http://www.dicum.com/clips Sun, 11 May 2008 14:50:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 May 11 Jazz and sushi seem at first an unusual combination, but in the San Francisco Bay area they are inextricably linked, thanks to Yoshi’s. Yoshi’s, a Berkeley sushi joint opened in 1973 by Kaz Kajimura, Hiro Hori and Yoshi Akiba, featured jazz from the start. In the 1990s, when Oakland was ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=85 Michael Franti Talks Peace, Love and Music Apr 30, 2008 If the contemporary struggle for a better world has a soundtrack, it surely features the music of Michael Franti. To Franti, music and activism are one and the same — his albums, the last three of which have sold over 100,000 copies ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=84 HEADS UP | TONALÁ, MEXICO April 13, 2008 AVENIDA Independencia runs west from the central square in Tlaquepaque, Mexico. For several blocks it is a pedestrian street, cobbled and lined with ornate mansions that, more than a century ago, served as weekend homes for the elite of Guadalajara. Today, they are shops ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=83 How barefaced capitalism can help save the Amazonian rainforest Apr 10th 2008 | PUERTO MALDONADO FROM the top of the 30m-tall viewing platform at Posada Amazonas, a thatched 30-bed tourist lodge in the Peruvian Amazon, immense trees—some more than a millennium in age—extend to the horizon. It seems an untroubled Eden. But ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=82 Sunday, April 6, 2008 (04-06) 04:00 PDT Pisco, Peru -- Carmen Mauk stands in flip-flops atop a pile of broken bricks as she surveys a city devastated by a magnitude 8.0 earthquake. "People are being bled of their resources," the San Francisco resident said. "They're still waiting for their lots to ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=81 March 9, 2008 There’s something about Los Angeles that has kept the latest wave of fine specialty coffee at bay. So the August opening of Intelligentsia Coffee in Silver Lake, complete with some imported Pacific Northwest baristas, was a quantum leap. The shop, on a busy stretch of Sunset Boulevard, is a ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=80 The basic story is disarmingly pat: on August 15, 2007, an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter Scale devastated Pisco, Peru, a city of 80,000 on the desert coast south of Lima. Around 520 deaths were reported. Fifty thousand became homeless. In newspapers around the world, this calamity ran as ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=78 MARIN COUNTY, just north of San Francisco, cradles wealthy bedroom communities in picturesque bays. But nearly half of the county’s 520 square miles is protected open space — bucolic and wild, its tiny towns separated by forested mountains. It is the kind of landscape, with miles of well-maintained trails, that people ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=76 January 20, 2008 Until recently, San Francisco’s Japantown had been suffering from a lingering neglect. Even anchors, like the 1960s-era Miyako Hotel, were rundown. So the conversion of the Miyako into the Hotel Kabuki by the boutique hotel company Joie de Vivre — an overhaul finished in November — is a ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=75 Jan 17th 2008 | GUADALAJARA Sales of books in Spanish are booming, and there is plenty of room for growth AT THE Feria Internacional del Libro (FIL), the largest Spanish-language publishing event, held a few weeks ago in Guadalajara, in Mexico, an eager teenager cadged your correspondent's badge at the exit. That ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=74