The at once loose-knit but tightly networked Bay Area songwriter community can attribute much of its origin to an unassuming cafe in San Francisco's Richmond District named The Bazaar Cafe. The cafe has been the...
Anchors. "Indispensable principal supports that serve to hold an object firmly."
Different anchors for different people - so how is it that we occasionally forget that some "things", a favorite and cherished book, a...
Over the past few months I’ve read somewhere around 200 academic papers related to transparency, accountability, and e-governance. Over that time I’ve reached several conclusions, all of which I am documenting in a series of...
The Notorious B.I.G once said, "If I got to choose a coast I got to choose the East, I live out there, so don't go there." I say, I'm with you Biggie, except DO go...
Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack, aka BorderJumpers, are traveling to nearly every country on the continent of Africa (there’s 54 of them) and blogging everyday from www.BorderJumpers.org.
Bugs. When I remember of Zambia, I think of...
It’s too efficient. It’s too clean. It’s too stable, too fast, too damn everything. It’s just too bloody sanitized. Where’s the romance of it? The grit, the grime and the inevitable screw-ups. The human element...
Santiago is like San Francisco in that there are many close getaway locations for weekend adventures. There are also microclimates abound -- in a couple hours you can be in snow or in beaches.
This past...
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