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Rosalea Barker: Just Another Day In The Tank
Monday, 25 September 2006, 5:04 pm | Rosalea Barker
If it weren't so dangerous, it would be endearingly laughable. I'm speaking of the current furore around a federal case against two journalists in San Francisco who have refused to divulge the source of the information they used in a book about performance ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Hail Atlantis!
Monday, 18 September 2006, 12:16 am | Rosalea Barker
Election season is here again, and once more I'm pounding the pavements in support of electoral reform. The third city in six years where I've volunteered on an Instant Runoff Voting campaign is Oakland, and we kicked off the effort this weekend. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: 9/11 Remembrance, Part 2
Wednesday, 13 September 2006, 10:53 am | Rosalea Barker
Well, it’s P-CANDY day, when the 51st state of the Union is GZ. Sorry, just got carried away with the two-letter abbreviations for Pennsylvania, New York, District of Columbia, and Ground Zero. Small minds are amused by small things, but really ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: 9/11 Remembrance, Part 1
Monday, 11 September 2006, 8:30 pm | Rosalea Barker
Tomorrow’s episode of the Path to 9/11 will be interrupted part-way through by the President’s address to the nation at 9pm EST. Just which 16-18 minute segment of the docudrama comes at an hour into the docudrama you, Down Under, will know before ... More >>
Stateside: Justice Breyer on the US Constitution
Monday, 11 September 2006, 12:28 am | Rosalea Barker
Since last year, the federally funded US education system has observed something called Constitution Day and Citizenship Day. It commemorates the September 17, 1787, signing in Philadelphia of the Constitution of the United States of America. The ... More >>
Stateside: Disappearing Croc Doc Google Mystery
Tuesday, 5 September 2006, 11:35 am | Rosalea Barker
It’s Labor Day holiday here today, and it happens that in the early hours of this morning I was answering email and chanced to look over at Google News, where I learned that Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter, had died. The Age news story at the top of ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: A Godwit Flies By
Monday, 4 September 2006, 1:29 pm | Rosalea Barker
If you, like I, have ever wished that the writing at Stateside could be as well-informed as the writing over at www.PublicAddress.net , then wish no more! PA founder and Hard News-man, Russell Brown, stopped over last week in San Francisco on his way ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: SunChronicity
Monday, 28 August 2006, 12:56 am | Rosalea Barker
For a couple of months now, I've had a trial home delivery of the San Francisco Chronicle. During the week, while waiting at the bus stop, I split out the sports, cars, classifieds, and San Francisco news and leave those sections in the recycling part of our famously ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: A Must-Read
Friday, 25 August 2006, 10:32 pm | Rosalea Barker
With the 9/11 season upon us, here is a link to a graphic novel of the 9/11 Commission Report. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Campbell And Fry’s
Tuesday, 22 August 2006, 11:31 am | Rosalea Barker
There’s an ad on TV that has puzzled me ever since I moved to the Bay Area. It’s for an electronics store that sells not just consumer products but the kind of stuff techies go nuts for--memory upgrades, gold-plated audio jacks, all that jazz. The ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Modern Life
Monday, 14 August 2006, 3:50 pm | Rosalea Barker
It's been almost a year now since I started commuting 77 minutes each way to work. That precise figure is taken from the length of the CD I often listen to, a CD I burned myself from the iTunes I'd downloaded to my Mac. So, why don't I have an iPod ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: Movie review - World Trade Center
Friday, 11 August 2006, 2:55 pm | Rosalea Barker
There are some things about Oliver Stone's World Trade Center that are great examples of the craft of movie making. One of them comes late in the film, in a hospital waiting room, when one woman comforts another and the point of view--the interior point of ... More >>
Moggies, Mel, Morals and unMentionables
Wednesday, 9 August 2006, 12:26 pm | Rosalea Barker
Just when you thought you were finally safe from viral cats like Kitten vs Front Row, and Record Store Cats (see links at end of column if you have been spared emails containing them), it turns out that cats have been happily infecting us with an anxiety ... More >>
Stateside: Of Pollies And Weather And Wine
Monday, 31 July 2006, 3:28 pm | Rosalea Barker
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is in San Francisco this weekend, and last night attended a tony dinner at the penthouse home of George Pratt Schultz, who was Reagan's Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989. Also at the dinner was Phil Angelides, the ... More >>
Stateside Movie Review: The Lake House
Monday, 31 July 2006, 3:27 pm | Rosalea Barker
This week, courtesy of the Great San Francisco Heatwave of '06, I've come to understand why summer movies can be so god-awful bad and yet pull in millions of dollars: People go to the movies to get away from the oppressive heat. Multiplexes are cool little ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Melting Moments
Monday, 24 July 2006, 11:54 am | Rosalea Barker
I have a newfound respect for water and electricity. And those thick cotton bathmats that take forever to dry. Unseasonably warm water out in the Pacific prevented the Bay Area's air conditioner--the summer fog--from kicking in on Saturday, and Oakland's ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Handbasket Central
Monday, 17 July 2006, 11:21 am | Rosalea Barker
2003 rolled back around for me this weekend. I went to a local library and discovered amongst the donations it puts outside for people to take for free, a bundle of newspapers tied with string. They were copies of News from Indian Country, and the edition on ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Clayton's Communes
Monday, 10 July 2006, 12:19 am | Rosalea Barker
Saturday, I was standing under a Norfolk pine in northern California reading about a housing development in Ranui, New Zealand. I was on a bus tour of six cohousing communities in the East Bay, and the book was one of many that had been put out for ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Miscellany
Monday, 3 July 2006, 4:11 pm | Rosalea Barker
Although the Bay's natural air-conditioner (fog off the Pacific Ocean) has now kicked in, the days around the last weekend in June were dominated by a big old high sitting off the coast, raising temperatures and lowering the ability of air to move freely. ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Over the Edge
Wednesday, 28 June 2006, 11:30 am | Rosalea Barker
In San Francisco on Friday night or early Saturday morning, the chief executive of a multi-million dollar enterprise, criticised for seeming cronyism in both the media and in the California state legislature, leapt from a 43-storey apartment building ... More >>
