If you had passed by recent Westmont graduate Mike Yankoski on the streets of San Francisco three years ago, chances are you wouldn’t have noticed him. If you had, it wouldn’t have been because of his curly mop of brown hair, the friendly eyes that smile out from behind his glasses, or his classic surfer T-shirt and flip-flops.
The Women’s Political Committee brought its Lemon Award out of a 10-year retirement so that it could be given to
When L.A. indie-rockers She Wants Revenge took the stage back in June for the Summer RoundUp, something about them seemed just a little bit out of place. Perhaps the glaring sun subtracted from their salacious drag and dirty lyrics, because, after all, we all know how hard it is to be libidinous in the middle of the day.
In case you didn’t know, October is Beer Awareness Month (a brown-ribbon campaign is surely in the works). And I am a big fan of beer. While local brewers certainly don’t get the acclaim enjoyed by our area’s vintners, they’re heroes just the same, and the Museum of Natural History gave them their due recently at its Natural History of Beer event.
Looking to secure the financial future of the three elementary schools in its district, the Hope School District Board of Trustees voted earlier this spring to do away with a long-standing tradition of accepting inter-district transfers. By doing so, they hoped to attain the coveted status necessary for Basic Aid funding, whereby the district derives its funding from in-district property taxes, rather than typical state funding based on average daily attendance numbers.
CHAMELEON BLUES: Poor Dan Secord. It’s not an easy time to be a Republican. It’s even harder to run as one. It’s Dan’s unhappy lot in life to run as a moderate, enlightened, bike-path Republican for a spot on the County Board of Supervisors at precisely…
State Street is in the midst of a mass retail exodus. Stores looking for greener pastures – or at least lighter
Clinton on TV: Last week’s Arlington Theatre discussion between Paul Orfalea and former president Bill Clinton airs at various times during the week on Channel 21. First airing at 9pm. Visit sbchannels.tv for full schedule.
Isn’t Halloween the best? I’ve loved the holiday ever since I was a kid-carving the pumpkins, finding a costume, trick-or-treating. The only part of Halloween that gets my costume in a bunch is the way the candy companies play us for fools.
Among other things, a resident survey conducted for the county by the National Citizen Survey found that 96 percent of
