Can You Write Like Palin?

In honor of her new best-seller, “Going Rogue,” those wags over at Slate.com are having a “Write Like Sarah Palin” contest.

To enter, write a single sentence that matches what Slate calls “the high Palin style.” They helpfully offer a couple of…

Big Trees in Danger?

Does climate change threaten California’s giant sequoias? An award-winning forestry professor tackles that question tonight at Turtle Bay Exploration Park, then leads a field trip on Saturday to examine some of the giant trees. And it’s all FREE.

Dr. Bill Libby, a…

Sound of Music Sing-A-Long Benefits Darfur

What: Genocide No More-Save Darfur, Enterprise High School STAND (Students Taking Action Now Darfur) Club, and People of Progress Food Band & Resource Center will sponsor a “Sound of Music” Sing-A-Long at the David Marr Auditorium. Participants will be able to…

Land of the Free: Wireless, Homeless Connections

I was supposed to meet someone Monday at Safeway around 6:45 a.m., right after Jazzercise.

Aside from the fact that early morning worked for us, I liked that location for three other reasons:

1. free wifi.

2. coffee from the store’s Starbucks, a place that starts serving at omg…