Archive for August, 2009
Oakland dog training works from the heart
August 31st, 2009 | 
Author: Francis Metcalf is the one-man band of dog training. He runs Friends of the Family, a dog-training business for private clients, but also consults at the San Francisco SPCA and the animal-assisted therapy program at UCSF Children’s Hospital. Occasionally, he…
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A few columns ago I said that Japan had a national health care service. That…
A few columns ago I said that Japan had a national health care service. That statement both is and is not true, and the ways that it isn’t true provide an interesting way forward. Not that anyone is likely to go down that road, but let’s take a look at it…
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Silicon Valley fun is in the work
David Byrne’s new book, “Bicycle Diaries,” an account of his travels around the world, includes a chapter on “San Francisco” that describes not only the city but its burbs. After a trip to Silicon Valley, where he visits Apple headquarters and rides his bike…
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Date Lines: News from the Bay Area arts scene
Goldsworthy work at Hess The Bay Area public knows of British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy through public commissions such as his cracked stone pathway into the de Young Museum and his recent “Spire” of reclaimed trunks of fallen cypresses in the Presidio and…
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Dancer reels with joy in ghillies
Sid Kass, 77, of San Francisco is a retired college chemistry instructor who puts on a kilt and slippers to do reels and jigs in the traditional ballroom style of Scottish country dancing. Why: The term “ballroom” should not suggest the energy level. It is a…
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Oakland dog training works from the heart
Francis Metcalf is the one-man band of dog training. He runs Friends of the Family, a dog-training business for private clients, but also consults at the San Francisco SPCA and the animal-assisted therapy program at UCSF Children’s Hospital. Occasionally, he…
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Networks plan to jump the gun on season
“Royal Pains,” a scripted cable series on USA, is causing a lot of pain for broadcast network executives. And “Drop Dead Diva” is a scripted series on Lifetime that is causing – well, nobody has actually keeled over at the Big Four networks just yet, but a…
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‘The Final Destination’ is atop the box office
Movie fans have made fear their top destination at the weekend box office. The horror tale “The Final Destination” premiered as the No. 1 movie at the box office with $28.3 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The sequel is the latest installment…
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Dr. Marc Nelson to the Black Rock Desert – stat
Once a year, Marc Nelson provides medical care to a makeshift family of 50,000 people. At Burning Man, the annual art festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, Nelson is one of three medical chiefs. “We see a wide, wide range of things,” says Nelson, who…
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