The GothamBox story is the combination of two fond memories.
East to West
Shawn, a Midwest boy, spent close to 5 years in the majestic and exhilarating city of New York. It was not the big lights and electrifying scene that intrigued him most. It was the unique local brands that were…
Shortstops (clockwise L-R) Alex Gonzalez, Edgar Renteria, Rey Ordonez, Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez pose for the 1997 SI story on the resurgence of shortstops. (Walter Iooss Jr./SI)
AL DIVISION PREVIEWS: East | Central | West
NL DIVISION PREVIEWS: East | Central | West
VERDUCCI: Team-by-team breakdowns, predictions
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New property owners are having a 2 Day Only SALE at 4690 Tompkins Ave. Upper Laurel, Oakland (formerly US Chinese Art Museum) http://g.co/maps/4grgz
DATES: March 24 & 25 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Hundreds of…
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Meet Your Merchant: A Tahoe recipe for success – Chef Kellan Hori’s career heats up
CARNELIAN BAY, Calif. — It’s not your typical culinary story. Chef Kellan Hori didn’t grow up in a household brimming with talented cooks, he hasn’t had much training outside his own kitchen, and he doesn’t care much for sweating it out behind the line of a restaurant.
What Hori brings to the table is far more valuable than all these ingredients combined: He possesses an insatiable appetite for cooking and an innate love of food.
“I’ve always love to eat, so much so that I could never afford to eat at the really nice restaurants because I was spending so much money on food, and that’s where cooking came about for me,” Hori said while slicing up a pineapple in his Carnelian Bay kitchen. “I enjoyed figuring out how to prepare the ingredients myself — I liked to figure out what it was that made something taste so good.” continue reading…
Watch a young Barack Obama defend Harvard Law professor Derek Bell in a speech in 1990. (via Buzzfeed)
An archival photo from The New York Times shows news pictures being sorted in the newspaper’s photo “morgue,” which houses millions of images. Here they are — several each week — for you to see. Welcome to The Lively Morgue. Photo: The New York Times
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Lombard Street, San Francisco
If you haven’t been out to San Francisco and driven Lombard Street, it’s worth the visit. Even better — ride down...
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Our AH-mazing friend Laurel came up to the city for a couple days and helped us do our LAST bake sale which we did at Crissy Field in the Presidio...

