GOLF: Frys.com Open moving to head of PGA schedule
The Frys.com Open will return to South Valley at its usual time in October 2013, but everything else about the tournament could be about to change.
WonderCon 2012: A super geeky weekend
The 26th annual WonderCon made its debut at the Anaheim Convention Center this past weekend. Nothing seemed out of place: Star Wars storm troopers, hairy monsters, fairies, superheroes and nerds.
Priest reaches out, proclaims ‘Jobs Not Bullets’
Despite the heavy rain on March 16, a large, enthusiastic crowd turned out at Gilroy’s St. Mary Roman Catholic Church. They were there to hear a remarkable man share a story of great relevance to the gang violence so common in South County.
‘Now Circa Then’: Yesterday becomes today
Two people meet under odd circumstances and in a situation where yesterday becomes today in a funny, bittersweet story developed by playwright Carly Mensch, best known for her contribution to the HBO series “Weeds.”
FOOTBALL: Alex Smith back in the 49ers’ fold
It took a week into free agency and a red-eye visit to the Miami Dolphins before quarterback Alex Smith apparently agreed Tuesday to return to the 49ers.
The Founding Fathers and classical education
One of my pet peeves is how people often call forth the condemnation of the Founding Fathers upon modern-day America, as if the men who founded our nation were demigods, filled with a divine moral soundness and evangelical wisdom formed by the deeply puritanical society of colonial times. The leaders who shaped our nation’s path would shrink in shock at our modern political idolatry. They would insist we take them out of the temple of worship and instead see them as human beings, as people with flaws and prejudices shaped by the culture of their time.
