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Golden Gate Park & Lands End

April 30, 2012
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Golden Gate Park & Lands End

On Saturday, we spent the day exploring Lands End and Golden Gate Park, two local treasures of the National Park Service. First up, the windmill at Queen Wilhemina’s Garden. Both windmills have recently been restored. The one behind the Beach Chalet, with its ever-changing garden, is perfect for picnics. Next, we headed over to Spreckels Lake to watch the Model Yacht Club guys steer their boats around the lake. Eavesdropping is good here, as the men get pretty competitive about their motors. We even got to see a model hydroplane take off. From there, we walked past Marx Meadow...

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San Francisco Photos: 5 Great Photo Spots in the City by the Bay

July 6, 2011
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San Francisco Photos: 5 Great Photo Spots in the City by the Bay

1. Romantic: Pick a cable car, any cable car, stand on the running board with your significant other, hang on for dear life, and start kissing. The truth is that most locals rarely step foot on a cable car, but that shouldn’t keep you from taking a stylish spin a la Tippi Hedren. Find Today’s Daily Deal on the Best in San Francisco! The first and last time I rode one, from Montgomery to Van Ness on the California line, I was sitting right beside the brakeman, who relayed with great gusto a particularly gory story about a woman...

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No One You Know in Hungary

March 11, 2010
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No One You Know in Hungary

Here’s the Polish cover of No One You Know. The Polish edition, Nikt kogo znasz, translated by Boena Markiewicz, will be published by Videograf, which also published The Year of Fog. Follow-up note: Thanks to Laura Balazs for the correction, and a special thanks to Laura for translating No One You Know into Hungarian for Tericum.

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2009 Northern California Book Awards

March 23, 2009
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I’m popping the champagne cork today. (Okay, not yet, I’m at home alone at 10:00 in the morning, so champagne would be entirely inappropriate, right? Oh, but there’s the trusty mimosa: champagne delivered with just enough OJ to make it a bona fide breakfast item.) NO ONE YOU KNOW has been nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Fiction. The fiction nominees are: * Lady Lazarus, Andrew Foster Altschul, Harcourt * Doctor Olaf van Schuler’s Brain, Kirsten Menger-Anderson, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill * The Delivery Room, Sylvia Brownrigg, Counterpoint * Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein ,...

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Recession-proof entertainment tonight

February 19, 2009
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The talented and wonderful Misty Richmond (she’s my sister, but I’d say that even if she weren’t), will be exhibiting her work along with other photographers tonight at the first-ever Fotovisiion SlideSlam in Berkeley. Each photograher will take a few minutes to talk about his or her project, and photos will be displayed in a slideshow on a big screen. Better than a movie, free, and you don’t have to buy the popcorn! (Local businesses provide food and drinks.) Where: 2105 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 When: Thursday, Feb 19, 7:00 p.m. Details at Fotovision

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