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...Angeles Times blogger today; the pro-gay side has raised $15 million.) Earlier this week, a pro-gay group called the Courage Campaign sent supporters an e-mail noting that both an internal poll undertaken by those who support same-sex marriage and another by a San Francisco TV station show that Californians now favor ending same-sex marriage by a margin of 47-42, a reversal from just a few weeks ago. (Read "Why Gay Marriage Was Defeated in California...
...Self-Serve Concierge. Select Sheraton Hotels in New York City, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle, as well as Seattle's boutique Hotel 1000, have added Microsoft Surface to their lobbies. The service is basically a do-it-yourself concierge, where up to four guests can sit around an interactive flat screen surface built into a table and look through city maps, get restaurant and bar recommendations, find 24-hour pharmacies and get directions to nearby destinations. At Hotel 1000, you can also use the concierge station to view and edit photos on your camera's memory card...
...Little Red Book. The 2009 edition of the Michelin Guide to New York City's restaurants and hotels hit bookstores Oct. 7 (updated Michelin guides to San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas also go on sale this month). What's new: Four restaurants in New York have earned the coveted Michelin three-star rating - Masa, Jean Georges, Le Bernadin and Per Se. If they're a bit too rich for your pocketbook, don't fret: a quarter of the restaurant listings in the new guide fall in the affordable range. At 58 restaurants, you can get two courses...
When the San Francisco-based entrepreneurs Will Petty and Skye Thompson posted a notice on Craig's List last May announcing their website FieldReport.com, which offers pots of prize money for the best nonfiction stories submitted, they were met with incredulity and even foul language by skeptics who thought they smelled a rat. "They were downright rude to us," Thompson recalled. "We were really shocked." (A typical post: "Yeah right...
...position this important, Kashkari, the American-born son of Kashmiri immigrants, may seem an unlikely pick: he's been in finance for only eight years, two as a student at the Wharton School and four as an executive in the San Francisco office of Paulson's old firm, Goldman Sachs. At Goldman, Kashkari was so low on the food chain that he only got to know Paulson well after they both moved to the Treasury...