They are a rare species, these gay Iowans who have moved out to the Golden State, the perfect journalistic formula to comment on today's news of the Iowa Supreme Court approving gay marriage while its California colleagues mull this same issue. But we put on our intrepid reporter cap and found two such individuals. (Actually, it turned out to be extremely easy, seeing that this reporter hails from Iowa herself.)Neither transplanted Iowan said that he or she was planning a wedding on the Bridges
What happens when an artsy film guy who has gone way into debt hooks up with a school that doesn't know how to run a nonprofit theater? We hope it has a happy ending.
The Onion Newspaper -- self-billed as "America's Finest News Source" -- is proof positive that, in this business, "quality" is no guarantee against failure. The paper's Chicago corporate office today released a statement confirming Web reports that the San Francisco and Los Angeles print editions have gone the way of the dodo. From the statement:So, at the end of the day, you have to make a decision whether to pump money into parts of the company that are straining us financially (LA and SF prin
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Let's do lunch:
Call it consolation for being stuck in some gray cube downtown: Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody counsels lunching on The Madison salad (grilled chicken, asparagus, and roasted white-truffle potatoes) at Mixt Greens (560 Mission at Second St., 543-2505; 475 Sansome at Comercial, 296-9292; and 120 Sansome at Bush, 433-6498).
Drink therapy:
Trashy name, classy joint, plus a four-hour happy hour that can turn even the classiest drinker trashy. See ho
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