Photos by Jane Fuerch
MONTCLARION: March 8, 2013
Spring blossoms … two little words that rank high on the list of what makes people happy in March. These delicate paper-like blooms are nature’s answer to tax season. Things are looking up, and you should be too.
The neighborhoods of Oakland are bedecked in pink and white blossoms. Some trees are in full bloom as I write this. Others have already peaked, like the blossoms on Olive Avenue (delicious irony). Continue reading
MONTCLARION: March 1, 2013
Spring is in the air — spring baseball, that is. Even the Cactus Wrens are tweeting about it. Continue reading
SpacePort America takes on an eerie glow at dusk. – Photo By Ginny Prior
MERCURYNEWS.COM: MARCH 1, 2013:
Who amongst us can claim to have had an “out-of-this-world” vacation? Soon, we’ll be able to say it and mean it.
For just 200,000 bucks, travelers can channel Buck Rogers with a trip to Earth’s last frontier — space. Agencies like Alpine Travel in Saratoga are authorized sellers of SpaceShipTwo packages, projected to launch sometime in 2014. I had a chance to visit the launch site for Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, recently. It’s called SpacePort America, in southern New Mexico. Continue reading
MONTCLARION: February 22, 2013
It was 1923 when a real estate agent nailed up a sign at the top of a dusty ridgeline road that read “Oakland, the Greatest City on the Pacific Coast — INVEST!” Continue reading
HILLS NEWSPAPERS: February 15, 2013
President’s Weekend is to ski resorts what Christmas is to churches. The faithful amass as if called by some shiny gold trumpet in the sky.
MONTCLARION: FEBRUARY 15, 2013
Disturbing the peace. It’s a crime usually associated with rowdy teens and motorcycle gangs. Increasingly, you can add dogs to the list.
Despite an Oakland ordinance that prohibits incessant barking, more and more neighbors are complaining about just that — dogs left inside to growl, yap and whine while their owners are away. Continue reading
MONTCLARION: February 1, 2013
It’s Feb. 1. Can spring be far off?
Hundreds of baseball fans lined up outside 10 windows Sunday for the chance to buy $2 tickets to eight Wednesday A’s games. Thanks to two friends who got tickets for all of us, my girlfriends and I will be soaking up the sun in the cheap seats and drinking $10 beers — because we can. Continue reading
INSIDEBAYAREA.COM: February 1, 2013
If you’ve ever shared an elevator with a potbellied pig, you know they can be delightful travel companions. And in this age when the hotel industry is fawning over pet owners and their business — a swine sighting is not out of the question. Some inns take virtually any animal that meets their weight limits. Continue reading
MONTCLARION: January 25, 2013
It’s Saturday night, and we’re circling the block like two vultures, looking for a soft place to land. It’s Oakland Restaurant Week and the little “Gourmet Ghetto” — the Glenview — is jumping.
Tough economy? You wouldn’t know it by looking at Oakland’s emerging restaurant scene, where young chefs are clamoring to open new venues for eclectic East Bay diners. Consider the question the server at Hopscotch asked us last Friday just after 4 p.m.: Continue reading
HILLS NEWSPAPERS: January 18, 2013
In the anthropology of eating, food is what holds society together. We dine together at the table of life.
Never have I felt this more deeply than at chef Tanya Holland’s Brown Sugar Kitchen new B-Side BBQ. Warm and inviting, this bluesy West Oakland cafe brings out the best in our town — folks from all walks of life breaking bread and supporting a city that’s had more than its share of struggles. Continue reading
Ginny Prior 