Search
23 Results Found
Mod Lang
Just when you thought it was curtains for old-school record shops large and small (see Tower Records), a Bay Area indie store leaves... Read more
Ethical Investing
AFTER 34 YEARS as a financial adviser at Merrill Lynch, Dwight Short relishes being his own boss and incorporating his devotion to... Read more
Natural Talent
CYNDI NORWITZ USED TO go to Whole Foods to buy bars of organic soap when she lived in Oakland 10 years ago. But then she had a... Read more
Workout Like a Pro
ANY DIEHARD SACRAMENTO KINGS FAN will recognize the name Bobby Jackson. He played point guard from 2000 to 2005 and earned the... Read more
Exclusive Portrait Series: Ken Burns' The War
Imagine, for a moment, the world through the eyes of Ken Burns. Time moves in slow motion; perspective zooms in and out and pans... Read more
Roseville, California: Nostalgia Power
It's an early Tuesday evening in Roseville. As the sun slides below a backdrop of telephone poles and chugging freight trains that... Read more
Roseville, California: Nostalgia Power
It's an early Tuesday evening in Roseville. As the sun slides below a backdrop of telephone poles and chugging freight trains that... Read more
Loose Change
What would Butch and Nellie's Cafe owner Kristi Bielski do with her first million? When it comes to the big bucks, Bielski would put... Read more
Tomorrowville
Where the chaise-lounge, martini-sipping, poolside retirement no longer exists. In Tomorrowville, ageless baby boomers job-share... Read more
Excerpt from House of Mondavi
Robert Mondavi glided through the oak-studded grounds of the Meadowood country club in an electric golf cart. The ninety-year-old... Read more
Watch Out Gen X & Y
Think you're going to be left holding the bag, paying for your parents' and grandparents' Social Security-subsidized retirement,... Read more
Natomas: The New Gold
When she needed milk and butter, Wendy Garrison would ride her white Welsh pony, Sugar, four miles past the farmhouses and rice... Read more
If the Shoe Fits
Fleet Feet Sacramento has grown 350 percent over the past 10 years without ever recording a negative quarter. Pat and Jan Sweeney,... Read more
Sally Edwards, Serial Entrepreneur
"I'm a serial entrepreneur," explains Fleet Feet founder Sally Edwards. "The first check I ever wrote was for feed. I had a herd of... Read more
I Want to Ride My Bicycle... Bicycle...
If you're a cyclist who likes to listen to music when you ride, but don't like not knowing when a car is approaching behind you at... Read more
Del Paso Blvd.: Once and Future Glory?
Del Paso Boulevard is decades away from its glory days. In the 1950s, it was a main drag full of drive-in theaters, grocery stores,... Read more
The $12,000 Ferrari?
Ferrari has teamed up with Segway to produce, well, a Segway with a Ferrari logo on it. The special edition Ferrari Segway goes for... Read more
A Sweatshirt Built For Travel
Burton Snowboards has developed the ultimate sweatshirt, built for those who are constantly travelling. The Sleeper Hoodie has an... Read more
Front - December 2007
It is funny how serendipity, that transformative confluence of memories and connections and timing, plays out.
This... Read more
Bad Moe, Good Moe
The first time Mohammad "Moe" Mohanna fixed up a building, he was just a kid.
Mohanna, now 57 and one of downtown... Read more
The Magazine
Site Links
Prosper Plus +
- Get Prosper Plus to receive e-mail alerts, special event invites, and content that interests you.
Community
- Join the Community and start participating. It's fast. It's easy. It's free.
Advertise on this site! Show your support for the Prosper Network and reach influential thought leaders and web users like yourself. Contact us to find out how.
© 2004-2007 Prosper Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use | Privacy Policy
The materials on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Prosper Media, LLC.