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Town Crier: Montclair’s not-so-picturesque car-lined streets

Posted in Montclarion Columns on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

MONTCLARION NEWSPAPER – June 19, 2009
MY FOLKS LIVE IN MINNESOTA, on a picturesque tree-lined street between two lakes and a pond. Pretty much everyone lives between two lakes and a pond in Minnesota, but that’s not the reason for my rumination.
It’s my observation that my parents are missing out on something we enjoy here in [...]

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The Happy Wanderer: Oakland’s horse history

Posted in Travel Essays on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

HILLS NEWSPAPERS  June 19, 2009
A LONG TIME AGO, in a village not far away, the horseman ruled the land. Barns dotted the hillside and paints and Appaloosas grazed in pastures above the sparkling waters of the Bay.
This was the Oakland hills, circa 1938, when rodeo cowboys ran the ranches and the Mills College girls rode [...]

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Town Crier: Oakland Zoo walk will leave you purring

Posted in Montclarion Columns on June 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »

MONTCLARION NEWSPAPER – June 26, 2009
I LOVE A good dine-around. As one who can never decide what to order, it’s nirvana to nibble my way through a bounty of edible offerings. Add wine and cheese and I purr like a kitten — which is why I’m so fond of the Oakland Zoo’s annual Walk [...]

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Hyperkinetic Preservationist: Phil Tagami

Posted in People Profiles on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

OAKLAND MAGAZINE MAY/JUNE 2009
George Bernard Shaw once wrote about the virtues of being “thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.” Phil Tagami, the developer of the Fox Theater and the Rotunda Building, not only posts these words on his Web site, he lives them. In an animated interview in which we [...]

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Town Crier: Enjoy Oakland’s best artists at Open Studios

Posted in Montclarion Columns on June 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

MONTCLARION NEWSPAPER – June 5, 2009
IT’S TIME once again for one of Oakland’s best parties, East Bay Open Studios. I’m reminded of a famous quote about art, which seems fitting: “There is no art without intoxication. Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man’s reach.”
That being said, we could all use a little giddy intoxication [...]

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HAPPY WANDERER: Hot Springs, Arkansas

Posted in Travel Essays on June 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

HILLS NEWSPAPERS  June 5, 2009
I TOOK A BATH recently and had the government to thank. If Congress hadn’t stepped in to protect Hot Springs, Ark., in 1832, I would have been left high and dry on a recent visit. Instead, I had one of the most enjoyable spa vacations in my 50 odd [...]

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