• For your viewing pleasure, more Pelli Clarke Pelli Transit Bay Terminal renderings -- now with birdies! [Curbed]
• More each day. [SFoodie]
• More blasted Berkeley tree tomfoolery. [Daily Clog]

, about how her plucky mom raised a family of 10 children on the earnings she made as a jingle-writing contestant in the 1950s. Heartwarming and funny, yet also sharply insightful as to the larger societal pressures on women of the era, the book really stayed with us -- it's no wonder it was quickly snapped up for a movie starring Julianne Moore. We still recite some of Mrs. Ryan's jingles under our breath while we do chores around the house. ("My frisk-the-Frigidaire, clean-the-cupboards-bare, sandwich!") more ›