HELPING THE HELPERS; LOCAL NONPROFITS NEED DONATIONS TO CONTINUE THEIR GOOD WORK
Asking for gifts is not easy. Yet asking is what these nonprofits do every working day and night, whether helping distribute food for the homeless or buying clothes and toys for children. The hardest thing to ask for is something for themselves. The third annual TimeOut Wish List is a…
WORKER REVAMPS AURA IN CUBICLE WITH FENG SHUI
Feng shui has always been part of my upbringing, like eating won ton noodles and burning incense at the ancestral altar. My family never practiced Chinese geomancy formally. We didn’t arrange our furniture according to where the sun rose, and we didn’t run around our condo high-rise with a divining…
CASTING VOTES; PROPOSAL FOR AN ELECTION 2000 MOVIE
We knew this was coming. We knew the minute we woke up Nov. 9 to screaming headlines like Recount in Florida and NO CLEAR WINNER that the 2000 presidential election would eventually become a movie. And, we hazard to guess, a truly awful one. Of course, that won’t stop us…
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“Quills” wins Board award; Oscar buzz beginning Among the first hints of who might be picked for an Oscar in this flaccid movie season were yielded in the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures’ 2000 awards. The board, comprising educators, writers, film historians and film students, singled out “Quills”…
HOLIDAY LIGHT FESTIVALS MAKE CHRISTMAS BRIGHT
Beth Clark doesn’t just throw a holiday party that lasts twice as long as the “Twelve Days of Christmas.” She throws two of them. The Martinez resident, who has produced Bay Area Kidfest in Concord for a decade, produces the Holiday Lightfest at the Pavilion and the Holiday Festival of…
A trash can here, irises there _ one worker’s quest for ‘cube chi’
Feng shui has always been part of my upbringing, like eating won ton noodles and burning incense at the ancestral altar. My family never practiced Chinese geomancy formally. We didn’t arrange our furniture according to where the sun rose, and we didn’t run around our condo high-rise with a divining…
A TRAIL OF GREAT GIFT BOOKS; EVEN AVID FITNESS AND OUTDOOR BUFFS CAN USE A GOOD READ
If you’re feeling inspired, it’s better to actually go for a hike, stretch your hamstrings or shoot some hoops than it is to lounge around reading about sports, fitness and the outdoors. But your life is sure to include a few rainy afternoons and head colds. And certainly there’s at…
LIGHTWEIGHTS THEY AREN’T; SOME OF THIS YEAR’S STUNNING COFFEE-TABLE BOOKS COME WITH CONTENT AS WEIGHTY AS THEY ARE
Coffee table books aren’t merely pretty faces anymore. There was a time when such oversized books served more as props, indicators of one’s cosmopolitan breeding that were dusted and meticulously strewn about to simulate that “just-read” look. While the books selected here first and foremost live up to their reputations…
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Funny, lots of specifics for such a nonwedding Despite Madonna’s recent denials of talk that she’ll wed Guy Ritchie this Christmas, the U.K. tabloids Sun and Star reported Wednesday that the $1.4 million nups are a done deal set for Dec. 22 at Dornoch Cathedral in northwest Scotland. Church of…
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KRON’s Shaw is stepping down The actress accepted a proposal from 29-year-old surgeon Reza Jarrahy. “They are very, very happy and excited to be engaged,” Davis’ publicist, Paul Bloch, said Monday. No wedding date has been set. This just in: Popular local television veteran Suzanne Shaw is retiring from her…