-We went to Oktoberfest yesterday and went with friends to have some dinner at the Round Table near the Marina Safeway. Our dinner was quickly ruined as a couple of guys in lederhosen got into a knock-down, drag out fight, knocking over tables and glasses and spilling stuff everywhere. In lederhosen. Have you ever seen people in lederhosen fight? It's not exactly something that brings the macho. And neither is the biting of fingers of people trying to break them up, like our friends'. more ›

There was a lot of gentle sobbing, some out and out bawling and lots of grown men surreptitiously wiping their eyes at the Kabuki Theatre on Tuesday night. At one point we were distracted from our own sniveling by the sound of low-level keening coming from the row behind us and the realization the whole theatre was erupting in choked-back sobs and loud sniffles. more ›

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