Word: franciscos
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...downside? These plans offer the illusion that shopping equals thrift. "You're never going to spend your way into savings," says Gail Hillebrand, a senior attorney at Consumers Union in San Francisco. "You need a significant savings plan for your family, and this is not it." The amounts of money returned can be so small that if you're spending for things you otherwise wouldn't buy, it can easily negate the benefit...
...Sumile features the Eric Mason 50/50, which combines vodka, yuzu lemonade and oolong tea. Atlanta's Inman Park Patio has an herbal-green-tea martini. Koi in Los Angeles offers a cocktail with rice liquor, green tea (again) and Midori. And for the soy conscious, Fly Bar in San Francisco serves the 5-0--a mix of sake, soy milk and pineapple juice. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...miracle year, 1957, by the time they were in grammar school. At family gatherings the girls would render old songs in a saucy fashion, occasionally accompanied on the tenor guitar by their doting uncle. Now Beth Corliss is Beth Silvestri, married to an Olympic yachtsman and living in San Francisco. The girl with three sisters now has three daughters: Allie, 9, Diana, 7, and Catherine, 4. Two weeks ago, they dropped by our Lower Manhattan loft...
...Allie and Diana?s duet gave Mary a brainstorm: let?s take the kids to see ?42nd Street? (a road-show company of which Beth had taken the kids to in San Francisco) on 42nd Street. We had less than an hour to don our rain-gear, take a subway uptown and hope tickets were still available for the 8 o?clock performance. The deluge outside only heightened our giddy mood; some of us sang ?Singin? in the Rain? while others whirled, Gene Kelly-style, around lampposts. We arrived at the Ford Theatre and snapped up three pairs of seats...
...woman dressed head to toe in pink (complete with slippers), a member of Code Pink, a liberal women’s group based in San Francisco that protests against the war in Iraq, interrupted the speech, chanting, “What about the war, Teresa? What about...