My mother had a saying she often repeated in Assyrian. I don’t know how to say it in Assyrian but the English translation was something like “Two people fall in love and decide to get married and the whole town goes crazy.” Well, for Lauren and Joe’s weekend wedding celebration, the guests at The Douglas [...]

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Every cool city has its hip neighborhood. New York City has SoHo. San Francisco has SoMa. And, San Mateo is joining the club with SoBe. South B Street. Running parallel to and one block West of the CalTrains tracks, B Street runs the width of downtown San Mateo and is arguably its liveliest street. A [...]

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Most every morning, during the work week, for the past six years, I’ve parked on the top deck of the public parking garage at the corner of El Camino and Second Avenue in downtown San Mateo.   Always facing South, I would take in the awesome view of the morning rising over the Peninsula with the [...]

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