Find Your Friends and Food at Sideboard Neighborhood Kitchen
It's 11 a.m. on a Friday morning when I walk into Sideboard Neighborhood Kitchen and Coffee Bar, located next to A Runner's Mind, just across from Lafayette's Plaza Park. I take my place in the bustling line of customers and admire the eclectic d‚cor - an antique ...By A.K. Carroll
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A New Chapter in Kids' Bookstores Opens its Doors in Lafayette
Sometimes going out on a limb is the smartest way to go.
Embracing her wildest dreams with both eyes open, Clare McNeill launched Bel & Bunna's Books, an independently owned and operated ...By Lou Fancher
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Lamorinda Realtor's Long Journey Home
Real estate agent Shiva Jafarzadeh will sell you a home, but she wants nothing to do with anything that reminds her of back home.
"I was a rebel," said the Iranian-born Bay Sotheby's ...By Nick Marnell
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Lynn's Top Five
Can you protect your biggest asset? I bet you think I'm talking about your home, or your retirement plan, right? However for many of you the biggest asset you have is the employment income you haven't earned yet.
By Lynn Ballou CFP(r)
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New Jet Service Soars into Buchanan Field
Contra Costa County is taking off.
Quite literally, as a new charter jet service is roaring to life at the East Bay's Buchanan Field.
By Peggy Spear
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The Real Estate Quarter in Review
The first quarter of 2016 showed a continued fast pace in activity on the residential side of Lamorinda real estate. For the first time in several quarters, supply has increased but most of those homes that have recently come on the market have gone quickly pending. ...By Conrad Bassett, CRP, GMS-T
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Historic Moraga Barn is a Community Asset for New Local Business
The Moraga Barn is a valuable asset- at least that what Greg Gaskin is banking on.
He moved his company, Gaskin Wealth Management, into the historic space. A pragmatic capitalist with an ...By Sophie Braccini
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Local Designer Has Business in the Bag
Lafayette resident Debra Szidon says that she didn't know a thing about the fashion business or marketing. But that wasn't going to stop the interior designer and mother of three from launching her own line of handbags.
By Moya Stone
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Lamorinda Artists Lose Marketing Outlet as Lafayette Gallery Closes
The Lafayette Art Gallery quietly closed its doors March 31, a casualty of hasty decision making, bad timing and the 21st-century disruption of legacy businesses. But atop the list of reasons for its downfall sat a Lamorinda inevitability: the 17-year Lafayette fixture ...By Nick Marnell
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Lynn's Top FiveIs a Vacation Home Right for You?
As the weather begins to warm, spring break around the corner and the summer travel season just a heartbeat away, many of you will enjoy relaxing and frolicking out of town in remarkable places. Some of you will fall in love with these locations and decide to look into ...By Lynn Ballou CFP(r)
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New Urgent Care Facility Opens In Orinda
Orinda is getting healthier, at least in terms of care centers.
Sutter Health, a medical group with presence in more than 100 Northern California cities and towns, is opening its own ...By Sophie Braccini
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Home Occupancy Without the Mortgage
Lamorinda is a wonderful place to live. The schools are good, the East Bay weather is warm and mild, eateries and services are available in abundance, and the quality of life is high. But so is the cost of real estate. Rather than signing on the dotted line for that ...By Cathy Dausman
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Sewnow Fashion Studio Celebrates 10 Years of Cultivating Creativity
It started at a flea market outside of Toronto. Canada native and Lafayette resident Susan Goldie, then 10 years old, was snooping through the stalls with her parents when she happened upon an old sewing machine that would set the trajectory for her future.
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Rˆve Bistro: An Oasis Of Culinary Excellence In Lamorinda
What makes a good casual neighborhood bistro in France, aside from the checkered tablecloth instead of a white one, is excellent quality food at an every day price. This is the spirit of Rˆve Bistro in Lafayette, recently opened by Paul Magu - a rigorous and ambitious ...By Sophie Braccini
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Lamorinda Weekly, Moraga CA