New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Yesterday it was 68 degrees and sunny outside. Today it's 27 and gray. That's Colorado for you. Today is a good day to sit inside with a pot of coffee and a book and my dog sleeping on my feet. But which book?
University of California Press Blog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Literature has the power to impart valuable wisdom—but if no one reads it, the insights never see the light. According to a 2004 report from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), less than half of American adults read any...
Eater SF (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Oakland: Not only is a new generation of big-name restaurants in Jack London Square off and running, but all of Oakland is experiencing a wave as well, particularly Uptown and the neighborhood around the Fox Theater neighborhood. We've already...
英文人行道 et cetera, et cetera (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Quote "I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet." — Jack London Michelle Obama's Savvy Sacrifice By Jay Newton-Small From early on, the Democratic nominee's political ambitions have guided his wife's professional path. But her career shift ended up being essential to his meteoric rise meteoric adj. Of, relating to, or formed by a meteoroid....
10 Zen Monkeys (a webzine) (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
A crowd at Jack London Square celebrates Obama's victory — including tearful cheers and thoughts about the future and the past. By Lou Cabron
Eater SF (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
The Merc makes a rare trip to the East Bay to check out the new headliner at Jack London Square, Miss Pearl's Jam House. The review—a basic rundown of the menu—is a mostly encouraging take on the "the pleasingly kitschy...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Led by Pastor John Lewis, Junior, Emmanuel Christian Assembly will hold its first church service at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 9, at Regal Cinemas Jack London Stadium 9 in Oakland, Calif., with free on-site parking.
The Fischbowl (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
In Anne Smith's English 9 class they are viewing everything they read and do through the lens of the question, " What Matters?" So far, we have read Jack London's " To Build a Fire " , excerpts from Thoreau's Walden , and connected those two to Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild . With each piece we read, we take some time to reflect and connect. We have tried to examine what really matters to each of these...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
The odd proportions of the Oakland Opera Theater's scrappy new all-Stravinsky double bill begin to make perfect sense once you think in culinary terms. The show, which opened over the weekend in the company's bare-bones warehouse space near Jack London...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
Few writers have lived exciting lives with Jack London-type adventures. And in Floyd Skloot's latest memoir, The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life, one is given a quiet slice of Americana that is neither extraordinary nor shaped with lyri
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Four-star chef San Francisco chef Daniel Patterson is embarking on a new venture across the bay. He's just signed a lease on a place in Jack London Square in Oakland, and in the middle of next year will open Bracina with Lauren Kiino. Kiino will be the chef...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
Four-star chef San Francisco chef Daniel Patterson is embarking on a new venture across the bay. He's just signed a lease on a place in Jack London Square in Oakland, and in the middle of next year will open Bracina with Lauren Kiino. Kiino will be the chef...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/16/2008
The East Bay Municipal Utility District has recommended people avoid contact with water near the Jack London Aquatic Center in Oakland following a sewage spill. Less than 1,000 gallons of sewage were spilled at the San Antonio Creek treatment facility near...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.I was enormously fond of Paul Malmont’s debut novel, a tribute to pulp heroes and pulp conventions and pulp writers a la THE ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY or CARTER BEAT THE DEVIL, so when he contacted me to ask if I was interested in reading an early copy of his new book, I made room for it at the top of the stack when it arrived.I have read an obligatory amount of...
SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
We've blogged about Jack London before and would not label him a Socialist. This does not mean however that he failed to make pertinent points in his writing. Here, as a follow up to yesterday's post, is London writing about charity: "I had become convinced as Ernest was when he sneered at charity as the poulticing of an ulcer. Remove the ulcer was his remedy; give the worker his product;
