“As New Orleanians, we’re ensconced behind these damn levees,” Troy Gilbert says, gesturing beyond his platter of oysters, beyond his glass of white wine, toward the grass-clad ridge of dirt, 17 feet tall, that runs behind Station 6 — a restaurant just beyond the city’s borders that...
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With that in mind, I decided my first manzanita outing of the year should be to a spot that only has two species:Black Diamond Mines Regional Preservenear the city of Antioch in the East Bay. Located just north ofMount Diablo(3,849 ft.), the most prominent peak in the East Bay and ...
Giving up meat and eating fish on Fridays during Lent is a tradition for those of the Roman Catholic faith. Fasting and abstaining from certain foods has been a part of Christianity from its very beginnings, according to the U.S. Catholic. Forgoing meat on the Fridays of Lent is significan...
It was a stock offering in something called the Slumach Mining Company, an effort to raise up to half a million dollars in $1 shares; and researchers found that its board members included the mayor, the city clerk, an editor, and Slumach's own defense attorney. Surely such a venture ...
coordinator BY JEREMY ROGOFF CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As Israeli and Palestinian leaders convened Tuesday in Annapolis, Maryland to resume peace talks that had lain dor- mant for seven years, students on campus prepared to engage in their own dialogue about the prospect of solutions in the Mid- dle...
The season of mock drafts is upon us. Endless scenarios will be played out on paper in order to predict how teams will go about finding the perfect fits in the 2015 NFL draft. Teams with a top-five pick will feel unlucky to be there...
After a genealogy, we encounter the Nephilim — the sons of God who had relations with the daughters of men and brought forth the heroes of old, the men of renown. That sounded a lot like the Hercules and Orpheus and Helen of Troy family. Hmmm. Is this where the earlier mysterious “...
4.John Grishamis known for his legal thrillers. FromThe Testament(1999), written from the perspective of billionaire Troy Phelan: Down to the last day, even the last hour now. I’m an old man, lonely and unloved, sick and hurting and tired of living. I am ready for the hereafter; it...