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...Crossword 16,360: JB Cowperthwait, Florida; Neal Moister, London; Nicola Lancaster, Cornwall Polymath 1,054: Jim Nicolson, Edinburgh Christmas crossword: Mark Thornber, Durham, England; Andrew House, San...
...Most of Marin’s nearby counties, including Sonoma, Alameda and even Silicon Valley’s San Mateo, chose Sanders. Here within San Francisco’s gilded radius lives the soul of liberal America....
...San Bernardino shooting....
...Since the company’s creation in San Bernardino, California, in 1940, its infamous burgers have been made as unvarying factory-processed units, celebrating neither seasonality nor seasoning....
...Shakespeare’s Local: Six Centuries of History Seen Through One Extraordinary Pub, by Pete Brown, Macmillan, RRP£16.99 Brown is an unashamed beer nerd but by some happy twist of fate he’s also a fascinating...
...Newer arrivals include Blue Chair Fruit, whose artisanal preserves are served at Oakland’s Brown Sugar Kitchen for breakfast; and Loulou’s Garden in San Francisco....
...Too Much Happiness By Alice Munro Chatto & Windus, £17.99 Munro, one of Canada’s national treasures, was awarded the International Man Booker Prize for a lifetime’s work earlier this year....
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...In Paris in 2006, the crowd watching the San Antonio Spurs hardly ever got up to buy anything. Parisians don’t snack, and European fans expect to watch every second of a game....
...Lena Adams, a character in my Grant County series, is my response to this self-destructive behaviour....
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