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...Francisco The decoy sign outside speakeasy-themed Bourbon & Branch advertises the ANTI-LEAGUE SALOON, the prohibitionist group founded 113 years before the bar opened. Reservations for tables (and the daily password to whisper into the tiny loudspeaker) are available to all via the bar's website bourbonandbranch.com but remain hard to come by for much of the week. To meet demand, the venue expanded into a third room for standing patrons, accessed via another secret door behind a bookshelf. Despite the excitement in the bar, no loud celebrating is permitted in the seated section, with those patrons...
...right moves: degrees from Harvard and Yale; jobs in London, Paris and New York City; and regular appearances in the society pages along with his wife Sloan. Today Barnett, 43, has a job at a direct-selling company in a nondescript office park about an hour inland from San Francisco. Like most people in direct sales, he has a touch of the evangelist about him. He really, really wants you to like the cleaning products, vitamin supplements and beauty products he's representing. Sloan, for her part, has been boosting the new business by hosting parties to demonstrate her husband...
...Shaklee is completely redesigning all his products' packaging, which has transformed the household-cleaning line from something you'd expect to find at Grandma's to something many young hipsters (a market Barnett knows he must attract) would be proud to show on their shelves. Barnett had his San Francisco design firm's team discard two completed designs before deciding on a third, one he felt was the perfect science-meets-nature theme for every Shaklee line. The new dishwasher-powder label shows a stack of plates lined up next to leaf fronds; a tub of scouring paste depicts green...
Entering this off-season, Bonds, 43, faced a daunting challenge. The San Francisco Giants finally cut ties with him, and what other team would sign an aging, surly slugger who also breaks records for bad publicity? That should barely stress Bonds now. After all, he faces up to 30 years in prison if he's convicted on all four counts of perjury, plus the obstruction charge. For years, Bonds has pointed out that he has never tested positive for steroids. Yet the indictment states that investigators have found "positive tests for the presence of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing...
...team that takes the Bonds bait. It's bad enough we'll have to suffer through his trial, unless he takes an unexpected plea. Do we also want to see him sitting in a San Francisco courtroom by day, and catching a charter to a game by night, a la Kobe Bryant during his 2004 rape case? (The charges against Bryant were later dismissed.) Of course not. And if that kind of spectacle drives fans crazy, imagine how it could destroy a clubhouse. Even for a dreadful team like the Devil Rays, that's a lot to lose...