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SMART campaign gets chugging

Jul 25, 2008; Seidman, Peter ... All aboard for another quarter-cent tax vote for rail travel! Choo-choo! Get ready for round four in the fight to create a commuter rail system between Marin and Sonoma counties. Earlier this month, the board of the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District voted 10-1 to put a ...

Newsgrams

Jul 25, 2008; Campos, Samantha ... Bridge barrier forum divided Golden Gate Bridge officials held two informational public forums and accepted online comments this week discussing the five commissioned, design options for a possible suicide barrier. Opponents to the barrier denounced changes to the overall design of the ...

TRiViA CAFÉ

Jul 25, 2008; Rachelson, Howard ... 1. What is the only university located in Marin County? 2. The months of July and August are named after whom? 3. The Canary Islands are named after what kind of animal? 4. Which "ology" studies the culture and behavior of human beings? 5. This is the ...

Laugh it up, fur ball

Jul 25, 2008; Walsh, Jason ... Marin singles seeking dignity, companionship, wookies ... 25 years ago Marin lonely hearts were revealing their secret identities 25 years ago this week. Prior to 1983, for instance, PaqficSun readers knew little of "Homely & Flabby Gay Man" outside an opaque mental ...

HERO/ZERO

Jul 25, 2008; Campos, Samantha ... The 12th Annual International Forgiveness Day, a celebration that originated in Marin, happens this year on Aug. 3. Eva Kor is a child victim of horrendous Auschwitz medical experiments at the hands of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele. But she has since forgiven her assailants, speaking ...

If you build it, they won't come. . .

Jul 25, 2008; Chapman, Sam ... Arguments against bridge suicide barrier are afloat in troubled waters Peter Seidman's story in last week's Sun ["View from the Bridge," July 18] provides us with the latest summary of deliberations at the Golden Gate Bridge District concerning the long-running topic of whether to modify ...

END OF THE ROAD?

Jul 25, 2008; Cox, Stan ... SUVs have always been bad for the environment and overall road safety. Now that they're bad for SUV drivers' wallets, Americans are finally shifting gears ... As peak-oil enthusiasts keep vigil over world petroleum statistics, they can find comfort in America's sudden, rapid descent from ...

Recession chic!

Jul 25, 2008; Kinsel, Brenda ... Here's how to face our national economic crisis in style ... I have two things on my mind: fashion and the recession. The recession, of course, because every media orifice is going on and on about the tanking of this institution or that one, the falling home prices and the sinking ...

Burning for you

Jul 25, 2008; Silverstein, Nikki ... How do you spell relief? J-O-S-H ... How would you like to wake up every morning to the sight and sound of the miserable man who broke your heart in two and then stomped on it so hard that all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put it back together again? My neighbor Holly ...

Madera about you

Jul 25, 2008; Campos, Samantha ... Downtown Corte Madera-the hidden jewel of Marin ... Although it's known throughout Marin mainly as "the town with the malls," Corte Madera has a vibrant heritage and quaint charm that is most apparent in the historic district surrounding the former train station at the foot of Mt ....

Say it ain't so, Joe...

Jul 25, 2008; Segal, Edward ... FOCUS ON REAL ESTATE In challenging housing markets, home sellers may turn to different or unusual ways to help ensure the sale of their property, including offering a free car, airline tickets, vacation or similar incentives to prospective buyers. Others may take steps to improve the ...

Summer of Tam

Jul 25, 2008; Jackson, Brooke ... Coagulated milk shouldn't taste this good ... Awhile back I was at a big picnic at Hog Island Oyster Company in Marshall. The grill was going and the table was laden with all manner bf gourmet fare. There were six kinds of oysters, barbecued as well as fresh on the half shell, grilled ...

High as an elephant's eye

Jul 25, 2008; Stafford, Matthew ... Corn, the other white meat . . . One summer a few years ago I went to a party in rural Sonoma at which the primary activity was the eating of corn. A friend had purchased a small spread just outside Petaluma where he and his family not only raised peacocks and dried gourds and bottled ...

A shot of the blues

Jul 25, 2008; Cahill, Greg ... Guitar great Buddy Guy records the album of his dreams He's a gracious guitar god. Onstage, Buddy Guy has earned the respect of such rock-hard guitar heroes as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Beck, but the Chicago blues legend is modest in his own assessfnent of a ...

Long 'Winter's' night

Jul 25, 2008; Brady, Lee ... Long 'Winter's' night Exit, pursued by Bard's preposterous plot ... The only good playwright is a dead playwright, according to most actors and all directors. While this may help to explain Shakespeare being the genius of Western theater, it can lead to a problem-dead men don't ...

'Head' of the class

Jul 25, 2008; Polt, Renata ... 'Head' of the class The sun sets on effete English upper crust ... Even if it didn't have a superb cast and breathtaking settings, Brideshead Revisited, with its tale of effete pre-war English aristos, would be irresistible. Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel by Jeremy Brock and ...

Summertime rolls

Jul 25, 2008; Campos, Samantha ... Apparently, avid cyclists and bikers know the quiet little town of Nicasio like the back of their handlebar stem; the middle-ofnowhere roadhouse of Rancho Nicasio is a popular pit stop to and from Pt. Reyes. But, through the end of August, it's also the destination for summertime Sunday ...

Nights made for dancing

Jul 25, 2008; Campos, Samantha ... We're down to the last two weekends for "Summer Nights," a series of outdoor family-friendly concerts at the Marin Jewish Community Center. Bay Area Balkan Rom ("Gypsy") band BRASS MENAZERI will bring their mix of Serbian, Macedonian, Greek and Rajasthani Roma music with soulful vocals to the ...

A buoyant brouhaha

Jul 25, 2008; Campos, Samantha ... Galilee Harbor Community Association is a nonprofit co-op of artists and maritime workers dedicated to continuing the maritime arts and skills while providing affordable floating housing on the Sausalito waterfront. And the group is celebrating the GAULEE HARBOR 28TH ANNIVERSARY with a marine ...

Video

Jul 25, 2008; Gould, Richard ... Jet to Vegas with the smartest kids in the room in 21, Columbia's hit popcorn ballad of M.l.T.'s winningest blackjack team. Kevin Spacey is Micky Rosa, the math professor with an eye for talent, who moonlights as a blackjack coach to his handpicked team of student card counters. In a vacant chem ...