Email Author Tamara Palmer

2012 Stories by Tamara Palmer

• A Maiden Voyage to the Rock for Fox's Alcatraz Premiere

  published Jan 13, 2012

  Hollywood's craziest premiere this week didn't take place in Los Angeles, it rocked Alcatraz Island. For the first time since Sean Connery launched the feature film The Rock there in 1996, the isle h... More >>

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  Apiece Desserts Has Got The Beet -- Cookies, That Is

  published Jan 12, 2012

  The sky must be falling because we are about to state with wholehearted earnestness that we prefer a vegetable cookie to a chocolate one. But that's a testament to the talent of San Francisco-based Ap... More >>

• Humphry Slocombe Turns Three With a 'Brr-Lesque' Party

  published Jan 11, 2012

  At three-years-old, Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream has been a consummate overachiever. When we first set foot in the place in its initial week of operation in December 2008, we knew it was something spec... More >>

• Billie Jean King Was a Hero to Peanuts Creator Charles M. Schulz -- She Speaks Sunday at His Museum

  published Jan 11, 2012

  A decade before his passing in 2000, Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz named tennis legend Billie Jean King as one of his top three personal heroes. "She did so much for women's sports," he said. "An... More >>

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  Good Vibrations Oakland and Kandi Burruss of Real Housewives of Atlanta Come Together

  published Jan 10, 2012

  Female-friendly and home-grown sex-toy retailer Good Vibrations has a new store in Oakland. Reality TV star, R&B musician, and newly minted sexpert Kandi Burruss has a new line of sexual products. Wh... More >>

• Van Halen, Including David Lee Roth, Will Play Oracle Arena and HP Pavilion in June

  published Jan 06, 2012

  The incomparable frontman David Lee Roth is on board both for Van Halen's 2012 North American tour -- which stops in the Bay Area in June -- as well as the band's forthcoming album A Different Kind of... More >>

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  The Delicate Glory of Rustic Bakery's Almond & Cacao Nib Sticks

  published Jan 06, 2012

  Despite practicing for a lifetime, your young Cook E. Monster can still be quite the amateur reporter when it comes to not watching how the cookie can crumble. No sooner did we get this week's preciou... More >>

• Lynda Carter -- TV's Original Wonder Woman -- Will Sing in San Francisco in March

  published Jan 05, 2012

  Lynda Carter spent much of the 1970s playing the iconic superhero Wonder Woman on television, and it has defined her whole career. She led two series, The New Original Wonder Woman from 1975-77 and Th... More >>