife ...

From ANGELA HILL, Inside Bay Area,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Impromptu parade caps tribute aboard USS Hornet

of Allegiance, all backdropped by an enormous American flag the size of a freeway billboard. ALAMEDA — No official parade was scheduled Wednesday to accompany the annual Veterans Day ceremony aboard the USS Hornet Museum, a minor point that merely ...

From ANGELA HILL, Inside Bay Area,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: John Berger,  Oakley, Inc.

Mother Wright's spirit lives on in Oakland

efforts this year and welcomes support from the motorcycle clubs. OAKLAND — This holiday season, the sweet roar of motorcycles could signal the assignment of heavenly wings as members of local social motorcycle clubs swoop in to help the needy in ...

From ANGELA HILL, Inside Bay Area,  11 Nov 2009

Give 'Em Hill: Two decades of "D'oh!"

(Seriously, go to the puzzle.) The other day, a friend's e-mail cited the succulent properties of a chicken-fried steak she had prepared for lunch, and I felt the need to chide her about her midday gravy intake. So without a moment's hesitation, ...

From ANGELA HILL, Inside Bay Area,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: FOX Broadcasting Company,  Ed Sullivan, Jr.,  Hank Aaron,  Mick Jagger,  Suzanne Pleshette

Give 'Em Hill: Bearable darkness, and, living it up with the dead

drivers will make a stop at Walgreens on the way home for the discount candy. n n n n n n Happy Day of the Dead and merry return to Pacific Standard Time. I find it fitting these events should coincide because I'm sure that, if polled, the dead ...

From ANGELA HILL, Inside Bay Area,  1 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Walgreens,  Jack Nicholson

Give 'Em Hill: A laundry quandary -- it all comes out in the wash

back to the powder/liquid laundry quandary. THERE ARE two kinds of people in this world — those who use powder laundry detergent and those who use liquid laundry detergent, and of course one kind of person is right and one kind is very, very ...

From ANGELA HILL, Inside Bay Area,  24 Oct 2009

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