CALIFORNIANS PAY SALES tax on DVD rentals but not for admission to a movie theater. Gift-wrapping and tuxedo rentals are taxable, but laundry and dry-cleaning services are not.
The video game sequels create memorable chapters in their flagship franchises. They flesh out intriguing worlds. They incorporate new gameplay elements. But they take different paths in doing so.
At a particularly raucous Concord City Council meeting last week, Mayor Bill Shinn gave tongue-in-cheek instructions to the more than 50 people lined up to speak about land use at the former Concord Naval Weapons Station.
TIME TO PUT a bow on the 2008 baseball season while offering up the most obvious question never put to commissioner Dud, er, Bud Selig during the World Series: Why can't the regular season start in early March?
DEAR JOAN:How many pictures did John Wayne and Ward Bond appear in together? Were they personal friends?Also, Maureen O'Hara and Victor McLaglen.— Sully N.
The Queen would like to express her sincere gratitude to Warren Jensen of Concord, whose question led her to the discovery of Botts' Dots. Could there possibly be a more euphonious, yet useful, phenomenon in the world of transportation?
A FESTIVE PROCESSION through the business district accompanied by vintage cars, canines and goats. A group poetry reading followed by the downing of a shot glass of hard liquor.
In abandoning the core idea behind the $700 billion bailout, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson made clear his intention that the government will not attempt to extinguish the foreclosure fire burning in all parts of our country's economy.
