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Bay Area not maverick enough to read Palin book

But many nonchain bookstores won't handle it. "Our customers are thinking people," said Nathan Embretson, a bookseller at Pendragon Books in Oakland. "They're not into reading drivel." There's not a single copy on the shelf. Embretson said no one has ...

From STEVE RUBENSTEIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  John McCain,  Stephen King,  James Patterson

Border in the woods rife with lawlessness

This happened in the middle of noplace, 4 miles down a wooded trail at Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. There is a lot of peace at Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, at least until you get to the U.S. border. The quaking aspens are ...

From STEVE RUBENSTEIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  27 Sep 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Peanut Butter Plan to feed the homeless spreads

It's called the Peanut Butter Plan. Like many of the best plans, it's simple: Strangers get together, make peanut butter sandwiches and immediately pass them out to homeless people. No federal subsidy, no foundation, no vouchers. No official sanction ...

From STEVE RUBENSTEIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  14 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

As student gains bearings, father loses his

It used to be called dropping your kid off at college. Here's how it works. Two of you go there. One of you stays and the other comes home, disoriented. Northern Ohio is a straight shot down Interstate 80 from the Bay Area. You can't get lost getting ...

From STEVE RUBENSTEIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  28 Aug 2009

Flying yoga takes off in S.F.

It's called "therapeutic flying," according to the handout at the yoga studio on Hayes Street, and it's one of the more time-honored things you can do at a yoga studio, along with having your legs burn up. Yogis have been flying for millennia. But in ...

From STEVE RUBENSTEIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  24 Aug 2009

This yo-yo innovator is also a spin doctor

He is waiting for the tide to turn. He is waiting for the yo-yo to do what he knows that any yo-yo is capable of doing - to lift itself up off the floor, put a new spin on its static state and once again travel around the world. "We're in a dry spell," ...

From STEVE RUBENSTEIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  5 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Jerry Garcia,  Roy Rogers,  Tom Smothers,  Johnny Appleseed

How Michael Cronan spells success

It's amazing how many important-sounding words can be made up by grabbing letters out of the bag and playing around with them. TiVo, for instance. When "tivo" came of the bag 10 years ago, it didn't mean anything. Now it means nothing less than the ...

From STEVE RUBENSTEIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  26 Jun 2009
Related Topics: TiVo Inc.,  AIGA,  University of California Berkeley,  NATO

Artists paint without green in Hall of Flowers

"We're not allowed to have green," whispered one student, in a low, conspiratorial voice. "We call it the g-word. We could get in trouble." At the botanical art class at the Hall of Flowers, there is no green. That's the rule. Instructor Mary Harden ...

From STEVE RUBENSTEIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  20 Jun 2009

Despite economy, S.F. Crystal Fair rocks on

Some say crystals are just rocks. Some say that rocks just sit there and do nothing, because that's what rocks do best. Those are not the kind of people or rocks that tend to gather at the great San Francisco Crystal Fair. At the crystal fair, which ...

From STEVE RUBENSTEIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  10 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Leonardo da Vinci

'Breaking the Slump' goes oh-so deep into golf

For centuries, this has eluded the greatest minds in the game. Lucky for golf that it has, because it costs $500 to play a single round at a place like Pebble Beach. Only someone without a great mind - the average golfer, for instance - pays so much to ...

From STEVE RUBENSTEIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  15 May 2009
Related Topics: Jimmy Roberts,  Greg Norman,  Jack Nicklaus,  Justin Rose,  Phil Mickelson

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