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Browsing Shops, Hiking Bluffs, and Cozying up by the Fire
The Bay Area is full of good days. One of the mellowest and most rewarding is to be found 1.5 hours north, in the small towns that ring Tomales Bay, the shallow, cigar-shaped body of water that peacefully straddles the San Andreas Fault just east of Point Reyes National Seashore. More
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Browsing Shops, Hiking Bluffs, and Cozying up by the Fire
The Bay Area is full of good days. One of the mellowest and most rewarding is to be found 1.5 hours north, in the small towns that ring Tomales Bay, the shallow, cigar-shaped body of water that peacefully straddles the San Andreas Fault just east of Point Reyes National Seashore. More
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Literary Arts
Linn Ullmann's Stella Descending
Stella fell nine stories from a rooftop in Oslo. Did she kill herself? Did her husband push her? This is the beginning of Stella Descending, Norwegian writer Linn Ullmann's latest book. The mystery unfolds as well as Stella's passions, regrets and the story of what brought her to the rooftop on the night of her death. More
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Literary Arts
Jonathan Franzen's How to Be Alone
Don't believe the hype. That's my motto when choosing authors to read. If a book made Oprah's book club, don't read it. If it's featured on the Today Show, don't read it. I don't care about authors being backed by a big-money marketing campaign. Is this a good policy? Most of the time. Am I missing out on some brilliant writers? Maybe. Usually it's a let-down to read writers who are over-hyped in the literary world. It's like dating someone who's too good to be true, and then finding out they're a child molester or they sacrifice kittens to Satan. More
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Literary Arts
The Trainspotting Lads Are Back
"Straight actors are bigger whores than porn stars, just letting somebody use your body, or the images of it you create, that's fuck all. It's when you let them use your emotions; that's real hooring. You can never, ever prostitute those," says Sick Boy in Porno, Irvine Welsh's follow up to Trainspotting. More
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Nick Brings Mexican to Russian Hill
In early 2005, Nick Fasanella opened a gem of a taqueria in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood, offering cheap and quick eats made with quality ingredients. More
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The search for quintessential Thai cuisine in the Mission
The Mission district has always been known as a melting pot of ethnic and cultural diversity. In a city with nearly one restaurant for every ten people, the Mission has its share of stellar ethnic specific restaurants. American has its Gordon's, French has its Ti Couz and Foreign Cinema, Sushi has its Tokyo GoGo, Vietnamese has its Slanted Door, and Italian has its Delfina, but no Thai restaurant has stepped up to claim dominance for its genre. Is there a "Thai-mond in the rough" hidden in the Mission? I decided to brave the streets of the Mission and dive into a world of curries, imperial rolls, and sticky rice to find out. More
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Restaurants
The Window could not have opened at a better time. Now that the new economy is biting down on our wallets and jobs are more prized than plentiful in wake of "the burst of the bubble," cheap, good food is a prized commodity in any neighborhood. Any locale that can throw in good service as well is a gem. A small restaurant serving a menu of flavors from all over Asia at rock-bottom prices is nothing new, so why is the Window doing so well? [Editor's Note: The Window has since moved to a new location since the article was written.] More
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Downtown Fancy
Should you find yourself downtown with a hankering for finery, here are three spots to give a whirl: Frisson for design-savvy glam and Litebrite flavors, Tonno Rosso for the bay view and rustic Northern Italian cooking, and Roy's for pork lumpia and homemade ginger ale sorbet floats. More
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Yamo Reopens in Style
The space has been transformed from an inhospitable hole in the wall to a hip, clean, welcoming cavern serving Tao-Hue's short, creative menu of Thai, Malaysian and Indian flavors. Olive greens, dark reds, and a variety of cool, kitschy art pieces make up the décor, and DVDs of visual treats like Bollywood videos project silently on the wall while mellow music floats above in the tall shoebox-like space. More
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