264 results for "SAM MCMANIS"
Lookout at San Francisco's Lands End
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 1:00 AMIrrational, I know, but it bummed me out, in a breaking-the-spell sort of way, when two tour buses pulled up at the recently remodeled Lands End Lookout visitors center and dumped off a gaggle of slumping, weary tourists.
Sacramento's bar-hopping cyclists risk tickets, too
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 12:00 AMOn his third beer, entering that transition between warm glow and steady buzz, Kevin O'Connell wasn't ready to leave happy hour at the Pour House, a bar on Q and 19th streets in midtown Sacramento.
Discoveries: U-pick strawberries as a family destination
Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 12:00 AMDogged by self- consciousness and suburban angst, I've always shied away from partaking in the whole U-pick produce craze that took hold a couple decades ago.
Joshua Tree enchanting in its magical, quirky way
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 1:00 AMDeep in the desert, searching for enlightenment at a spot called Samuelson's Rocks that is unmarked on any map, all I find are shaggy, gnarled trees that give this area its name, bulbous monzogranite rock formations and the triad of cholla, ...
Yaffbars: Share this people food with 'your best friend'
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 1:00 AMInto the overstuffed outdoors energy-bar market comes a new entrant � YaffBars.
Discoveries: Bravo Farms, Highway 99's biggest little road stop
Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 12:00 AMShame on me for shirking my journalistic duty and failing before now to stop at Bravo Farms, the quintessence of roadside attractions along Highway 99.
Discoveries: On a Sebastopol street, sculptures make good neighbors
Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 12:00 AMFlorence Avenue is one of those lovely and modest, in the word's best sense, neighborhoods where anyone in his right mind would yearn to reside.
Fresh Tracks: Don't delay trying the splendid South Fork American River Trail
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 12:00 AMSomething so rare in these parts as a new trail is to be celebrated, cherished and, most of all, used.
Discoveries: For sale at Berkeley's Bone Room: Bones, of course
Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 12:00 AMI stumbled upon some human bones the other day. No, I was not out in "secluded" woods. No, I did not alert the authorities to what overheated TV news anchors always call a "grim discovery." And, no, I did not freak out in the...
Discoveries: Wickenburg, Ariz. -- home of the bola tie
Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 12:00 AMCowboy lore saturates this spiffed-up Old West town, found in every leather-scented saddlery and turquoise-laden gift shop, but especially among the chaps-to-spur-lined walls of the Desert Caballeros Western Museum.
