Archive for September, 2011
Container Gardens of Succulent Succulents (pardon the pun)
By Barb Strona Late last spring the Mission Hills Garden Club’s “Event” was to learn how to plant an attractive potted succulent garden. Debra Lee Baldwin, renowned succulent expert, first demonstrated how to plant using various pots and plants. Whether you begin with a particular pot you like or you begin with plants you like, […]
A Brief Reminder About Volatility
By Rick Brooks When you are investing, you are being paid to take risk. The more risk you take, the more you should expect to make on your investments. This is something that seems to be forgotten during the good times. But volatility is part of investing. If you are not willing to take risks, […]
Sbicca Bistro — Tasty Reunion
by David Rottenberg I felt like I was going to see an old friend, whom I hadn’t seen for a long time. I wondered as I drove why I had stayed away so long. It was always so good to see him. I’m referring to Sbicca Bistro, one of my favorite restaurants. Time slipped away […]
Less, can be More
By Blake Beckcom In our fast pace, easy access to everything, high demand for instant gratification lives it is easy to lose sight of fitness being a journey. We want it now. We want the weight off now. We want the svelte look now. We want the skinny jeans now. We want off of our […]
Mark Hatfield: Citizen
By George Mitrovich A few weeks back Mark Hatfield, the former governor and United States senator from Oregon, passed away. He was a life long Republican, but of a kind and type rarely seen today, save for Senator Dick Lugar of Indiana and Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York (there may be more but none […]
Two Headliners for the Price of One
John Gorka and Eliza Gilkyson at AMSDConcerts by Richard Cone Once again, AMSDConcerts, who just had their 8th Anniversary and are fast closing in on 500 shows, presents two headliner acts in the same bill, singer/songwriter John Gorka, who Rolling Stone Magazine called “the preeminent male singer-songwriter of what has been dubbed the New Folk […]
Colin Hay is Still a Man at Work
by Richard Cone Although Colin Hay, the lead singer and songwriter (“Who Can It Be Now?” “From The Land Down Under”) for the 1980’s Australian band “Men at Work,” is billed on his own website as “The Man at Work from Men at Work,” he charmingly tells me that “People who come to see […]
Phil Ochs “There But For Fortune” Documentary Honors 60’s Icon
by Richard Cone In the halcyon days of the early 1960’s folk music explosion that was centered in Greenwich Village in New York City, Phil Ochs, a baby faced, handsome folk singer with a battered acoustic guitar took to the stage and sang songs of protest with themes ripped directly from the political headlines of […]
New Numbers on Banks and Lending
The latest numbers are out for the second quarter, and some of it is mildly encouraging – but only mildly. According to an FDIC release, banks overall reported $28.8 billion in aggregate profits for the second quarter of 2011, a $7.9 billion increase over the same period in 2010. It was also the eighth straight […]
Everything changes and everything stays the same
By Alice Lowe PBS Masterpiece recently aired a three-part adaptation of Winifred Holtby’s 1935 novel, “South Riding.” I knew Holtby as an outspoken feminist and advocate for social justice and as the first biographer of Virginia Woolf, but I’d never read her fiction. “South Riding” was her last novel, published posthumously and considered her greatest […]
