Specialties of the House
This week's Hunt for Happy Hour takes us to Moraga's Home/Made Kitchen Caf‚ to see what's cooking with their newest afternoon offering.
Not everyone will venture off the beaten path or ...By A.K. Carroll
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'Bridge of Spies'
"Bridge of Spies" opens as a masterpiece displaying the art of motion pictures with the use of artistic cinematography to set the thriller tone of the movie. The first several minutes of the film have no dialogue - the picture tells the story.
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Family Focus
We are all aware of the increase in incidents of excessively angry behavior in recent years. Road rage (a term that didn't exist 30 years ago); nasty interpersonal disputes; adult temper tantrums in public; increased rudeness and impatience toward service people; and ...By Margie Ryerson, MFT
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Award-Winning Authors and Illustrators at Lafayette Library Oct. 24
Five well-known, award-winning authors and illustrators - Gennifer Choldenko, Thacher Hurd, Jordan Jacobs, Elisa Kleven and Michael Slack - will sign books and demonstrate illustration techniques from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24 as part of the Children's Book ...Submitted by Fran Miller
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'Girl Rising' Screening at Acalanes Oct. 30
The Acalanes High School Students for the Advancement of Global Education (SAGE) club is hosting a community screening of the groundbreaking film, "Girl Rising," at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30 in the school's Performing Arts Center. Girl Rising is a feature film narrated by ...Submitted by Samantha Taketa
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Lamorinda Fifth-Graders Represent State in International Rabbit Show
Ava and Bettina Curletto, fifth-graders at Happy Valley Elementary School, have made the California state team in rabbit knowledge and will be competing with their teammates at the 2015 American Rabbit Breeders Association's International Convention in Portland, Oregon ...Submitted by Allison Curletto
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Where Does the Soul Go After It Departs This World?
Some questions are universal to the human experience. Is there life after death? What happens to the soul after we die? What is it like for those who have traveled over to the Great Beyond? These are but a few of the questions addressed in the newest course from the ...Submitted by Rabbi Dovber Berkowitz
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'Marshland': (La Isla Minima)
When two teens disappear in the sparsely populated rice-growing marshland of southern Spain in 1980, two homicide detectives, with vastly different personalities, are sent to solve the mystery in the film "Marshland" - a tense, dark thriller.
 By Sophie Braccini
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Tips to Tackle Head Lice
Now that school is back in session, there is ...
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Disabling Barriers
Steve Wampler is not about to miss out on life, in spite of the life he has been dealt. It has been five years since Wampler conquered climbing the face of Yosemite's El Capitan, inch by inch, one measly pull at a time. The six-day, five-night climb was unprecedented. ...By Cathy Dausman
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Building Bridges
Naya Olmer simply wants to be treated like one of the guys when she works on a construction site. When the 22-year-old Orinda resident signed up to build a bridge in Panama this summer, she knew what she was doing: she had already worked on a similar project in ...By Sophie Braccini
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Day Trippin'
Placing second on Smithsonian Magazine's 2014 list of America's Top 20 Small Towns, Healdsburg is the epitome of charm. With its central tree-shaded plaza, 'conscientious' cuisine, abundance of wineries, boutiques and galleries, visitors typically find more activities ...By Fran Miller
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'The Martian'
"The Martian" is a true "Real Hollywood Story" that has a great back story. Bay Area resident, writer Andy Wier, began working as a computer programmer at the age of 15 at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore. He originally started "The Martian" as a free serial ...By Derek Zemrak
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Lynn's Top Five
Each fall the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, in association with the Financial Planning Association, the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the Foundation for Financial Planning, holds an extraordinary event called Financial Planning Days. What started out ...By Lynn Ballou, CFP(r)
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Painting with Thread
Japanese embroidery (nihon shishu in Japanese) is a millennium-old art that was first used to adorn sacred items and was intimately linked to the production of Japanese traditional dresses, robes, Noh and Kabuki costumes. A demanding discipline, it is practiced at the ...By Sophie Braccini
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Lamorinda Weekly, Moraga CA