Kjerstin Gruys is doing something that many women would consider a punishment: she’s refusing to look in a mirror for a year, in spite of her impending October wedding. And she's chronicling her experience on a blog called Mirror Mirror Off the Wall. The idea came to her during a flight home to Los Angeles, after a particularly taxing bout of wedding dress shopping with her mother in St. Louis. She ......
It was a sunny day in Sacramento on Sunday, and the plants in front of the Crocker Art Museum were soaking it in.But it wasn’t just an ordinary afternoon of sunshine for the greenery, which was enjoying an organic, locally sourced meal at the world’s first “Photosynthetic Restaurant” – courtesy of conceptual artist Jonathon Keats. Plants in Sacramento have no shortage of sunlight. But it’s a tedious diet: day after ......
San Francisco Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting is hosting a town hall in Oakland tonight from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. to discuss possible repeal of Prop. 13 as it applies to commercial property. Anti-Prop. 13 forces have argued in the past that commerical properties pay a significantly smaller percentage of the total property-tax revenues in the state than residential property-owners. The town hall, at the Laney College Student Center, is billed ......
This morning, J-Lab announced the recipients of the Knight-Batten Innovation Award, and SF-based experimental 48 Hour Magazine got recognized with a $1,000 prize. It's perhaps more accurate to refer to it as the magazine formerly known as 48 Hour. After the project, sparked in April at Toronado bar when writers Alexis Madrigal, Sarah Rich and Mat Honan were out drinking and talking, went viral, CBS gave them the ole cease-and-desist. (One common ......
Web 1.0 mogul Halsey Minor has spent the past couple years embroiled in legal disputes and financial tussles from California to Virginia to New York. We have run several pieces about his travails, most extensively in this story published June 12. It seems Minor has picked up a bit of the writing bug himself. In June, he penned (or had ghost-penned?) a Huffington Post essay railing against big corporations and their crushing ......
