Some people crave the spotlight
The couple came sweeping into the room like they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, or even Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds — only they weren’t.…
New book spotlights Marin restaurateur behind Poggio, Copita
Restaurateur extraordinaire Larry Mindel remembers when he called his father and told him he was going into the restaurant business. “He said, ‘Oh, Larry, don’t. Don’t…
Train pets, not people
In Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights,” windows are used as a metaphor for the separation of things. Brontë’s windows serve as invisible barriers between life and death,…
Tale of a Barfly
A live action play poured from the pages of Jeff Burkhart’s column Barfly and his books Tale of a Barfly is a story of life, love…
Barfly Podcast S06 E06
Rob Lightner of East Brother Beer Co. and the new Tam Tavern To listen to the whole episode go here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/169913/episodes/17888185
Remember me, Mr. Redford?
[Adapted from my first book Twenty Years Behind Bars, Chapter 2] Sometimes celebrity can really bring out the worst in people. Take a major celebrity and…
Fall Angels: you just never know who you might meet
And just like that, summer collapsed into fall, once wrote someone, I’m sure. That’s just too pretty for me to have come up with on my…
3 ingredients to elevate your cocktails
Often in the world of cocktails, people will get caught up in the main ingredient and then skimp on the accoutrements. By now we know that…
Don’t ask the question if you cant handle the answer
“I would like a martini,” said the woman perched halfway on her barstool. “What kind of martini would you like?” was the obvious question that I…
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat others
It was clearly a first date. The boots she wore were so new you could still smell the leather. And I had seen her around enough…