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neighborhood: Bookstores, Theaters, Newspapers, and Neighborhoods-- The New Urban 'Bland' - 03/26/08 04:53 PM
My bride and I were discussing the changes in our town, in our neighborhood, and in the way kids grow up these days over our coffee this morning as she bemoaned the fact that Bonanza Books is going out of business.  Bonanza-- long the independent new and used book store in downtown Walnut Creek-- is a symbol of our small-town past when people actually went downtown and browsed for goods [like books] instead of browsing for them on their laptops.  Unlike some other shopping, the used bookstore phenomenon specialized in that feeling of elation at actually finding something worthy of buying.  Browsing for a $4 treasure … (5 comments)

neighborhood: Individual Rights vs. Private Property Values-- War Memorial In Lafayette, CA - 06/15/07 06:08 PM
Late last year a small memorial to our soldiers killed in Iraq appeared on a hillside piece of land in Lafayette, CA-- visible from parts of Highway 24 and from the BART tracks that parallel the highway.  At first the memorial was relatively inconspicuous-- a few dozen three-foot tall white crosses planted randomly across the hill-- and a small sign two-thirds of the way up the slope that was periodically painted over with the updated total lost since hostilities began in Iraq.  But the memorial grew less inconspicuous as the crosses and the war dead multiplied-- one for each serviceman or servicewoman killed … (1 comments)

 
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