Monthly Archives: December 2007

Reader touts new downtown restaurant

By Site Admin | Published: December 31, 2007 | Comments closed
Marc Lawrence writes: “Yesterday afternoon my wife and I had a very refreshing downtown dining experience at the newly opened Granada Joe’s. Excellent ravioli and meatballs and veal scallopini. Check it out. Ceciliano – the owner and chef has resurrected the old Yonedas (20 N. California Street) into a classy and affordable downtown dining experience. Sadly we [...]
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Our latest monicker: "City of Debt."

By Site Admin | Published: December 31, 2007 | Comments closed
“Securitization.” “SIVs.” “Complex financial engineering.” BBC News explains the financial instruments, and shenanigans, through which banks skirted lending laws and went overboard in lending during the housing boom. Stockton is the stating point for this excellent analysis, of course. Get used to it. The mortgage meltdown has branded this city’s identity through at least 2008. As much [...]
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Remembering a Native American elder

By Site Admin | Published: December 28, 2007 | Comments closed
memanny writes: “A local Native American elder, who appeared several times over the years in The Record, interviewed during the Pow-Wows, in Stockton and Manteca, has crossed-over. His name is Harry Jack. “I remember him well, having known him many years. He was a Navajo Elder, a spiritual leader, and the Prayer Man for the Black Wolf [...]
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Luxe dining down; does that hurt Events Center?

By Site Admin | Published: December 26, 2007 | Comments closed
This year I took an interest in Stockton’s restaurant industry. It’s a bellweather for Stockton’s economy, or the upper half of it, at least. Restaurants — specifically Paragary’s and the three unbuilt restaurants going in to the Events Center — are also indicators of the success of downtown’s comeback. As to why those three restaurants [...]
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Hats off to a colleague who tells it like it is

By Site Admin | Published: December 26, 2007 | Comments closed
Her name is Lois Henry, she writes for the Bakersfield Californian, and she writes a perfect column about the federal government’s immoral do-nothing policy toward bad Valley air. Read it here.
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Sing Bach and the sky won’t fall

By Site Admin | Published: December 19, 2007 | Comments closed
There are times I feel sorry for the Council. Take the Dec. 4 meeting. According to the agenda, the second person to take the podium during the public comment period was To Can Nguyen, the nutty street woman who takes every opportunity to harangue elected officials. Stoically the minutes report: “Ms. Nguyen continued her complaints about crimes [...]
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A fiasco in words and pictures

By Site Admin | Published: December 18, 2007 | Comments closed
Do you really understand the mortgage meltdown? The Beeb has the clearest explanation yet here. 
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The view — kerchoo! — from above

By Site Admin | Published: December 18, 2007 | Comments closed
A satellite photographs The Valley from space. Put on your oxygen mask and see it here. Not because there’s no breathable air in space — because there’s none within 200 miles of Bakersfield.
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Stuff happens

By Site Admin | Published: December 15, 2007 | Comments closed
Here’s “The Story of Stuff.” It’s only 20 minutes long, but it may take a few moments to load. And here’s Another Way.
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Classy Stockton piano man passes on

By Site Admin | Published: December 14, 2007 | Comments closed
Alicia Hugg writes:   “I wonder if you would do me and the Stockton community a big favor: Rudy Tenio, a fantastic Filipino jazz pianist who played locally and at upscale Bay Area lounges, passed on December 10.  … He was a great local historian, having personally known Flip Wilson (who got his professional start in Stockton as well!).   [...]
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