Steven Dinkelspiel’s “note from the president” in the current issue of San Francisco Magazine is about obsession. It’s the Best of the Bay issue, and Dinkelspiel’s obsessions run the gamut from baseball (the Giants) to Sunday brunch (Town’s End), and ice cream (Fenton’s in Oakland, not to mention a great diner in my hood, Bill’s…Continue reading best of the bay
Category: Our World
love (& stuff like it) is in the air
Would you do this with your car? No? Maybe you just haven’t found the right, um, vehicle. Don’t eat the toad resin, no matter how much you want to impress a lady. The wife of a former FBI agent who went missing in Iran in March 2007 is offering a reward for information about his…Continue reading love (& stuff like it) is in the air
Shanghaist
Chellis Yang alerted me to this blog out of China. Shanghaiist, which is normally dedicated to music and nightlife, is now running up-to-date information on the rescue effort following last week’s terrible earthquake. Also, more on Burma from the BBC. And an interesting article on the very different responses from the Burmese and Chinese governments…Continue reading Shanghaist
China earthquake blogs
I’ve been scouring expat blogs out of China for news and images in the aftermath of the earthquake, but have found very little. So if you know of a civilian English-language blog with news coming out of Sichuan, China, please let me know. Meanwhile, NPR’s China Diary blog is very informative, and includes photographs. A…Continue reading China earthquake blogs
Burma, China
The aid is there, but the people can’t get it. Early reports out of Burma last week revealed that the military junta–infamous for decades of oppression, censorship, and murder, and in the news again last fall for brutally squelching civilian protests–was seizing food and supplies that came into the country in the aftermath of the…Continue reading Burma, China