the truth about vermouth the secret ingredient in todays top cocktails remains misunderstood great comprehensive article on vermouth. includes thoughts from some of my favorite bartenders.......
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attention budding and established dallas cheese heads janet fletcher author the cheese course and cheese wine among many other books will be holding a book signing at molto formaggio this saturday august 30 from 4 to 6 p.m. fletcher lives in the napa valley and is a staff writer for the san francisco chronicle. she pens the weekly cheese course column for the paper a job i always envied when we ...
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posted by dennis sellersapples itunes online music store is back up and running again in china after it was apparently blocked last week by local authorities reports the san francisco chronicle. however the web page for downloading a protibet album songs for tibet which is suspected of prompting the crackdown remains unavailable on.........
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once again a writer for the msm leads with a sentence that implies that there is no causative relationship between two obviously related facts.a this from the san francisco chronicle california home sales surged last month even while prices plunged a record amount as buyers snapped up bargains among the states hundreds of thousands of foreclosed and distressed properties according to an industry t...
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like jon chait i dont have the foggiest idea where someone would get the strange strange notion that barack obama is being depicted with language and images usually reserved for a millenial cult leader. obviously those fiendish republicans have made the whole thing up......
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denver the air of excitement among progressive activists really is palpable here at the democratic national convention. their supreme confidence that they will win the white house has been shaken a little but they still believe barack obama will prevail and they are certain they will strengthen their majorities in the house and senate. but as much as everyone here truly despises president bush th...
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following last weeks news that china was blocking access to the itunes store in response to a tibet protest album that some olympic athletes had apparently downloaded it appears that chinas great firewall experts have figured out ways to block on a per album basis. yes itunes is now available again in china but that particular album remains off limits. of course you would think that if china ha...
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...ctured slain beatle john lennon climate activist al gore mahatma gandhi and finally barack obama.......
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liz phair talks to lancaster online about her music career. my first success was completely compromised by real feelings of alienation and being rejected from a scene and being hated phair said during a telephone interview from her california home. i think the hard part about my career has been that its not just about the music its personal. at antimusic rilo kiley bassist pierre de reeder dis...
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whats happening around the state the sacbee has some suggestions to make algebra in 8th grade possible. good thing the governor found out 50 days past the fiscal year what even pete wilson knew far in advance in a similar situation sometimes a tax increase isnt optional. wilson knew he had to act as cover for his republican allies in the legislature by offering a tax increase and working down. arn...
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ezra klein predicts that john mccain will choose joe lieberman as his running mate and explains his reasoning for the republicans however 2008 cant be about mobilization. their half is too small. their brand is too damaged. and they recognized that when they chose john mccain whos not a base mobilizing evangelical conservative anyway as their nominee lieberman lets mccain telegraph an...
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only in california would the judges do something so stupid. jail stripsearches were illegal court rules san francisco violated the rights of thousands of jail inmates who were stripsearched without authorities having any reason to believe they were carrying weapons or contraband a divided federal appeals court ruled friday. the 21 decision by the ninth u.s. circuit court of appeals in san f...
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can you imagine dropping 300000 plus another 3k a year in hoa fees for 250 square feet of living space a san francisco design and development firm has begun marketing 98 tiny condominiums ranging from 250 to 350 square feet at the cubix yerba buena building in soma.from home small home 250 square feet in soma new condo development targets young firsttime buyers without too much stuff ad...
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...sions nothing new in san francisco sfgate jail stripsearches were illegal court rules this article was sent to you by someone who found it on sfgate. the original article can be found on sfgate.com here jail stripsearches were illegal court rules saturday august 23 2008 sf chronicle jail stripsearches were illegal court rules bob egelko chronicle staff writer san francisco...
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as summer comes to a close we continue to see many sales around oakland often due to bank buybacks. however there are still a good number of homes selling that are neither short sales nor foreclosures.a ive alsoanoticed a trend ofahomes selling thatahave been renovated with additions. agoing through the sfgate sales listing today below are some highlights. aalthough listed as a 1bd1ba on sfgate t...
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filed under raiders afc westbad night all around for the oakland raiders. not only did they get shutout by the arizona cardinals never a good thing 240 they also lost wide receiver drew carter and starting fullback oren oneal likely for the entire 2008 season in the first four plays of the game. oneal went down on the opening kickoff and carter soon followed on the third play from scrimmage. both...
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busby mont. vacation home news sunbusby mont. as the deafening hail pummeled my tent i lay there spread eagle pressing my weight onto the floor in a desperate effort to anchor myself to the ground. i quickly did the math four pounds of 2millimeter thick nylon sheltering me costa rica vacation zipping from surf to rain forest oakland tribunegazing up at the towering volcano where wisps of smo...
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in san francisco a woman has had her original convinction for murder reinstated following a death caused by one of her dogs. marjorie knoller 53 sat quietly in the courtroom while superior court judge charlotte woolard discounted her testimony at her 2002 trial and said knoller had known her dog was potentially lethal when she took the animal out of her apartment without a muzzle. the 140pound pre...
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...iders are moving to control the growth of traffic on their networks by making the heavuest users pay the most. and its a scandal. even modest internet users may hit these arbitrarilyset usage caps as sfgate.com reports. all the cable companies are considering it. you think big oil is greedy the cable companies are every bit their profiteering equals. the coming usage caps will likely cause consumers ...
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should private firms be allowed to socialize their medical costs for instance quote close to one of every 10 walmart employees is getting health insurance paid for by arizona taxpayers according to figures obtained friday from the state. the nearly 2700 walmart workers represent about 1.9 percent of working people who are getting benefits from the arizona heal...
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despite efforts by community and business figures to rally oakland residents to ignore a recent rash of takeoverstyle restaurant robberies and come out to eat bandits last night hit another oakland restuarant forcing customers and staff into a back room robbing them then cleaning out the register. oakland residents horrified that the crime wave hit upscale neighborhoods demonstrated last night on...
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