By Meredith Brody
On a recent trip to Costco to patronize their amazingly low-cost pharmacy - well, a second trip (note to self, and others: the pharmacy at the Richmond location is NOT open on Sunday!) - we wanted to stay as far away from the five-pound hunks of cheese and the six-pack of fresh raspberries that we buy with such optimism and feelings of economy and then find ourselves throwing more than half away.
So, since it was lunchtime, we thought we'd buy one of those huge Costco hot dog
By Meredith Brody
You may have noticed that there's precious little new stuff to watch during the holidays - a period which The New York Times describes as "a profound holiday slumber of repeats and musical specials." But we can't even find any musical specials, and are reduced to re-watching A Colbert Christmas , which in a marketing stroke of genius was broadcast before Thanksgiving and available on DVD immediately thereafter. ("Remember, every time you buy a copy of A Colbert Christmas, an
New. Improved?The San Francisco Chronicle debuted its much-touted redesign on Sunday, with additional changes appearing in today's paper. Modifications include a new, softer headline font and stories divided by three horizontal lines instead of one. In a time when most publications are cutting back, the Chron is giving you more -- more lines. The new layout smacks of magazine design, and the additions to the Sunday paper had a distinctly "newsish" feel. Short, bite-sized lists of things to buy a
A judge has ordered two Chronicle reporters to serve time unless they divulge their source on Bonds' steroid use. Do you think they should be made to spill the beans?
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