Anyone who has lived in the Redding area more than a few years knows that until quite recently live music was as rare as jackalopes. Oh, sure, if you were over 21 you might have gone into Ricardo’s to hear some band that got stuck here on their way to getting stuck in Lodi, or heard Norm Bailey and the Nervous Kats at a dance at the Moose Lodge, ( Read more... )

www.walkscore.com recently rated San Francisco as the second most walkable city in the US, and indeed, a car is largely an expensive impediment for an enterprising tourist. Put on a decent pair of shoes or fill up a Clipper Card, and suddenly The City by the Bay is your oyster instead of a nightmare of one-way streets and shockingly-priced parking ( Read more... )

CR Gibbs opened, way, way back in the 1970's as a sort of sophisticated pub-for-Americans. Back then the never-ending shrimp bowl was the attraction - a large bowl with a mound of cracked ice, topped with shrimp in the shell. It was presented as the amuse-bouche at every dinner. Presumably the shell was to slow down those diners with the ( Read more... )