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Aug.22.2009 LOCAL COLOR: BIG BEER FROM A SMALL ROOM A few doors down from the almost barren corner of Adeline and 40th in Emeryville, California, stands the Café Biere, a friendly gleam of Europe that livens up the neighborhood and may be the next mecca for the Bay Area’s large swarm of serious beer connoisseurs. Its cozy room serves up one of the...	May.17.2009 Pipe Dreams. Generally being hopped up on meth by the time I get home from work, I rarely go straight to bed unlike normal people that work a graveyard shift. Today was no exception.I got undressed and lay on my bed completely naked - staring at the orange stains on the ceiling paint from a leaky roof. I...
Mar.17.2009 The Daily Sam: Report from Downtown San Francisco on Saint Patrick’s Day Every year at this time the police cordon off a city block here in San Francisco’s Financial District in preparation for the all-important celebration of Saint Patrick, who, according to legend, will be the judge of the Irish in the Last Days. The block basically becomes a large frat party, with...	Nov.10.2008 The Inn of the Five-Dollar Happiness For years I was a coffee virgin. Unlike those Gilmore girls and their fashionably profuse coffee intake, I'd not so much as enjoyed mocha ice cream I was so java-free. My mother was a tea drinker exclusively and Dad's liquid diet consisted only of Pepsi and Heineken. I was ignorant of any other...
Oct.22.2008 Culinary Distinction in Wisconsin: It's more than Beer, Brats, Cheese Foodies know and care that authentic Champagne and Parmesan come from specific parts of France and Italy, respectively. Now the International Culinary Tourism Association is developing a website that will help travelers distinguish cities, states and countries by uniqueness of cuisine. When your...	Oct.14.2008 A Convivial Writer Stricken with "Beer Sickness" I had to explain what a hangover was to Josie on Saturday and I felt marginally proud that I’ve been able to conceal them from her for eight years. During those eight years I’ve had hundreds of punishing bouts with that self-inflicted misery. I used to think that one day the hangover would be...
Jul.19.2008 Midwest Island Hopping: Washington, at the tip of Door County My borrowed bike has no gears or hand brakes, but there is little need for either. The terrain is rural and relatively flat, the traffic sparse, breeze gentle. Shade seems to appear whenever sunrays get annoying. So little exists to alarm or disengage the average rider’s rhythm. Forget the need to...	May.21.2008 If There's A Bustle In Your Hedgerow, Don't Be A Lawman I don't know what happened, but I started drinking at my company Christmas party and I never stopped. It's mid-May, so guess I'm a drinker now. My friend once prefaced a comment with, "This is probably just because I'm a 37-year-old mother, but..." and it was something about wishing she'...

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