Dec 17
This holiday tree consists mainly of broccoli, with peppers, radishes, carrots and other vegies as ornaments. Staff members of the Monterey Market in Berkeley put it together. Brilliant!
Dec 16
On top of all its other problems, Gaza has been hit by the worst storm in decades. The United Nations Relief Work Agency (UNRWA) has declared all of Northern Gaza a disaster area. Whole neighborhoods are under six feet of water, and there is overflowing sewage, power outages, and all the other miseries of disaster. …
Dec 10
Like Don Draper in Mad Men who capitalized on the cigarette disaster, a German ad agency has cleverly made hay out of people’s sense of being trapped in their jobs. Only 13 per cent of German workers felt happy in their jobs in the Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle). The Scholz & Friends ad agency in Berlin …
Dec 09
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra leader Ben Simon took classical music forward into the multimedia age this evening at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. He led the Palo Alto (Youth) Chamber Orchestra in a performance of Beethoven’s Great Fugue accompanied by YouTube virtuoso Stephen Malinowski projecting a synchronized visual animation of the score. The effect …
Nov 27
The Kindle e-book edition of my Empowering Your Sober Self book was off market for a few days last week. It is back up now, actually a little better than before: the Table of Contents is more detailed, and an embarrassing typo (misspelling the name of Jean Kirkpatrick, founder of Women for Sobriety) has been …
Nov 27
Provide secular alternatives to 12-step treatment, or else! That’s the message of the Hazle v. Crofoot decision issued this fall by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. My analysis of the case appears this month in Counselor Connection, the online newsletter of Counselor Magazine. This goes out to addiction counselors nationwide, but whether many of …
Oct 10
The Berkeley Main Post Office has been officially listed as For Sale. See listing here. Also check out some of the other gorgeous legacy buildings shown on that site that are on the auction block — it’s sickening. Photographer Ken Osborn, a fellow member of the Berkeley Camera Club, has done an excellent job of …
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