Uneasy Rhetoric

A story in the New York Times reports on hard times for boutique, gentrified neighborhoods.  According to the article, business is down, foot traffic is down, and little shops that sell stuff the owner thinks is cool is on the downswing. The article didn’t exactly report on that last bit, but that’s my conclusion based [...]

I’ve written a new post at “Never Satisfied” called Rain is good for business.

I’m not a fan of Cuil, but when I searched for me I discovered that the Sacramento website for the Extended Stay Hotels Chain is using a photo I took in December 2003 from the top of the bridge between the William Pond Recreation area and the (formerly) Goethe Park, whose new name escapes me. [...]

The Bee reports that Phil Angelides wants to build 400 houses next to Business 80–in that little eye-shaped parcel of land where goats once roamed–and call it “McKinley Village.” I’m all in favor of infill, and while I wouldn’t be hot on living next to a freeway, this seems like a logical place to put [...]

I think Heckasac hit the nail on the head.  Rather than locate at the old Andiamo (which I remember as the Rosemont Grill — that’s how old I am) as planned, Good Eats’ funders realized that they had the power and the cash to both locate in a bigger space and wipe out some major [...]